It's my dream one day to have a large greenhouse with a drop door, being tall it's a daily struggle dealing with a low eaves... I have my greenhouse set to 5°c this year and all seems to be going well so far.

Hello to you all. I don't know if anyone can help.I would like to know if there is much difference between Epiphyllum/Disocactus ackermanii and Epiphyllum Red Sails.I think I have both but don't know which one is which .The stems are badly damaged as I left them outside too late in the year. Are th...

Saxicola I can only imagine that DaveW means European Nurseries that will export out of Europe to the rest of the world? as the two nurseries he has linked too are German and he is based in the UK (Within the EU) and it's well known that you can send plants anywhere pretty much within the European U...

I live in New York and Lowes sells grafted cacti, the round ones in neon colors. The company that ships them to lowes gets them from somewhere but they won't say where? So where are these grown? Are they from Japan? I wanted to contact the company to get seed from the cacti. As far as I'm aware the...

[quote="csszal"]Thank you so much! I'm in love with it. Does it make a good house plant?[/quote

I don't know but it's usually grown as a rockery plant.

I don't think they get much time online anymore you could try contacting them through one of their eBay accoutns I know one is thousandsofblooms? hje also has another website used specifically for the nursery rather than online sales you could try and contact them through http://www.epicacti.com/&qu...

Okay well you say it get's "great light" but your plant suggests otherwise... you see all that spindly prickly growth? that is the plants way of telling you it's not happy about the amount of light it's getting, epicactus produce that sort of juvenile growth in poor light conditions it's u...

I grow the vast majority of my plants in plastic and the ones I have in small clay pots are always damp and never dry I suppose as you say glazed pots would be similar to plastic and stay damper. I'm wondering why those in the clay pots don't dry out. Are you using the same soil mix in both clay an...

I'll post pictures of my rehabilitated Schlumbergera x buckleyi I got lumbered with at the local cactus branch meeting last year ;) I don't have any before photos but it came to me in a very shallow terracotta pan and also dropped quite few branches around December last year it flowered in February....

I grow the vast majority of my plants in plastic and the ones I have in small clay pots are always damp and never dry I suppose as you say glazed pots would be similar to plastic and stay damper.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, tumamoc !! That is the most incredible success story for plants I've ever seen. The photos are wonderful and dramatically show the changes at each step. I think I shall follow these recommendations even though I may lose even more branches in the process. It's interesting that...

Looks like a cristate Eurphobia I'm sure someone will be along to give you a full name in a bit

Did it go well propagate your opuntioides? This one I accidentally broke off while rearranging in the shelf :? But it had grown big and nice so was able to root some of the pads. Also did 10+ grafts this season for being on the safe side :-k :D Well it's such a nice plant I can't bring myself to re...

Mosquito larvae come to the surface to breathe, BT infects them when they eat it - the bacteria from the dunks spreads across the surface. then sinks, so it's all through the water. I would think a quarter of one dunk would be more than enough. I another idea for using them when I searched the Web ...

Does anyone use Mosquito Dunks for Fungus Gnats? I have been using a product here in the UK which contains Bacillus thunbergii var. israelensis but it works quite expensive for only 4-5 treatments of my collection :? I've since purchased 20 Summit Mosquito Dunks from Amazon.com as they aren't availa...