I have always grown my plants in the same soil. I just vary the amount of drainage, and the amount/depth of gravel at the neck. I can and do use the loam from the ground as explained, but that doesn't solve the drainage problem. For the record I grow fairly common cacti, some aloes, some lithops, so...

When I lived in the UK, I used Arthur Bowers and river sand in more or less equal quantities. Now that I live in North Cyprus it is impossible to get river sand (we don’t have rivers). Choice of potting mediums is limited. There is nothing loam based, everything is peat (and not always good quality)...

I can see your problem, but I fail to understand why you consider it a problem. So long as the name you use is commonly understood, why are you interested in its fraught taxonomical history? A plant exists without the sanction of any description, valid or otherwise. No matter what is decreed, the sy...

me_ymax_small_small.jpg Hi. I am an old member in more ways than one. I live in the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, but I am English. Problem living here is getting plants which actually have names. But the plants don't seem to mind. Les Needham My site is plantworlds.org - a retirement present t...