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The unusual long lasting hot and dry weather is a real nightmare for our regional farmers,fruit and vegetable growers;they look forward to an extremely poor harvest.Steppe plants and Cactii love these conditions and express this by opulent flowering:
I have never had much success with flowering cacti but these are inspiration to keep trying!
Hello,here are my hardy cacti, grown in an unheated greenhousegroupEc dasyacanthus red formPterocactusEc fendleriand Delosperma deilanthoides (thanks Ian!)
Graptopetalum paraguayense growing above a doorway at Vela Luka, island of Korcula, Croatia. Often seen growing as a pot or balcony specimen across the Med. Easy to grow in fact thrives on being left alone.
For those interested in succulents the latest issue of the Sedum Society Newsletter [http://www.cactus-mall.com/sedum or http://cactus-mall.com/sedum/habitat/html ] contains an illustrated article, amongst many, on:Crassulaceae in the Cevannes mountains (by Eric Barbier)The article also contains some useful web references:http://sempervivophilia.stalikez.info/http://sempervivum.legtux.org/http://atlas.parcsnationaux.org/cevennes/ [/url]