Separation Anxiety (Or how to separate haworthia clumps)

Not all haworthia clumps look good; or even if they do, it isn't always ideal to maintain them as clumps. Pictured above is a Haworthia cooperi var dielsiana, possibly my most important haworthia specimen. So we will chop it apart. Or, it turned out, the process was closer to ripping than chopping. 

Spring Across Two Continents (Updated!)

There really is no such thing as spring in Zone 14, but Knitty Kitty's expat succulents do not know about that. On the other side of the planet in Zone 7, spring finally showed up.