"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[ruweiss]

Cohan, I cultivate this A. capricorne since more than 20 years. My conditions for cultivating
cactii are not the best: A sunny windowsill in the winter and Alpine House in the summer, but
some plants don't mind and give their best.

[ashley]

Aloe hybrid 'Donnie' looks plump after its holidays outside in the Irish summer




Echeveria setosa with Gasteria batesiana.  This planting has survived outdoors on a south-facing windowsill for several years now.


Gasteria batesiana flowers here mainly in July but never sets seed, maybe because we lack sunbirds

[cohan]

Cohan, I cultivate this A. capricorne since more than 20 years. My conditions for cultivating
cactii are not the best: A sunny windowsill in the winter and Alpine House in the summer, but
some plants don't mind and give their best.

mine have to settle for the windowsill all year!

[cohan]

Aloe hybrid 'Donnie' looks plump after its holidays outside in the Irish summer


Echeveria setosa with Gasteria batesiana.  This planting has survived outdoors on a south-facing windowsill for several years now.

Gasteria batesiana flowers here mainly in July but never sets seed, maybe because we lack sunbirds

I like the hairy Echeveria and chunky Gasteria. I have a number of small Aloe hybrids, I think they'd all like a  cushier life than I give them, but they flower off and on throughout the year (probably following the not exactly regular waterings...lol).

[Véronique Macrelle]

Gasteria in general are not self-fertile
 Haworthia either

[ashley]

True, and these plants are clonal.  Another reason to grow from seed

[johnw]

Ashley - Have you experienced shattering on the E. setosa?  All the leaves suddenly fall off.  Not sure if it's caused by an underlying problem or a means of moving location.

john

[ashley]

It's a bit fragile at the best of times John, but usually fine under glass.  As you say, dropped leaves soon colonize neighbouring pots.
The plants above spent the last few winters outdoors (tolerating brief excursions to -5°C or so) & rosettes tend to lose their roots due to excessive damp, but quickly root again in spring.

[cohan]

1,2 A couple of recent shots-- as usual, I wait too long to tidy up Drimiopsis maculata, then leaves are emerging and I have to be careful!





3 Probably show this too often, it flowers basically whenever watered (not that often..)



4 Haworthia truncata cv Lime Green (presumed to actually be a hybrid) coming on strong after some dieback a couple of years ago (probably neglect due to focussing on outdoor gardens!)

[Bart]

Aloe hybrid 'Donnie' looks plump after its holidays outside in the Irish summer
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Does anyone know a source of these aloe hybrids in the uk? I am growing one hybrid, probably 'Donnie', but I bought it years ago from an Italian ebayer and I lost the name. When I was looking to trace back its origins I stumbled upon the miniature hybrids like this, and some of them are STUNNING! There is a US website  (exoticaesoterica.com with good pics of all the cultivars- but i don't know anything about them-) but in our now horticulturally isolated UK, no obvious sources.
Does anyone grow them and wants to swap or know a nursery who specialises in them could you please let me know? Thank you!

[fermi de Sousa]

Huernia zebrina v. zebrina - a recent purchase (the bud was already evident) from The Garden Tap Nursery in Kyneton, our closest "main" town
cheers
fermi

[Ola]

Slowly my spiny friends are showing signs of waking up after a long winter and cold spring. Most plants in the photo belong to the genus Turbinicarpus but there are a few intruders...

[Ola]

Three cacti on a Friday  :)

Mammillaria candida


Mammillaria duwei


Rebutia heliosa

[ashley]

Very nice Ola. 
Here too the cool spring delayed flowering.  Beginning only toward the end of May my first are:

Mammillaria glassii
Rebutia minutissima (syn. Aylostera deminuta)
R. pygmaea 'crassa' (syn. A. haagei)

[Ola]

Your M. glassii is a real beauty Ashley.
 

Mammillaria hahniana, the old lady cactus...


Parodia werneri (Notocactus ubelmannianus)


Gymnocalycium monvillei ssp horridispinum, horrible name but lovely flowers