I'll continue the introductions :)
The new guys are the lovely L. dinteri C206 from Cono's Paradise nursery (german), L. lesliei v. hornii C015 from Rare Plants nursery (czech) and some surprisingly well-grown L. schwantesii from a local hardware store.
The new guys are the lovely L. dinteri C206 from Cono's Paradise nursery (german), L. lesliei v. hornii C015 from Rare Plants nursery (czech) and some surprisingly well-grown L. schwantesii from a local hardware store.
Do you visit nurseries or buy though the post.
ReplyDeleteI almost never can visit nurseries. I've only been to Kakteen-Haage greenhouses so far. If I buy grown plants I almost always buy them online (nurseries or even ebay). Sometimes there are nicely grown lithops without cole numbers in local shops so I buy them if they are pretty or interesting, it's cheap.
DeleteI usually try to visit a nursery while on holiday. The Mesemb Event is also a good source of plants. The Coles say Lithops seedlings should not have C numbers now as they are not from their plants. I guess they should be ex C ...
ReplyDeleteAh you're lucky! I wished I could go there, too :)
DeleteWithout Cole numbers we wouldn'tbe able to find the seeds we want. What I find quite desturbing is how people on ebay are trying to sell regular lithops under fake thought-up crazy cultivar names. Some cultivar-obsessed growers might believe that...
I think the point the Coles are making is that the seeds now being distributed with C numbers do not represent their collections but subsequent generations which are not necessarily like the original. It does seem there are more and more cultivars around. I like some of them but they are often sold when not stable.
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