#gonialoe

[botaniqueer]

Went to the cactus and succulent society’s annual Volunteer Park Conservatory sale and got myself some new friends! I got sea plantains (Plantago maritima), Lewisia columbiana, Gonialoe variegata (my friend sold me this! I have this species but one isn’t looking too good and I want a breeding pair), and some free Stapelia grandiflora cuttings!

I donated one of them to Chocolati and told the staff that its name is Spubsy and it will be their new coworker to replace the deceased Fatsia japonica that was formerly in that pot.

[jukanmuri]

Gonialoe variegata, Oudtshoorn | ゴニアロエ・バリエガタ

寒くて目覚めた朝。暖房設備なく隙間風入る安宿のせいと思ったが、外に出ると車窓に霜。土に霜柱。吐く息が白い塊になってしばらく残る。こわばった体をあたためるべく宿のまわりを歩いていたら黒い植物。バリエガタってこんな色になるんだ。日本では見たことがない色。蕾もち。

[botaniqueer]

Happily watered blorps! :3

[botaniqueer]

Post-midnight repotting madness! The Gasteria was visibly warping its old nursery planter so I gave it the luxury suites. I'm leaving one of the Gonialoes in its old planter for comparison to see if there's any difference or if it doesn't need to move. I'm also crossing my fingers that I don't lose all of my fan aloes because they seem to love dying whenever they're repotted ;=;

[botaniqueer]

Various garden blorps.

— Amaranth seedlings

— Gonialoe variegata being pleasingly geometric

— The Sacha inchi (Plukenetia volubilis) isn’t aborting it’s flowers anymore! Only the pistilate flowers have opened so far with few stamenate ones open so I don’t have much pollen right now to work with.

— Winged bean seedling hidden among a bunch of miner’s lettuce. (Which I like to grab to munch on occasionally. Easy salad!)

— Why cucurbits are hard to start indoors: they are very lemgthy. The cucamelon is crawling over everything.

— Osaka purple mustard

— Aloe comosa seedling

[botaniqueer]

Another Gonialoe variegata (57 months from sowing) appreciation post!

They’re so pretty and look almost like sculptures.

[botaniqueer]

I am trying to decide on whether to sell my trumpet and/or DSLR camera in order to scrape up some cash for basic needs + being able to progress my gardening hobby with some upgrades.

I ended up using the camera for the first time in a while (I thought I lost the charger in a move years ago, but then just found it as I bought a new one rip) and now this decision has been complicated because I remember how much I like having a dedicated camera I have full manual control of. The quality gap between phones and dedicated cameras has been closing but I'm still able to get better quality out of my ten year old Nikon it seems. Plus I can swap lenses and take nice macros. Here are some photos I took just now!

Adenium obesum (38 months)

Monilaria sp. (81 days)

Gonialoe variegata (50 months)

Cotelydon tomentosa

Echeveria peacockii

Mother of Thousands (Kalanchoe or Bryophyllum daigremontiana?)

Drimia intricata (47 months)

Haworthia var.

[botaniqueer]

Some assorted photosynthetic friends!

Haworthia truncata

Haworthia ‘Tsukikage”

Haworthia retusa X cooperi

Gasteria sp.

Gonialoe variegata

Nepenthes X ventrata and Pinguicula spp.

Avocado (Persea americana)

Haworthiopsis venosa