Cacti and Succulents

Amazing how time goes by! I got Billbergia nutans from him, he grew it outside. He would laugh how mine has expanded. I corresponded with him for a while. He had some health issues, I think Asthma.

Well @pete, that's all it seems to need

Had to get my conversion app on then to work out the temperature. Crazy as I grew up with farenheit but the new world fascists beat me down and now its all C for me. My polytunnel has heaters in but is heated to 40 max. Due to the moisture in there, despite fans, I don't think it would be the...

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@sal73 here they are, after nearly three weeks under the snow.

I'll probably give it a go too, next year, I'm guessing they need at least a few leaves to produce flowers lol

It's currently in my room on the window sill where I have the window open all year round:o so no water and no repot gotcha but if it dies expect a PM:roflsign:

Daisee, thanks. DOn´t worry. I know how to handle and resize pics, so I will in the future. I just never realized that flickr was "screen-shrinking" them for me. I thought it was showing them in their real size. Proper resizing in the future, promise. Apology. Now I will leave this thread to...

Yeah seen one growing in an abandoned house in Crete. It had literally taken over the whole house. Plan is to keep them under control with regular pruning that's if I'm even lucky enough to get to that stage. Will prune off the shoots that I don't train up the support but don't want to touch...

Cheers again @Michael Hewett for the ID

The place they live at now gets extremely hot in the summer as it holds on to heat from the day before.Thanks for the tip i will only go up to 15%-25% of the recommended concentration Limited to once every 2 months during the growing seasonThat way it wont be too much fertiliser for this...

Pete , don`t get me wrong in this , Will giles is more of an illusionist , when you walk in his garden you will be really impressed , but if you look closely there is lots of illusion around it ....I`m not talking bad about him , but he really inspired me. If you feel your garden with gravel ,...

Sal, If you keep Aloe striatula dry in winter, you will probably keep it going. I find it usually dies back if it gets wet.

Thanks Steve, nice to know my memory is not playing tricks with me. But it sure is a gorgeous plant, michaelmas daisy whatever its name.

Wow, I missed this before. Tat is impressive.

They are not really brown but could be a little bit greener.

I had a puya alpestris I grew from seed (repotting was very painful!). It was left outside all year in Nottinghamshire and grew quite happily and flowered. It died when I forgot to water it one summer, but had stood the winters no problem.

I use lengths of folded kitchen roll and as was said above, have the hole ready. Trying to get compost around the base of a prickly plant in a small pot isn't much fun

Delosperma Cooperi, Strongylodon. I see on one of the pics, Sea Thrift has crept in at the front.

Time and effort of growing them on. Then storage during dormancy, sorting out the viable flowering sized ones, packing, transport etc.................To get the rarer species means using a specialist supplier who'll grow them on a much smaller scale.