Cok Grootscholten Cactus & Succulent Nursery

[irabionist]

So I recently visited the kind and caring Cok Grootscholten in Netherlands and enjoyed the company of his ridiculously sexy as all hell nursery.

He's been collecting cacti since 1952 and fuck....

No words just wet dreams, again I didn't want to leave and struggled not to kiss every cacti that he owned.

Not only was his nursery beautiful, but he was willingly giving me cactuses that I would've either had to pay much money for or killed to get, for free. Even offered me a cutting of his crested lophophoa.... (which we decided not to because it was winter and we didn't want the cactus to die). He said that he was happy to do it because he knew one day I would do the same to another young cactus lover..... :') ( bless his soul)

Not only this, but he gave me a pup of a rare Gymnocalycium brucii that had dark flowers (which supposedly in longer exists in the wild?) sowed by the one and only Alberto Vojtech Fric himself back in 1935...

ANYWAY TIME FOR PHOTOS BECAUSE THEY EXPLAIN BETTER THAN WORDS! GET YOUR TISSUE BOX READY!!!!!!

That last photo is what keeps the greenhouse warm during the winter.

There was still so much more that I didn't take photos of......

Edited March 6, 2014 by Sabry

[quarterflesh]

awesome. iv never seen such a setup.

[~shameless~]

Arse kick'n nursery , like wise Iv never seen a such an amazing amount of cactus. Also Iv never seen such a large hydronic heating set up , that's massive, the large bore pipes can be indicative of just how much hot water or steam must get piped around to all of the grow houses, never worked on or seen a boiler set up that big in my life.

Edit - those electric motors that are installed on the vertical pipes foremost would be the circulation pumps , never seen such big pumps.

Edited March 6, 2014 by ~shameless~

[zelly]

That last photo is what keeps the greenhouse warm during the winter.

Was that an oil or natural gas powered steam boiler?

[Evil Genius]

Wonderful Pictures, Sabry! Thank´s a lot for sharing!

Edited March 6, 2014 by Evil Genius

[irabionist]

To be honest I was kind of like a little kid, just smiling and watching... Not many questions were asked, I just listened. Although I have him on Facebook so I'll ask! I also want to know what people know about the Gymno brucii? I can't find much info... We'll any info online about the dark flowered variety.

Also, he talked about Fric's garden (which was passed down to Fric's best friends daughters daughter... Or some relative of his best friend) and how amazing it was... I really want to visit, it supposedly has some cacti specimens that are over 200 years old and a lot of Fric's first discoveries (like the first lophophora fricii that' he discovered) and what not...

He also personally knows the infamous Czech poacher who poached heaps of the new variety of aztekium...

Haha he's like a grandpa with great cactus tales