by Alice Liles | Feb 6, 2013 | Blooming Now
Sedeveria Robert Grimm makes a nice cluster of small flowers. Sedeveria Robert Grimm. In trying to get a close-up of the plant, you can see I cut the cluster of flowers out of the picture. They would be at the end of the bloom stem trailing to the right in the...
by Alice Liles | Feb 4, 2013 | Blooming Now
I am learning more about all the different plants in the Aizoaceae family, found in the south of Africa, and this plant is one of them. Also called split rock, because that is sort of what they look like, pleiospilos nelii blooms late in the afternoon and makes...
by Alice Liles | Jan 31, 2013 | Blooming Now
I have lost the name of this gray succulent, but it makes this pretty cascade of blooms. Aloinopsis is a mesembryanthemum that comes from the south of Africa. Its name means midday flowering. The buds aren’t obvious, so when it does bloom, it’s always something of a...
by admin | Jan 31, 2013 | Bright Lights
When the kids were growing up, they spent most of their summer afternoons over at the country club pool right across the street from our house, and because the walk from one to the other was short, they and friends would pop in and out from time to time during the...
by Alice Liles | Jan 28, 2013 | Blooming Now
I have already shared rebutia miniscula with you, but it has continued to bloom its little head off, and I just had to give it a little more publicity. This is a nice little cactus to have. Euphorbia aeruginosa is another smaller scale plant that adds interest...
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