Almost completely lost its pigment, but the pollen is still yellow :) albinica-1008.jpg This L. localis 'Speckled Gold' seems to have even lost a bit of pigment from the flower speckledgold-1008.jpg L. divergens has generally small flowers, but this one is taking it to extremes divergens-1008.jpg

Would never have thought polycarbonate was so bendy

A keeper! Conophytums are "supposed" to look dead in the summer, but should be looking quite lush by now. I went to throw out some of my Conophytums a few weeks ago, but except for one there were still plump leaves hiding inside the dead ones. Possibly the roots aren't great, but definitel...

The BCSS list usually has some Lithops. The place to go for lots is the Mesemb Study Group, although the seed list tends to come out a little too late in the spring compared to when I like to sow. But Brugge lives in France at the looks of it, so the BCSS and MSG (although MSG does organise a bulk ...

The BCSS list usually has some Lithops. The place to go for lots is the Mesemb Study Group, although the seed list tends to come out a little too late in the spring compared to when I like to sow.

Are Lithops easy to grow from seed? some beutifull looking flowers there. How long would it take from seed to get them to flower like that. Slow, but not hard in the right conditions. Germination is usually quick and easy, then just have to have some patience. The main risk would be boiling them fr...

These are catalogued as being from BCSS seed, although that would make them a slightly improbable eight years old. Also not very easy to get more of the same.

This Lithops got its flower stuck. It has now been many weeks and I don't think it is going to unstick itself for this flowering season. groendrayensis-1004.jpg L. lesliei 'Albinica' is pigment-deficient in the leaves, the flowers, and also its startling green buds. albinica-1004.jpg This eager beav...

I've had all sorts of colours coming up from 'Rose of Texas' seed, but a batch seems to be either all fairly good pink or all not. This looks like a good batch.

I ordered seeds from 2 German suppliers earlier this year, both listed which seeds could not be sent to the UK. 1 sent them out straight away no problem no extra costs the other sent an email to tell me the phyto. cert. would be 20 euro. Yet both orders were very similar. Not much chance of foreign...