Archive for the 'First Steps' Category

Arranging greenhouse at home: cactuses and succulents

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Every year different types of cactus plants and succulents become more and more popular as house-plants. And it can be easily understood: the variety of extraordinary forms of these plants, their slow growth, their unpretentiousness and relative resistance to insects and disease have contributed to their popularity in flats and houses.
Well, I’ve already pointed it [...]

Why collecting cacti is so amazing

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Why is collecting cacti so popular? I think that the answer to this question lies in versatility of cactus collecting.
I believe that almost every man has something of a collector inside. It is always interesting to collect things. If it is not done mechanically it can be very useful: how many new things people [...]

How I began to collect cacti

Thursday, March 1st, 2007

As it always happens in life, just when you cease to believe in luck it comes to you out of the blue. It came to me from my best friend, a charming and incredibly fussy woman, always having something new and interesting in reserve. During one of our meetings she spoke about the guitar she [...]