Greenhouse Happenings

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Greenhouse Happenings

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Since lots of people who are interested in succulents read these pages I have decided to run a thread on what is currently flowering etc.. in the collection.
delosperma sphalmanthoides
delosperma sphalmanthoides
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Starting with..... , this little rock alpine succulent which comes from the cold dry richtersveld mountains. This is the first year that I have grown this. So will have to see what it is like. I think its about to flower.
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Looking forward to seeing the flower and more of your succulents!
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delosperma flowering
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It has finally flowered. Well worth it.
I went in there late in the vening and this was looming...
Cephalophylum subulatoides
Cephalophylum subulatoides
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I cant wait for this plant to be big enough for there to be several flowers at once. This is a marginal winter grower.
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Thanks Harriet, I remember listening to Douglas Adams on the radio late on sunday nights when I was still at school many years ago.
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bulbine lagopus
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Bulbine lagopus flowering a succulent bulb. Bulbines have strange elegant pollen structures. They are a strange band of succulent bulbs, some are extremely wierd.
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Great flowers! I like the Cephalophylum.


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Cool Bulbine! :) I like some of the weirder looking Bulbines and I'll probably get a bunch of them at some point, since African bulbs seems to be the direction I'm going in at the moment. :lol:
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Very pretty! Do you have a picture of the whole bulbine?
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I might have a picture somewhere. Some of these are ultra wierd shapes.
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cereochalmys gemina
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Used to be rushchia gemina. The white one published in general succulents has now finished. This is the pink one seems to have flowered for ages.

My main spring flowering succulents are still forming flowers, T.densum has buds and khadia carolinensis, is budding along with one or two others. At the moment most of the nananthus are flowering and one or two alionopisis. Photos later.
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Alionopsis Villettii now flowering. This is a very slow growing plant Ive had it for years. It doesent get much bigger. year on year.
Nice lemon yellow flowers. Some alionopsis flowers are a bit insipid. These are nice and bright. Seed source mesa garden.
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Alionopsis Luckhofii
Alionopsis Luckhofii
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Mostly yellow flowers. I am about to sell these as mesa garden now have better strains with red flowers and chalkier markings.
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Cereochalmys gemina
Cereochalmys gemina
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I couldnt resist photoing these again. Just brilliant pink flowers have lasted ages.
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nananthua broomii
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Always flowers in the spring. A miniature nananthus cuter than the outher and one of the best looking. Mostly yellow striped flowers but I have a white one also. There are a number of miniature mesembs suitable for miniature gardens.
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delosmeprma esterhuyensiae
delosmeprma esterhuyensiae
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delosmeprma esterhuyensiae
delosmeprma esterhuyensiae
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This is a great little miniature alpine delosperma. Its not as small as sphalmanthoides.
It also flowers in the morning. Unusual for a mesemb.
From the high mountains above lesoto.
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