Hi from Reading
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 1:24 pm
Hello!
I registered on the forum some time ago but as I’ve finally joined the BCSS I thought I’d actually post.
My main interest is in “exotic” plants – those that either give an exotic look in the garden, or are simply unusual, uncommon or curious. Until a couple of years ago I’d not grown any C&S since I was a nipper, excepting two which have survived since then – Agave filifera and Crassula ovata. Then my daughter bought me a cactus for Father’s Day and in trying to identify it I remembered how interesting they are, plus (most dangerously) began to read up on hardiness.
Before long the plan for my soon-to-be redeveloped small front garden went from a Mediterranean look to almost entirely succulent. My interests remain in the hardier plants (I don’t have a greenhouse) but I also have a couple of dozen Echinopsis hybrids which I love for their unashamed gaudiness. In the garden I have perhaps 15-20 species of cacti which are coming through their second or third winters now. I also love Aloe but unfortunately our winters have it in for them and only A. striatula has proven garden-worthy for me, though I have some young A. polyphylla that haven’t been troubled so far.
I’ll post some photos later.
Alex
I registered on the forum some time ago but as I’ve finally joined the BCSS I thought I’d actually post.
My main interest is in “exotic” plants – those that either give an exotic look in the garden, or are simply unusual, uncommon or curious. Until a couple of years ago I’d not grown any C&S since I was a nipper, excepting two which have survived since then – Agave filifera and Crassula ovata. Then my daughter bought me a cactus for Father’s Day and in trying to identify it I remembered how interesting they are, plus (most dangerously) began to read up on hardiness.
Before long the plan for my soon-to-be redeveloped small front garden went from a Mediterranean look to almost entirely succulent. My interests remain in the hardier plants (I don’t have a greenhouse) but I also have a couple of dozen Echinopsis hybrids which I love for their unashamed gaudiness. In the garden I have perhaps 15-20 species of cacti which are coming through their second or third winters now. I also love Aloe but unfortunately our winters have it in for them and only A. striatula has proven garden-worthy for me, though I have some young A. polyphylla that haven’t been troubled so far.
I’ll post some photos later.
Alex