happy holidays!

Merry Christmas everybody! :)

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progress

I will go home to spend the holidays with my parents but what about the plants? They sure don't need any water but without heating it mi...

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newcomers

More plants are letting me catch a glimpse of their new clothes. It's almost as if they were teasing me!  

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snow

I haven't seen so much snow in ages. As soon as it starts melting it snows again. I'm not used to it at all but it is surely a beaut...

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not much happens this time of the year

This formally very pink gesinae also belongs to the plants with no sign of new leaves yet. It's really cute and petite, the 'window...

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the "indifferent" aucampiae

These two aucampiae haven't seen water for ages but still no visible change, not yet. I've transplanted them recently from two separ...

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twisted lesliei update

Long ago I was writing about a lesliei that grew its new leaves strangely twisted and sort of 'unfinished' on the sides. I didn...

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top red

I am amazed to see how far along the lesliei are at changing their leaves. Almost all of them are at it, and even though they still have lot...

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first snow

We have an early winter this year. The city wasn't prepared at all: complete chaos on the streets. The cold weather came while I was awa...

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100th post

I really want to thank you all for your interest in my blog! It means a lot to know there are other people sharing this fascination for lith...

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bugs won't bring us down

Here is a quick update on the 'damaged' lesliei v. minor . One of them is completely renewed: it is small for its age (considering i...

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something's happening underneath 2

During the last two or three weeks I don't remember seeing any sunlight. Even the pictures all turn out grey and cold. But maybe it isn...

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something's happening underneath

It has been at least a month since the adult plants got water for the last time and some of them already let me catch a glimpse of the new l...

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regeneration

The gracilidelineata seedlings should be around 21 months now. I don't know how often they changed their skin during the time I wasn...

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new homes for lesliei 2

Here is the rest of them: C342, C028, C364 and C029. I only have one hornii C364 left so it shares its container with C029 for now. C028 is ...

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new homes for lesliei

I've transplanted the colorful lesliei each pair in one container in September. It's not like they have much more space now but it ...

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little suns on rainy days

These helmutii are a constant source of joy. They sure deserve another post. The yellow-edged ones have been flowering for weeks now, and th...

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the pumice experiment

While being away from the internet (all the recent entries are written from the university library) I was keeping busy lithops-wise. I read ...

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aucampiae pancakes

Here is another "pancake". Like the plants from the previous post this aucampiae had it really sunny this summer. From the looks o...

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hookeri pancakes

A month ago, when I came back from Japan, I was posting about some lithops that have grown too much becoming 'cucumber'-shaped, but ...

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gracili kids are growing

As previously mentioned, the cute young gracilidelineata from before are synchronously changing their clothes now. You can already see the ...

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not quite done yet

It is gloomy-rainy with temperatures from 8 °C to -2 °C outside. While one of the salicolas has given up on its last flower, the yellow-edge...

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something to look forward to

No doubts about this one :)

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getting ready for winter

It's cold and dark outside. Sunlight has become a rarity and the plants have had their last watering. They will move to my place in seve...

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