Some lovely plants there. Leads me to ask, what is the definition of an Alpine plant? The AGS tend to count anything that can be considered a "rock growing plant" as well as anything that grows up a mountain There is a rule, though, in their show schedule, that the plant must be cold hard...

ralphrmartin wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:22 pm Interesting to see that Lachenalia flowering. Mine are just waking from their summer rest. It will be months before I get flowers.

It used to be in Polyxena, Ralph. They are all autumn flowering. But this one is still earlier than my corymbosa.

Good colour on that Ipomoea flower. (tu) Thanks Ralph. Online sources suggest it is very blue early morning but passes through this purple stage before fading. It looks like another bud will open tomorrow so hopefully will be up early enough to see! And next to it is I. capillacea so some pollen da...

Hi, A nice show of flowers and the cono, the skins looks quite dead or dry, where's the GREEN? It is there, honest :) . I didn't water until mid August because of the warm weather. And I don't remove the old skins up until they are very loose - some time in October usually. Some conos - especially ...

Hi Mike. You have two options. The proven one is to buy a pack of it from Silverhill or other SA seed suppliers. It is in the form of a disc of paper which is impregnated with the relevant smoke chemicals known to enhance germination. You just soak your seeds overnight with one of the papers, then s...

From the MSG this year. I followed hints in the bulletin article. Seed was sown in July and pot placed on the lid of a black water butt that gets extremely hot in summer. I was going to water it with liquid smoke this weekend but wednesdays thunderstorm seems to have done the trick. Photos are same ...

Nice! My two plants got scorched a few years ago, sadly.

Thanks all. The Ipomoea has a nice caudex. I bought it from the William's stand at the NW cactus mart in May.

From this morning.

Very nice Ian!