Hello there! Finally stopped lurking and gotten around to registering. Anyone got a suggestion where I might find out my BCSS number so I can join the usergroup? Can't find the pesky thing anywhere.
Anyway - I've had a bit of a thing for cacti and succulents from a young age, obsessively repotting and growing on offsets of an old cactus (that I really need to re-ID, actually) and an old haworthia, filling up lots of windowsill space and driving my parents mad. The original plants are much older now and still going strong, as are the offsets I still have in my collection.
About 6 or 7 years ago I was bought a few more cacti as a present, which kept the obsession ticking over until I moved somewhere with a bit more space and light. Despite still being limited by the availability of windowsill space, the size of the collection has snowballed a bit to over 100 cacti and a few assorted other succulents (just don't tell my other half how many there really are, ok?
). I've now finally won the battle to have a small greenhouse and am just waiting for the weather here in "sunny Devon" to remember it is supposed to be summer and stop raining so I can get it built and start settling in some inhabitants - mostly Feros (I can't put my finger on a specific reason why, but I have a particular liking for this genus), some Stenos and a few Echinopsis hybrids with a couple of other assorted bits and bobs thrown in for variety.
Looking forward to seeing you all around the forum
