Thought I'd try and start this new decade with something (as someone pretty new to C&S) I'd be really interested to see and hopefully something everyone could get involved with.
So for this thread post what you consider your most special, most coveted or rarest plant. It could either be a current photo or a historical one.
The plant that makes you go all Golem and cry, "My precious" every time you think about it!
Hopefully then everyone can join on and show something they treasure for everyone else to enjoy!
January 2020 - Your most special plant
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
I'll start the ball rolling with three of mine that are currently my favourites (I can't pick one out of these three!)
Rebutia einsteinii var tilcarensis J192a seedlings. These were my first seedlings to come through. My little Aloe polyphylla plant (I'm hoping to grow some more from seed to get a little group that I can pollinate) Echinocactus grusonii (recently bought from Southfields but I love it's size (just over a foot across) and the fact that it's around 20 years old from seed!)
Rebutia einsteinii var tilcarensis J192a seedlings. These were my first seedlings to come through. My little Aloe polyphylla plant (I'm hoping to grow some more from seed to get a little group that I can pollinate) Echinocactus grusonii (recently bought from Southfields but I love it's size (just over a foot across) and the fact that it's around 20 years old from seed!)
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
So standing in the greenhouse this morning I’m pondering what a favourite plant is. I suppose it’s the one you would least want to be parted with. I rapidly concluded it was all of them. However, if you really twisted my arm...
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
Just for the name Echinofossulocactus ochoterenaus although I should have changed the label to Stenocactus.
Picture was taken a few years ago so I had to go to my greenhouse to check the name and was a bit disappointed to find that this plant had died
Picture was taken a few years ago so I had to go to my greenhouse to check the name and was a bit disappointed to find that this plant had died
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
Great photo but sad outcome - will you grow it again?
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I am not planning any replacements, my "colllection" has been neglected for a few years now so I will leave growing named plants to others and just make do with the occasional supermarket plant to fill the gaps in my greenhouse
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
This low growing Mammillaria has the most delightful flowers and I always looked forward to it blooming. Sadly, like Jim's stenocactus, it died a couple of years ago. This photo was taken in 2013.
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
This is my favourite plant.
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Re: January 2020 - Your most special plant
M. mazatlanensis is terrific. And yours is a lovely specimen.