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About the author Brian Fearn English nurseryman Brian Fearn is the owner of the renowned Abbey Brook Cactus Nursery, Matlock, Derbyshire. An authority on succulent plants, he has grown and researched them since his youth. He has supplied plants to many countries around the world and celebrated the nursery’s Golden Jubilee in 2006. A trailblazer in the conservation of succulent plants, he announced in 1962 that he would not deal in unpropagated wild collected plants and has championed the propagation and safeguarding of plants in cultivation ever since. Born in 1937, Brian founded Abbey Brook while at Sheffield University where he received a BSc in Botany. His work on the genus Lithops aka ‘Living stones’ earned him an MSc in 1969 and also brought him international recognition. |
He is the Holder of six Plant Heritage National Plant Collections® of succulent plant genera. He is also widely known – as far afield as Japan – for his work in hybridising cacti, especially Echinopsis since the late 1960s. Contact information To contact the author please email: or telephone: 01629 580306 or by post to: Abbey Brook Cactus Nursery, Bakewell Road, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 2QJ or click here to visit his website. |
About the book
The Echinopsis Hybrids of Abbey Brook Cactus Nursery describes the story of Brian Fearn’s forty years’ work selecting and naming the 130+ best shaped and coloured, beautiful hybrids out of the 150,000 seedlings that he has flowered – fewer than one in a thousand. With glorious images in full colour of 107 hybrids, this is a book to relish even if you don’t grow cacti!
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