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The sun today certainly encouraged some plants into flower
Notocactus (Parodia) buiningii Mammillaria carmenae Stenocactus albatus Kalanchoe pumila Sedum furfuraceum Happy days!

Looking good! It really is nice when all the plants flower.

Nice set of images

Great plants and great pics. too. Thanks for showing them Juster. Cheers. What sort of Winter temps do you need for a beautiful Kalanchoe like pumila ?

Thanks all for your kind comments. Eric, I keep my greenhouse at a minimum of 5 C, at least in theory, it might get a bit lower on cold nights. I'm not aware that K. pumila is particularly touchy.

Ring out the old

Ring in the new

Fantastic M. carmenae, Jean

Thanks Tony. I see that I bought it as a small single head at my first ever National, 1983 at Luton, so it must be about 40 years from seed; older than some of the people on this Forum! I must try to repot it this year, bit of a challenge!

Yes, really nice Carmenae, I was selling them at the 1983 National, I'd seen them for the first time at C&Js in California in 1982 and imported a batch for the National. You must have been that young girl that spent all her pocket money on one, I remember it well.
Stuart