Here are some of my Astrophytum photos: Astrophytum asterias super kabuto flower 4 July 2013 (6).JPG Astrophytum capricorne 10 flowers 23 Aug 2012 (2).jpg Astrophytum flowers 20 July 2014 (2).JPG Astrophytum myriostigma flower 10 July 2015 (3).JPG Astrophytum capricorne flower 27 June 2015.JPG

el48tel wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 16, 2019 5:04 pm

There's a moral in that story .... keep one in the car!

What - a greenhouse?

Jim_Mercer wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:31 pm

Tesco's made in Denmark back in stock

That is good news. Thanks for the info, Jim.

Message for SpikyMike. As you won the January competition it's your turn to choose the subject for February.

Terry S. wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:57 am

Has anyone noticed that the rims detach within a few years on some of the modern pots?

Yes.

Lidl often have sansevieria of different varieties among their plants for sale and I've picked up a couple over the past 12 months. They are very reasonably priced and usually in good condition.

I've used Tesco "best" cat litter (no longer available apparently) as a constituent of my plant mix for the past 8 years and it has never gone slimy.

Conversely from Stevium's policy, I use a top dressing of small stones/large grit on all my succulent plants. I agree it is a nuisance if you accidentally knock a pot over but soil would probably spill out anyway. The received wisdom as I understood it is that a top dressing of small stones deters s...

I have two plants to enter. I like all my plants (why else would I grow them!) but these two are special because I grew them both from seed sown in 1975. The first is Notocactus leninghausii which I had to re-root in 2010 having cut off the bottom section due to rot. This photo of the plant in flowe...

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