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My wife bought a dwarf rosebush in a pot last Valentines day, a lovely gesture but not entirely practical, since we live in a apartment with no...
Wales is not generally the sort of place people associate with cacti, being definitely cold and damp. Until now, I've kept my substantial cactus...
I'm trying to think back to my high school science classes (which was a distressingly long time ago). If I remember rightly, detergents and...
My Christmas cactus has sat on my kitchen window ledge, directly above the sink, for three years, where it has prospered wonderfully. It clearly...
My peanut cactus (chamaecereus silvestrii) is smaller than it used to be. Not a little bit smaller -- more like half the size! There doesn't...
My little saguaro babies that I have nourished from seed during the last eighteen months are getting quite fat and green. I've been growing four...
I have a potted dwarf rosebush that I trimmed heavily last October. It seems to have appreciated it, becuse it's growing back strongly, and...
My wife was given a kalanchoe a couple of weeks ago, which seemed in good health although it was in a rubbish pot. A couple of the leaves fell...
My blackhead cactus (Aeonium Atropurbureum 'Swartkop') loves me. When I bought it from an amateur dealer, it was a skinny, forlorn thing, and...
Anybody else's Christmas cactus producing another crop of buds ready for another blooming? I've heard they can do this, but mine didn't do...
Plants die of old age, same as any other living organism. When you take a cutting, and it grows into a new plant, what age is the new plant? For...
I've often seen it written that Christmas Cactuses (Shlumbergera) are not "true" cacti. But I understand that they are genetically of the cactus...
Can any of you Canadians explain why Prickly Pears are known in French as "Figues Barbary" -- Barbary figs? They're no relation to figs! Of...
I have a lush and beautiful Calathea in my bathroom, which has fabulous velvety leaves. The trouble is that, like velvet, they trap dust. And...
I noticed while watering my cacti a few days ago that one effect of all those spines is to trap and hold water droplets. I can understand the...
Well, I'm from Croydon, a southern suburb of London, originally. But that's not something to boast about, since throughout Great Britain, Croydon...
A friend recently gave me three cacti that I know are quite common. I've seen similar varieties quite frequently, but can anyone tell me the...