The Jamaica Horticultural Society Flower Show was last weekend. I mounted a display of about 40 cacti and other succulents as I have done for the past two or three years, showing a range of species.

Two views of the display:

Beauties. Indeed, ones for the wish list.

How old are the T. valdezianus? I have a few from seed but they just seem to sit there and do nothing - they are three to four years old I think. Am I just being impatient?

I have figured it out!! No, I haven't, but whatever I am doing is surely making these guys happy, so I'm doing something right. Coryphantha maiz-tablasensis Coryphantha maiz-tablasensis 0211 4T291B 5T203C Apr16.JPG Coryphantha salm-dyckiana Coryphantha salm-dyckiana 0412 4T293B 5T201B Apr16-2.JPG Co...

Lovely flowers. The leuchtenbergia principis is beautifully grown, with no dry ends, if only mine were like that. What is the tiny plant in the pot with it, a weed I am sure? Definitely a weed. I have been keeping the L. principis in standing water and this weed grows profusely. I weed out but it g...

I did not realise that these had any geography in common until just now. Baja Mammillarias - I guess many of these are. I just grow whatever will grow.

And here is one more blooming yesterday - Mammillaria dioica

Mostly Mamms. Mammillaria grahamii Mammillaria grahamii Apr16-2.JPG Mammillaria matudae Mammillaria matudae 0806 Apr16.JPG Weingartia platygona Weingartia platygona 0311 5T Apr16.JPG Mammillaria fraileana Mammillaria fraileana iforgetbill 0807 5T192B Apr16.JPG Mammillaria tayloriorum Mammillaria tay...

Epithelantha micromeris? No thanks. Mammillaria spec? No thanks twice. Etc. I understand the thought process. But I say yes to Epithelantha micromeris and dependng on the Mammillaria, yes also. Some of the plants I consider to be very ordinary I may find that people who visit my planthouse are inte...

What do members do with excess seed that is harvested? Sometimes it really is impractical to sow all the seed and it just sits and gets stale. It may be a little work to clean seed that you won't personally use, though. For plants that are very generous, I often end up just leaving the seedpods on t...

This is one of the results from a packet of seed that should have been M. mathildae. I have just kept it as unknown and it is doing very well, flowering and now seedpods havee popped up. Mammillaria mathildae cuckoo 0611 5T163C Apr16.JPG Hoping that someone can help point me in the direction of a pr...

Thanks for all the feedback. I am good with at least being able to place it as a hybrid of something - not just an Aloe.

So I will happily label it A. rauhii hybrid.