Looking very good, Allan.

Love the 1st prize in the Bowl Garden - very imaginative niche planting of SA succulents - congratulations to the exhibitor!

Very snart, Allan.

There seems to be a few pages missing (invisible print). If anybody has the complete visible pdf I'd appreciate a copy. A pdf editor might be able to make the print visible again. I've extracted all the text into MS Word and re-saved as the attached pdf. You can now see the 'white on white' text eg...

I was also most impressed with this when I first saw it.
I wish I could grow 'giant' lithops like that in my garden!

If you look closely, Stuart, at full resolution you will see that the white 'hosepipe' is connected to a very realistic water tap.

Moved for you, Allan, and yes, this plant is indeed Amazing!

Very impressive, Mike!

Tina wrote: ↑Mon Nov 13, 2023 2:15 pm so you put pictures up on a cactus forum but don't want comments & chat about them , maybe you should just host them on an image only site and post the link .

I've owned this book since the '80s. It was published in Prague in '81. Here's a link to a book seller: https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Illustrated-Encyclopedia-Cacti-Succulents-Riha-Subik/207333583/bd It contains the topics that were described. Could be that one. I remember it being fairly ...

The potful in Adromischus Sub-group Class that got 1st Prize is a cracker.
I think/assume it is a clone of Adromischus nanus looking at the plant and the partial information on the label.
I usually kill mine (over-watering?) when they are much smaller than this.