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Cactus Basics

A Comprehensive Guide To Cultivation And Care

Overview

Anyone can grow extraordinary and exotic cacti and succulents with confidence, using this fully-illustrated, inspiring and practical new guide. In its 80-page A to Z directory, gardeners encounter every strange and beautiful species and variety: sea-urchin-like astrophytum; woollily bearded espostoas; fiercely golden-spined ferocactus; bizarre-shaped tree-like cactus; hallucinogenic peyote; 40-feet high pachycereus, hanging donkey’s tails; statuesque aloes, and ground-hugging, jewel-like flowering conophytums. Displacing the myths and legends, such as these plants don’t need water or light, it offers comprehensive easy-to-follow instructions on building a collection; pests and diseases, seed raising; repotting; greenhouse cultivation; equipment; and more.

ISBN 9780600614685
Category Ecology and landscape
Call number 63593356 CAM
Physical description 128 pages:color illustrations;21 cm.
Edition year 2006
Bibliographical references? No
Publisher name Pyramid
Publication year 2006
Place of publication London
Language English
Is series? No