An update of Massonia.com in the Netherlands. See the updated seed list (and an update winter bulb list) at www.massonia.com/contact.

There seems to be a glitch with the link of the PDF on https://haworthiafrica.com/seeds/. You need to copy the link and put it in the address bar yourself. Okay. But you can't select the text to copy it. But you can select all the text with command+A and then remove all the text that is not the link...

Just close the seed pod with some tape, to prevent the seeds from flying out before you have time to harvest them when the seed pods are ripe.

Now it is May, I can finally announce this month's winner.

I never knew Sulcorebutia's were capable of destroying a pot and I was impressed the pot got really thorn apart completely. So I award the winning golden medal to MatDz...!

Let's add some examples of what I had in mind: An Ariocarpus ripping open a pot from almost the top to the bottom: IMG_0344.jpeg A Gymnocalycium trying to do the same but not even halfway there: IMG_0345.jpeg A Pachypodium succulentum that will be hard to repot later this year if I try to save the p...

Thanking el48tel for the honour of winning the March 2024 Marvellous Mesembs photo competition. I do like tuberous roots. The bigger the better (and that is mainly the reason I don't like grafting much...). Let's go on to pictures of roots bursting out of their pots. Roots pooking through the holes ...

el48tel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 12:02 pm The winner was Conophytum burgeri from Aiko because the image made me think, “is this a flower? Is it growing out of the stone?” Well done!
So over to you Aiko to choose the April topic

Yeehaw!

I will get on the next topic immediately.

Interesting!
Let's see if mine will flower at the same time this summer, and I will try to get the same result.

That Brachychiton is quite impressive.

I assume the below is some species of Sansevieria?

Maybe grafting is a thing to try?
But that will probably not take either.