Massonia pustulata

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

Wim
In the bed with the Massonia jasminiflora (new name) I grow some different Penstemon, Eriogonum, Astragalus, Oxytropis, Talinum and other drought tolerant plants. Cacti: Echinocereus triglochidiatus and varieties, E. reichenbachii v. perbellus, E. coccineus, E. bailey, E. viridiflorus, Pediocactus simpsonii and varieties, Maihuenia poeppigii.
But I have many raised beds with many different habitats. I collect on almost everything.

[Michael]

Nice plant Hans ! It looks like an Haemanthus! Are Massonia relative to them?

Peter, i loved your Frit. glauca!

[Hans J]

No Michael ,

Haemanthus is Amaryllidaceae and Massonia is Hyacintaceae
their similar leaves show convergent developments- these plants grows in similar areas and it is an adaption for the climate ....

Be carefull ....

[Paul T]

Hans,

You're right of course, I think I lumped them together in Amaryllidaceae in a posting earlier.  I keep forgetting that the Massonias aren't.... although superficially they do resemble them to a great degree.  Sorry if my posting contributed to mininformation. 

[Hans J]

Paul ,

No problem 
Normaly I prefer not to collect too many genera .....but in this case with Massonia I MUST make an exception ( one more )
This is the problem in these modern times with internet et all .....everday new ideas ,
always interestings pics makes new temptations.....

[WimB]

Thanks Peter 

I will try to make something like that also.
But it might not work; with the very wet winters (and wet summers actually too  ) we get here.

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

That is the point with a welldrained raised bed, to get a drier habitat. I have a wet climate, 1300mm rain/year and always when I don´t want it. This year it has rained almost every day from the middle of June. It´s still raining but mixed with snow.

[Peter Korn, Sweden]

I really like the Massonia pustulata. Can it take any frost? I have a almost frostfree greenhouse and I would like to try it there.

[Paul T]

I haven't been game to test it myself, but my understanding is that the Massonia do not like having their leaves freeze.

[Hans J]

Peter ,

I grow my Massonia pustulata in my greenhouse ( together with cacti )
the minimum temperature is 5° C

[Paul Cumbleton]

Peter,
They will take some frost but not for a long period. Inthe wild many of the species have temperatures a bit below freezing overnight, but warming up again in the day so they are not frozen for long. At Wisley we have some planted out in our Landscaped Alpine House which is not heated at all. So far they have been OK down to about minus 5 centigrade for short periods

Paul

[Lesley Cox]

MM. depressa and pustulata are hardy here to about -4 or 5C but usually not for more than two or three days at a time without thaw in between. Sometimes the leaves get frosted off but the bulbs survive. They're in a very well-drained and gravelly raised bed.