The first one might be Gasteria batesiana, which is quite a choice species, if it is. Second one is probably the cultivar ‘Little warty’. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can confirm or otherwise.

Amazing! And what a view!

How beautiful, Christian! I wish mine had such huge flowers as yours!

It looks happy enough there, maybe needs a bit more time? Mine has quite a few offsets, but doesn’t like as good as yours!

Nice colour variations, but they’ll need to go under cover with the first frosts!

Thanks all!

Beautiful weather where I am in the South East, with temps around 23°c today, and hopefully staying warm for the rest of the week. I’ve been doing some late watering (fingers crossed!) and there are still quite a few plants in flower, these stood out in particular. Mammillaria schumannii sp. globosa...

A timely thread! My Copiapoa columna-alba BJB25 (Brendan Burke) flowered for the first time this week! I must have grown it from seed goodness how many years ago, so I don’t know how old it is. Unfortunately it has suffered from the “splits” (not unusual with Copiapoa) probably from watering a few w...

I don’t think they are sciarid maggots, they are usually only a few millimetres long, and translucent. No idea, otherwise, vine weevil maggots are cream and C shaped with a black head, are you sure it isn’t that?