Nice pots- with plants (No clay/plastic)

[Ospreywatcher]

Thanks Eric, I usually give my other plants a good drenching every couple of weeks but I will be very careful with this particular pot. If they ever outgrow the pot and need repotting I will have an attempt at drilling a drainage hole but until then I will just give small amounts of water.

[chris25]

A few of mine:

[chris25]

Correction to last photo: It should of course be Euphorbia cylindrifolia.

[Herts Mike]

Nice show Chris.

[Tina]

I really like the Crassula sarcocaulon

[MikeT]

Correction to last photo: It should of course be Euphorbia cylindrifolia.

The 2nd one is Crassula sarcocaulis.

Nice plants - and pots

[Patrick]

Yes the Crassula sarcocaulis, is a lovely looking plant and totally hardy I understand

[MikeT]

Yes the Crassula sarcocaulis, is a lovely looking plant and totally hardy I understand

I've had it growing outside in the garden for many years. I lost some plants in the very cold winter of 2010, but that might have had more to do with a load of snow sliding off the grenhouse roof and flattening them. In other sites it was OK, despite the record cold that winter. The white flowered form is said to be less hardy. It usually flowers late in the year for me, I presume yours was photographed some time ago.

[chris25]

MikeT. Thanks for the correction. Written in haste (too much haste, clearly).
And yes, I photographed this one last year, August I think. I have lost them in the past when left outside so I bring this one in to a cold greenhouse (Alpine house) now.

[Colin Walker]

Here are a couple of agaves only repotted yesterday.

The first is one of my favourites: Agave schidigera. This now fits snuggly into the 26 cm diam. restricted pot class for an agave at the National Show, so here's me being optimistic for the future of this major event.

The pot is a very special Whichford Pottery pan of which I have very few.

The second plant is currently labelled Agave xromani 'Mediopicta'. I removed at least a dozen dead or dying leaves to tidy up this plant, and it was also washed using cotton buds

This too is being lined up for the next National, this time for the smallest agave class with a max. pot size of 18 cm.

Notice that the deep maroon pot complements the colour of the variegation of this cv.

This plant came from you Tina - haven't I done well with this, especially considering that variegated agaves aren't quite my thing?

This plant is very red 'cos it's not been watered through the winter and is only just coming back into growth. Next winter it WILL be watered.

By the way Tina I don't think that xromani is the correct name for this cv. Something like 'Shadow Dancer' might be more correct, but this is a complex issue I've only just started to think about.