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If you registered a while back and still haven't been approved, please drop an email to forum@bcss(etc) using the same email account you put in your Forum registration, giving your name, the Forum username you selected, and a sentence about your interest in cacti and succulents.
I'm new here & sort of new to succulents & cacti (very much so re cacti).
I used to live in the Middle East, many years ago, so am a bit sentimental about succulents & have always had some as house plants. The new part is that I've only recently got into them in a more 'serious' way, actually learning about them & their care & propagation, rather than just sticking them on a window sill, watering occasionally & admiring them.
I have a degree in a completely different area of biology so, although it has very little direct relevance here, it'll probably affect the sort of questions I ask &/or how I ask them.
Anyway, that's me. I look forward to learning more & meeting some of you here, or even at events
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
Currently being wooed by Haworthia, attempting hybridisation, and enticed by Mesembs. Recently discovered gorgeous Gasteria.
Tony Roberts
Treasurer, Haworthia Society
Chairman, Tephrocactus Study Group
Moderator, BCSS Forum
Kent
(Gasteria, Mammillaria, small Opuntia, Cleistocactus and Sempervivum are my current special interests)
