Nice find.

Thank you for posting the pictures Pia, aren't they superb. I was impressed by the large specimens planted out when we visited Gibraltar last summer but they were not a patch on these, oh how we Northern Europeans envy those with a warmer climate.

Has some lovely articles and pictures. a nice piece on the collection of Tony harcourt, do others enjoy the in my greenhouse articles ?? . In my greenhouse is always where I start reading the journal. Haven't read it all yet but looks very nice even the cacti article, very snazzy back cover !. My n...

"Is taking a cutting from a cristate much the same procedure as a 'normal' plant?"

Yes much the same.

Indeed an awkward repot. Something I was thinking about last week, what makes a christate plant produce normal stems?

Variagated cacti are not my thing but I can tell you number 2 and 3 are Euphobias.

Reminds me very much of my M. mollendorffiana which has about a foot of 'travel' along the bench and always flowers repeatedly throughout the season, though it is has not started flowering this early in the year. It is kept in a greenhouse at around 5deg. C minimum temperature.

All very nice, gives me something to look forward to I have the tinyist little buds on one of my Turbs.

Echiveria setosa was my guess, it was one of my first 'other succulents' as a school boy collector in the early '80's so my memory of it may be a little hazy.

Well that is the anticipation over, they arrived this morning. With a big thank you to the seed counters and those who packed and posted them, I shall now anticipate their planting and germination.