Those are some great shots......but I'm guessing the snow will be catastrophic? Which ones will survive?

Josh

Oh no, nothing even remotely catastrophic - most of these plants have not had water for a good 3 months so this was their first drink in some time. The brief cold is harmless. These have all previously experienced sub-freezing temps. Snow is actually safer than a frost. Toughens them up!

x

Good luck with it. Pretty pictures. Watch out that they don't stay wet and get to dry out quickly.

Well that's good to know!

I thought for sure that the Sedum nussbaumerianum and the Lithops would sustain serious tissue damage...if not outright death.

Josh

Josh - inland and mountain Lithops species easily survive a hard freeze as long as it warms up the following day. The coastal species, like L.optica and others from the Richtersveld, are not as tolerant of a cold event. Lithops flowers are also resistant to a freeze - frost does not damage buds. Some of my mesembs (Fenestraria, Titanopsis, Pleiospilos) are still holding onto flower buds right now after being dormant, cold and dark the last few months.

I still dare not mess around with Muiria - I'm not ready to risk torturing them just yet! One of my Muiria is now splitting into a double-schmoo.

I have had far more plants suffer from heat and drought than from cold and wet, FWIW.

x

Nice photos, enjoyed seeing these.

Good to see and good to know, thank you.

Please follow up in a month.

tj