Re: Peter's Tour
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:16 pm
I do appreciate the nice comments folks. The greenhouse was supplied by Peritys and one of their directors helped me and three chums erect it in a full day onto a previously built blockwork base. The floor comprises two layers of Visqueen damp proof membrane with about 1½" of pea gravel and paviours (flags) laid as a walkway. I fixed guttering down each of the 40ft sides, draining into four water butts which are interconnected. A Hozelock water butt pump is used, connected to a hosepipe inside the greenhouse and watering all the very many plants takes about 20 minutes with a hose-end feeder.
I made the staging which is quite simple - basically series of 4" x 4" legs joined together with wood strips along the top, lots of cross members, all covered with marine ply and with 1" x ½" laths along the edges to prevent the pots falling off.
Tina: you asked which was the oldest Copiapoa. I don't really know as I have so many but this scruffy Tenuissima is labelled as 1955. Liz: that plant is a cristate Borzicactus. Here's another one. This cristate is a cristate Akersia Roseiflorus. And this monster is a cristate Cleistocactus. It's got a Dioscorea Elephantides wrapped around it. The funny thing is - no matter what the names are on the label, these cristates are all from the same family.
Bill: I do still have quite a lot of spare space in the greenhouse but not for cabbages, thank you, nor for any of Ray_M's vegetables. However, I could manage any number of old Copiapoa Cinereas if you have any to spare....
I made the staging which is quite simple - basically series of 4" x 4" legs joined together with wood strips along the top, lots of cross members, all covered with marine ply and with 1" x ½" laths along the edges to prevent the pots falling off.
Tina: you asked which was the oldest Copiapoa. I don't really know as I have so many but this scruffy Tenuissima is labelled as 1955. Liz: that plant is a cristate Borzicactus. Here's another one. This cristate is a cristate Akersia Roseiflorus. And this monster is a cristate Cleistocactus. It's got a Dioscorea Elephantides wrapped around it. The funny thing is - no matter what the names are on the label, these cristates are all from the same family.
Bill: I do still have quite a lot of spare space in the greenhouse but not for cabbages, thank you, nor for any of Ray_M's vegetables. However, I could manage any number of old Copiapoa Cinereas if you have any to spare....