External Links in the Cactus and Succulent www

Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall

The best (they are also our hosts !!) place to start your tour of the WWW cactus and succulent sites is the
Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall run by Tony and Suzanne Mace in the U.K.

New Zealand

NZ Subtropical Society
Wellington Epiphyllum & Hoya Society

Australia

NSW, includes links to other Australian clubs - under "other clubs".
Queensland and Australian (based in Victoria) C&S Societies.

Gold Coast Succulent and Bromeliad Society Inc. Bromlink

An online resource for lovers of Gardening

UK

British C&S Society

Succulent Plant Page
Echeveria UK

US

C&S Society of America

American Desert Plants
Desert USA Magazine

Complete list of cactus with data and photos.
A new world of innovative gardening is awaiting you in the form of Cactus and succulents.


Rest of World

Clubs and Societies of the world

PlanetaCactus comprehensive information about growing cacti from Chile.
Mexican Society in english
Watch a video of cactus flowers opening.
Israeli Society website.
Czech Cactus Page
Italian Site (no english) with hundreds of beautiful photos
Reunion Island outdoor garden site with wonderful beautiful photos
Everything about cacti, including lots of photos.
The weather in the natural habitat of a cactus.

Mailing Lists & Discussion forums

Xerophytes_NZ - a new blog/forum of information for NZers. Join Xerophytes_NZ

BCSS discussion forum for anyone (log-on to post).

Succulents grown in OZ is an online discussion group/mailing list for both Australians and New Zealanders (join Yahoo! to receive daily digests and to post).

Cacti_etc sends out a daily digest.

any others worth looking at from the Cactus Mall.



Magazines and e-Books

Touchwood Books sells all kinds of gardening books.


Latest version of Cultivar, a Russian cactus and succulent e-magazine (in english), which concentrates on crested, monstrose, colored, hybrid, poly and dichotomic forms of cacti and other succulents.
If you can afford to make a donation to keep Cultivar going then go to announcement.

CSSA journal currently 1963 completed online (in PDF format).


From Cultivar is an e-Book, in Russian, with a built in translator to English


Blogs and Travelogues

The Cactus Mall Blog with thoughts on the current state of the Cactus and Succulent hobby and discussion of topical subjects.


A Cactus Blog from a cactus nursery in Berkeley, California.


A blog from a succulent grower in Jamaica.


A Trip to Mexico by a group from AIAPS.


A video from the BBC about a mother's passion for cacti.


Travelogue of the Copiapoathon 2007 written by Paul Klaassen. Together with some pictures from the BCSS forum courtesy of Trevor from Melbourne.


Searchable databases

Photographic database of Succulents (Incl. Cacti) from AIAPS



SOSIG : Social Science Information Gateway SOSIG

Do a Google search specifically on Cactus and Succulents

The DMOZ Open Directory on specific Cacti genera.



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Other links not related to C&S

Sassy Cactus design - necklaces and earrings - some with cactus and/or mexician themes.

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