Josh's 2012

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Plumosa is still going. Kind of neat looking how a hole is left in the feathers when the flower pulls back inside.
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We got 8" of rain the last couple weeks, enough that water was flowing down my hillside so I dug a diversion furrow around my GH. Under a rock I turned up this guy - aligator lizard:
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Nice flowers! That lizard looks pretty cool as well! :D
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Beautiful stuff Josh, love the way you grow seedlings.

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First flowers for the year, this guy always marks the start of a new season, being early rather than late:
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While this guy is 'late' and still going:
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I don't know if mammillaria prolifera is supposed to be flowering now, my others aren't:
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Trichodemia bulbosum flowers year round, but also looks scraggly year-round:
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And this jade plant has been going for a while. Note that the oxalis was growing on my hillside before my GH went in...
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My grandparents had this clone before I was born, but it never flowered for them in MN.
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Nice flowers! =D>
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Last weekend I had a spare hour to spend potting up and this pot of Ferocactus gracilis coloratus was on deck. The guy 4th from the left is variegated!
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I think those are 1 year old, from last year's mesagarden order. I sowed 50 seed and potted up 49 seedlings. Ferocactus gracilis is a champ!

When I looked into this pot of ornithogalum sardienii at first I thought there were only two left! Closer inspection revealed 8 more. Cryptic little guys.
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The earliest wildflower of the season was also kicking into gear last weekend, dodecatheon hendersonii:
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They aren't very succulent, but they grow in a succulent like habitat - narrow bands on north facing slopes where larger plants can't grow. They only grow from Oct-March, the rest of the year that pot sits in the shade behind my house next to the air conditioner. I often find them near Dudleya cymosa, Dudleya lanceolata and Sedum spathulafolium.
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ornithogalum sardienii are really cute little guys - mine is now flowering..love the leaf structure. Great job in growing them from seed!
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Nice seedlings and nice wildflower, especially for this time! =D>
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LT: could you post a photo of it with something for scale? I'm under the impression the bulbs only get to about 1cm or so.
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Yes, small, I will take a pic today with something next to it for scale.
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Josh,

Here is a set, hope you do not mind...

Ok full glory!

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O. sardieniae by RyanH (LT),

Pic I took today in summer...I put a toothpick next to it marked with 1cm lines. On the top pic it is 3mm gravel.

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O. sardieniae2 by RyanH (LT),
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O.sardieniae by RyanH (LT),

and the little flowers
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O. sardieniaeflower by RyanH (LT),

Hope that was what you were looking for! You will love these, I am sure.
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Awesome, thanks! Hopefully I can get mine to that point.

Here's what they looked like at a month and a half old:
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Like tiny fish eggs with green tentacles...
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amazing!

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Good luck, I really wish you success on these. Keep us informed.
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Today was the start of stenocactus season!
NOIDs from mixed seed:
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Stenocactus coptogonus SB13
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Other critters mobilizing:
Euphorbia stellaspina
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Glandulocactus uncinatus
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Mamm saboae v saboae (should I give it a drink? First spring with this guy...)
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Neochilenia nidus senilis
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Pediocactus knowltonii (maybe confused about what time of year it is..)
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