OCSS Picnic and Open House

Consider this an open invitation to anyone in Portland and the Northwest to come to our home and nursery for an evening of food, plants and conversation this coming Sunday, August 18 beginning at 3 pm. The fried chicken and cold, non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by the club and the rest of the picnic will be potluck. Plants will be available to purchase beginning at noon.
Also, on the day before, Saturday, August 17, we will be open for plant sales from 9 am to 5 pm. Come by to check out the plants on Saturday if you can't come on Sunday.

Enjoy your plants!

Haworthia cooperi var. venusta GM292

This variety is small growing and doesn't offset readily but does so over time in cultivation. In addition, it comes from a very small plot in South Africa. In the heat of late summer, it should get a bit of a rest, but at least in our conditions it seems quite tolerant of our haphazard watering schedule.

Echinocereus species

We've never had the species name on this plant. It came without a tag and we haven't ever had the time (or drive) to do the research to determine the species. We're pretty sure, but we don't put a species name on a tag until we're more than "pretty sure". In the meantime we just enjoy the flowers it produces every year.

Enjoy your plants!

Ceraria namaquensis

 

This has grown quite a bit since we first got it. It was just a little twig back then. I love those little succulent leaves and, as a plus, it's currently flowering. And now the caudex is getting more and more impressive. It makes a wonderful succulent bonsai-like centerpiece.

Dinteranthus microspermus subsp. puberulus

This is an old clump which we had for several years. It's quite easy to grow with a gritty substrate with excellent drainage being most important. It's a summer grower.

Copiapoa laui

This species, often misspelled lauii, is a part of the hypogaea complex and is the smallest of the Copiapoas. It eventually will form nice clusters, but will flower when it is still very small.

Haworthia aristata MBB6917

This is a seven year old plant grown from field collected seed. Quite rare in collections, its appearance is quite distinctive.

Haworthia magnifica var. splendens

I know I posted these in April, but I took a couple of new pictures and decided to go ahead and share them. I guess it's OK to repeat once in a while, especially if they're wonderful plants like these.

This first one is grown from seed collected East of the type locality at GM447.

The second photo is grown from seed collected at GM452, from west of Albertinia.