845 Mason Road, Vista, CA 92084, USA
nocturnal phone: (760) 631-7898
email: sphaeroid@juno.com
No serious hortist actually takes vacations but some greenhousebroken ones do indulge, now and then, in writing spells. Many of you will know that I'm working feverishly on a mesemb book, hence the brevity and lateness of this list. My one hat tends to get in the way of the other and will in time defelt it completely; meanwhile I can offer a few Midnight Temptations, to borrow Harlequin's term for its subtler romance novellas. I might cobble together a bulb list later this autumn, time and tide permitting.
As usual, beauties are offered subject to availability. Some will sell out quickly.
Wallflowers will safely languish on the bench but even so it is well to let me know your druthers ASAP. Faucarias might suddenly turn fashionable.
Ordering couldn't be simpler sans ESP: just email me. My prescient new amanuensis, Erin de Groot, will take care of the rest, assisting Peter Prager with electronica.
This list is good until 15 November 2011; + = one plant per customer.
And speaking of esoterica and goodness, not that we were: - prospective book-buyers, pre-subscribers, and spare Maecenases might like to investigate: www.littlesphaeroid.com!
AGNIRICTUS
1. agninum
tender spring lamp $4.00
CONOPHYTUM
2. angelicae subsp. tetragonum
foursquare gospel $4.00
3. angelicae subsp. tetragonum Cone Peak
SB 1376 chewable molars $4.00
4. bilobum Kosies
tall, marked, and handsome $5.00
5. bilobum 'pole-evansii' clonotype +
lobes en pointe $5.00
6. bolusiae Augrabies
speaking of felt $6.00
7. bolusiae x ricardianum 'rubriflorum'
momma weighs in $4.00
8. ectypum 'limbatum' Rooiberg near Kosies
inclined to keel over & over $4.00
9. friedrichiae Witsand
flubbery urns $3.00
10. frutescens Komaggas
crumplestiltskins $5.00
11. globosum 'vanbredai' E Garies
non-pleated pumpkins $3.00
12. hammeri SH 2108 X SH 2108
tiny gauze-wrapped niblets $4.00
13. x marnierianum
lovely floral melange $6.00
14. maughanii 'rufescens' Pofadder
rust-brown windows $3.00
15. maughanii 'schuldtii' Witsand +
theoretical rubies $3.00
16. pellucidum var. neohallii Deurdrif
truncate checkerboards $5.00
17. pellucidum 'pardicolor'
smooth convexities $5.00
18. ricardianum
flat as a cold souffle $5.00
19. taylorianum subsp. ernianum Rooiberg
the familiar burgeoneer $6.00
20. taylorianum subsp. ernianum Aurus
fuzzy and fetchingly wan $6.00
21. taylorianum cf. subsp. ernianum Namus Kloof
heavily spotted and mildly keeled $6.00
22. taylorianum subsp. rosynense Rosyntjieberg
curvaceous ribs $5.00
23. truncatum var. wiggettiae
concentrated speckle-power $4.00
DISPHYMA
24. dunsdonii +
charming jade-leaved creeper $3.00
FAUCARIA
25. felina Cradock +
green cat's chaps $3.00
26. tigrina Grahamstown
rip-roaring clones $5.00
LITHOPS
27. aucampiae
silk chocolate tops $5.00
28. comptonii C125 x C125
cleft palettes $4.00
29. dorotheae C124 x C124
selected bright-eyed seedlings $3.00
30. gesinae C406 x C406
faux-proschema $3.00
31. gracilidelineata C309 x C309
legal ivory $2.00
32. hermetica SH2003 x SH2003
myriad spots $3.00
33. julii 'reticulata'
look down and see our etching $4.00
34. lesliei var. venteri
salt and pepper complexion $6.00
35. lesliei var. hornii x var. venteri
Kimberlesque mutts $3.00
36. optica 'maculate form' 10 km E Baker's Bay
best of the opticas $2.00
37. optica 'rubra' Uitsig
banish that gray $4.00
38. pseudotruncatella TS76
pale but not Pallid $3.00
39. pseudotruncatella TS36 +
linoleumed patterns $3.00
40. salicola
robust doubles $3.00
41. viridis SH388 X SH388
beautifully simple $4.00
MEYEROPHYTUM
42. meyeri 16 km N Augrabies
intricate branchlets $4.00
ORTHOPTERUM
43. coeganum Coegakop
a puffy faucaria $4.00
OTHONNA
44. cf. rechingeri Naroegas
vegetable stalkers $5.00
CRASSULA
45. barbata Bloukranspas
delightfur tufts 2 for $6.00
HAWORTHIA
46. bayeri Uniondale
diamonds-in-the-rough $6.00
47. bayeri
cross-colonial beauties $6.00
48. decipiens var. pringlei +
delicately barbed rosettes $6.00
49. scabra var. lateganiae Klein Kruis
rough-glazed seedlings $6.00
50. sordida +
five-year-old onyxes $8.00