Tina wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:35 pm Looks good, that's a long wait

From this side of the lens it seems to have taken forever to get here - I kicked it all off November '22.

I think at the moment £25 is the retail price from anywhere and I will get a (very) small cut from that. I get the opportunity to buy some copies at a small discount that I can sell at talks and a couple of events this year (book signings!) but not too many as I fear getting stuck with a room full o...

ralphrmartin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:04 pm Perhaps you had better start writing!

Only takes a couple of weeks, right?

Just found out my forthcoming book is listed on Amazon as a 'pre-order'. So it is real, after all! :grin: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61d3XQd9UjL._SY466_.jpg https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dry-Exotic-Garden-Xeriscaping-Succulents/dp/0719844169/ref=sr_1_1?crid=DBYD9ESZCAG1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5UI_...

I think it looks amazing and the basket weave of the pot matches the trunk pattern almost exactly. Fabulous.

Herts Mike wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:49 pm Eborispina and nevadensis are now on their 3rd year outdoors.

... and that baffles me

Thanks for this, Paul. Size wise I'm talking 30-40cm diameter or less. I really like the ones with tight rosettes with the wide leaves over the longer, strappy leaves. There are very few, in that case. Can only suggest you get a larger growing one like one of the parryi group then remove it once it...

Forget potatorum, it isn't UK hardy. How small is small? Top of my list would be A. polianthiflora, which is very small, also good and hardy - a precocious flowerer with interesting red flowers. Things like toumeyana, toumeyana bella, schottii, parviflora are similar but not quite as nice IMO. A. le...

It's been a while since I looked for any but last time it was all but impossible to get tufa anywhere and, secondhand, it was staggeringly expensive.

That looks fabulous. Hope your staging is strong!