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- Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Some flowers at last
- Replies: 18
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Re: Some flowers at last
Cracking! All these flowers are making me green - I'd say I've got another 2 or more probably 3 weeks before I get my first flower of the year.
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: scottish cacti ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 826
Re: scottish cacti ?
I can't bring to mind a nursery in Scotland but I will plead the case of mail order suppliers. I've bought plants, over the years, from loads of nurseries and amateurs by post (too many to recall) and have never, ever been disappointed. I know some people like to see a photo of the very plant they'r...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Aloe polyphylla
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3796
Re: Aloe polyphylla
Have you tried putting it out in the garden whilst there's still a chance of a few frosty nights?
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Flowers or new pads?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2167
Re: Flowers or new pads?
As promised, my Maihueniopsis subterranea:
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- Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:54 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Flowers or new pads?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2167
Re: Flowers or new pads?
It's a fascinating guessing game. My big Maihueniopsis subterranea has some promising signs - I'll get a photo tomorrow. It hasn't flowered before (for me anyway, it came from John Marsden's collection dispersal) but it's certainly big enough and the buds are higher up on the stems than I'd expect f...
- Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:45 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Planting up a trough
- Replies: 3
- Views: 436
Re: Planting up a trough
You could sink the plants, still in their pots, in gravel - either to check how it looks or longterm, to allow you to change it fairly easily should necessity or whim dictate.
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Went into Homebase in Shrewsbury....
- Replies: 54
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- Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Went into Homebase in Shrewsbury....
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7709
Re: Went into Homebase in Shrewsbury....
Fresh from a Spanish field, do you think?
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Double headed astro
- Replies: 8
- Views: 879
Re: Double headed astro
There's a 2 ribbed form too!
- Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus auction Ident please
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2046
Re: Cactus auction Ident please
Gymnocalycium ragonesei, probably Pachycereus pringleyi, don't know the Aloe, then Echinopsis ancistrophora 'subdenudata' would be my guesses.