Thanks, Tina, I understand from another source that there isn't a Show this year.

Does anyone know the dates and venues for the following Zone 6 events in 2018:-
Zone Show
Zone convention
Zone open day
Many thanks

Well that seems to have worked for me too!

Yes I'd like the answer to this as I have same problem with my Samsung Android tablet, nothing happens when you tap the add files button.

I'll start this one off - My large specimen of Astrophytum Ornatum just coming into flower.

Has anyone seen this strange behaviour that's happened on my Opuntia Pycnacantha where a new pad has developed that is also a flower?

They look like Flea Beetles to me, more info here:- https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=510

This is one of my oldest plants Astrophytum Ornatum, bought as a small seedling at the local Garden centre in 1968, now around 12ins(30cm) tall!

A closer look at the flowers now more have opened.

That looks great Ray, thanks for sharing. Can you also share some information about your growing conditions as my own plant is nowhere near as happy as yours with just one flower and another bud struggling to develop. Hi, Purzo, it normally lives in my big greenhouse with all myother Cacti and Succ...