You are quite right Allan about spring sunshine. I can remember at my old house a big high pressure weather system in March which meant days of unbroken sunshine which burnt some cacti on the most exposed side. The Haworthias were on the other side and were fine. Mine have never been red but the col...

I still think Chamaecereus has red flowers....

I must say I only put the dormant stuff, Pelargoniums, Bulbine etc under the bench. I’ve always grown Haworthias and Gasterias in the full glare of the sun reckoning that our sun is nothing like the strength of their homeland sun.
Nothing has burnt so far!

Looks more like a hybrid than a species.

Maybe that’s how it grows. Looks ok and leaves not dying at the tips.

That’s quite a collection! Welcome.

Lovely plant iann.

Bonsai car boots? Are they very small cars then?

Just because you’ve got posh pots...

There you go. A small caudex.