Many thanks for posting your pictures. It is not only the high heat but the direct sun and also the rain that you need to protect your arid plants from in Portugal. In the UK we also need to make sure the damp air is kept away from our plants within a greenhouse structure. Myself I use 3 fans to mo...

A few in bloom at the moment.
Aloe madecassa

Aloe laeta

Aloe erythrophylla

Ola! Many thanks jfabiao for very detailed response, and also it was very nice to get know the author of blogspot "O JARDINEIRO AZELHA" ( http://jardineiroazelha.blogspot.com/ ), I follow it. (tu) Really very impressed! That large succulents really feel good and I have seen them in many p...

This discussion is very interesting for me also as our family is regular guest in Algarve where it's possible to hold small amount of plants in the garden but by own care only as agreed with house owner. So is it possible to buy common commercial cacti and succulent soil mixture in garden centres? ...

Try Götz Pflanzenzubehoer. I used to buy directly from his site, but he seems to have moved to eBay and the process of buying from him on eBay is a lot easier. https://www.befr.ebay.be/usr/goetz-pflanzenzubehoer?_trksid=p2047675.l2559 The 15€ postage flat rate (or so it seems) is annoying and seems ...

tonyironscacti wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 12:53 pm Hi,

I would be interested to see some photographs of structures you use in Portugal ?

It sounds as if the care is quite different there, than back in the UK !

Cheers

Tony.

Hi, Tony. I will make a note to take some pictures on the weekend and will come back to you.

Here's what I believe is Aloe cryptopoda, near Boatle, Botswana. Sorry for the overexposed picture, but I only had my phone and the light level was brutal.

Hello Steve, and welcome to Portugal. ;) Patrick's advice is probably a lot more useful than mine, for he has first hand experience of the transition from the UK to Portugal. Light intensity will be the first thing you'll notice - and don't be fooled by the winter sun! The next one is ventilation, i...

Many Sulcorebutia and some Gymnocalycium do it as well.

Healthy little babies, I'm surprised you use such a free draining mix is there any soil in there ?. Are you opening a shop ?. Thank you. :) There is a mineral mix under that, yes, but it's mostly the same in a much finer granulometry. I use very little "soil" in my mixes, and only for fas...