Livin'! Stones that is! {anyone get that...? Dazed & Confused anyone? Alright alright alright.}
I was surprised with a wonderful package today full of living stones from Rich!
I love these little succulents! They are considered collectors plants because they take so long to grow & mature. The one in the round pot is one I have had for over a year & it took that long to split into two. They are called living stones because...you guessed it...they look like stones, mimicing the stones & pebbles which often surround them in their native southern Africa. They are actually only found growing wild in three countries - Namibia, Botswana, & South Africa. It was the botanist William John Burchell who, on a trip to the northern Cape Province of South Africa in 1811, bent down to look at an odd-looking stone & found it to be not a stone at all but a plant.
They are hard to find sometimes, however if you have a great greenhouse near you, they will most likely have them. Rich ordered these from Go Succulent an excellent online nursery for succulent & cactus. Rich has ordered a bunch of succulents from here & they are all doing really well.
On to an entirely different subject: I made a new gocco print tonight!
5 x 7 Goldfinch print, in a limited amount. I thought I would start small & see what happens. I believe this will be the beginning of a larger bird series. I manipulated the image in illustrator & added the distressed border for a vintage look/feel. You may purchase it in my Etsy shop if you like...yay!
I'm off to beat the heat...probably by eating ice cream!
i've never seen such crazy plants! but they're really something...
Posted by: liz | July 10, 2007 at 06:59 PM