Looking back.........but not too far

We're is a sort of limbo at this time of the year, in between the flowering periods for Chrysanthemums, the allotment looks more like a battle field than a productive haven & there isn't much to see. So I thought I'd share afew of the nicer photo's of this year with you.

As you may have guessed from previous posts I grow Veg, Chrysanths & Dahlia's but one of my other hobbies is the collecting of Cacti & Succulents. I've had some of these for years but this year I thought that I'd better take more care of them so having a root around I found the forum of the British Cacti & Succulent Society & what a mine of information they are. With there help & enthusiam the poor survivors (5 of them) were quickly re-potted & nurtured and then the bad bit, I bought a couple more and this then carried on & the 5 is now around 250 plus I have loads of seedlings to try and home next year !! Anyway, enough of my ramblings here are the photo's



First up are Echinopsis both Hybrids and species,

The Final a series of photographs of a flower of
Trichocereus Rubringhianus that opened over a spell of 3 or 4 hours one night.

The size of these flowers vary from 2" to 10" across