Spinesandrosettes thanks for posting these pictures, which have really captured the beauty of these plants.

These are beautiful plants Tina, thanks for posting. At present I only have 3 Agaves , but I now feel I shall look for some more!

Welcome to the forum Agavemad, I'm sure you will easily fill your greenhouse space with Agaves, Echeverias and probably with other things as well! Enjoy your plants.

An interesting point Iain, many of us have been encouraged to keep our plants 'nice and tight'; those of us who enter shows know that judges keep this in mind, and I wouldn't disagree with that, overblown plants usually look awful. Some years ago I visited the collection of a very experienced grower...

Hi Emile, welcome to the forum. Sorry that I cannot help with your questions about seed raising, sadly, my efforts have always resulted in failure. I now leave it to others and buy their small plants to grow on. However, many people seem to raise seeds quite easily and I hope you will succeed. Good ...

Welcome to the forum Cav, you have some nice plants there, enjoy them!

On 6th August the speaker at the Croydon Branch meeting will be Ian Woolnough, his subject will be 'The Desert in Flower, Chile and Argentina'. We meet in The Garden Room, All Saints Church Hall, Sanderstead at 7.45. All Welcome.

Lovely to see, thanks Ray.

Hi Iain, thanks for the welcome. I suspect that most branches would be delighted to see a few more members at their meetings. It is great that, at least in the South East, we have such a range of good speakers available, many of them also bringing lovely sale plants - I really enjoy the meetings and...

Hi Julie, I would agree with the advice to cut back. I have a large jade plant which was attacked by whitefly a few years ago. I could only think of giving it a good prune and then spraying the remaining trunk and branches, this worked well and I have had no problems since. As advised, you need to t...