I have been scouring my local nurseries for an Ariocarpus fissuratus and a Mammillaria Hahniana to no avail for the past few months. I threw the towel in and decided to go ahead and place another internet order. After looking through the usual sites I've ordered from, I thought I'd try a different vendor. I'm happy with the selection, speed of delivery and quality of specimen from www.cactuslands.com
I ended up ordering a Ariocarpus fissuratus, a Mammillaria Hahniana, a Trichocereus huascha cristata and a Gymnocalycium friedrichii. I got the shipment this past Friday and the box was full of styrofoam peanuts and the plants were individually wrapped in newspaper. There was minimal shipping damage (the Gymnocalycium spines were knocked about). The best thing about these plants is their size and health!!!
I took them out of the box, cleaned them up and let them sit overnight and into the next day. It wasn't until yesterday afternoon (Saturday) when I went ahead and potted them (pictures to follow - but in the meantime, here is the Ariocarpus).
My daughter Noe got me interested in succulents in early 2016 and ever since we've been on a quest!!! Naturally with so many new plants around, we needed pots to put all of them into. The typical pots you can buy from the big box stores just don't have character that suits these incredibly interesting plants. So we've both been making our own pottery. And now we're branching out into other plants - Aeroids, Orchids and Citrus!!! Check out what our green thumbs have been doing!!!
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