Beachplants..Nice haul!

All are nice, but my favorite is A. quick-silver.

Your Duvalia looks like a turtle. lol.

Is your A. nubi cared for like other Aloes?

Very nice...Toni

Toni, thanks! Aloe nubigena likes mistings more that others and its much more fleshy, lily-like, so I am carefull with too much hot sun.

Suite plants!
I love the Frithia!
Be sure to post pics when that Duvalia flowers...they're awesome!
Matthew

It will be my pleasure - lets hope it will flower for me! I also think they have incredible flowers.

Beachplants, what beautiful plants you got. My favorite is the Frithia. Adorable!

What are you using for soil? Also, why do you have large stones in the pots? Is if for visual appeal or is there some beneficial reason you have them in all your planted pots.

Multiple reasons, sometimes for a little support, sometimes visual, or in the case with Lapidaria, the quartz are found with them in nature. We do not have the great stuff you guys have so most of mine is in riversand and sifted potting soil or similar. Seems to work fine for me in any case.

Oh my gosh! What exotic and captivating plants you collect! The fact that you actually know their names, their culture, and where they orignated leaves me in awe of your dedication to cacti and succulents. Thank you for sharing them with us. Even though I may never personally own a plant as exotic as these, seeing them and learning about them opens my eyes to the broad beauty of the cacti and succulent world. I can hardly wait for you to get your next batch of babies! Hopefully, we won't have to wait nine months.

Thanks Penny, You know the interesting part is that I would guess you could get most of them far easier than I can. We rarely even have cacti&succulent shows. For me its a choice of seeds or knowing someone...

I have been transplanting my earlier seedlings, mainly cheiridopsis, gibbaeum, argyroderma and a few others..so at some stage I will post a few. The tough times begin now, because we will be away for a bit during Dec and that is usually "loss" time, having to ask someone to look after them. Oh, well, gives me something to do in 2012! LOL!

Really cool looking plants, all.
May I ask where you got the Aloes; quick siler and the Aloe congolensis or tenuifolias? Also really like the in Genus of 1! Lapidaria margarethae. Maybe these are out of my leauge, I sure can like them though.
newbie,
Micki

Micki, got these from a local South African guy - but the A. congolensis is pretty common as well as the small Aloe hybrids, not sure about Lapidaria. Try "Lowes" and local succulent organisation (clubs) & there is a few good suppliers for postal orders in US. Maybe someone here can give a few options.

Beach, I mist tropicls religiously, but never succulents. I didn't know Aloes liked/needed misting. Do you spray all your Aloes or the one? Toni

Toni, no, just this one, due to its origin. You know when you look at a mountain and you see the low-level clouds around it or mist, that's where this one grows in its natural environment.

how unfair you live in a the perfect climate where all these types of plants grow normally anyway. While all the rest of us struggle with heating, cooling and watering schemes... all you have to do is plant and you're done. So not fair. I really am tempted to one day up and move and become your neighbor.