Uhlig Kakteen

Among tonz of other succulent plants you can find a surprisengly big choice of Sempervivums:

http://www.uhlig-kakteen.de

any idea whether they ship outside EU? i didnt see anything about it on the site...

Cohan,

within FEW HOURS after mailing my question to Uhlig Kakteen if they ship to Canada, I got this friendly answer:

Dear Mdm, dear Sir,

yes we ship to Canada! with all needed paperwork as CITES Documents, Phytosanitary Certificate.

You are welcome to visite our webshop: www.uhlig-kakteen.de

If you have trouble ordering (there is a small Eenglish flag in right corner of the web page - to visit their site in English!) mail me, I do understand a little German!

thanks renee,
for taking the trouble
i hadnt got around to mailing them...
i have looked at their listings a bit--didnt get as far as semps, yet;
i was amused to see a cactus from peace river,alberta--far north of me (opuntia fragilis, the most northerly occurrence of any cactus), listed as hardy to -20C; they would be very happy in peace river if it didnt go below -20C -- -40 at least is a more likely minimum!
(of course i know the nursery can only have information as good as their source)

Well, here in central Slovenia we rarely have temperatures below minus 16 degrees Celsius, so if one write a plant is hardy to minus 20 degrees, that is good for us!

I keep some of my opuntias otside ... Sofar so good.

i'm guessing that where the nursery is in germany, they dont have to worry about colder than -20, so that just means its fully hardy for them!
in many places, wet winter is more of a problem than cold winter for many of the hardy cacti; a few opuntias are the most tolerant of wet winter, and probably Maihuenia poeppigii-- a very nice chilean cactus..i am growing some very small ones from seed

my lows can go to around -45C! luckily, we have not been there so far this year--we had temperatures around -30, with windchill around -40...right now its much warmer(+13C tomorrow!), but we will still see some cold before winter is over!

I keep all my cacti protected from snow and rain in winter - lots of snow and rain is the reason I can not grow them in garden, but in pots! Now we have temps around zero and no sun for ages ...

My winter is sunnier and drier, but much colder..
There are opuntias, escobarias and pediocactus (hopefully) that I can grow outdoors unprotected here..but then I have lots of cacti and succulents indoors all year..

Thats one reason I love semps--succulents that grow outdoors unprotected in this climate

2011 sale list:

Jovibarba allionii
Jovibarba solifera borealis
Sempervivum 'Ankögel'
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Alpes Nevache'
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Baby Boo'
Sempervivum arachnoideum miniature
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Snow Spider'
Sempervivum arachnoideum v. pumilum
Sempervivum arachnoideum v. tomentosum
Sempervivum arachnoideum x calcareum
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Cherry Frost'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Happy Birthday'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Mike'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Nobbe'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Rosenstolz'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Rotes Meer'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Silberkarneol'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Spätling'
Sempervivum arachnoideum-Hybr. 'Traudel'
Sempervivum 'Ashes of Roses'
Sempervivum atlanticum 'Torrid Zone'
Sempervivum 'Bedivere'
Sempervivum 'Bernstein'
Sempervivum 'Blacknini'
Sempervivum 'Bronze Pastell'
Sempervivum calcareum
Sempervivum calcareum 'Guiseppii'
Sempervivum calcareum v. minutum
Sempervivum caucasicum
Sempervivum 'Dusky' Typ 1 (hell)
Sempervivum 'Dusky' Typ 2
Sempervivum 'Frist'
Sempervivum globiferum v. hirtum
Sempervivum grandiflorum
Sempervivum 'Green Disk'
Sempervivum 'Kappa'
Sempervivum leucanthum
Sempervivum marmoreum 'Rubicundum Ornatum'
Sempervivum marmoreum ssp. reginae-amaliae Typ macedonicum
Sempervivum montanum x tectorum
Sempervivum 'Mystic'
Sempervivum 'Olivette'
Sempervivum ossetiense
Sempervivum 'Pacific Blue Ice'
Sempervivum 'Raspberry Ice'
Sempervivum 'Red Skin'
Sempervivum Silvertone'
Sempervivum 'Sioux'
Sempervivum 'Spherette'
Sempervivum 'Sprode'
Sempervivum 'Tamberlane'
Sempervivum 'Terracotta Baby'
Sempervivum tomentosum
Sempervivum 'Topas'
Sempervivum 'Turmalin'
Sempervivum 'Westerlin'
Sempervivum 'Winter Beauty'
Sempervivum 'Winter Beauty'
Sempervivum x hausmannii

Note: I give you the names as they are to be found in the Uhlig Kakteen online store.