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- Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Huge trichocereus terscheckii plus flowering agave in inherited Essex garden
- Replies: 10
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Re: Huge trichocereus terscheckii plus flowering agave in inherited Essex garden
Funnily enough the guy has just emailed me! he reckons it has been there 25/30 years which, if correct, predates my one. Had it not been cut back at some point it may have been colossal! Some weird things on Canvey Island - couple of champion palms, one just round the corner from where this cactus i...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: It's going to get cold.
- Replies: 28
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Re: It's going to get cold.
There's no 'if' - heat is lost by the ground. Any type of barrier can mitigate this to one extent or another - bubblewrap, newspaper, foil blankets. Even a layer of small children, although I see those more as a heat source. And 'this type of carry on' is something else entirely - protecting the gro...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: It's going to get cold.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2686
Re: It's going to get cold.
The theory behind its efficacy is; since the ground is almost always warmer than the air on cold nights, the warmer temperature can be trapped underneath the cloth. The reason behind the use of stakes is to keep the vegetation away from the cold air. As I understand it, exactly this. On a small sca...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: It's going to get cold.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2686
Re: It's going to get cold.
Small children? Probably. Might go through 2 or 3 on the coldest nights.
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3325
Re: Handling opuntia
I find newspaper crumpled into sausage shapes and looped around the pads works OK
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:18 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Agave talk & pictures
- Replies: 641
- Views: 85587
Re: Agave talk & pictures
Something to consider with havardiana is that it doesn’t tolerate wet winter conditions anywhere near as well as ovatifolia. They are very cold tolerant, but where they grow in Texas/Coahuila (also Chihuahua if I remember right) is much drier than the Sierra Lampazos where ovatifolia occurs. This, ...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Agave talk & pictures
- Replies: 641
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Re: Agave talk & pictures
Those type of plants are not my thing but, wow, what beautifully grown and presented agaves!
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 5:03 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Aloe broomii
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8119
Re: Aloe broomii
That is a good, dark-spined form -lovely.
They are actually pretty cold tolerant if dry. I've been trying plants for years as and when I have been able to get them and finally hit on a good spot at the base of a palm that keeps the weather off it - came through my last winter.
They are actually pretty cold tolerant if dry. I've been trying plants for years as and when I have been able to get them and finally hit on a good spot at the base of a palm that keeps the weather off it - came through my last winter.
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 8:02 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: two aloes to id PLZ
- Replies: 6
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- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:48 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at RHS Harlow Carr 23/9/2023 - the photographs
- Replies: 58
- Views: 10738