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Plumosa is still going. Kind of neat looking how a hole is left in the feathers when the flower pulls back inside.

We got 8" of rain the last couple weeks, enough that water was flowing down my hillside so I dug a diversion furrow around my GH. Under a rock I turned up this guy - aligator lizard:

Nice flowers! That lizard looks pretty cool as well!

Beautiful stuff Josh, love the way you grow seedlings.

peterb

First flowers for the year, this guy always marks the start of a new season, being early rather than late:

While this guy is 'late' and still going:

I don't know if mammillaria prolifera is supposed to be flowering now, my others aren't:

Trichodemia bulbosum flowers year round, but also looks scraggly year-round:

And this jade plant has been going for a while. Note that the oxalis was growing on my hillside before my GH went in...

My grandparents had this clone before I was born, but it never flowered for them in MN.

Nice flowers!

Last weekend I had a spare hour to spend potting up and this pot of Ferocactus gracilis coloratus was on deck. The guy 4th from the left is variegated!

I think those are 1 year old, from last year's mesagarden order. I sowed 50 seed and potted up 49 seedlings. Ferocactus gracilis is a champ!

When I looked into this pot of ornithogalum sardienii at first I thought there were only two left! Closer inspection revealed 8 more. Cryptic little guys.


The earliest wildflower of the season was also kicking into gear last weekend, dodecatheon hendersonii:


They aren't very succulent, but they grow in a succulent like habitat - narrow bands on north facing slopes where larger plants can't grow. They only grow from Oct-March, the rest of the year that pot sits in the shade behind my house next to the air conditioner. I often find them near Dudleya cymosa, Dudleya lanceolata and Sedum spathulafolium.

ornithogalum sardienii are really cute little guys - mine is now flowering..love the leaf structure. Great job in growing them from seed!

Nice seedlings and nice wildflower, especially for this time!

LT: could you post a photo of it with something for scale? I'm under the impression the bulbs only get to about 1cm or so.

Yes, small, I will take a pic today with something next to it for scale.

Josh,

Here is a set, hope you do not mind...

Ok full glory!


O. sardieniae by RyanH (LT),

Pic I took today in summer...I put a toothpick next to it marked with 1cm lines. On the top pic it is 3mm gravel.


O. sardieniae2 by RyanH (LT),

O.sardieniae by RyanH (LT),

and the little flowers

O. sardieniaeflower by RyanH (LT),

Hope that was what you were looking for! You will love these, I am sure.

Awesome, thanks! Hopefully I can get mine to that point.

Here's what they looked like at a month and a half old:

Like tiny fish eggs with green tentacles...

amazing!

peterb

Good luck, I really wish you success on these. Keep us informed.

Today was the start of stenocactus season!
NOIDs from mixed seed:



Stenocactus coptogonus SB13


Other critters mobilizing:
Euphorbia stellaspina

Glandulocactus uncinatus

Mamm saboae v saboae (should I give it a drink? First spring with this guy...)

Neochilenia nidus senilis

Pediocactus knowltonii (maybe confused about what time of year it is..)