What a beauty! It would go on my wants list if I didn't already have one. I don't suppose I'll live long enough to see mine that size

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Mine hasn't really taken that long to get to this size. I'm sure it must have been a single head when I started and although I can't remember when I got it I think it was probably less than 10 years ago. Epithelantha is a nice genus to collect. I love Epithelantha bokei and I bought one recently but...

It's so nice when a seedling flowers for the first time. This one is older than it looks. I still haven't got round to potting up the seedlings from their original pot. I sowed these on one side and Eriosyce curvispina on the other, only one of which has pulled through. Copiapoahypogaea_1a.jpg Copia...

One of the large-flowered Mammillarias, a beauty Somerset Phil

This is about as spectacular as it gets but very nice just the same. Somerset Phil

IPA? That's a beer right?

I guess you mean Iso Propyl Alcohol, or is there another IPA?

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I grew some Pittosporum from seed and they were all tricotyledons

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I can still remember my cactus mentor Mr Trethewey obtaining a plant like this back around 1963. It was called Chileorebutia

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Flowering for the second time. I really like the spination on this sort of plant too. Not quite sure of the spelling of the species name. Somerset Phil

Even so prices of their other plants seem 10 times what you'd expect to pay for seedlings

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