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- Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: News & Events
- Topic: Spalding Cactus Mart Sat 20th April
- Replies: 2
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Spalding Cactus Mart Sat 20th April
Spalding Branch will be having their 16th Cactus Mart on Saturday 20th April at the usual venue - Holbeach Community Centre in Holbeach, just a few miles from Spalding. All sales tables were reserved many months ago and all the main nurseries will be there as usual. 16th Spalding Cactus Mart 20 Apr ...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: BCSS AGM 2024 - Unappealing photo!
- Replies: 17
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Re: BCSS AGM 2024 - Unappealing photo!
Stuart
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: One for Tony or Stuart
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3707
Re: One for Tony or Stuart
How does Gasteria Thunbergii sound?
Stuart
Stuart
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:27 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: UK nurseries since brexit
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2811
Re: UK nurseries since brexit
The last time I checked with DEFRA, they were charging £60 for each 15 minutes plus travel costs to issue a phyto. This is around the same costs that I pay in Holland. For a commercial shipment £200 to £300 for a phyto can be absorbed into costs, for a UK cactus nursery sending a small box of plants...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: UK nurseries since brexit
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2811
Re: UK nurseries since brexit
It's correct that since Brexit, anyone buying plants by post from abroad or coming through UK Customs with plants is risking having them taken if there's no accompanying Phyto, and CITES if necessary. Without going into commercially sensitive details, Brexit should make no difference to nurseries ot...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cotyledon in flower
- Replies: 10
- Views: 943
Re: Cotyledon in flower
I've always known it as Ladismithiensis and having looked at the Ernst vJ book it suggests there's not much to choose between this one and Tomentosa, he describes it as 'Very variable with intermediate forms between the two species'. It's generally seen in the trade as Ladismithiensis. I have a vari...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Agave talk & pictures
- Replies: 644
- Views: 86726
Re: Agave talk & pictures
US photo was taken at Poway, a few miles NE of San Diego.
Stuart
Stuart
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 11:12 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Agave talk & pictures
- Replies: 644
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Re: Agave talk & pictures
Agave Kichiokan.JPG Once they reach their maximum diameter, they just seem to go upwards. This one is in Bob Kent's garden in the US. Agave Kichiokanb.JPG These are all Chinese plants at a wholesale nursery in the EU, they've been held in a dormant state while they were shipped in a sea container a...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Lophophora starting to rot -what do I do
- Replies: 24
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Re: Lophophora starting to rot -what do I do
I bought a bag of sulfur - stuff that used to be called 'Flowers of Sulphur' on ebay, it gets dusted quite liberally on any areas of possible rot or where I've cleared leaves with botrytis. It used to be available in chemists in the same way that you could buy Potassium Nitrate by the ounce and make...
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Todays photo
- Replies: 312
- Views: 64387
Re: Todays photo
Anyone who has got this far with this thread and isn't already a member should join the Haworthia Society, their annual seed list is the start to growing plants like those shown here. If you're already a member then make a note of the 3rd weekend in October next year for the Haworthia Convention in ...