845 Mason Road, Vista, CA 92084, USA
nocturnal phone: (760) 631-7898
email: sphaeroid@juno.com
Herewith a few items for your consideration. These seedlings are of various ages, two to six or more years, and with one mysterious exception, their price reflects this. Many plants are in short supply.
Ordering is easy as pie: email me your wishes and I'll email your prospects. Plants go out per USPS snailmail after I receive a dowry via check or money order. (I don't take credit cards and am not likely to be entrusted with one.) US sales only; overseas transit is too slow, too uncertain, and vastly too expensive vis-a-vis the requisite paperwork. If I don't respond within a day, please try again; JUNO terminally filters or abducts quite a few mails and the North Koreans explore the rest.
Bulbiferous items are starting to go dormant and will soon look dreary if they don't already. On the other leaf, it doesn't matter if they bruise or wither a bit in transit: after a lazy summer in your capacious new bed they will wake up beautifully refreshed, like a detoxified starlet at a fat farm.
! = one per customer.
ALOINOPSIS
1. luckhoffii Kalkstasie
slow-movin' lizards $5.00
2. rubrolineata Graaff-Reinet
harmless daggers $2.00
CEROCHLAMYS
3. 'albiflora' Calitzdorp
scalloped and glazed $2.00
CHEIRIDOPSIS
4. minor Platbakkies
sad sacks until fall $3.00
5. cf. namaquensis Avontuur near Nieuwoudtville
giant water hogs $4.00
CONOPHYTUM
6. bilobum W Tweefontein
seedlings of a red-keeled dwarf $4.00
7. concavum Riethuis
yellow-flowered strain $8.00
8. cubicum x fragile Black Face Mt.
pink-flowered cuttings from a wildling $6.00 !
9. fulleri Pella
unsavory baklava $4.00 !
10. uviforme Kliprand
pincushioned clarum form $8.00
DEILANTHE
11. peersii Anysberg
velvety tongues $2.00
FAUCARIA
12. candida
ancient NBG material, ex Scanlan? $6.00
13. felina Addo
shaggy cats $5.00
14. tigrina Grahamstown
white in tooth and red in jaw $3.00
LITHOPS
15. dorotheae C124
nicely enameled strain $4.00
16. dorotheae
lovelies ex a single mother-father $5.00
17. localis Miller Station
more windows than the Concordia $6.00
18. localis Sandpoort
odd pastels $8.00
MITROPHYLLUM
19. abbreviatum Augrabies
springy-gangly shrublettes $4.00
NEOHENRICIA
20. sibbettii Pampoenpoort
summer-active pineries $3.00
PLEIOSPILOS
21. nelii
flowering liverwurst $5.00
22. nelii x bolusii
Michael Douglas's chin, re-cleft $6.00
SARCOZONA
23. praecox
flowers rival haworthias in glory $4.00 !
STOMATIUM
24. geoffreyi
decussate pinking shears $2.00
CRASSULA
25. barbata Bloukrans Pass
gossamer pincushions $4.00
26. susannae Riethuis
zigzags in the sand $3.00
TYLECODON
27. schaeferianus
seasonal pancakes $6.00 !
GASTERIA
28. acinacifolia
fosters invisibility $3.00
29. baylissiana Oudekraal
neat dwarf $5.00
30. batesiana
freckled with speckles $6.00
31. bicolor liliputana Grahamstown
beautiful girls baring nothing but whorls $3.00 !
32. glomerata
my pots runneth over $4.00
33. vlokii
dwarf form, slow as molasses in Parsifal $5.00 !
HAWORTHIA
34. magnifica
rosettes of green licorice $4.00
35. mirabilis var. calcarea De Hoop
upright blushers $4.00
36. mutica 'groenewaldii'
absurdly slow seedlings; guess the price and it's free !
BRUNSVIGIA
37. namaquana Khurisberg
glistening Brillo pads $4.00
BULBINE
38. fallax Bitterfontein
big checkerboards $3.00
39. margarethae Wolwenes
little checkerboards $5.00
40. margarethae x haworthioides F2
architectonic failure $4.00
CYANELLA
41. orchidiformis Garies
no one has ever ordered this $6.00
LITANTHUS
42. pusillus
Tom Thumb's windbreak $4.00 !
ORNITHOGALUM
43. hallii Luederitz
undetermined virtues $4.00 !
44. osmynellum Naroegas
self-curling threads $4.00
46. suaveolens Steinkopf
delicious perfume $4.00 !
AFTERTHOUGHTS
47. Haworthia maculata Brandvlei
pinguid pheasants $4.00
48. Boophane disticha
eager juveniles $4.00 !
My thanks to Ryan Haslam (ryan@venturaarthanging.com) for kind e-assistance and interest, and to Dr. Russell Wagner of the Little Sphaeroid Press (wagner@littlesphaeroid.com) for shepherding my latest non-faction novel on Titanopsis & allied genera. Copies are still available from the Press.
