Thanks Diane for a very quick responce, that's just what I wanted to hear.

As as ex-Kingston National member I am pleased to see the branch is still going strong.

Ed

I bought this plant at a local supermarket a few months back in the hopes it may be Aloe aristata and therefore survive the winter in my unheated greenhouse. Now that it flowering can anyone confirm that hope. I am more interested in whether it would be frost hardy than getting the corect name. Rega...

What a wonderful flower.
The plant looks really nice too.
Such a shame they won't survive the winter in my unheated greenhouse.

Ed

I used a petri dish and some kitchen towel to soak my A. Polyphilla seeds as instructed above and all 11 have germinated. They were from this years BCSS seed list. They were kept on my north facing bedroom windowsill without any extra heat and they all germinated within 15 days. Early May on the sou...

Tina

What lovely plants, how can you bear to part with them.

Ed

I completely agree fatich.
I'm sure I used to have some in my unheated greenhouse.
I've just checked and I must have lost them sometime, I will try and replace them.
Thank you for reminding me about these little gems.
Ed

#1 looks very young to me and could change dramatically as it grows, my guess would be a Gymnocalycium or possibly even a Melocactus.
I agree that #2 is Notocactus buiningii (as I still think of it).

Both nice young plants.

Now that is seriously weird, it's not for me but I can see how others may think differently.

Read this as 'The Blues Brothers' were lazily flying about my slightly warmer section of the greenhouse. Think I got up too early today.

Thanks for posting this, I don't do facebook and would have missed it otherwise.
Lovely plants there, well done everybody