Tell me if you'll find Kichiokan or Quadricolor; v-reginae mediopicta or Kizan also suits fine!
Good lucj anyway!

1 Notocactus sp
4 Notocactus + Wigginsia

Unbelievable. I saw in Algarve (Sotavento) were many nights with only +1C just on the coast.
Though, here we had -25C last night, so I'd rather lows in Algarve.

Pattock wrote: ↑Mon Dec 07, 2020 5:49 pm Viveiro? Like vivero in Spanish?

= viveiros in portuguese.
But "Centro de jardinagem" amazinly plays also, i just found suitable one between Faro and Tavira:
https://www.jardimgarve.com/garden-center

My more than 20-30 years grown plants are smaller than ones in the shop...
Under what names in Portuguese can I find garden centres etc using net?
"Loja agricola" or "garden centre" - search gives very small amount of points.
I'd want something in Sotavente, closer to VRSA.

<...> some Fero cacti got damp marks last winter but that was a much cooler location. Here I have the greenhouse where plants that need to be dryer can spend the winter. Lisbon, the Alentejo hills where I am and the Algarve are all different places with different climates,(like London to Leeds) the...

Aiko wrote: ↑Sun Nov 29, 2020 3:19 pmHow about other countries?)

There's also cactus and succulent society of Northern Countries:
Nordisk Kaktus Selskab
http://www.nordiskkaktusselskab.dk/

Many crassulas (as other crassulaceae eg echeveria, sedum etc) have bright reddish shades and colours in autumn dew to night temps drop, i's amazing IMHO.
Here in summer night temps always very low so we enjoy colourful plants all year round.

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 pl...

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? (...