Thursday, March 6. 2008
Lithops
Horticulture Magazine is featuring some lithops that one of their editors is trying to keep alive.
Living Stone (I Presume)
by Meg Lynch
It was July 15, 2002, to be exact—I noted it in the cactus and succulent diary that I kept at the time:
“LIVING STONES!!! !!! !!! Very excited! One is greenish and the other grayish/peachish—they look good and I will take careful care of them!”
At some point soon thereafter the gray one died, though I don’t seem to have noted it.
On March 1, 2003, I mention that lately the still-living living stone, the green one, which I dubbed Gerard, “started to open a pinhole and that turned into a large oval-shaped separation and inside there are what look like tiny Gerards.” I had been hoping it was going to flower. But it was just going through the routine of a living stone: to shed its leaves each year, revealing new leaves inside.
by Meg Lynch
It was July 15, 2002, to be exact—I noted it in the cactus and succulent diary that I kept at the time:
“LIVING STONES!!! !!! !!! Very excited! One is greenish and the other grayish/peachish—they look good and I will take careful care of them!”
At some point soon thereafter the gray one died, though I don’t seem to have noted it.
On March 1, 2003, I mention that lately the still-living living stone, the green one, which I dubbed Gerard, “started to open a pinhole and that turned into a large oval-shaped separation and inside there are what look like tiny Gerards.” I had been hoping it was going to flower. But it was just going through the routine of a living stone: to shed its leaves each year, revealing new leaves inside.
Now that's what I call garden writing, container-garden-style.
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