What puzzled me a bit was the almost complete lack of accompanying explanation apart from a page by Gordon Rowley about Keith Mortimer. Are they reserve prices/guide prices for an auction or are they being sold at those prices - first come, first served? (Not that I'm interested in buying any). I've...

No, I meant at the link I posted.

Not quite sure of the legalities of it but there are a few more here.

I find BBC forecast exaggerates for effect. It's never as hot or as cold or as sunny as they say, at least not a few days in advance. The day before they always seem to moderate their predictions.

Some would say no difference and reduce the former to a synonym of the latter.

I've got to bring my cacti & succulents in today. (And dig up an Ensete ventricosum but that's a bit off topic)

Hmm, the only one I recognise is Cruck Cottage Cacti. I visited on a family holiday to N. Yorks in ~1990. I remember Ron swapping a Mamm carmenae I had chosen for a different one because the one I'd picked wasn't growing, he said. He had a H U G E Aloe polyphylla growing in the ground too. Edit: Dou...

I'd trust Mesa Garden's hardiness ratings (with one caveat). They put it in their group 15: occasional light frost, above 28F (-2C) Their numbers refer to a dryness that cannot be achieved in the UK, but you could do a comparison to see what other plants fall into this rating. My gut feeling is that...

Phil Hocking wrote: >The nurseries need to keep up. I > just hope they don't all go 'ebay only' because it is > undoubtedly more expensive for the buyer. We should all stick > together, ask the nurseries for photos, It could be argued that if nurseries had to go to the trouble of taking photos, and ...

That's a shame. I reckon I've had parcels of cacti and or succulents from maybe 17ish? different nurseries/people over the years (some more than once) and have never had a load that didn't reach me in good shape. Some do lose areoles or leaves or fragile branches but it soon grows out. I think we ar...