Almost ELK time again...!

Temperatures are down 50% compared to last week, by now.

Today a 75 year old heat record was broken up here. The temperature reached 40,7C, old record was 38,6C. I haven't been in my greenhouse, but I wonder if it would have been over 50C. Even the camels in a zoo thought it was hot enough to try to cool down in some water: https://nos.nl/data/image/2019/...

That should be 'Oudtshoorn', I assume.

As it is self fertile, it sets viable seeds very easily in moderately amounts. No need to cut up your plant for a lot of small plants, I would think. You might as well sow the seeds.

Still interesting though.

Or the coming days already...
Up here we might break our national record on Thursday (which is 38.2C recorded in 1944). We might hit the 40C this week...

Some children are placed in foster care and the identity and location of the foster family is kept from their birth family. An accidental photograph of them can reveal their location and put the child in danger. I never considered this until someone who fostered these children mentioned it to me. A...

This is a new thing for me!
I will check all my flowering plants when I get back to my greenhouse next weekend...

Looks very interesting. I hope this book will be available to flip through at ELK. I always like to go through a book before actually buying. Maybe if a PDF with a few pages could be made available on the website.

It will have more of an own mind than mesembs...