I also have that book.

About 1minute 15 seconds in is the real way to handle Opuntias!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7S98g8R7E

I grow most of my Pterocacti in an unheated greenhouse and do cut the top growth off P tuberosus as it leads to a more natural looking plant. In habitat they lose the top growth each year and grow new flowering stems from the tuber so what you are growing is in effect a flowering tuber. The exceptio...

I believe they are still pursuing a building to house it in.

I quite like this one for its chapter on nomenclature. It has a dedication from Vera Higgins to a F H C from April 1933.

My second edition Borg came with these as bookmarks;

My favourite of theirs is Edgar’s ‘Cactus-like succulents’. Black and white but worth it for the introduction alone which begins ‘I recently accepted a very pressing invitation…’ I’ve read thrillers with far less interesting starts!
Disagree about old books as I rather like them for their charm.

Ive been making use of the colder weather to create spread sheets of books on various topics and have just finished Cacti and Succulents. Aside from discovering I had a few duplicates ( some where I have the hardback and a later paperback version some where I’ve simply bought a copy in better condit...

Thanks all for the reassurance. Stuart - I tend to agree with the naming but I thought I’d better be up to date! It spends the summer outside and up until this year the winter in a barely heated greenhouse. What it will make of being in the house this year I don’t know….. Joan often moans that the g...

Back in the summer my Kumara plicatilis developed a lot of brown / IMG_3155.jpeg black marks on the leaves. It seems to be growing away nicely now and has had to move into the house for winter as it sadly won’t fit into either of the heated greenhouses. Any suggestions as to the cause of the marks? ...