Your soil is almost pure clay, it's no wonder you struggle

It's been a savage time. What a beautiful cat!

We do solar with panels and batteries here because our electricity grid is a mess so you don't make any savings for years, thanks to the cost of the batteries. Wish I could do it though

How far North do you see these from? I'm too close to the equator to see anything like this but it fascinates me

The best kind!

I really wish that this can come to an end

I think that all the double flowers are hybrids and they don't last. The single petalled flowers come up every year in my garden

It's not a dragon fly but an adult Ant lion, Myrmeleontidae species. They hide in the bushes because they are nocturnal insects

I hope they all recover well from their adventures

Really apocalyptic!

It will only hybridise with another member of the stapelia or heurnia family though

You have seed pods! There has been successful pollination and because stapeliads are usually not self fertile, you may have some kind of hybrid, depending on what else was flowering at the time

You did a great job!

Awww! RIP Larry

Looks beautiful! What a pity they are closing

Anytime 😀 Fan aloes are one of my favourites and they are expensive here too. They aren't the easiest to grow out of their natural climate

Awesome pots and plants! Just a note on your Fan aloe: that's Kumara plicatilis if you want to read about it, they come from a part of my country that has a mediterranean climate so go heavy on the water

Voter suppression and rigging will be the chosen route. That's how the Afrikaner nationalists came to power here: voting was gerrymandered until the rural vote carried more weight than the city vote

Sounds good!

My 2 cents on cherry tomatoes is that grow very well on compost heaps so give lots of organic matter. Tomatoes also need a lot of regular water and good ventilation or they get red spider mites. Bigger