Maria J Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- ...> What is the plant centre right at the back of the > bench, which (if you'll excuse my lack of > terminology) looks like grass coming out of a > caudex??? [hr] Closer up it looks more like grass coming out of a potato, I'll h...

Maria J Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > WOW!! From apple sized to that in 10 years!! I > hope to see mine with similar proportions in 15 > years in that case!! (Mine's only plum sized!! > :lolbt:) [hr] Mine might have grown more if I hadn't been so scared of over-wat...

Stuart Estell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a formidable Dioscorea, Len! How long have > you had that? [hr] What? That old thing! Well, I am very pleased with it, but it did cost me ?3.00 in May 1997, when it was about the size of an apple. The worrying thin...

Back again. Thanks to Ian of Cheshire, I shall now attempt to show a picture - for experimental purposes only - reduced from 1.25mb to 90.5kb. However this is still a shot in the dark technique, as scaling similar size images yields wildly differing file sizes. Perhaps I'll try the photo hosting opt...

Thank you, Iann

I'll try to make sense of that tomorrow, er today.

Hello, and good evening, Thank you all for your kind greetings. I feel vey humble. [cue sobs] I also feel very stupid, secondly because I had typed a reply, but lost it by foolishly going to check another page, and now have to start again; but firstly because I'd love to post some pictures, but can'...

Good morning. My name is Len Bell, and I have been carefully killing cacti (and other succulents) for getting on for 45-50 years now. My current collection is effectively my third, though a couple of plants go back to the early days. I used to concentrate on cacti, but nowadays the "others"...