I am afraid I'm nowhere near, but just spotted this H. truncata 'Super Blue' (it's also nowhere near being blue...) in what used to be a square 5x5 cm pot. I'll leave it as is and see what happens over the next 20 days

edds wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:17 pm Find a local stone merchants - you can usually pop along and pick your own rocks.

That might actually work, I have already found one stating they supply Yorkstone.

greatnorthernexotic wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:51 pm I'm using Yorkstone simply because I have an abundance of it in my garden. [...]

I wish someone would be selling less than a tonne of it... Maybe it's time for a join order of Yorkstone?

The main "announcement" thread is locked, so I'll let myself ask the question here. Hopefully the right people will see it. Would it be possible to add short "resumes" of the confirmed traders, what plants they specialise in etc.? I know some names, but others are new to me, and...

Crassula ovata 'Gollum': https://www.crassulaceae.ch/de/artikel? ... T&aID=2932

The main "announcement" thread is locked, so I'll let myself ask the question here. Hopefully the right people will see it. Would it be possible to add short "resumes" of the confirmed traders, what plants they specialise in etc.? I know some names, but others are new to me, and ...

It does look good, doesn't it? But that's a planter worth 8-10 5 cm pots, and when space is a premium...

In one of the recent CW there was a great article about a similar habitat style planting across the whole greenhouse. It looked splendid on photographs.

Taking an example from Ralph's recent photologue, I recently visited the Giza pyramid complex and found a few quite succulent plants (+ 1 grass...) that might be of some interest to the forum. I am not so sure about the identity of a few, so all comments are welcome. Apologies for the neck stretchin...

Thank you Tony, I did not think about stalking Ralph so much!

I am still rather surprised that such an "international" event doesn't have a proper website.

I guess as staff change, people with different interests come on board. One would think that maintaining the garden's collection is more a matter of professionalism and skills, and not necessarily personal interests of staff or management... It still does look better than many collections around, a...