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Contents 2016 issues
December
Highlights of Baja California
Hotels, good food and interesting plants in San Quintin, The Cataviña Boulderfields, La Ventana and Isla Cerralvo.
Cacti Cards
A collection of full-colour illustrated cards issued by Lamberts of Norwich in their packets of tea.
The flowering of Aloe erinacea
How the flower of this Aloe develops.
Winter wonders - three small mammillarias
Some Mammillaria gems which flower during the winter months.
Keeping a record
Good advice on how and why to organise your records.
Gardening with succulents – Smaller cacti
Part 6 of Paul Spracklin's series of articles on growing outdoors, dealing with smaller cacti.
September
Like it or lump it - Madagascan caudiciforms
Plant hunting in Madagascar and some of the amazing caudiciforms which grow there.
E A Bowles - horticulturist and cactus grower
Well-known to gardeners as a horticulturalist, writer and artist E A Bowles also grew cacti and succulents at Myddelton House in North London.
The day of the Triffid
A puzzled James Gold tries to make sense of his 'Triffid' – otherwise known as Euphorbia venenifica and finds that there is no consensus even among the experts.
Gardening with succulents – More smaller succulents
Part 5 of Paul Spracklin's series or articles on growing outdoors deals with Mesembs and some other smaller succulent plants.
A symphony of synonyms
An aficionado's 'simplistic' overview of Eriosyce – a hugely attractive free-flowering South American genus.
Rimacactus laui - a genuine oddity
Strangely producing a cloak of white 'wool', the genus has a reputation for being difficult to cultivate.
June
The beauty of hybrids
Some of the amazing hybrids of Echinopsis, Trichocereus, Chamaelobivia and Hildewintera.
Umdaus
A region in the Eastern Richtersveld of South Africa which is particularly rich in succulents.
Did dinosaurs eat cacti?
When did the very first cacti start to evolve?
Cactus Crawl 2016
Another amusing account of the annual Cactus Crawl.
Cacti which grow on rocks
A number of mammillarias have the ability to
colonise rocks. Taken from 
Oblog
Gardening with succulents – More smaller succulents
Part 4 of Paul Spracklin's series looking at a wide variety of smaller succulents.
March
Gardening with succulents – Creating a tapestry
Part 3 of Paul Spracklin's articles on exotic gardening looking at more larger succulents which can be grown outdoors.
The genus Calymmanthium
Calymmanthium can be described as 'primitive tree-like cacti' with a unique flower.
Hairy Old Cow's Tongue cactus
An extremely hairy Opuntia with an uncertain origin.
The cultivation and propagation of gasterias
Advice on growing Gasterias – a forgiving and relatively easy plant to grow and only slightly more difficult to grow well.
The first cacti in Europe
Some of the earliest references to and illustrations of cacti in 16th century Europe.
Ficus palmeri var. palmeri
Different ways to cultivate this interesting plant.
My Chilean diary 2015
Part 2 of the author's diary of a trip to Chile.
