New member from Oxfordshire
Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2023 8:11 pm
Hi all,
I'm Egil, based in Oxfordshire. I've been growing succulents since about 2018. Mostly from seed, and mostly Agaves. I don't have many special ones, but slowly added a few. My most special Agave at the moment might be a A. victoriae-reginae White Rhino. I've had that for 2-3 years now, from a small pup, and it's producing two pups itself now.
Apart from the Agaves I've grown some cacti from seed, some Cycads (Dioon and Cycas species - I just love how they unroll their feathery leaves) and baobabs (I've worked in Africa for some time, love those trees, so just tried some seeds), and a bunch of Aloe polyphylla. Tried a few years and usually had 1-3 plants out of 10 seeds, so tried a year with 30 seeds and had about 28 plants
I grow most of these in a 8'X12' greenhouse, which I keep frostfree in the winter, most A. polyphylla are outside now though.
I like spiky Agaves, and one project I'm excited about at the moment is A. utahensis eborispina. I've wanted to grow these from seed for several years, but all seed I ordered failed to germinate. Last year I was offered seeds by someone who had collected them himself. He sent some A. u. eborispina and A. u. nevadensis and they germinated really well, and are growing well now.
A few weeks ago I was alerted on Instagram about a BCSS event in Wantage. I belief the post might have been from Tina? I went, saw some fabulous plants, and became a BCSS member! There were some really nice variegated agave pups for sale, but those were (still?) a bit outside the range I'm willing to pay. I buy a nice variegated A. parryi though, and a A. parryi huachucensis excelsior.
My largest polyphylla:
A. utahensis eborispina, sown in February, starting to show their elongated spines earlier this month.
What's not to love about something like this? Nice colours, nice spines.
I'm Egil, based in Oxfordshire. I've been growing succulents since about 2018. Mostly from seed, and mostly Agaves. I don't have many special ones, but slowly added a few. My most special Agave at the moment might be a A. victoriae-reginae White Rhino. I've had that for 2-3 years now, from a small pup, and it's producing two pups itself now.
Apart from the Agaves I've grown some cacti from seed, some Cycads (Dioon and Cycas species - I just love how they unroll their feathery leaves) and baobabs (I've worked in Africa for some time, love those trees, so just tried some seeds), and a bunch of Aloe polyphylla. Tried a few years and usually had 1-3 plants out of 10 seeds, so tried a year with 30 seeds and had about 28 plants
I grow most of these in a 8'X12' greenhouse, which I keep frostfree in the winter, most A. polyphylla are outside now though.
I like spiky Agaves, and one project I'm excited about at the moment is A. utahensis eborispina. I've wanted to grow these from seed for several years, but all seed I ordered failed to germinate. Last year I was offered seeds by someone who had collected them himself. He sent some A. u. eborispina and A. u. nevadensis and they germinated really well, and are growing well now.
A few weeks ago I was alerted on Instagram about a BCSS event in Wantage. I belief the post might have been from Tina? I went, saw some fabulous plants, and became a BCSS member! There were some really nice variegated agave pups for sale, but those were (still?) a bit outside the range I'm willing to pay. I buy a nice variegated A. parryi though, and a A. parryi huachucensis excelsior.
My largest polyphylla:
A. utahensis eborispina, sown in February, starting to show their elongated spines earlier this month.
What's not to love about something like this? Nice colours, nice spines.