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by Mal H
Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:53 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: buying cacti in Spain
Replies: 18
Views: 6458

Re: buying cacti in Spain

There are cacti and succulents bedded out in areas at the opposite end from the palm trees in Jardín Botánico-Histórico La Concepción
Definitely worth the trek out of the city and to burn off the tapas
You get a good view back to the city too

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by Mal H
Fri Oct 27, 2023 2:07 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Another Literary Quotation
Replies: 5
Views: 512

Re: Another Literary Quotation

Ms Tacti?
by Mal H
Sun Jul 09, 2023 4:00 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A hardy Matucana
Replies: 13
Views: 830

Re: A hardy Matucana

I thought this was an unexpected find in a garden centre last summer and looks rather good a year later
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Matucana rebutiiflora
by Mal H
Sat Jun 10, 2023 2:55 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Eriosyce have pretty buds too
Replies: 7
Views: 338

Re: Eriosyce have pretty buds too

Another E. recondita - buds more stubby
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ssp. iquiquensis FR338
by Mal H
Thu Jun 08, 2023 10:16 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A hardy Matucana
Replies: 13
Views: 830

Re: A hardy Matucana

Good colour on the oreodoxa

here are a couple showing today
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purpureoalba FR1063

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paucicostata
by Mal H
Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:03 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Pyrrhic victory?!
Replies: 8
Views: 425

Re: Pyrrhic victory?!

Posted pic of these as youngsters in the 2018 thread on umadeave germination. viewtopic.php?p=268208#p268208
Potting up would help them look more interesting....

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by Mal H
Wed Jun 30, 2021 8:46 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Just the one
Replies: 4
Views: 775

Re: Just the one

I leave the cold frame panes raised but they're watered rather than rained on. No more water than those in the greenhouse. Trays of seedlings get rain through neglect
by Mal H
Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:42 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Just the one
Replies: 4
Views: 775

Just the one

A solitary flower in the cold frame:

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Side view:

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Austrocactus longicarpus SAR3752
by Mal H
Wed Jun 17, 2020 9:12 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: This might be why people grow Echinocereus?
Replies: 8
Views: 1412

Re: This might be why people grow Echinocereus?

All different. From the labels. Top is scopulorum (sbcat257.7) In front of that: left is baileyi, right is purpureus. In front of those pectinatus v. wenigeri SB380 Bottom is palmeri ssp. escobedensis MA074 Palmeri is one of my faves and I have multiple collections that differ. I took a close up the...
by Mal H
Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:49 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: All dough and no show
Replies: 3
Views: 895

All dough and no show

This Pterocactus australis is now in a clematis plant pot. I begged it to start flowering.

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