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The Online Magazine for Cactus and Succulent Enthusiasts Issue 20 March 2019 2 Contents The online magazine for cactus and succulent enthusiasts Issue 20 March 2019 2 Contents Page 2 Page 9 Editor’s Notes Growing Succulent Snippets aztekiums Go to page from seed March’s front cover features Yucca gloriosa recurvifolia by David growing in Melissa and Keith Page 4 Quail Scott’s exotic garden. See the link Conservation – Go to article below to read the article. what does it mean? Page 28 Page 15 by Roger Massonia Ferryman Ceropegia by Brian A personal view by Paul Shirley McDonough of the impact Some of these of man’s A fascinating attractive plants ativities in genus of from the author’s Chile winter- own collection growing Go to article Go to article plants Go to article Page 8 Page 22 Othonna cremnophila The beauty of hybrids Page 34 A note about an – revisited interesting plant Building a garden spotted on the by Peter by Melissa and Keith Scott Rosyntjieberg Cupial-Jones How Melissa and Keith created an More amazing exotic garden in Norfolk, with many Go to article hybrids beautiful pictures. Go to article Go to article Back issues All back issues are available for The Essex Succulent Review is a free quarterlly magazine published in download from the website. pdf format in March, June, September and December. Contact Editor Sheila Cude 25 Macleod Road Join our free mailing list to receive London N21 1SW an email notification of each issue. Phone 020 8340 1928 To subscribe Please visit our Email Sheila Cude website © Copywrite authors and photographers. The Essex Succulent Review may be freely distributed but permission is required for other than personal use. www.essexsucculentreview.org.uk 3 A new look for the new year Welcome to the March issue of the fill it. So, if you have an idea for an interesting or unusual plant, or one Essex Succulent Review. You will article, I would always be pleased that has done well, or any other already have noticed, I’m sure, that to hear from you. snippet of information you feel there are a few changes, and I would be of interest. Items need hope you will like the new look. Not everyone wants, or has the only be around 100 words long First of all page 2 is now a list of time, to write a full-length article of with a photo if possible please. I’m contents with links to each article. course. So with this in mind I’m sure you don’t want to read a page Just click on the relevant link to go introducing ‘Succulent Snippets’, of waffle from me in each issue, so straight to whatever you would like see below. Perhaps you have an do send me something. to read. Hopefully this feature will be useful as the ESR has grown Quicklinks considerably over the years. The This is a new feature on the Essex By clicking on the Quicklinks link at first issue, in June 2014, had 12 Succulent Review website. Over the top of any page of the website pages while this one has over 40 the years the ESR has included a you will be given a list of options. pages. I am still including details of number of series of related articles, Choose one of these, and you will some UK events, mainly in the some of which are still on-going. be taken to a page from which you south-east, but these now appear The longest of these was the series can download all the issues at the back of the issue. on ‘Gardening with Succulents’ containing an article in that Of course with all this extra space, written in six parts by Paul particular series. More items will be I need more and more material to Spracklin during 2015 and 2016. added in future months. ‘How to grow Lithops, and other living stone plants’ is the title of a book, published last Mammillaria year by Piotr Dzieduszyński. The book is written in Polish and boolii English and includes: I bought this plant in May 2017, another seven flowers, mainly one l Characteristics of living stones with several buds, one of which at a time, although these three did l Principles of growing mesembs eventually opened in August 2017. open together in July. l Overview of selected genera of mesembs. The others continued to sit there So treat your M. boolii generously, The author has over 30 years until I noticed a post on the BCSS it seems to work well. Editor experience in growing these plants Forum from someone who seemed and has one of the largest to have the same problem. collections of mesembs in Poland. The answer that was suggested More details can be found on the was to water and feed generously. author’s website, including a full I am usually fairly sparing with the table of contents and some water to the mammillarias, however excerpts from the book. These I decided to give this a try. include some illustrations, which This was in June 2018. Within a are certainly excellent. week or so one of the buds began It is possible to order the book to develop, which was followed by from lithops-book.com 4 Conservation – What does it mean? by Roger Ferryman A personal view of the impact of man’s activities on cactus habitats in Chile together with a conclusion which gives us all food for thought On this page, or almost 40 years now I have made my period when I decided to investigate the vineyards in the Elqui Fannual pilgrimage to Chile to see the flora of those diverse countries (yes Texas Valley, Chile incredible cacti of that country. Interrupted thinks it’s a country!) only by living in South Africa for three years Much has changed during that time, in the followed by living in Texas for a similar early 1980s there was no internet, no mobile phone, no holes in the wall providing ready cash and no direct flights. Communication was by letter, which took six weeks to get a reply. You could book a call from your landline or offices in Chile, but the wait to be connected took hours. There was of course Telex (remember that) Of course there were many changes as Chile grew richer through its natural resources. Today there are tarmac roads where once only tracks in the sand existed and the Conservation – What does it mean? continued 5 whole country has opened up still, the government plans to turn the small Holiday homes tremendously. Wealth has brought R1 coast road into a major highway and overlook the sea ownership of holiday homes along the has accomplished much of that manifesto. where cacti were coast and some of the valleys that run from Plans are now afoot to take this road once found in large numbers the coast to the Andes. through the National Park of Pan de Azucar and on to Taltal. The National Park is home All of which has had a tremendous impact to numerous species of cactus. Doubtless on the cactus habitats. Holiday homes there will be plans to replant the disturbed overlook the sea where cacti were once Copiapoa but we have seen how futile that found in large numbers. Plants hang on in was with the construction of the R1 from obscure cuttings, but the impact has been The devastation Huasco north and from Taltal to Paposo. All incredible. Chile is caused by road small plants, be they Copiapoa or not standing building. Carrizal, Eriosyce, will simply disappear. Chile. Conservation – What does it mean? continued 6 Some ten years ago my wife and I decided None of this should surprise us for we see Embalse Puclaro: a to make a trip dedicated to reviewing a it in our back yard. I live in an area of lake created by a number of sites I had visited back in the ‘Outstanding Natural Beauty’) but the dam on the Elqui early 1980s. All locations logged and greenbelt is disappearing as more and River, 40km east of La Serena, to improve recorded with my RMF numbers. The result more houses are built. No doubt you can irrigation of farmland was not unexpected but very sad. Of 35 echo the same in the Elqui Valley sites we visited only five remained. Of the In recent years my wife and I have other sites, 20 were classed as ‘housing’ undertaken population studies in many and 10 as agricultural. areas of Chile. Measuring out plots of That is not to say the plants are now 100x100m we count the plants extinct but these populations are greatly in 10m sections. An example is at Fray reduced. Eriosyce chilensis (RMF91) was Jorge where Eriosyce aurata grows. The once common at Los Molles and study found 12 large mature flowering Pichidangui. Today much of its habitat has plants (over 20cm high), no smaller plants been replaced with holiday homes with and no seedlings. A mature Eriosyce aurata only a few plants hanging on in areas of no will produce around 20,000 seeds annually, use to man. so why no seedlings? Grazing is the answer, goats, donkeys and the like. The Elqui valley, was once a haven for hippies and a good mix of plants, Eriosyce Similar results have been measured in and Copiapoa, but is now full with cabins many places and the overall fact is there for rent (cabanas). The goat herders are are very few habitats regenerating. The now pushed to higher grounds which in culprits are generally animals that find a turn impacts the wildlife we knew and tender young plant a good meal in this dry loved.
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