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... spring and summer . This is not a fussy plant , so grow it in any good potting mixture . Water freely in spring and summer . One of the hardiest cacti , it will survive in a cold frame if quite dry . Take care Keep cold in winter to ...
... spring and summer . This is not a fussy plant , so grow it in any good potting mixture . Water freely in spring and summer . One of the hardiest cacti , it will survive in a cold frame if quite dry . Take care Keep cold in winter to ...
Page 417
... spring and summer . The colour is unusual for a gymnocalycium , which mostly have white or greenish - white flowers . Offsets soon appear on the main plant ; they can be removed for propagation , or left on to produce eventually a ...
... spring and summer . The colour is unusual for a gymnocalycium , which mostly have white or greenish - white flowers . Offsets soon appear on the main plant ; they can be removed for propagation , or left on to produce eventually a ...
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... spring and summer , about 3cm ( 1.2in ) across . If you keep this plant indoors , be sure to put it in the coldest room in winter ( but with good light ) in order to encourage flowering the following year . In a greenhouse there should ...
... spring and summer , about 3cm ( 1.2in ) across . If you keep this plant indoors , be sure to put it in the coldest room in winter ( but with good light ) in order to encourage flowering the following year . In a greenhouse there should ...
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5cm 2in attractive autumn beautiful bracts bromeliad buds bulbs cacti cactus clump Columnea cool Cryptanthus cuttings Dieffenbachia dry in winter dry side Echeveria encourage bloom Euphorbia flowers appear foliage plants freely in spring Full sun glochids green leaves greenhouse growing grown growth Gymnocalycium hanging basket high-potassium fertilizer houseplant humid hybrids ideal indoor plants Keep dry Keep moist Keep slightly moist leaf Light shade light Temp Lithops loam loam-based mixture loam-based potting mixture Mammillaria mealy bug moist and fed offsets Opuntia orchid overwater peat peat-based peaty mixture pests pink pot plants potting mixture produced propagation pseudobulbs Rebutia removed Repot annually ribs rosette sand or perlite seed shade Temp sharp sand small pots soil species specimens spines spring and summer stems succulent succulent plant summer months sunny Take care Avoid Temp temperature variegated Vriesea warm Water freely windowsill winter rest yellow flowers young plants