Daniel Park
Seoul, South Korea
Continental monsoon — hot wet summers, cold dry winters
10 years growing Lithops alongside a wider collection of mesembs. Active in the Korean cactus and succulent society.
About
Seoul has a brutal monsoon-to-winter swing, and the cold-dry winters are actually a help — they give Lithops a clean dormancy without the gentle damp that ruins plants in milder climates.
I review profiles for the species that move through Korean collections and for the cultivar naming that comes out of East Asian growers, which is sometimes parallel to and sometimes ahead of the Western nomenclature.