I’m growing about 90 varieties of cold-hardy mesembs. All of them, cold-hardy or not, need very cool temperatures for germination, less than 70 F (21 C). They germinate in two to four days at these low temperatures. They all look alike at this stage (a month old). The little touches of orange you see in ...
I’m so hard-up for pictures that I’m taking shots of fruit. This is a nice x-mas type shot, with the red and green. This plant is 35 years old. The fruits can last almost to May.
This is one of those mesembryanthemums (“mid-day flowers”) that Steve Brack of Mesa Garden in his germination instructions identifies as an opportunistic grower/bloomer in fall/winter/spring if kept watered. This year I have so few things flowering that I paid attention, watering and fertilizing constantly, and I’ve been rewarded by a continuous crop of flowers on ...