One week in their new home and about a quarter of them have been repotted as I thought they are all in a peat /gravel mix, the rest will be repotted over the winter. Here are two long shots. IMG_4189small.jpg IMG_4192small.jpg This is about two thirds of the collection, the rest are going to be a bi...

Thank you Rod and Martin I hope your move goes well. I am back in London with a van packed with plants, I must take some photos in the morning before unpacking. Due to the last couple of years of almost total neglect some of them were dead, some of them will need a lot of TLC, and others look much h...

As my intro, I live in London but have a collection of, mostly , cacti that I left with my father in Yorkshire when I came down south almost thirty years ago. Six weeks ago I bought this 8x10 on a well known auction site. asbought.jpg It now sits on an insulated DPC'd slab and looks like this ghfron...

For a few years Southwark council have had a couple of Alsatian / Doberman size sempervivum dogs in the central reservation on Dog Kennel Hill, but I don't remember seeing them this summer I expect they may have 'gone walkies' like the Hepworth in Dulwich Park.

As Peter debunks the concrete floor deterring slugs theory, has anyone noticed a difference between wooden staging and metal staging and slug / snail population? I am guessing that aluminium staging will be less attractive than wood and galvanised steel would be a deterrent, working on the old advic...

I recently moved my 10'x8' greenhouse from Potters Bar to South London, the glass was transported in four stacks leant at a slight angle against to van's bulkhead and ply lined wheel boxes. The van was quite full so the glass was unable to move the journey round the M25 was without incident but some...

Thank you all for the welcome, AnTTun and Tony I have been looking at the local branches, I guess Eltham is closest but may not be the most convenient time wise, be assured photos will follow. Rod I am hoping that Aiko is right, some years we do not see the cold weather until December , I know proje...

Hi everyone I have just signed up on the forum and thought that I had better say hello. I was a junior member of the NCSS (Hull branch) back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, as I guess many others have done I left home to go to college and time moved on. My plants were left in the care of my fat...