Terra cotta
Paul Licht (Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:29:40 PDT)

With regard to succulents, you may be interested that the Garden has
just started a massive repotting of our cactus and succulent collection
in the Arid House (over 2000 accession) The decision was made to switch
from traditional clay to black plastic. While there are several reasons,
one is that the plastic does not dry out as fast. The longer retention
of water is considered an advantage since the plants are not put through
as rapid a wet-dry cycle. Of course it also reduces the frequency of
water which is a considerable time savings for this kind of colleciton.
Amaryllids are not included in this collection.

Paul Licht, Director
Univ. California Botanical Garden
200 Centennial Drive
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510)-643-8999
http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/

On 4/2/2011 5:19 PM, santoury@aol.com wrote: