Description
SEPTEMBER 2009 CONTENTS:
- Searching for pyrrhocacti by Roger Ferryman
- Gymnocalycium – an alphabetical review: part 4, E-G by John Pilbeam
- Notes on general cultivation: part 3 – feeding and compost strength by Ray Allcock
- Booklore – and a succulent plant library for all? by Gordon Rowley
- Sclerocactus polyancistrus (Engelm. & J.M.Bigelow) Britton & Rose: the big-flowered giant of the genus from the Barren Lands by Zlatko Janeba
- A new small Aloe (Asphodelaceae) from the north-eastern coast of Madagascar by Jean-Philippe Castillon
- Forum
- Literature review
- Cactus Talk
Front cover:Â This migratory painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui, has been attracted to Stephen Scarr’s Exeter garden on 25 May 2009 by a Mammillaria zeilmanniana originally planted in July 2004.