This year, for marketing reasons, the Seed Catalogue 2012 is called so, but really, we do not have to wait anymore for adding the seeds on a paper catalogue, when all the seeds of the year had to be grouped together late in the year for the making of this one.

 Henceforth, the catalogue is now on the Internet and updated on-line, out of stock seeds, novelties and renewals are also announced in real-time or as quick as possible. With the Internet and having an on-line seed list, there is no need to wait for three or even more months, to publish seeds that were freshly produced.  Publishing a paper catalogue is simply no longer necessary! I just add seeds on-line according to the production, thus my catalogue is constantly updated and the fresh seeds is immediately launched on the market. Therefore verybody is satisfied.

 A recent novelty: the date of harvest is now indicated. For the seeds which still have no date, they were harvested in 2010 or 2011. It is an indication of the freshness of seeds, however it is not a guarantee they will germinate, this depends upon many different factors out of our control.

 Here are some introductions among the most recent: Arthrocereus melanurus ssp. magnus, Cereus colosseus, Cleistocactus buchtienii, Copiapoa coquimbana, Corryocactus brevistylus, Echinofossulocactus sphacelatus, Espostoa lanianuligera, Ferocactus fordii, Gymnocalycium curvispinum, Lobivia (Soehrensia) bruchii v. rosarioana, Mammillaria geminispina M. halbingeri, M. roseoalba, Matucana intertexta v. subterranea, Melocactus azulensis, Neoporteria (Islaya) bicolor, Notocactus roseoluteus, Opuntia phaeacantha v. mojavensis, O. tortispina, Rathbunia alamosanus, Rebutia heliosa v. cajasensis, Thelocactus bicolor v. wagnerianus, Trichocereus pasacana, T. tacaquirensis, Weingartia chuquichuquiensis, Adenia venenata, Aeonium longithyrsum, Agave polyacantha, Aloe comptonii, A. fleuretteana, A. karasbergensis, A. somaliensis, Boswellia elongata, Commiphora socotrana, Crassula fusca, Dudleya densiflora, D. viridicata, Echeveria lutea, Euphorbia capsaintemariensis, Haworthia limifolia, Kalanchoe robusta (Wadi Zerig, Socotra), Lomatophyllum sp nova La Réunion, Pachypodium saundersii, Pelargonium obesum, Portulaca pilosa, Sansevieria ballyi, Prosopis alba (Cordoba, Argentina), etc.

 The price of seeds remains unchanged for 2012. The old seed stock is not thrown away but distributed for free, so there is a bag of more than 1000 seeds in every order. Actually, some old seeds still have germination viability, but we cannot know which ones.

This list was made possible thanks to the following persons who regularly offer us their seeds: Afroplants (France), Arnaud Fabrice (France), Assalit Christophe (France), Audissou Jean-André (Morocco), Badía Pascual Alberto (Spain), Beyenbach Jochen (Germany), Bugaret Francis (France), Canales Azabache Mildred (Peru), Cházaro Miguel (Mexico), Correa Berta (Chile), Gatard Jean-Luc (France), De Guigne Lancel Marie (Reunion), Delanoy Gérard (France), Diagre Denis (Belgium), Duthion Norbert (Cape Verde), Etherington Geoff (New Zealand), Erard Janine (France), Fluet Jean-Claude (France), Granillo Patricia (Argentina), Herrera Plaza Jose María (Spain), Hofacker Andreas (Germany), Lodé Joël (Spain), Maijer Robert (Holland), Miller John (USA), Richaud Philippe (France), Van Meer Piet (Spain), Wittner Holger (Germany), Xhonneux Guy & Jannette (Colombia). We thank there all of our generous collaborators and we excuse ourselves to those who would have been forgotten on this list.

The Seed catalogue helps finance part of our activities, in particular the journal Cactus-Adventures International. All those who wish to help us and participate in our list, please feel free to send us your seeds all year round to launch them on the market at once. We can supply - recycled! – bags on simple demand. Beforehand, thank you!