I lost my password. also it turns out i have adhd.
I remembered my password just sat here so now we’re back
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The last week or so has been….*fraught*, so I haven’t had much time to devote to the greenhouse (during the day).
Happy enough without me, many plants have been flowering entirely out of my view. However, I’m really happy to have caught this little one today.
South African plants seem to do well in England—likely because a lot of them are winter growers and so it always feels like winter to them. Among them, the caudiciform (pachycaul), poisonous, and completely unpleasant genus Tylecodon is of special interest to me, and this is a rare’un
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It turns out the perfect habitat outside of habitat for me too is the greenhouse.
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Took my little loph for a drive today
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School holidays mean extra helpers in the garden
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Copiapoa haseltoniana from the collection of the late cactus explorer, Alan Craig. Germinated c. 1975. Note the blonde colour of the spines.
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Epithelantha micromeris in limestone
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Copiapoa hypogaea - out of shape and thirsty from winter
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Our Garden Piskie.
Likes a bit of milk and bread left out for him.
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I had a wonderful dream where a tap-dancing cactus came to me and said “make me into an anime girl”
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Aloe erinacea (again)
Kicked the pot over in my office so took the opportunity to repot with a mix with a bit more loamy sand as I am having a hard time keeping up with watering. Some bits of sandstone too on the top to round it out.
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Tylecodon reticulatus - shrub-like caudiciform succulent from South Africa and Namibia. Very poisonous.
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Copiapoa dealbata - seed-grown in collection on own roots. Approx 40-50 years old.
This particular plant is part of a legacy collection that I am taking over featuring many plants from the late cactus explorer, Alan Craig (including this one).
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Lophophora williamsii caespitosa in handmade earthenware pot (and rabbit skull I found while hiking the moors that reminded me of home in the pure O’Keeffeian sense).
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