Bukiniczia cabulica is one of the cutest rock garden plants you can grow. Its flowers are reported to be pink, but all I see is a tan color. This does not really matter because you don’t grow it for the flowers. This plant is all about leaves which are a beautiful mottled blue green.

It is easy to grow from seed and it self-seeds near the mother plant which is a good thing since it’s monocarpic. It will grow for 2-3 years, flower and then die.

The pictures show my plants at varying ages, originally grown from ORG&HPS seeds. This year three of the four plants flowered and started dying immediately. The fourth got even larger, and is now making offsets. I am hoping the pups will survive after the mother flowers next summer. Removing flower stems as soon as you see them may extend the life of the plant.
I left the flower stems on the flowering plant until they were mature and within a month I started seeing new seedlings. By fall they were about one cm in diameter.

Bukiniczia cabulica
(buh-kin-NICH-ee-uh ka-BUL-ee-kah)
Life Cycle: monocarpic
Height: 4 cm (2 in)
Bloom Time: summer
Natural Range: Pakistan and Afghanistan
Habitat: ?
Synonyms: Aeoniopsis cabulica, Dictyolimon macrorrabdos
Cultivation of Bukiniczia cabulica
Light: sun
Soil: average to sandy
Water: drought resistant
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 – 9
Propagation: seed
When do you recommend starting from seed indoors? I got seeds from Botanyca.
Start them as soon as you get them.
I would like to have this plant in my garden. Where would I be able to get a plant or seeds. I have been unsuccessful in finding anything
You may need to try one of the alpine seed exchanges, like Ontario Rock Garden Seedex.
I just enjoyed reading about the care of Orchids, mine is sending up shoots . The first time I have ever had an orchid rebloom in the USA .