Only 100 composts from 100 people? More like 200 or 300... As for keeping the plants coolish - bedrooms are often not heated quite as much as downstairs rooms. But then you will also see your plants less often. One thing to watch out for. if the plants are behind a curtain which gets drawn, it may g...

Super Bulbines.

Here are a couple of my bulbs in flower today:

Lachenalia viridiflora Daubenya zeyheri

The flowers aren't quite the same as on my Aloe bellatula - and for that, they should be paler at the ends, not darker, I think.

Just pot them up in a 1:1 mix without cat litter.

I seem to remember mine being more spiky, too when I grew them from seed a couple of years ago...

Well done! Very impressive.

... Petroselinum crispum subsp. tuberosum ... tuberous-rooted or Hamburg parsley, eaten like parsnips That's a new one on me. I thought at first you were talking about Apium graveolens var. rapaceum, or celeriac, delicious eaten grated as a raw salad. And it would make a more plausible caudiciform,...

Colin, as for selling Melocacti being unethical - you've reminded me of a house I used to drive past on my way to work (in Cardiff), perhaps 6 or 7 years ago. A new owner decided to tart up the garden, and I could hardly believe my eyes when amongst Yuccas and the like, a 3-4 m tall succulent Euphor...

If I raise cactus seedlings, I certainly do not achieve anything near the size that the Dutch can achieve in about 18 months. Seed raising is most efficiently done in a dedicated facility rather than in a greenhouse mixed with mature plants. That might be true for lithops - but I find my cactus see...

Simon S wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 9:47 pm I also think Stuart's right Aiko, in that dudleyas can be grown as summer plants - I have friends who treat them this way.

I used to do that, without obvious problems, until Terry told us they were obligate winter growers. They had a short rest this autumn, and are now being watered again...