845 Mason Road, Vista, CA 92084, USA
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email: sphaeroid@juno.com
The least-appetizing recipe in the post-war Joy of Cooking has got to be Turnips Stuffed with Leftover Food. How we have progressed in culinary fashion! And so with horticulture. Nothing so plain as a Congeries of Dumplins, or Mesembryanthemum minutum; it's now Conophytum minutum var. minutum HBG 376570, 4.251 km SSSWW of Langspielberg under a full moon on eroded anchorite, or: Haworthia truncata var. truncata 'Ninja Worrier' x H. truncata var. maughanii 'Blue Belles' F22. You pays your money and takes your label-lengthening choice.
But I digress. It's a bit wet to issue a list, don't you think? Well yes, but by the same token the perpetual rains have kept many winter-loving plants moist, active, and shippable long past their usual pull-by dates and indeed some species woke up only recently and are thus eminently shippable. Also, I've spent a fortune on ferrocrete shorings-up and have tired of dining exclusively on parboiled pinto beans. (Still, what marvelous fecundity they can engender.)
Hence the following easy-to-order items! Let me know which of our vegetable cousins you'd like to grow, and I'll let you know which ones are still available. Some species will probably vanish quickly.
* = one per druid
ALOINOPSIS
1. luckhoffii Loeriesfontein
tap-rooted horned toads $2.00
2. schooneesii Shalom
blastulae in action $4.00
CHEIRIDOPSIS
3. umdausensis Concordia
the non-x files $2.00
4. sp. B & H 2003 Khurisberg
as elegantly keeled as the Pinta $4.00
CONOPHYTUM
5. ectypum subsp. brownii EVJ 8622 *
metallic bric-a-brac $6.00
6. ectypum subsp. sulcatum SB 1118 *
jade molars $6.00
7. ficiforme 20 km S Worcester
fig by day, carnation by night $4.00
8. hians
deltas of corduroy $2.00
9. lydiae Gamsberg
jelly bellies $4.00
10. lydiae Geselskapbank
white-eyed rose flowers $6.00
11. minutum var. nudumish Moedverloer *
dwarf pygmies $8.00
12. obcordellum subsp. obcordellum
vegan Ayrshires $8.00
13. obcordellum subsp. rolfii Elandsbaai
fuzzy navels $6.00
14. obcordellum var. ceresianum Patatsrivier
spider-veined, not spotted $3.00
15. pellucidum var. neohallii Deurdrif
SB 628; opacity vs. fenestration $5.00
16. pellucidum 'pardicolor' Goegap
can a leopard change her spot? $4.00
17. ricardianum Lorelei cirque
SB 1116; discreetly fissured $8.00
18. saxetanum Uitsig
grows with L. optica fma. rubra $8.00
19. tantillum subsp. heleniae Kosies
chiseled profiles $12.00
20. tantillum subsp. amicorum S Steinkopf
incredibly easy-going $6.00
21. truncatum 'muirii'
clonotype of this old greenie $6.00
22. turrigerum
faultless towers erected in hort. $4.00
GIBBAEUM
23. dispar S Vanwyksdorp
way out in cleft field $8.00
LITHOPS
24. lesliei var. venteri C 1
speckled goals $6.00
25. lesliei 'Fred's Redhead'
tiny; dark as pickled beets $8.00
26. meyeri 'Hammeruby'
small; well-worn genes $8.00
27. optica fma. rubra Uitsig
cherry picks $6.00
MEYEROPHYTUM
28. meyeri
vivid green shrublettes $3.00
MICHELINIA
29. globosa Riethuis
four-starred in any guide $6.00
MONILARIA
30. chrysoleuca Blesberg flats
fantastic pipe-cleaner form $6.00
31. obconica W Bulletrap
white or magenta petals $8.00
NAMIBIA
32. cinerea Grillenthal *
beauties from the 'Valley of Whims' $6.00
NEOHENRICIA
33. sibbettii
selected seedling ziggurats (not rooted cuttings) $4.00
ODONTOPHORUS
34. nanus Eenriet *
softly menacing fangs $6.00
ORTHOPTERUM
35. waltoniae Grahamstown *
streamlined faucarias $6.00
PHYLLOBOLUS
36. tenuiflorus Vinkelskolk
dwarf form with chartreuse flowers $6.00
BRUNSVIGIA
37. gregaria *
dark green leather $6.00
BULBINE
38. alveolatus Kalkgat Noord
tessellated spiders $4.00
39. fallax Bitterfontein *
veined lime jello $6.00
40. haworthioides Holrivier *
hurry with the fringe on top $6.00
41. margarethae Wolwenes
vertiginous inclinations $6.00
42. sp. SH 2527 Karas near Kangnas
modest dwarf tufter $4.00
43. sp. Hall 5041 Liebendal
slowly thickens with age $4.00
ERIOSPERMUM
44. paradoxum Meslip
e pluribus unum, reversed $6.00
LACHENALIA
45. aloides var. quadricolor
brilliant bitonal trumpets $4.00
46. comptonii
long silvery whiskers $6.00
47. aff. giessii Klipbok
tiny, blue-flowered toothpicks $4.00
48. pustulata
big, froggy boils $6.00
MASSONIA
49. pustulata *
pimpled 'n dimpled $5.00
50. sp. aff. echinata *
organza pleats $5.00
ORNITHOGALUM
51. concordianum
blue-ribbon ribbons $4.00
52. fimbromarginatum Piketberg
super-delicate white margins $3.00
HAWORTHIA
53. arachnoidea 'isomorpha' Wagendrift
hearts of darkness $6.00
54. bayeri
promising but still inchoate seedlings $6.00
55. bayeri 'indigoa'
also suggests afrotuska $5.00
56. emelyae Saffranrivier
young but classic pictas $6.00
57. marumiana Andriesberg *
spotted olive tapestries $3.00
58. mutica
somber seedlings $6.00
59. pumila
whorls wearing nothing but pearls $8.00
60. scabra var. starkiana Schoemanspoort *
year-round starkers $6.00
61. retusa *
KG 626/69; caramel summers $4.00
62. truncata Dysselsdorp
GM 313; quasi-Japanese scallops $6.00
63. variegata Bredasdorp +
upside-down fritillaries $4.00
64. venosa subsp. tessellata
happy seedlings $6.00
65. X Sasagani x springbokvlakensis *
old-school but nice $8.00