Sounds like a great event, Stuart.

Did anyone get any photos?

What other rock types available in the UK might be worth trying? I'd really like to plant an aztekium vertically in some gypsum.

I'm using Yorkstone simply because I have an abundance of it in my garden. Rock is expensive!

Here's another staging I did today. A tiny ariocarpus retusus robustus that I bought from Tina.

Mat - yes that's the trade off I'm working through now! Until now I've put everything in BEF pots with the goal of cramming as much as I can into my 4ft x 6ft greenhouse. Now I'm thinking of having fewer plants and staging them up nicely - I just have to figure out which I can bear to part with! :lo...

This is something I've wanted to try for a while. I've seen a few north American growers and collectors do it. So I built myself a rock pot and staged a little dudleya in it, trying to recreate a look reminiscent for habitat.

A general question. Shouldnt we as a society discourage use of plastic labels or at least not be responsible for selling them? Is there a BCSS envonmental policy? Im not sure of the exact agument for and against but plastic doesnt last long and is known to cause pollution, wheras metal labels with ...

Personally I understand the necessity with slow-growing plants, plants with no chlorophyll, or in an emergency to save a rotting cactus, but aesthetically I'm not a fan. I have buried the grafting stock on my grafted slow-growing plants. Whilst we're on the subject, when considering substrate for yo...

Picked this little copiapoa hypogea last year from Southfields. As you can see, in just over a year it has become markedly more variegated. Or has it? Can anyone explain the dramatic change in colour? Why has it become more yellow than it was previously? There is very little green and it's on its ow...

gw4.png Another update from my tiny greenhouse - I'm refining my genera, removing the plants I don't love, adding more of the ones I do. I've got a growing collection of copiapoa. I also added my first aztekium and would like to add more this year. Still in two minds about whether to keep everythin...

I'd like to pot up an l. williamsii with a nurse plant or a companion plant to attempt to recreate the 'habitat' look in a pot. Does anyone have any suggestions for a suitable plant that (a) it grows with or under in habitat and (b) won't get too big?