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- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Interesting book due out soon...
- Replies: 12
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Interesting book due out soon...
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_...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 4:07 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Euphorbia makeover
- Replies: 10
- Views: 438
Re: Euphorbia makeover
I think it looks amazing and the basket weave of the pot matches the trunk pattern almost exactly. Fabulous.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 960
Re: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
... and that baffles meHerts Mike wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:49 pm Eborispina and nevadensis are now on their 3rd year outdoors.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 960
Re: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
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...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 960
Re: Smaller agaves (and their hardiness)
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...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
- Replies: 20
- Views: 945
Re: Habitat-style staging
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.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat-style staging
- Replies: 20
- Views: 945
Re: Habitat-style staging
That looks fabulous. Hope your staging is strong!
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:44 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Chinese National Botanic Garden in Beijing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 517
Re: Chinese National Botanic Garden in Beijing
Thank you for taking the time to post these pictures - must have taken ages! Definitely get a flavour of what is going on there.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:28 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: ID for this
- Replies: 3
- Views: 473
Re: ID for this
I think it is a cv of C. pubescens ssp radicans.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Can anyone explain this columnar lophophora?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 910
Re: Can anyone explain this columnar lophophora?
Perhaps they have been genetically modified to fit into a baguette? The new Subway Peyote, maybe. Easier to eat.