Hardy Succulents - Aizoaceae

[Booker]

Magnificent plant, many thanks for posting.

[McDonough]

Delosperma cooperi hybrid ''Kelaidis" (aka "Mesa Verde"). One of my favorites!

John, these things are fantastic, that's a beautiful and pleasing pink and I MUST GET IT.  Panayoti, I don't have this one, and it's your namesake!  I believe many of these hardy Delosperma are being introduced by Plant Select.

Delosperma 'Kelaidis' - Mesa Verde ® Ice Plant, Plant Select
http://www.plantselect.org/plant_details.php?plant_name=Delosperma+%27Kelaidis%27+PP+13%2C876&comment=no&plant_number=49

Or go to: http://www.plantselect.org/search_photo.php > click Plant Info/Photo Search > type in Delosperma, there are a number of introductions listed, I really like the red and magenta Delosperma dyeri 'Psdold', Red Mountain ® Ice Plant. 
http://www.plantselect.org/plant_details.php?plant_name=Delosperma+dyeri+%27Psdold%27&comment=no&plant_number=86

This last one looks similar in color to a new species that is yet to be introduced, and without a name currently; here are two photos from Panayoti of this new species that he allowed me to post:

[Weiser]

Mark I like the new red one from Panayoti. It has a lot more hot pink in the center. Nice!

You mentioned Delosperma dyeri 'Psdold', "Red Mountain" I guess I never knew it's original name. All I've ever heard it called is "Red Mountain" . I will have to add that to my labels.

Any way here is "Red Mountain" from my garden for comparison.

[McDonough]

Wow, these plants "sing" to me... they have those gorgeous cacti-like flowers, but none of the stinkin spines!   A local nursery I went to this spring (just to browse) had about 8 different alluring varieties of Delosperma, prices not that bad, but as I'm in a no-buy-mode (unemployed) I did not buy any of them, but I find it hopeful that these things are showing up here in local nurseries.  I envision great swathes of Ice Plants taming broad portions of my hot sunny slopes in the yard.  Red Mountain is outstanding.

PS: these darned Trademark names that trump actual cultivar names drive me crazy; hard enough to get the botanical name and a cultivar name correct (let alone "common names"), now we must also deal with trademark names, as if every cultivar now has two different cultivar names, one the trademak name, the other the real yet subservient cultivar name.  I'll stop here before going into a tirade.

[Weiser]

cacti-like flowers,

Here are a few cati-like flowers.

[Hoy]

Here are a few cati-like flowers.

Impressive! And you grow all in your garden?

[RickR]

Is this a test, that you didn't name the photo subjects, John?

My, they are scrumptious!

[Weiser]

Mark said ""cacti like flowers" I just couldn't resist. "I  bad!"
Rick and Hoy
Yes I grow them all and many more. No it is not a test!
Just click on my flikr link at the bottom of my posts. Then click on the "Cactaceae - Cactus Family" in the collections section, to see what I grow.

[Hoy]

John, if I ever should find the way to your part of the world, do you welcome garden visitors?

[Weiser]

Yes definitely.     I would be disappointed if you came this way and didn't stop by.
I even have a bed available and all the comforts of home.

My garden is open to anyone traveling through, and if you are staying in the area for a few days a few hikes into the wilds is not out of the question.

[Hoy]

Yes definitely.     I would be disappointed if you came this way and didn't stop by.
I even have a bed available and all the comforts of home.

My garden is open to anyone traveling through, and if you are staying in the area for a few days a few hikes into the wilds is not out of the question.

Thanks!

[McDonough]

A person from the Czech Republic emailed me with a link to their web site with Delosperma photos.  The site is in Czeck language, but you can use the 2nd link down on the left to find Delosperma.  Or, view the site using Google Translate.
http://delosperma.webnode.cz/delospermy/

[Weiser]

Mark
I enjoyed looking at your link.

Have you seen Martin Tversted's photo sight?
http://public.fotki.com/Northern-Nursery/


Thought I'd post a few shots of Stomatium mustillnum. This is a night bloomer and very hardy for me.

[McDonough]

Mark
I enjoyed looking at your link.

Have you seen Martin Tversted's photo sight?
http://public.fotki.com/Northern-Nursery/

Thought I'd post a few shots of Stomatium mustillnum. This is a night bloomer and very hardy for me.

Thanks John.  Good link.  The Stomatium mustillnum looks awesome; I hope that my Stomatium proves equally hardy.  We're getting pretty cold here; 10 F this morning, and a high of 22 F, and no snow so far.  My Stomatium looks fine, but typically it is our late winter/early spring weather that kills plants, with alternating freezing/thawing and excessive winter/spring rains that do plants in. Stomatium in bloom has a most distinctive look over Delosperma.  I foresee another excessive-compulsive interest coming on

[RickR]

Oh my, I've been growing a Delosperma sp. that is the source of a mind altering drug (and I don't think it's a good kind)!  I received seed from someone because a caudiciform delosperma intrigued me.  It's ridiculously easy to grow, but the flowers are worth nothing.  It blooms all summer, and I had been checking off and on, looking for a flower that might make a good photo, and never came across one. (!)

Ridiculously easy to germinate, too.  Even the seed pod is more interesting than the flower, and that's not saying much.  (in a 2.25 inch spuare pot)

Delosperma bosserianum