Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Cultivar Nels Christianson

We does have some distint and distinctive fosterina forms in nature and all in Paraná some 260 kilometers north from here. The regional varieties as Sengés, Marialva produce beauties we can´t imagine when put together.
Nivosa is a regional  form and a much smaller one.

we can make many wonderful plants just buy mixing these plants, all fosteriana-fosteriana plants.

This one here is extremely white/blue cultivar and I named Nels Christianson form since he visited my garden to my garden coming all the way from LA.

These spines are rubbery soft and won´t harm you and reminds of Nels´ politeness and kindness, a gentleman and a mind we can not find  any to match. He also speaks a perfect Portuguese and this is the cherry atop the icecream....

Nels, this is  for you.

 

Dyckia delicata rubra...for the perfectionist.

Dyckia delicata type rubra

A plant for the perfectionist!!!!
Seed are in the new Spring seed list two publications below.

 

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My lovely Dyckia braunii will produce two flower stalks at one time.
This is quite an overdose for this minimalist Dyckia.
We shall folow this blooming.



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Dyckia ferruginea

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Dyckia sp from Lagoão

Spetacular to say the least and better yet:

I have seeds! 

They are include in the Spring Dyckia seed offer I will publish later today.

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Dyckia hb Liz Taylor

 

Better and better looking every passing day...

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Dyckia delicata aurea

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Dyckia ibiramensis rubra!!!!!

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra

Dyckia ibiramensis is a rare reophytic plant from Ibirama in Santa Catarina Brazil.

The plant has being assisted in nature these last few years and  good results appear.

The rubra form is not found in nature where rarely a seed germinate and live to produce a new plant imagine one out of many thousand.  It was this way  I produced this beauty, sowing many thousand seeds...Maybe the rarest Dyckia on Earth.

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Above we see Delicata type rubra and delicata red from Tomba Bodes 

Below we see wht I think of as the most beautiful Dyckia species: Dyckia delicata type form rubra.

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Dyckia delicata red Tomba Bodes and the type form.

 

They fit fine together, don´t they?

 ...a really fine togetherness!

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Dyckia delicata red from Tomba Bodes slope

 

...now imagine a group of delicata plants in a rock bed..some red, some white, some grey..it would catch any eye and stop any marching soldier.

I love the colors, the shaping, size, spination...every bit on them are super...

 Dyckias are much more presentable when in bed, a rocky bed. They feel much at easy...

We can keep them  in vases to get them back inside after the Summer is gone but remember: Delicatas

love temperatures below zero Centigrade..but not during the day. They are used to freezing cold temperatures of nights followed by sunny lovely warm mornings.

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Here is where I live in Brazil.

Yes, we can German and Italian speak besides Portuguese.

Here I am home, I was born in Itajaí River Valley and live Northeast Santa Catarina in Joinville.

Nothing like home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZro1D4NPY





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Dyckia delicata red from Tomba Bodes slope.
(Perau do tomba Bodes)
 

 

 

 

 

 

This is  a new found Dckia species from the uphill area of Rio Grande do Sul.
It is a extremely beautiful one and a purple centered one.
Now in the mood for blooming by the very first time in my garden..
 

 

 

 

 Dyckia sp macedoi affinis

 This  small and beautiful new Dyckia species was collectedd in the very same area 

where we find Dyckia macedoi in nature.

Dyckia hb Tarzan by Bill Baker

The adult plants when under strong and fiercy Sun get almost black and white.
Young plants are green and white.

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Dyckia goehringii

If one does not look so it is not goehringii.
True goehringii are white, the sprouts go far away from the mother canopy
and the plant never forms a ball like structure. Those are hybrids.

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Dyckia ferruginea

Dyckia ferruginea

This is the type form and a big plant. Not as big as most of the southern species but big.
Flowers are almost impossible to be pollinated here in the South as the plant need high temperature to be fertile. It blooms in full winter here.
The sepals are very hirsute hence the name ferugineas ´cause this fur is rust like in color.
Ferruginea meas rusty.

The plant below is a Dyckia ferruginea too but look how white it is!
No, not a hybrid!!!!
 

One of the most impressive plants in my garden.
I would like to marry this to a goehringii and also with a marnier-lapostollei.
The resulting plants would de extremely white and beautiful.
Imagine my Dyckia hb Dancing Dervish (goehring X marnier-lapostollei).
Dreams...they keep me alive....

 

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

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Dyckia tuberosa
...one of the most scaled Dyckias.