I’m afraid the orientation of the photo will not be correct, but C. pecularis is putting on a show for me, including a double flower from one plant. I grow these outside year round and they get our full winter rain (about 36” so far), brief lows into the high 20’s F. I never really pay any attention...

Could someone please provide some wisdom regarding this young Eulychnia castenada spiralis? Is has recently started to develop some scarring on the epidermis. It is as if the epidermis dies and turns grey. The disfigurement is largely limited to one side of the plant. The plant is being grown under ...

Hi Suzanne and Catherine, and thanks so much for your expertise! I think I have to agree with you, Catherine, that it is a Hereroa. I’ll see if I can nail down species now. From the same order, I have a seedling from a packet of Stomatium pyrodorum that looks like a different (heavily toothed) speci...

Hi all, Perhaps you can help me with identifying this plant grown from seed from Silverhill Seeds. From Silverhill I will get an oddball seedling now and again, and I’m not complaining because I can sometimes get an interesting new plant! This seedling came from a packet labeled as Cylindrophyllum c...

I’m sorry, I really need to figure out how to orient my pictures correctly!

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Thank you all for your generous input! I have a long experience with “Orthene” (acephate) having managed research greenhouses in the ‘80 and ‘90’s. It was wonderfully effective but with the extreme selection pressures that spraying insecticides in a greenhouse environment present, it eventually fell...

Just an interesting observation from a community pot of Tanquana spp. as we here (in N. California) are experiencing a “Winter” heatwave (it should be 80F tomorrow). This shallow bowl pot is divided in thirds between Tanquana spp. (prismatica, hilmarii & archeri), all the same age from seed. T. ...

Hey all, I think the “flower age” crowd is on point, to a degree. The pink-ish flower definitely turned a bit more orange with age. There must be some environmental component to this color change. Some flowers do a full color transition and some stay pink-ish depending on when they open up. We have ...

I’m wondering if anyone has come across something like this. I have a Cheiridopsis albirosea (SB772) that I’ve had for several years and it grows quite happily outside in my climate. Typically it will produce the expected pink-ish colored flowers, but this year it has also tossed up an orange/yellow...

Hi all! Thanks for your input. Sorting through your questions about the growing conditions, these seeds were sowed in March of this year and grew vigorously through the summer. I am in Northern California, but - as of now - do not have a greenhouse, so these seedlings were raised in a south facing g...