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by Brian
Sat Aug 15, 2020 9:08 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?
Replies: 39
Views: 6361

Re: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?

Blood tipped too! Thank you Jim.
by Brian
Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:56 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?
Replies: 39
Views: 6361

Re: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?

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Red Devil or blood tip, Google is not your friend.
by Brian
Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:37 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?
Replies: 39
Views: 6361

Re: Sempervivum: too often overlooked?

6D1B9BA1-ECF3-47E9-8FB0-D0EC76426F60.jpeg I love sempervivum. One wise poster said they are succulents for greenhouse owners with no more room. Well my greenhouse is full so I have been stocking up on sempervivum and checking out existing ones. Here goes ... I have three labels somehow related to p...
by Brian
Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:16 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: T labels
Replies: 33
Views: 5461

Re: T labels

Thank you Terry, that’s a link worth noting.
by Brian
Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:47 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: T labels
Replies: 33
Views: 5461

Re: T labels

Thank you very much for your suggestions, I will get stocked up. Brian.
by Brian
Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:59 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: T labels
Replies: 33
Views: 5461

Re: T labels

Yes Terry it was on that basis I placed my order. Unfortunately as Suzanne says there are none left from existing sources.

I await alternative suggestions, forum posts with plant photographs often have smashing plastic T labels large and small, but I still cannot source any.
by Brian
Mon Aug 10, 2020 8:41 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: T labels
Replies: 33
Views: 5461

T labels

I have been searching more frantically recently to source plastic T Labels since the demise of the BCSS “own brand”. Any recommendations very much appreciated as I have now run out. My albeit poor memory tells me a Branch somewhere had labels for sale. I favour T as they are less intrusive. Internet...
by Brian
Thu Jun 11, 2020 6:30 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Hardy container plant ideas
Replies: 7
Views: 1409

Re: Hardy container plant ideas

Sempervivum.

Agaves.

Sedum.

I have them all in pots or in beds around the garden.
by Brian
Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:37 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Greenhouse tips?
Replies: 25
Views: 4679

Re: Greenhouse tips?

Aluminium, not wood; nil maintenance. Buy as large as you can afford, it will not be big enough. But you may move and move again and again, small may be best perhaps to start with. My first greenhouse was 8x6, I have traded up and moved back to 8x6. You can fit a lot in an 8x6! Buy new I suggest, yo...
by Brian
Mon Apr 20, 2020 10:11 pm
Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
Topic: Gasteraloe cv Wonder
Replies: 6
Views: 1878

Re: Gasteraloe cv Wonder

I’ve only come across the dreaded black spot on aloes and gasteria, and Wonder does seem prone to it. I’ve always assumed the cause is a combination of poor ventilation / air flow combined with temperature too low.