Last chance to visit the de Herdt Nursery in Rijkevorsel, Belgium.

In October I visited the nursery de Herdt in Rijkevorsel, Belgium, close to Antwerpen. After I have seen some pictures how the nursery looked 10 years ago I had high hopes, then I saw some pictures how it looks now and my  mission turned into saving some old Lau plants from dying. I was able to buy 15 old plants all with labels and most of them with known origin. I will show them in spring after I have taken care of them and some of them hopefully already flower. The price of 50 euros for 15 old plants was regarding to the size and age of the plants a good catch.

Most of the plants in the nursery have been moved to nearby cacti collection to be sold from there, cause all of the plants in greenhouse have to be moved out before winter. The private cacti collection should be max. just 30min from the nursery. Anyways I didn’t have that much time on that day and I was just taking a look in the actual nursery.
Here are some pictures how it looks now. I tried to photograph every Mammillaria. Hopefully there are some cacti friends out there, who are  capable of saving some of these old plants.