Marina Welham's Archive
Featured image above: An AI text-to-image impression of Parodia werneri, previouslyknown as Notocactus uebelmannianus. Our featured image on this post is Parodia werneri, from The Amateur’s Digest. Parodia werneri was previously known as Notocactus uebelmannianus. Plant & Photo: Bev and Kermit Bender – USA The Special Edition of 1993 is bound in a white plastic
Name that cactus …. Since the Holidays are coming up for 2019-2020, I have chosen to scan one of Marina’s own Holiday issues for you to enjoy. The plants on the cover (excuse me, I don’t know what they are) look like Christmas candles. Merry Cactusmas! This is Volume 6, Issue 5, January 1995. Happy Holidays! everyone. I’m Kathleen, Marina Welham’s daughter,
Featured image above: Cactus fireworks. Marina launches the very first issuethat will become The Amateurs’ Digest. Now, here’s a real collector’s item: Marina’s first-ever print edition of The Amateurs’ Digest under its original name, Cacti & Other Succulents. This was a toughie to scan. It took me as long to scan this 8-page first issue as it has taken me
Featured image above; An AI text-to-image impression of Mesembryanthemum cordifolium. The Amateurs’ Digest 1994 Special Edition is now online. It arrived from Terrace Horticultural Books on Tuesday, this week, the 17th of September 2019 along with 19 other issues. So my scanning homework is mounting! A “Special Edition” is the extra issue published annually after each
The Amateurs’ Digest, Issue No. 6 of Volume 5 (March 1994) is now online and marks the start of year six for Marina’s print journals. That same year, Marina published her first Caudex Booklets.
Marina launched her specialty Caudex booklets in year six of her print publication, The Amateurs’ Digest. The Caudex booklets are addressed to collectors of mostly Caudex plants. Unlike TAD, that was made from printers’ plates, the Caudex booklets are photocopies of Caudex articles collected from issues of The Amateurs’ Digest to that date, then folded and saddle-stitched.
Click on the cover to read the issue! There’s a cartoon at page 9 of this issue with the article, “Dual Speakers: A Dual Solution” by Calvin J. Eichler. The two people shaking hands are the spitting image of Roy and Marina. God knows where they found this cartoon, but it’s a real hoot, if you knew them. If you never met them, now you know. By the way, if you
The first journal embed is up, I’m not sure it’s wide enough, but will adjust that another day, it’s getting late and I’m fiddling with two laptops on the free wifi in the Mall.