"Kate Morgan" wrote I know very little about
cactus but I do think that there is a fair bit
of luck involved in gardening, my sort anyway :-)
A few months ago I was potting up some bay seedling`s, I decided to
discard one as it was tiny withered and looked like it was an ex-bay, I
dropped into the bucket where I put floor sweeping and yesterday I
noticed that it was not only growing but bigger than the ones that I had
taken more care with.
So Lilly with the luck of the Irish you and your cactus will be fine
kate

Lovely story Kate :~))

We had an acorn dropped by a bird into a pot on out roof garden here in the
middle of the city...it grew until I could no longer give it
space.........so took it down to a friends place in France, where it was
planted out in their huge garden.

1st year it got stripped by deer
2nd year it got caught by the grass strimmer
into it's 3rd year now and growing like crazy :~))

Jenny