Senecio Macroglossus Variegatus

I must be seeing things. Creamy yellow flowers on variegated ivy?  But the vision persisted; a trellis covered with ivy shaped leaves and daisy-like blooms. The leaves were fleshy; thicker and glossier. This wasn’t the regular ivy I knew, so what was it? The plant wasn’t for sale but I helped myself to some of [...]

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Lycopodium Squarrosum

It was the biggest cascade of lycopodium squarrosum I’d ever seen. The epiphyte looked as good as mink. There wasn’t even a price tag on it – a truly priceless plant. There were smaller versions of this beauty for sale. At a whopping USD40 upwards, it was much more than I would pay for a [...]

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Platycerium ridleyii

  The platycerium ridleyii is a prima donna. My first two didn’t even last a year. Then recently I decided to give it another go. I bought two small ones together with a holtumi and an elephantotis. One of the ridleyii only lasted  three months. Then I found two weeks ago that a friend’s full-grown ridleyii had [...]

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