Thanks all for the input. It seems you have figured out which nursery I bought from without me having to say, which I'm pleased about! You have a point Nick, perhaps I should "name and shame", but on the other hand I doubt the BCSS would appreciate me using their forum for the purpose of d...

Hi Chris, Many thanks for the response, much appreciated. I had tried a Google search myself but it didn't help a lot, there were just so many results... The link to llifle web site is appreciated, thank you, it looks a very interesting site and I think I'll spend a bit of time there..! but for now,...

Back again hoping for advice please. A few weeks ago I saw this advertised for sale on-line by a cactus nursery. uebelmannia pectinefra.jpg I've always fancied an Uebelmannia Pectinefra, to my eye there is nothing else that looks quite like them, so I dug deep for the just over £10 price and bought ...

Thanks Mike.

Seeing it flower is the challenge, I'm 62 now..!

Noted Mal and thank you.

Hi Mike, To be fair to Diane she was probably going by my written description as much as anything... The spines are in fact white, the picture was taken digitally under artificial lighting and I didn't make any adjustment for that so that's possibly where the yellowish tinge you can see crept in. I'...

Thank you Diane, much appreciated.

A request, if I may, for ID help please. I'm sure lots of you will know this one as I'm certain its no rarity... I paid the ransom of just two or three pounds to rescue it from the local mini-mart. And I've since seen a bigger example in a local florists for a fiver. It is, I would say, a rather dar...

Hi and welcome from a fellow newbie!

Thanks, the welcome is appreciated. A one liner competition sounds like a cracking idea, but I'm much too new to the forum to have judged the prevailing sense of humour yet..! Hi Rod, nice to know there's someone else in this part of the world that shares the interest. Fabulous weather around here j...