Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
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- Stuart
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Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
The best cactus was a very old Aztekium Ritteri on its own roots. very well grown and good presentation. The best succulent was Ceraria Pygmaea, maybe it hadn't spent all its life in the UK but it was originally in Tom Jenkins' collection and I've not seen one that size before.
Along with Oxford, Birmingham is one of the major annual shows, in a great venue and the ideal place to show our hobby to the public.
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
Lovely plants
Croydon Branch member, growing mainly cacti and Echeverias
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
LOVELY is that bob potters ceraria, must be seriously old, my home grown seedlings only have a trunk maybe 1.5cm after more than 10 years of pampering
Tina
varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
Yes, that's Bob's plant, Specks used to sell what were probably habitat plants with a caudex about 5cms across, I've not seen this plant before but it's probably been in cultivation for 50 years knowing its history though it was probably a habitat plant. I didn't know when I judged it. Even small seed-grown plants don't seem to be around these days. If anyone's in the Sussex area, Bob's speaking on caudiciforms at the next Brighton Branch meeting on 30th November.
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
They will grow easily from cuttings, when I grew a few they didn't seem that popular. Maybe people didn't realise what they were.
hhm Mr Riley, please check you emails
hhm Mr Riley, please check you emails
Tina
varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
I'm a bit puzzled that the Portulacaria pygmaea above is not larger if it was the specimen belonging to Tom Jenkins. As part of a collection class in the 1983 National Show, I photographed it and it does not look much bigger now after 40 years! However, I do find that my small specimen does have branches dry up.
How many of these treasures can you identify? I doubt if any one person in the UK could assemble such a collection of rarities even though many unusual plants are easier to obtain nowadays.
Best wishes,
Derek Tribble
How many of these treasures can you identify? I doubt if any one person in the UK could assemble such a collection of rarities even though many unusual plants are easier to obtain nowadays.
Best wishes,
Derek Tribble
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
This is the same plant in 2018, it flowers well every year & with the other Aztekiums seems to be attracting hover flies in more recent years !
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
I'd expect it is the same Ceraria Pygmaea in the photo from 40 years ago. I'm impressed that you could find a photo that quickly, I certainly couldn't. It's now in a large pot, probably larger than it looks in the photo, about 12ins across. I don't know if Tom collected it himself but there were a huge amount of habitat plants available in those days. It makes the Specks plants look small and I'd expect they would have been pretty old themselves. I'd like to think that they're not still being collected but I'd expect they still are, just not for the UK market.
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
Phil,
Does your aztekium have pure white flowers ?, its a fantastic plant, does it have a story.
Derek,
We would need to ID them all first.
Euphorbia abdelkuri, suzannae,unispina,decidua, dorstenia lavranni, pachypodium namaquanum & maybe baronii, avonia, haworthia
Melo matanzana, disco horstii, ario kotschebeyanus, retusus,pelecyphora strobiliformis, uebllmannia pectinifera, some old cactus ,? umdeave
Does your aztekium have pure white flowers ?, its a fantastic plant, does it have a story.
Derek,
We would need to ID them all first.
Euphorbia abdelkuri, suzannae,unispina,decidua, dorstenia lavranni, pachypodium namaquanum & maybe baronii, avonia, haworthia
Melo matanzana, disco horstii, ario kotschebeyanus, retusus,pelecyphora strobiliformis, uebllmannia pectinifera, some old cactus ,? umdeave
Tina
varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
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varied collection of succulents and cacti but I especially like Euphorbia's, Ariocarpus and variegated agaves.
Bucks, UK
Branch co-ordinator, Northants & MK BCSS https://northants.bcss.org.uk
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Re: Birmingham Show - Best Cactus and Succulent
Not important, surely? Call them all echeveria.