Avonia quinaria (4 pics)

I feel like I need to read up on Avonia's (as well as Anacampseros) yearly growing cycle again. It seems they are in an active growth ph...

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Flowering season of sorts (7 pics)

Winter is coming. It's dark when I go to work, it's dark when I come back home. Oh and the sun is rarely shining on weekends. That...

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Avonias lifting branches: a theory (3 pics)

In the latest post I casually mentioned my observations regarding the behavior of Avonia albissima branches with ripe seed pots. I find it q...

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Some flowers (10 pics)

My lithops are usually quick to show flower buds but there's still nothing, not even a hint. I doubt I'll see any flowers this year,...

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Avonia & Crassula flowers and random seed capsules (3 pics)

I know I'm astonished myself at the amount of flower pics I'm posting this year. I guess it's the fact that we've been havin...

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Avonia day 2014 (4 pics)

It's that magical time of the year again when Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii opens its flowers ♥ It has been flowering for a while now bu...

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Avonia: this year's flower

It's Avonia time again! When I came home from work the flower was already open a bit too wide but at least I could catch a glow of the e...

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New Avonia Adventures

You remember two weeks ago I told you that my Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii has grown 3 seed pods without being pollinated or even having ...

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Strange thing about Avonia

My Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii continues to surprise. Now explain this to me. From what I read everywhere Avonia quinaria is the only Anac...

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Avonia continues to flower

The flowers don't open all at once because they aren't all at the same stage of development. That's even better. This way you ca...

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White Avonia's flower (2 pics)

I'll just quickly post the pics because I really need to go sleep now. Waking up at 5 am every day isn't easy. I was back from work ...

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Aaaand two more flowers :D

Today's photo shooting is all natural. :) No staging with black background or anything. Even though the flowers open after the sun is go...

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And more Avonia flowers! (2 pics)

I'm going to flood my blog with them. XD But I don't have a choice, do I? Too pretty. Two more flowers opened (ca. 6 pm), another fi...

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First Avonia flower opened today

I've been live-blogging the event on twitter today and here it is! Opened approx. at 5 PM and should stay open for a couple of hours. Th...

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Troubled L. julii & Avonia update (2 pics)

What would you do with them ? Without water since Oktober and still not done with the leaf change. I have no idea how to help them. I can se...

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Recent developments (2 pics)

Things are happening on the windowsill. My Avoina quinaria ssp. quinaria is growing flowers. Such a surprise! I got it last year as this tin...

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Avonia quinaria update

There's still a possibility that I've missed it but I don't think so. The flower opened a little in the evening as it was alread...

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This just in

It's happening. Another Avonia quinaria ssp. alstonii flower is about to open. :) Will post pics as soon as it does~ It's a little ...

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