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Care Diary: Neoporteria senilis – or is it Eriosyce?
Neoporteria or Eriocyse senilis is a goofy, frizzy looking cactus that is easy to grow, stays small, and produces the biggest display of brilliant flowers I've ever seen. They're uncommonly available, and are listed under either genus. They're very variable, and have...
How to Repot Your Cacti: A Guide for Beginners
It's one thing to bring a cactus home from the nursery or hardware store, and another to actually get it out of the pot and into a new one. For the absolute novice, figuring out how the navigate the spines can be daunting, as well as figuring out what "good" soil...
Care Diary: How to Care for Lapidaria margaretae, the Karoo Rose
Caring for the Karoo Rose, or Lapidaria margaretae, is refreshingly easy and straightforward for a mesemb. Similar to Split Rocks, they are a fairly forgiving species that puts up with most novice mistakes. It's the lone species in its genus, although it used to be...
Are You Paranoid Or Are Those Spidermites: Identifying and Treating The Dreaded Pests
This post contains affiliate links! If you find the information here helpful, please consider shopping with one of the links. It helps pay for my server costs! Last updated: 4/14/2024As your plant collection grows and you add more and more rare plants, a certain type...
Why Plants Are Shipped The Way They Are
Bless the internet. Thanks to people all over the world connecting online, the spread of information and online sales has skyrocketed. Pile on a great big heaping serving of global pandemic, and this past year has been absolutely bonkers for online sales, including...
The Most Common Mistakes New Plant Parents Make (and how to avoid them)
We all start somewhere. There's no shame in being a beginner, and even less in making mistakes. The only thing to shame people about is how judgey and rude many experienced growers can be towards newbies. It's also worth noting that often, the folks that are the most...
Care Diary: Echeveria “Bambino”
Echeveria Bambino! A cute little hybrid I picked up from a Hawaiian importer that has some absolutely beautiful plants. This one was a hybrid I picked up because I thought, originally, it'd be a fairly pale and powdery hybrid (I was going through a distinct farina...
Care Diary: Pleiospilos nelii, the Split Rock Plant
Mesembs! My favorite plant group. I'll be talking about the humble Pleiospilos nelii in this post, a cute little plant that is the gateway drug into succulents for many people. Pleiospilos nelii, the split rock plant The common name for this particular plant is the...
Care Diary: Echeveria Tippy Korean Import vs Domestically Grown
Echeveria "Tippy" is in my top ten favorite hybrids, despite how common it tends to be. You can find Echeveria "Tippy" either as an imported hybrid or at your nearest big box store, with a corresponding price point. I've seen them available in clearance bins, as large...
The Difference Between US Grown vs. Imported Succulents
Succulent species and hybrids are wildly popular, and there are nearly infinite hybrids and crosses as well as cultivars available on the market for any collector to find. For those new to the hobby, or even those who have been around a while but are just exploring...