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Skribbane
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Hi everyone,

I live in Chesterfield and I'm a new member of the Sheffield branch of BCSS. I've been collecting plants for a few years now. As things tend to go, from a single Morrisons rescue phalaenopsis orchid, I have well over 200 now (database is currently being compiled!). My focus has been on orchids until relatively recently when I started branching out into succulents and now, cacti. Uh-oh :lol:

I've just bought my first house and I'm giddy with excitement for the prospect of finally having... a greenhouse! I'll hopefully be able to update with some pics as the project progresses. For now, here's my little Stapelia variegata, Stinky (my Mum moonlighting as a very able hand model).

A little bit more about me, I think my burgeoning obsession with plants stems from a general academic interest in morphology and classification. I'm a trained physical anthropologist and archaeologist and we just love looking at things and putting things in little pigeonholes (even if it's a horribly reductive way of looking at the great blurred spectrum that is life). I put my training to great use by working at a museum/archaeological site focused on the Palaeolithic period - and occasionally dressing up as a cavewoman.

Hope to meet some new folks at the local meetings. I'll try to avoid showing up draped in furs :razz:

Jen
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Hi Jen and welcome to the forum,pictures of your greenhouse progress etc will be great to see.You've come to the right place,most of us are obsessed by succulents and or cacti here :)

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Welcome to the forum, Jen. Look forward to seeing more of your photos when you get your greenhouse.
Rod Smith

Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
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Hi Jen, welcome to the forum. I am sure you will enjoy your new greenhouse, my Stapilias have been banished to the greenhouse after my wife spent hours last summer tracking down the dead mouse smell, she was quite sure that cat had left us a present somewhere under the sofa. :)
Regards Keith.

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Hi, Jen

Do you know about Sheffield Branch? Details of the programme are available here. There's usually a warm welcome. There's a bonus on October 14, it's our annual branch auction, usually loads of plants for sale, and usually at very low prices - though there are always some plants producing competitive bidding.
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