While preparing a post on the cold-hardy cacti I'm growing in flower boxes on my balcony I stumbled upon this high-speed video I shot last summer. The video shows a hoverfly visiting a flowe… Read More

Escobaria vivipara with a light snow coverI’m fascinated by the ability of certain cacti species to survive even quite extreme freezing conditions. A fascination that is probably roote… Read More

40 peyote cacti growing in a window flower boxFor the last many years I've experimented with growing peyote, Ariocarpus, Leuchtenbergia, and the likes in an unheated coldhouse in Denmark. Th… Read More