Thanks for all the kind comments. And that is an intense yellow Mike!

Interesting plant! Thanks for sharing. Not much in the way of sun the last few days here in the north west, just dark cloud

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Thoroughly enjoyed reading through this thread, great plants and I’m fascinated by the hardiness of your Opuntia fragilis Fussen. I really hope to find the same plant as I’d love to try and grow it outside here in the UK.

Really beautiful, I especially love the astrophytums and echinocereus. Thanks :) I’m also a big Echinocereus fan! All beautiful! (it helps if you can tag each photo with the name when you add the file - there is a box for this) Ahh! Sorry Diane I haven't noticed that. I’ll see if I can edit the pos...

I've been enjoying the blooms in the greenhouse so far this year. Here are a few of my favorites.....(warning! lots of pictures! :grin: ) IMG_3786.JPG IMG_3781.JPG IMG_3777.JPG IMG_3819.JPG IMG_4037.JPG IMG_4047.JPG IMG_E3529.JPG IMG_4042.JPG IMG_E3375.JPG IMG_3686.JPG IMG_3623.JPG IMG_3466.JPG IMG_...

juster wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2019 5:05 pm Very interesting to see the progress here Mark, the plants look good. Please keep us posted.

Thank you, and I will do

They seem to be pretty hardy plants! I rescued this one from a garden in Aberdeen where it had apparently sat for many years, summer and winter, in full rain, wind, snow. Crikey! That’s one hardy plant then! Thanks for sharing :) Thanks for the idea .... might deter the damned squirrels Haha i’m su...

Just a quick update: Apart from the constant snail and slug spotting everything seems to be going well with plenty of new pads forming on the Opuntia. The delosperma taking over though!! :grin: I’ll be pulling it back a lot once the blooms have finished. D98965BD-2AD5-460F-936C-EF299AC371F2.jpeg 37F...

Tony R wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2019 10:57 pm 3. Yes I would favour corrugata, let’s see a picture please when the buds open.

Thanks Tony, I’ll make sure I post a picture of the flower.