Agree with Thrips - they love yellow mesemb flowers, and can run very fast. Unfortunately there are no current insecticides which will eliminate them, alas. The life cycle is that eggs are laid in the soil, and the young nymphs which are usually yellow, hatch out and feed on young growth, resulting ...

Nice! Love the yellow one.

Scented flowers? Odoriferous more like! You’ll only know when it flowers.

Ah, OK! Well done!

Congratulations on your first flowering! However it doesn’t look like C. comptonii (quite a rare species) which would normally have straw yellow flowers. Hopefully someone else might be able to identify it.

Definitely Conophytums, and one guess would be C. fulleri, but a bit difficult to say, without flowers.

Oh dear, Tina! At least they will produce new leaves next year. I think your ID is Lithops ‘Hammeruby’ the red form of L. meyeri.

:woho: :woho: I have at last managed to flower a Pseudolithos migiurtinus !,I’m not sure where I obtained this one, as I’ve had a few over the last few years (which have collapsed on me at various times), but I think I acquired this one at a cactus mart about 4 or 5 years ago. It had to be rerooted ...

Yes, Ernie, I purchased some Aeoniums and an Echeveria from them a couple of months ago. Excellent plants, well packed, and can highly recommend.

Quite fabulous, Tina! Am most envious…