Have you just joined the cactus craze? Do you want to know how to make your little bundle of spikes thrive, flower and breed? This quirky pocket-sized book is your essential guide to pleasing your prickly pet.
Your cactus may be surviving, but is it happy? There's so much more to these little green plants than just keeping them alive. Happy Cactus gets right to the point with practical advice from potting to propagating. Unearth the secrets of different cacti and succulents, with profiles on more than 105 popular varieties - from the cute, flowering pincushion cactus to the wacky prickly pear, discover what makes your plant unique and how it might behave when treated with a little bit of love. Find out where to put it, when to water it, what to feed it, what to look out for and how to encourage its distinctive traits, from flower stalks to fast growth. Flick through inspirational features to help you create a show-stopping cactus display.
Whether you're a young urbanite seeking a stylish houseplant for your flat but struggling to keep more temperamental plants alive, or a green-fingered cactus enthusiast determined to get your precious plant to grow and flower this year, Happy Cactus is here to answer all your questions.

Happy Cactus: Choose It, Love It, Let It Thrive (Dk)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

John Pilbeam

Gardening & Landscape Design

How to Care For Your Windowbox & Balcony Plants.

METHUEN CO.

Cacti for the Connoisseur: A Guide for Growers and Collectors

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

This complete guide to growing healthy succulent plants details the ideal plant environment--temperature, humidity, and soil condition--for each plant and provides full coverage of common problems

The Instant Guide to Healthy Succulents (Originally Published as How to Care for Your Succulents)

Times Books/Random House

How to care for your cacti (How to Care for Your Houseplants)

Eurobook Ltd.

Very useful monograph on the genus Ferocactus. In typical Pilbeam style, each species is listed encyclopedia-like with photos, descriptions, range maps, cultivation info, etc.

Ferocactus

Derek Bowdery

British Cactus and Succulent Society

Quarto, , Pp.140, An Important Authoritative Book

Ariocarpus et cetera The special, smaller genera of Mexican cacti

The Genus Echeveria

BCSS

Beautiful photos of flowering echinos, excellent text

Echinocereus

Gallery of over 350 color photos, with basic information and comment for each species.

A Gallery of Agaves

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