Sep 20, 2024
Sep 19, 2024
La Petit Belle is a living jewel
Yes, without any doubt it is not a question of size.
This is a real living small beauty
Dyckias are an endless source of fantasies and surprises and one can dream here.
This is a golden treasure.
Yes, it would well be the match of the Century
This is one of the prettiest Dyckias I´ve seen. Small, yellowish, rare, well succulent leaves and a rosete to gasp. Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis xanthic
Encholirium agavoides
Dyckia brevifolia subidensis and Encholirium agavoides what a match!
This is may dream match. I would love to make intergeneric hybrids here. Encholirium are hard to cultivate here South in Brazil. It would be nice to put the two together. Recently there was a Brazilian attempt the include the all Encholirium genus into Dyckias. It didn´t work.
Thanks God it did not. Both genus are very close and they interbreed easely.
Sep 18, 2024
11 years ago amid Dyckia delicatas. Seeds.
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 16, 2024
What about a fountain in the garden?
The mother plant is a Dyckia reitzii rubra var. Fortaleza and the polen donator plant is a Dyckia monticola var. Campo Alegre-SC.
Growing together and living together. Beauties or just rarities. No species.
I like big ceramic shallow bowls, basins. Within them I grow dreams. Hybrid plants, unique, only ones in this entire little blue world we call Home. They grow and they bloom and produce their own beauties. I love to keep they the way they like love and enjoy living. I think that is Dyckias for when under cultivation, to please my eyes.
Ok, they teach me too and they do it every day. Each day I learn a bit nd eventually a lot too.
I showed them here already but let us tell their heritage as I promised.
- Dyckia hb Constantino Gastaldi. It is the one to the left and its father is a Dyckia fosteriana from the Sengés group while the mother plant is a Bill Baker hybrid Dyckia hb Brittle Star.
-The sparkling white beauty to the right is a Dyckia delicata white and Dyckia Brittle Star cross.
Sep 15, 2024
Dyckia neo-jonesiana
Dyckia neo-jonesiana can be found in green, red, white and all te shades in between .
It honors my friend Dr. Jones Caldas.
Dyckia pseudodelicata rubra under rain
Notice the leaves are also dehydrated do to recent transplantation and clump separation.
Dyckia strehliana a reophytic plant
Leaf edges are toothless, glabrous. Leaves are smooth except for the apical spine.