Hi everyone,
I was recently having a conversation with someone about what cacti we
collect and why.

I would love to see pictures of everyone’s collection - not to size
up and compare but just to see how you do it. Please include your
interests and pictures.

I'm pretty anal with my collecting. With the small number of plants I
have I like each genus together and species lined up. With the
plants lined up in square pots (where possible) biggest at the back
seedlings at the front - sickies off to the side... etc I know
people who have the whole lot in one big pile. That’s just how they like
it!

Would love to see how you do it.


I will get pics of
mine when I get a chance. J





Cheers





Jim

u first WT

this would be an interesting excercise.
I have only been collecting for about 18months and have many different species of plants. with getting such a lot at one time and not knowing anything much at all to start with its been a learning curve to seay the least. now I have found out which ones like more shade and which ones are too spiney to have at the front of the benches. now I have my cactus in the middle row with the tallest in the middle .the very tall cactus are at the end of the side row of benches where I can be sure that they won't topple over.As it becomes more risky for frost damage some of the cactus outside are coming in and I've put up frost protection fabric to minimise the damage I see today that it also catches the condensation from the polyhouse covering too. hope to have a designated space for seed propagation .still on hubby's drawing board to date.I'll post up some pics of the poly house and benches soon.

Cool thread, mine are all over the place.
Down the drive way, in the carport which has no room for a car, in the home made hothouse, on the heat mat and where ever there is room

what sort of heat mat do you use betty? i have a thermostat one, pretty expensive to buy, looking at buying more but dont want to fork out the cash for another thermostat one. be interested to know what you use and if you have any tips?
oops. just saw a picture of your set up in the open your eyes section very nice

All my Arios and Astros live in the same area in my greenhouse, can only offer a few pics at the moment, most you guys have probably seen, will look at taking some more photos soon.

Turbinicarpus schwarzii

Astrophytum asterias fma. nudum

Ariocarpus retusus

A. fissuratus var. lloydii

A. agavoides

A. fissuratus

A. retusus var. furfuraceus


That's some of them, more to come if people are interested, and some group shots too.

i move mine every other day in the rainy season i am making my deck into a convertible greenhouse thing to prevent it and i can stop moving pots.

you can see some of my pics here: http://s159.photobucket.com/albums/t153/plantsss/
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v478/kada/
http://kadasgarden.com/photogallery.html

nice Ario's trig! cant wait till I can find some fine specimens for my self!

Here's a couple of group shots of some of my plants I took the other day. I tend to group mine too in species where possible, biggest at the back, smallest at the front, sickies on the top shelf where I don't have to look at them . I also have biggies in pots all around the yard.

Hey Stutters nice lots of Gasteria/aloes and haworthias you have there. A few euphorbias too I see

What's the twisting barrel in the photo of your Pajero

The twisting barrel cactus in front of my lovely looking Pajero is an unkown Trichocereus, see pictured below, the tall one in the middle. I received a cutting from a friend who lives near Geelong, I think you know him.

Nice one

You could say that I know him

Here's a few of my cactus as you can see they go where ever there is room