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    Hywel
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We have 119 photos of desert plants

These photos are from real gardens by real gardeners! Just click on one to start exploring in slideshow format, or you can browse 16 at a time.

  • ERYNGIUM [ Sea Holly ]
    Terratoonie
  • Young eyes amazed by the Cacti ...
    Terratoonie
  • Cleistocactus strausii
    Hywel
  • Frog's all grumpy :D
    Paulspond
  • Astrophytum myriostigma
    Hywel
  • Cephalocereus senilis
    Hywel
  • Cleistocactus strausii
    Hywel
  • Astrophytum coahuilense
    Hywel

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Gardeners' thoughts

Wanting Cactii that flower in your greenhouse ? No problems when its very hot.

Now is the time to start. In California it rains every ten years. The Cactii in the desert flower. Small plants are now...

4 comments

goldenoldie91

22 Oct, 2019
Goldenoldie91

Half a Century of Friendship ! (Part Two)

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Part Two continued from previous blog ... a long story. A week before Christmas 1965, a man living up the road from us suddenly...

34 comments

hywel

15 Dec, 2015
Hywel

Resilient Cacti

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My cacti and succulents had to manage without any attention at all from August until the end of October, because of circumstances...

29 comments

hywel

30 Nov, 2015
Hywel

Succulent Christmas tree

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with howling wind and rain all day here in Pembrokeshire I spent the afternoon making a succulent Christmas decoration. The...

27 comments

sandra

17 Nov, 2015
Sandra

addiction gone mad!!

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So it happened again....i have been actively re-homing my collection of cactus when I get another of those phone calls.... Hello...

22 comments

sandra

14 Nov, 2015
Sandra

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Questions & advice on desert plants

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I have a cacti that I am curious to know the name of

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green_finger

18 Dec, 2015
Green_finger

Growing from seed in a hot dry climate

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janesharm

12 Jan, 2014
Janesharm

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Happy 2014 everybody - ID please - if poss!

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alzheimer

4 Jan, 2014
Alzheimer

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CACTUS REPOTTING My cactus

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johnp58

11 Dec, 2013
Johnp58

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hi all, this message is for hywel but if any of you know id be gratefull

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andrea_g6

10 Oct, 2013
Andrea_g6

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