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Harry, looks absolutely wonderful!!!!! And so neatly arranged....

Howard

what a task, and so well done. are the plants in the green stack trays dormant or not spread out yet?

Thanks.
I hope they are dormant. Last watering was somewhere in the beginning of october. During wintertime I sometimes spray some plants a bit.
H.

do you think they go dormant because. . . .a. they need a dormant period. . . . . .b. letting them go dry induces dormancy. . . . . .c. lowered light levels? the internet is all over the place on dormancy-do you have a favored theory?

Can we get a pic of the massive, tall cactus in the back from your second pic?

Amazing collection.

Have you ever had to deal with mealies?

Such a wonderful collection. Very beautiful.
You are so organized!
Karen

WoW, what a collection! Have you ever counted them all?....I guess not with so many! I should rest your poorly back now for a while....I hope everything survives the winter for you :)

Gill UK

What will you do when they get BIG?

Omg,that's a lot of work.I think if I had to do all that,I'd give up gardening.You do have a good looking bunch though.

Some of us are more addicted than others. I guess this green house is hard to heat. We people in the warmer regions do respect this level of commitment. I carry my plants in and out on roiling tables during the really bad cold fronts and cover things. So I am in-between warm and cold.. I think I would change to shade tropicals if I had to resort to lights and stuff, or only have a few big ones. I think I am going in this direction already as my plants accrue mass I am giving away or through natural attrition due to bad care. .

Thanks all,
I will try to answer some questions.

Davids10: I'm just practical and learned some things over the years. If I water during wintertime they start growing and etoliate. I suppose it's a combination of less light and cold. So, the last -say 20 years- I stop early in the season with watering. This first picture are echeveria's elegans fully awake

and the second picture is a bowl with Echeveria elegans during dormancy

Name Taken: here's a picture of the cactus which I Always call "the pole" No idea of the name

Greenclaws: no I never did count. There are hardly cacti left - about 25 or so and some seedlings. (I cannot stop myself to sow) The rest are succulents and they may stay as long as they don't grow to big. The cacti and bigger ones I give away. I really like to make new cuttings and make a nice plant from that.

Name taken : yes, mealies...ofcourse, but most of the time I win the fight.

And again: thanks all.

greets Harry

Thanks for sharing, super impressive! A greenhouse is part of my long term house project list.

Such a massive project, Harry...that I know you do every year...with love. You have a wonderful collection! And yes, SO neat! I am envious and I don't even have to move my plants in and out! Loved seeing all your plants, Harry. Thanks for the show. :)

I'm not used to seeing most of those plants in pots, since everyone here grows them in the ground, but you do have a beautiful collection. Too bad you have a deadly winter there, as you say, but your persistence is very rewarding.

Many of my succulents bloom only in the winter, and I wonder if yours do the same when you bring them inside. The tall cactus you have is common here, but it blooms in the summer. I have one that is similar in my front yard, but I don't know the name of it.

If you visit Southern California, you should see the botanical gardens in San Diego and the Huntington gardens in L.A. I go there to identify some of my plants, although I have a few that I have not found there. I've been able to identify most of them from this book and one other that I have. Books on cacti are easy to find, but ones on succulents only are a bit more rare.

AHH,thes warm weather folk just love to rub it in , don't they. I am guilty of this defect of character and I am not even that warm. My aloes are in pots but the pots are outside. They move a lot.

Well done Harry, hope your back is getting better. Your rockery is still looking good, but do I see a few bowls out there?
I have put my Sempervivums and Echeverias in my cold frame, as it is too wet and windy here.
The plants you sent me are still doing well, despite the Orkney weather.

I thought I had a lot of plants to stuff in my sunroom, but you have me beat by a mile. Very lovely collection!

I have a huge back yard so In the summer I acquire more plants then I have to figure out what to do with them in the winter due to limited space. With your greenhouse it probably keeps you in check some what....or does it?

How the heck do you move those big guys? I had to surgically remove some stems from my bigger Trichos or they would have frozen outside because they were too big for me to move anymore. (and if they didn't finally bloom this year I might have been tempted to leave them out :-)

Very nice Harry, The Pole seems to be many years old it seems. I think those are golden barrels beside it, they seems to be 5+ years too it seems.

What a gorgeous collection!! Very well done!

Thanks again all.

Hé Allan; long time from there.
My rockery is still expanding a bit. I try to keep the plants from hybridising to much. So I still keep some 'motherplants' apart from the others and make cuttings from them. (not from seeds)

In the picture the motherplants: only a few are doubtful, most of them are what the lable says they are.

greets
Harry

One from this summer. Who knows what Trichocereus it might be?
H

This post was edited by hablu on Fri, Nov 28, 14 at 15:00

View on the rockery this summer
H.

Harry

Beautiful, thank you for posting more photos.
More compliments on your very well taken care of and organized collection.

Is your 'pole' in leca? It looks like there is some black material there too, what is it?

Rina