С-69 begin to bloom

First C-69 pseudotruncatella ssp. volkii open the bud into beautiful flower :) I hope that the second one will have a time to open its flower with the first and not later.

Flying Flower

Maybe it is not for the lithops blog but i will try :) Today i saw two outstanding flying flowers in my garden. These were two beautiful young butterflies! With a shine satin colorfull wings! Green, orange, yellow, a lot of colors! Simply breathtaking!

Nothing but fascination :)

Last update. Neohenricia opened another flower. It has slightly greenish color (instead of right flower that has purple
tips of petals and three days age) and very strong scent.

Neohenricia sibbettii blooming

After a short rest Neohenricia decided to bloom again :) The pictures show two days flower. It opened flower only one half at the first day of blooming. But it became a real beauty on the second day :)

To be continued...

As one C69 showed the bud another lithops thought: "In what things am i worse then that one? I can also bloom with a beautiful flower. And i will!" And i investigated the bud on the second lithops in the morning of next day :)
I see the lithops and it is like a magic for me! It is a perfection itself! Mother-nature shows us its perfection and calm and fulfil us with beauty and infinity!

Little Gift

When i came to see my plants in the morning i`ve got a present from my C69 pseudotruncatella ssp. volkii. It decided to bloom! I am happy and will be waiting for the flower!

Anacampseros karasmontana again

This beautifull plant bloom without rest. There are a lot of Sun in my place at that time. Anacampseros exposures directly in the Sun light without any cover. But it is not a problem for plant.

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Good emotions from the past

Want to show one picture from the past. What is it? You are right! It is a Pleiospilos bolusii. The picture were taken in 2012. Pleiospilos decided to bloom with two big yellow flowers. To understand the flower size i need to say that a pot sizes are about 20x20 cm. This plant lives in our home collection almost 25 years and feel good. My mother began to grow it in early 1989 from seeds.  I hope it will develope the flowers in this season too :)

Noname Lhitops

Today i want to tell you a story. This story is about small but strong lithops his eager of life and the importance of human care to help.
One day i came to city supermarket. From time to time i buy something succulentish there for a reason of plants life saving. The succulent plants are sold there very often in a poor condition, with a damages and overwatered. When i saw this lithops on the shelf it was with a soft body, very long (or maybe tall), and dinky colored. It is important to say that all plants are sold in a peat substrate. Every time i put buyed plants in a new right substrate. And when i replantated that lithops i saw it almost had no roots. It was terrible...
But in that moment i give myself a promice to keep it alive anyway. Lithops recuperated from its near death condition about year. It became short, right colored and developed a good root system and in the 2012 year
flowered. Its happy face i used for the header picture of my blog :)

 After the flowering time it became bigger in autumn and then passed winter very good. After the moult it gave second head and feel good up to this time :)

 So nothing is impossible i think. Love and care can break even a stone wall. If human beings will want it so much....
Another interesting thing is that when you buy something in the supermarket you are really not able to get right name of the succulent plant. In the case of lithops, titanopsis and others the pots were marked as "Lithops mix" or "Succulent mix" :) So to my shame i don`t know its right name. Maybe you, my readers, can help me to figure right name of this lithops.

Different lithops beings from my place.

Were placed on the house window because of transfer into the new pots. I give it a time to heal its root system ( i have about 28°C on the window and about 45°C in the backyard :) )

 Lithops C336 hookeri "vermiculate" form 

Lithops C383 gracilidelineata ssp. brandbergensis

Lithops C9 lesliei ssp. lesliei v. lesliei (grey form)

Neohenricia sibbettii.

It is a small carpet-like succulent can bloom with a very beautifull flowers. What is really interesting that at the beginning the color of the flowers is greenish not lilac or purple. But after day or two it becomes normal purple color. Flowers begin to open in the late evening and have light delicate scent. The age of the plant is about 3 years.

And this is the picture below from year 2012 :)

Anacampseros karasmontana began to bloom.

I really like this small  plant. Someone says it`s easy to grow in collections and nothing interesting. But i need to say that Anacampseroses bring variety and joy to every collection. And especially when it begins to bloom... )