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An Acid Trip for your Plants – Lee Brownson
Basic information about cacti and other succulents– Leo Martin
Drip Irrigation – Leo Martin
Enlarge your collection– Leo Martin
Fall Plant Care – Leo Martin
Fertilizing – Marina Welham
Cactus Surgery – Deborah Korobkin
Helpful Hints – Paul Schueneman
How to Treat a New Plant – Leo Martin
Growing Huernia and Stapeliads – Leo Martin
Growing Primer– Deborah Korobkin
No Greenhouse, No Lath House – Martha Passwater
Plants for Full Sun – Lee Brownson
Shade for Cactus – Tom Gatz
Soils and Pots – Leo Martin
Summer Watering – Tom Gatz
Transplanting Saguaros – Jim Elliott
Turn of the Seasons – Leo Martin
Waiting to Exhale – Tom Gatz
Watering and fertilizing Hints – Lee Tolleson
Watering Cactus -Lewis Steichman
Winter in the Valley of the Sun – Leo Martin
Winter-Growing Mesembs Through the Year – Leo Martin
Wintering Plants – Leo Martin
Winter Protection – Leo Martin
Adenium: On the Dry Side – Tim Chapman
Agave: Bud Marking and Cross Banding – Jim Elliott
Agave Kichi Jokan: An Unsolved Mystery – Tom Gatz
Agave Relatives – Tristan Davis
Agaves: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly – Tom Gatz
Aloe – Leo Martin
Aloes: Cold Tolerant – Arid Lands
Aloinopsis – Leo Martin
Ariocarpus – Leo Martin
Beaucarnea recurvata, the ponytail palm – Leo Martin
Borzicactus and Cleistocactus – Leo Martin
Chollas: Teddy Bear and Chain Fruit– John Alcock
Conophytum – Leo Martin
Cucurbits (Succulent) – Leo Martin
Echinocereus engelmannii – Leo Martin
Echinopsis: Easter Lily Cactus – Leo Martin
Euphorbia – Scott McMahon
Euphorbia: Cold Hardy – Tom Gatz
Euphorbia obesa in the Phoenix Area – Laurence Garvie
Fouquieria – Leo Martin
Frailea: A Cactus Genus for the Space Impaired – Stan and Joan Skirvin
Gymnocactus – Leo Martin
Gymnocalycium – Leo Martin
Holiday Cactus I – Leo Martin
Holiday Cactus II – Leo Martin
Hoodia – Leo Martin
Huernia and Stapelia – Leo Martin
Lithops – Leo Martin
Lithops in Phoenix – Doug Dawson
Mammillaria – Leo Martin
Mammillaria: Preventing Rot – Leo Martin
Mesembryanthemaceae – James A Robbins
Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum – Laurence Garvie
Mesembs – Leo Martin
Mesembs: Easy for Phoenix – Leo Martin
Mesembs: Growing Throughout the Year – Leo Martin
Miniature Desert Trees – Tom Gatz
Monvillea – Leo Martin
Notocactus and Allies – Leo Martin
Othonna – Leo Martin
Pachycereus weberi: The Monster that Ate Sun City – Jim Elliott
Pilosocereus – Leo Martin
Pterodiscus and Uncarina – Leo Martin
Sansevieria – Sue Hakala
Stapelia and Huernia – Leo Martin
Stapeliads – Leo Martin
Stapeliads: Six That Are Easy– Leo Martin
Agave from Seed – Charlie Merbs
Growing Cacti and Succulents from Seed – Ken Luiten
Joy of Propagating From Seed – Joan Skirvin
Plant Fall Seeds Now – Leo Martin
Rooting Epiphytic Cactus in Arizona – Leo Martin
Stocks for Grafting Cactus – Bob Moulis
Winter-Growing Mesembs – Leo Martin
Winter Rainfall Bulbs from Seed – Leo Martin*
*updated handout from workshop by Leo Martin on September 28, 2013
Agave Snout Weevils – Scott McMahon
Agave Snout Weevils – Tom Gatz
Aphids: Amazons of the Insect World – Sue Hakala
Birds – Leo Martin
Cactus Longhorn Beetles – Sue Hakala
Digger Bees – Sue Hakala
Ladybugs– Sue Hakala
Mealybugs – Sue Hakala
Mealybug War – Judy Johnson
Spider Mites – Sue Hakala
Stinkbugs – Sue Hakala
Frost Damage 2004 – Jim Elliott
Frost on Cactus – Kent Newland
Fungal Infections of Cacti – Lee Brownson
Rot Prevention on Mammillaria– Leo Martin
White Scale on Opuntia – Muriel Beroza
Bob Torrest, a long time CACSS member, wrote a series of articles from May, 2005 to July 2008 called Around My (Or Your) Desert Garden. These articles were originally published in our monthly newsletter The Central Spine.
Bob has an extensive cactus and succulent collection in his over one-acre property in the Valley of the Sun.
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