Welcome to my Haworthia & Gasteria pages:-
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Welcome to my Haworthia & Gasteria pages:-
� 1999 [email protected]
This page is dedicated to information & pictures relating to cultivation of these plants.The pictures below are an attempt to convey a "feel" of the mix I grow my plants in. Please feel free to email me with any comments or questions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pic:->This is the potting mix which comprises the organic component of my succulent mix. It is made of composted pine bark, fine sand & composted hardwood sawdust
pic:->Washed river sand that I top my pots with ....sometimes quite thickly. It forms an impenetrable barrier to scaria fly & other parasites that only lay eggs in organic material
pic:->My succulent mix which is: 1part Pumice; 2parts Potting mix; 8parts Perlite. I add a small amount of "Osmocote" to the mix at the time of potting
pic:->A view of Elliott's indoor Haworthia & Gasteria "Farm"
pic:->A close up of a large H.mcmurtryi
pic:->A shot of the bulk of my Haworthia Mcmurtryi
pic:->The giant clone of Haworthia truncata
pic:->View of my Haworthia truncatas
pic:->Aloe modesta & Aloe minima breaking dormancy
pic:->The Gasteria rawlinsonii selections
pic:->A view of some of the Haworthia badia
pic:->A nice haworthia bruynsii
pic:->Haworthia graminifolia & forms grading into blackburnii
pic:->Haworthia graminifolia...mature & seedlings
pic:->Young Haworthia graminifolia seedlings
pic:->Haworthia limifolia from Barberton & its bretheren
pic:->Field collected Haworthia marginata most from the west side of heidelberg
pic:->Young Haworthia marginata propagules...showing some struck leaves in the back right
pic:->Young Gasteria armstrongii seedlings on a hot bed
pic:->Older Gasteria armstrongii seedlings
pic:->A tray with seedlings of:Gasterias baylisiana,rawlinsonii,glomerata & vlokii
pic:->the bench of re-potted Haworthias looking from north to south
pic:->same bench from the other end
pic:->A box of plants waiting for spring to be re-potted
pic:->yet more waiting to be re-potted
pic:->Yet more awaiting attention
pic:->Nube Blanco a beautiful white cultivar of Lapageria rosea the "Copihue" or Chilean bell flower...the national flower of Chlie & another of my passions
pic:->One of my "creations" a beautiful tricolor variegated Tamorillo named "Mark Henley" after a dear friend
Following are some pictures of In-vitro haworthia plants growing in my tissue culture laboratory. I will put up more soon showing all stages of this most efficient method of propagation.
pic:->H.marumiana var.dimorpha, a finished plant ready for weaning to greenhouse conditions.
pic:->A plant of H.pubescens (type locality)ready for planting. pic:->A tube of heavy callus growth of H.truncata showing differentiating plantlets. This is one clone capable of producing thousands of individual plants per year.
Here are some pics of hybrid haworthias & especially "Manda's Hybrid" which has been the object of some discussion in the Haworthia email list.
pic:->Manda's Hybrid
pic:->Manda's Hybrid another angle
pic:->Manda's Hybrid & another!
pic:->Hybrid
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pic:->Rooted Haworthia marumiana var dimorpha leaf cutting
pic:->imported Gasterias....including some of my favourites
pic:->Well established leaf cuttings of Gasterias ex Ernst Van Jaarsveld
pic:->Haworthia woollyi X venosa
pic:->H.sordida with flower spike
This is a pic of a 10" plastic "terra-cotta" bowl like I intend to use to make Haworthia & Gasteria bowl gardens.....what do you think..I think it is pretty close to the real thing without many of the disadvantages.
pic:->A 10" plastic "Terra-cotta" bowl Following are some pics of plants in a friends collection in Melbourne....he has some very fine plants indeed!.
pic:->The best marked H.maughanii
pic:->Beautiful truncata hybrid
pic:->Rooted head of doughnut H.pumila
pic:->The plant from which the previous was beheaded
pic:->A very broad leaved H.blackburniae
pic:->A very nice H.bruynsii originally collected by DMC
pic:->A H.bruynsii grown from my seed
pic:->A view of Gasterias from EVJ
pic:->Gasteria carinata thunbergii
pic:->G.bicolor liliputana...lovely form & very tiny
pic:->Variegated H.limifolia
pic:->nice H.lockwoodii
pic:->More H.lockwoodii
pic:->Pointed H.magnifica splendens
pic:->"Splendens" from Albertinia
pic:->
"Parisii" form of "Splendens" BACKto Page1
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