It looks good, Mike. Do you cover it? Is that enough light? Do I spy mesembs on the right?

Austrian gas and electricity prices are still higher than the UK, although the gap is much less than it was a couple of years ago. Prices have actually decreased recently, even in 2006, as monopolies were broken up. Austrian household natural gas and electricity is taxed at over 30% which is now the...

If Hoodia can make me look like that, then .... I don't want any!

Another Crassula non-expert here. There are a very wide variety but in my experience few of them like being treated as a cactus. They tend to be dormant in summer and high heat will just stress them, and they tend to be more active in cooler weather so you should provide some water in winter, or at ...

All of Mallorca is pretty close to the sea

I don't think Carpobrotus likes temperature extremes. It isn't particularly frost hardy and it doesn't do well with heatwaves and severe drought, although probably OK in any heat the UK has to offer. Presumably pretty salt tolerant as well.

You have the NCL, don't you Rob? I think T. schmiedickeanus gained some more recently, such as T. macrochele. That's one division that never made sense to me. So are all the Turbs with cardboard spines one species now?

John Innes was a real guy but not especially famous and long dead.

I don't have the straight species T. schmiedickeanus but several of its subspecies are more typical recurrent summer flowerers.

Tumbling Tom? That's a tomato isn't it ? "larger & deeper colour" flowers sounds more like D. cooperi. Here is a flower (purchased with a different name, but 99% it is D. cooperi), note the lack of a white eye. Flowers are up to 2" across but will be smaller when they first open. ...

Time for a new one!

Mike, I'm pretty sure that's not Delosperma cooperi. I suspect it isn't even a Delosperma. How about Disphyma crassifolium, another naturalised mesemb?