Dyckia brevifolia cv Golden Glow Butter

Dyckia brevifolia cv. Gloden Glow Butter form.
Dyckia brevifolia in all its beautiful forms are  very meaningful to me as I was gown with them

myself. since  a child I heard my mother telling me stories of those plants growing by the creek side

were her oldest sister Maria washed their clothes. the water was so clean she could see the Ciclids and their alevins  on the stony bottom of that creek. In September those little rosettes tried to reach the skies with yellow blooms and many bees. My Mother was born in 1912 and my aunt Maria in  1892.

That was long ago! That creek is Ribeirão do Cocho and it makes part of the mighty Itajaí river drainage.

This Dyckia brevifolia cv Golden Glow came from Japan just as a gift.

Many miracles had to be fit like buds in a strand for this to have reached my hands...and it happened!

This was to be  a variation of  The beautiful golden Glow as it is smaller and paler.

 Below a large pot with Dyckia brevifolia cv Golden Glow
See the normal one with them.

What a heritage!

 

Besides the Pilea weeds this prince brings a royal heritage:

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei,

Dyckia dawsonii,

Dyckia chorestaminea,

Dyckia brevifolia,

Dyckia sp burle-marxii.

It is too soon to guarantee but this will be ....great.

Variegated Dyckia velascana

Dyckia magnifica by the rising Sun

The flowers are just at the axis and the branches are still getting longer.

Day breaks at 6:00PM and promises to make us boil at 42 degrees Centigrades.

It is  mid Summertime and we are longing for the mild balmy days of May.

Dyckia burle-marxii affinis hybrids

 

These plants can get strikingly red.

Another striking form of Dyckia sp- Lagoão-RS

Color is the name of the game here.

Dyckia sp From Chapada Diamantina -BA

Extremely similar to one of the many members of Dyckia hebdingii Complex

Dyckia companion

This small variagated Agave feels safe and at home among my preferred Dyckias.

I just luv it.

A gift and a most daring one, a miracle.

It seems to enjoy everything here, treatment and climate as already emits four new ones at the base of the plant.

I like its contrasting colors and size.

This beautiful young  hybryd  has many species blood in its veins.

Dyckia goehringii, fosteriana and pectinata...that a lot, lot of beauty.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana rubra

..a breathtaking baby....

Dyckia Brittle Star

My heart melts every time I see it in my garden and not just ´cause this is a beauty

and one of the most desired Dyckia plants all over the world.

My hearts melts every time I see it ´cause it was a gift from up North ...

from the land of milk, honey, dreams and miracles..

I got this  for the sheer pleasure of a friend my eyes will never see, my hands will never shake his,

my arms will never hug him.

This multiplies by many billions the value of this rarity.

I wish you my dear friend Steve feel a most effusive Brazilian hug, one of those we say here rib breaker every time you see your gift.

I shall live a thousand years and I shall never forget...

See it , see it...it is duplicating itself!

Dyckia sp from Lagoão-RS

This is what can me called the kaleidoscopic Dyckia.

It also shows a clear affinity to Dyckia delicata.

First time blooms are always exiting

I took years of expectative and finally the plant makes a vow: I shall bloom!

Dyckia brevifolia Golden Glow.

I know...I know...but even so.....

Our wild bees may be a luxury.... shining emerald green....

...a living gem....

Dyckia magnifica

Dyckia magnifica

First flowers to be seen.

They are attached to the main axis. 

The branches will get longer before its flower buds open.

Dyclia magnifica flower stem....the sky is the limit

I a day or so  some of its minute flowers will be visible.

This is one first time in Dyckia history.

Dyckia companions

This is a beautiful yellow Sinningia richii.

Native to Espírito Santo.

Below a Sinningia speciosa hybrid.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil

 

This is a plant I am very proud of it is where beauty found a nest to live forever.

All home made and by myself and dreams.

Could it be prettier?

Dyckia companions

Orthophythuns, notably the hybrid ones can lend color to a Dyckia yard.

Orthos. are all native to Brazil only. 

They are Brazilian endemic plants and do not occur in the South.

Below the beautiful O. Brittle Star that came from far North: Arkansas

Dyckia domfelicianensis

 Dyckia domfelicianensis

And extremely close related species to Dyckia hebdingii.

Its flowers stem is a bit more compact and uprigthed.

The differences among the two species specimens are all very subtle.

 A very compact and beautiful Dyckia species.