For anyone in or around Chorley, Lancashire, or anyone wanting a trip out, i can HIGHLY recommend Croston Cactus, which is a family run business from their lovely home with a couple of fantastic greenhouses, crammed full of cacti and succulents, things like ariocarpus, loads of other cact, also echeverias, aeoniums, haworthias, aloes, gasteria's, agaves's and a load of other stuff i forgot.........

There really are some beautiful specimens, and a lovely couple that run the show........

will put pics when i get them done of what i bought this afternoon, which i am chuffed with, but thought i ould just mention the sellar in case people dont know about them

regards
phil

have you left some for us locals then??

worth a long slow meandering visit then?

hell yeah - there's plenty to go at

tonnes of cacti, and quite a lot of haworthia's, aloes etc, not as many echeveria's/aeoniums, but still a decent selection to go at, some agaves, including some cracking specimens that John has had for 30+ years, and then there are other plants i aint got a clue what they were, aswell as others

well worth a trip - i shall be beck in the near future

I haven't been to Croston yet but met John at the North West Cactus mart in May and came away with a high elevation Echinocereus Triglochidiatus propogated from material he collected himself 5 years ago among other things. I must go and visit his nursery sometime.

Joel

do it matey - you wont be disapointed

i know he has been many places around the worldn checking stuff out - lucky bugger

My purchase from Croston Cactus:

Echeveria Hybrids - Bittersweet / mauna Loa / harietta / cameo / Red trump / mahogany rose / arlie wright / carnival / moon godess


Haworthia's Limifolia / attenuata variegate, Aloes's Bedfords Beau / Snowflake

Nice plants

Nice selection Phil

Whilst I was out on Thursday, came across an Echeveria 'mauna loa', it was described as crinkle-edged, 30cm, with warty growths occurring on top of mature leaves. 'A crassulaceae to caress'. A quirky plant which I quickly put into my basket. No warty growths yet though.

Di