beautiful Diane mine are still mere babies but if thats what they can produce there should be room in a greenhouse for one or two.

wow they are beauties indeed we havent had enough sun here for mine to flower yet

Hi diane nice to be back finally got computer issues sorted I hope but not holding my breath

and yes she is gorgeous she is about 8 now we dont know for sure as she was a rescue cat someone dumped her in the local canal in a sack with her brothers and sisters she was the only one that made it.

Hi I too have a cat called Purrdy and cacti on windowsills I have found the most effective thing is to put them on a table in front of the window rather than the sill itself or in troughs in your case a trough would be to big though. Have you thought about hanging a shelf from the top of the window ...

I am sorry you lost your obesa. And dont worry some of my plants have got names theres stumpy for one and spikey for another not forgetting maddie and fattie. We invest a lot of love and time into our hobby some people keep fish some dogs some keep teddy bears others china we keep cacti where is the...

my mum records the hover fly population every year for the insect group and she is saying the same thing that the hover flies are swarming this year compared to other years. Last year it was the harlequin ladybird. I seem to have way more hover flies than usual both in the greenhouse and the conserv...

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it is amazing how many flowers only last 24 hours and its always the nicest showiest ones isnt it.

Very nice flower Jim

Remember I posted about compost a while back what to use etc. Well I had a think and decided to make my own well kind of. I took the cactus compost I normally use and added more gravel to it so it looked much more like the images you guys had kindly posted for me. This was a few months ago to be fai...

wow thats some story and some cactus as well

its amazing how misused and abused cacti are sometimes my aunt the other day said oh water them every two weeks you will be fine I will be but what about the plant.

just goes to prove the right place right time you could end up with something brilliant.