"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[Johan K.]

Gymnocalycium andreae

Gymnocalycium bruchii var brigittae

Gymnocalycium chubutense

[Johan K.]

Gymnocalycium gibbosum

Gymnocalycium neuhuberi

[Johan K.]

Weingartia sp.

[ashley]

What an amazing collection Johan, and wonderful photos

[Johan K.]

Thank You.

Plants and Flowers of today.

Fenestraria rhopalophylla ssp aurantiaca

Orthopterum coeganum

Senecio stapiliiformis

[Johan K.]

Orostachys iwarenge 'Hodo'

[ruweiss]

Johan, thank you for these beautiful pictures. I always overwintered succesful for many years
Gymnocaycium bruchii, gibbosum and andrae in a unheated frame with a glass cover, but lost
them last winter - reason unknown.

[brianw]

Orostachys iwarenge 'Hodo'

I find this an odd? surprising? plant. With any other plant you might start with a seed that grows to something many inches or feet wide or high in a season and seems natural, but with this you can keep a few succulent rosettes, maybe a few mm in diameter, and by now they will be pans full in flower and maybe 8 inches in diameter. For succulents it all seems very unlikely. Such rapid growth. One odd thing in my garden the flower spikes seem to lean to the north. Maybe very draught sensitive. The bumble bees love them.

[ashley]

Young plants flowering late:

Mammillaria baumii has an intense lemony scent
Rebutia fabrisii 'aureiflora'
R. pygmaea 'gavazzii'

[Rob-Rah]

Edithcolea grandis (Persian carpet flower) opened its first flower this week - quite stunning!

[Maggi Young]

Terrific!  I feel a sort of   "StarTrek" quote coming on ... it's a flower, Jim, but not as we know it! 
I just love these  "other-worldly" plants!

[François Lambert]

Wonderfull pictures of your Gymnocalycium Johan.  They remind me of  my fathers greenhouse where he used to grow almost all Argentinian species of Gymnocalycium.

[Roma]

I used to grow this at work and when I saw it for sale at the local garden centre just had to have it.  I bought it in May and it is still growing and flowering so I am very happy.

Ceropegia sandersonii

[François Lambert]

In previous years I was happy to have 1 or just 2 flowers on this lithops.  But this year I gave them a 'wetter' spring & summer and the result is they almost all are or will flower - still new buds appearing every day.  Flowers open at +/- 17.00 hr and are again closed by 19.00 hr.

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[Leucogenes]

In previous years I was happy to have 1 or just 2 flowers on this lithops.  But this year I gave them a 'wetter' spring & summer and the result is they almost all are or will flower - still new buds appearing every day.  Flowers open at +/- 17.00 hr and are again closed by 19.00 hr.

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Wow. What a beauty. My admiration...François.

Thomas