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- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
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Re: Habitat-style staging
There is Hypertufa -made out of cement, sand and peat. Of course you'd might have to swap the peat for something similar. I remember making containers out of this years ago- over time the cement component settles down and does not leach too much. I’ve got a couple of home made troughs made from hyp...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
- Replies: 20
- Views: 748
Re: Habitat-style staging
It doesn’t surprise me, last time I bought a large chunk of tufa to make a tufa garden was around 1980 from Ingwersens nursery…Paul in Essex wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:34 pm It's been a while since I looked for any but last time it was all but impossible to get tufa anywhere and, secondhand, it was staggeringly expensive.
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
- Replies: 20
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Re: Habitat-style staging
Tufa is good for growing plants in directly as it allows water to percolate through. It’s used a lot in alpine gardening. There are some nice examples at Kew. If you can find some it would be worth experimenting with Tufa is very soft and alkaline though - not sure some of my plants would like that...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
- Replies: 20
- Views: 748
Re: Habitat-style staging
Tufa is good for growing plants in directly as it allows water to percolate through. It’s used a lot in alpine gardening. There are some nice examples at Kew. If you can find some it would be worth experimenting with
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: A few more early flowers
- Replies: 3
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A few more early flowers
A few more things flowering now, plus lots of buds coming IMG_4488.jpeg Mammillaria senilis doing its normal annoying thing of flowering on the sunny side only IMG_4490.jpeg No idea what the correct name is for this now but the seed packet said Neoporteria senilis IMG_4487.jpeg Turbinicarpus valdezi...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First flowers of the year
- Replies: 17
- Views: 962
Re: First flowers of the year
That’s it! Thanksralphrmartin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:56 pmR. violaciflora v. knuthiana - it's one of the ones I mentioned above.
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:56 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Amazing what you find when Spring Cleaning - unusual hybrid
- Replies: 10
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Re: Amazing what you find when Spring Cleaning - unusual hybrid
Looks like a Scots pine cone to me
Check the date
Check the date
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First flowers of the year
- Replies: 17
- Views: 962
Re: First flowers of the year
That Euphorbia xantii is very odd in a nice way.
The first Rebutia every year for me is this one , which came from Ralph originally, always way ahead of my various marsoneri clones. Can’t check the name at the moment though…
The first Rebutia every year for me is this one , which came from Ralph originally, always way ahead of my various marsoneri clones. Can’t check the name at the moment though…
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First flowers of the year
- Replies: 17
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Re: First flowers of the year
Thanks Simon, no I haven’t watered it deliberately but it’s probably had a few drops from the orchid in the hanging basket directly above it !
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:42 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First flowers of the year
- Replies: 17
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First flowers of the year
Each year 3 cacti battle it out in a race to be the first flowers of the year. This year the winner is Mammillaria sanchez-mejordae