Do you keep any of the hardy species in an unheated greenhouse during the Croatian winters?

Only cacti? The most impressive smell for me would be the flowers of Eriospermum paradoxum. I can smell the sweet scent from the other side of my (big) greenhouse. I like Mammillaria bertholdii's spicy, sweet scent. The flowers smell like cloves and cinnamon. You must be one of the first to know tha...

ADBLPS from France has also updated its seed list: www.adblps-graines-cactus.com/commander_EN.html

It depends a bit on the species. But if the seeds are not very big, you can easily fit up to 100 seeds in one little pot of just 5 centimeters. I have sowed amounts of 100 seeds in one pot multiple times through the years. The only disadvantage is in about a year or so you will need to repot them al...

Interesting to see the petals being removed. That surely should help a bit. I always have some floppy petals being in the way of me trying to pollinate. Especially annoying if the petals are wet...

Gymnos.de from Germany has been updated. See www.richtstatt.de/gymnos_v3/cat.php?l=en if you are into Gymnocalyciums and Fraileas.

Also Succseed from Sweden has had an update: www.succseed.com/en/

And two more!

KK Plzen (https://kwww.kkplzen.eu) and Jan Novak (https://kaktusy.webzdarma.cz/en/offer-order/) have had an update.

Also the one from Cactus Hobby Brno has been updated: https://www.cactus-hobby.eu/en/cactus-hobby-en/

Also František Šibal from the Czech Republic has updated his seed lists. The list can be inquired via email. Send me a message if you want me to send you his email address (I don't want to publish it online). The list mostly contains South American cacti. Same goes for the list of Ladislav Fischer,...

It's things like all Ariocarpus, all Discocactus, all Turbinicarpus, practically all Pediocactus and Sclerocactus, plus some other odds and ends. But then again, besides maybe the Discocactus, you can order the others easily at Mesa Garden. For some of those, like the Pediocactus and Sclerocactus, ...

so I have them sent to a relative in Italy and he sends them to me. Nothing but another opportunity for the AUST. Gov to make money they had not thought of before. I have done the same for things coming from the UK a few times after Brexit. Those four occasions it went fine (seeds and even some pla...

Another from the Czech Republic, the one with the hardest to remember name, Kaktusy Cacti Growers Club Hradec Králové: www.kaktusyhk.cz/index.php/katalog-semen-2023 If you are after some odd things such as Mammillaria breviplumosa, M. bertholdii and the newly discovered Neowerdermannia lichyana, thi...

Also Jan Novak from the Czech Republic has updated his list: https://kaktusy.webzdarma.cz/en/offer-order/
Great list if you are into hardy succulents, especially when you are after Sclerocactus.

What could help is the smell of cats. I know you have cats walking around. But they probably don't come everywhere. What could help is to lay down cat hairs where you suspect mice are. The smell will chase them away.

Put them in a match box (tape it so it does not slide open), and put this in a normal bubble wrapped or even non bubble wrapped envelope. That is how I did that. Match boxes are quite sturdy and not very heavy.