Giganticusses !!

Well, I just had to write about these most magnificent plant specimens. Tenerife was awash with cactii and succulents - in fact I'm not quite sure what the difference is. Whatever.... they were very abundant and incredibly lush and large !!! Beautiful.

I have had a few of these as pet houseplants over the years and mostly managed to keep them going - mainly by neglect it seemed. My oldest succulent (a money plant) would by now be in it's mid thirties !! and was about a metre square.

 When we left our last house it was so enormous and unwieldy that we asked the incomers if they would like to keep it as they were going to build a huge wrap-around conservatory. The perfect environment for it. I hope it found a happy home with them and is still cruising along...


So, I've put a few pictures of these amazing plants on here for you simply to admire and be astonished by...