Hi, Just to let you know that the September issue of the Cactus and Succulent Review is now available at https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/ This was supposed to be 60 pages long, but in fact it's 59 pages, proving (not for the first time) that I can't count. Anyway, among the 59 pages you ...

Hi,

Thank you to both of you for your comments which I have passed on to the owner of the plant.

Best wishes,

Hi, I was contacted by phone by someone who was asking for advice on a plant. He believes it to be a Trichocereus, and it has developed some unpleasant black blodges. There appear to be other marks as well. I asked him to send me some photos which I am posting below. The plant is normally grown on a...

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Just a very quick note to thank everyone for their comments. I always appreciate them.

Sheila

Hi, Just to let you know that the June issue of the Cactus and Succulent Review (formerly the Essex Succulent Review) is now available for download at https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/ This month I'm delighted to include 'Madagascar's spiny alluaudias' by Colin Walker, well-known to BCSS ...

Hi, First I've renamed the Essex Succulent Review as the Cactus and Succulent Review. Anyone who read my Editor's notes in the last issue will have been expecting this change. The ESR started out as a Branch newsletter for the Essex Branch of what was then the Cactus and Succulent Society of Great B...

Hi, Thank you to everyone for your comments. Ragamala - this may sound a little strange, but in a way I agree with you. The name Essex Succulent Review is distinctive, and I have been dithering around for probably two years wondering whether or not to change it. I did make sure that both Eddy Harris...

Hi, Just to let you know that the December issue of the Essex Succulent Review is now available at https://www.essexsucculentreview.org.uk/ This issue includes an article on 'Some smaller aloes' by Mike Cullen (HertsMike) and some more of Phil Hughes' (Lithos) amazing drawings in 'The Dodoes – Some ...

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Anyone can subscribe to eNews, not must BCSS members. There is a place to do so on the BCSS website together with the archived back issues.

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There wasn't an eNews issued in either October or November. I'm afraid I don't yet know when they will start again.