I'd like to get to the bottom of this since this is perhaps the single feature of the new forum that I like the most. When you return on a new day, is every single message marked as new? Or just some of them? I would be interested to know what happens if you hit the Mark All Messages Read button at ...

I imagine it has a thermostatically controlled heater? How big is it? Good for seeds maybe. Or overwintering those Madagascan things you grow?

Looks a lot like my garden, only I'm still mostly yellow with blue just coming through

My new (old!) greenhouse has been getting a lot warmer than 15C, closer to 30C, but it is nearly empty and I imagine it lacks thermal mass. It cools down again very fast once the sun departs!

We also have a monthly table show. There are nearly always an interesting selection of plants but participation is quite patchy. For example, I think I brought plants to three, possibly four, meetings last year (my excuse is they only have a Lithops class every couple of years!) and came third in to...

Sounds like a caching issue, where your browser has not received the updated page. The description of just reloading the main message list when you click on the new means that you really have visited that new message but your browser has an old copy of the page. This may be due to cache settings in ...

I think I'm in love!

I may be biased since I've bought hybrid seed from Francois before. He has grown from most of the hybrid seed himself and displays the results. Some of it is F2 seed from interesting crosses already made. Or F2s from "failed" cultivar seed, the offspring that didn't come true. Others are d...

Chris, the "standard" A. marlothii certainly has longer leaves than this, but then the "standard" A. rufescens has leaves considerably longer than they are wide, while my plant has leaves almost as wide as long. Julie, these seeds are adapted for wind dispersal but are not ejecte...

Yes, its all been done. Well, maybe not all, over a thousand mesemb species gives an awful lot of possible crosses! Many different Lithops species can be crossed, typically species with the same flower colour will cross, those with different colours do not, or not easily. You won't find many in cult...

A. rufescens is very believable. Perhaps that plant has excessively compact growth from being under lights all winter. Here is one which has not been under the lights. Might be a more normal form, might just be etiolated. [img]http://nartowicz.users.btopenworld.com/seedlings/anacampseros4.jpg[/img]