"Pete Stockdale" wrote in message
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"Spider" wrote in message
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"K" wrote in message
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Spider writes
Thanks, John. I'll take your advice (and add it to Kay's!) and buy a
globular flowering cacti next time. My non-flowering cacti was kept in
the downstairs hallway which, although heated, was not nearly as warm as
a living room. I now have a (cold-in-winter/hot-in-summer) garden room,
so perhaps I'll over-winter my new cacti there - with a frost-stat of
course!

Important thing is to keep it bone dry over winter if you're keeping it
in the garden room. In Yorkshire, I stop watering mine at the start of
September and don't start again until May.

There isn't really enough light in winter, so it'll be happier in a
dormant state in a cold (but not below freezing) garden room than in a
warm centrally heated house where it'll be trying to grow.
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Kay

Thanks, Kay, that really helps. Now all I need is the plant. Mmm..I
feel a GC visit coming on.


I could do you an old echinops at a very reasonable price.
Are you anywhere near ?
BTW they are about to flower again !

Regards
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

That's such a kind thought, thanks Peter, but I'm bloomin' miles away in SE
London. Don't worry, a friend owes me a trip to the GC, so I'll have a
browse there.

I do appreciate the offer, though.
All the best,
Spider