Re: moving cactus

Welcome back.  Hope you took pictures.  I've heard of that place and I can't
remember the man's name either.

On 6/21/06, Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Glad you had a good trip.... sounds like a wonderful
> tribute and garden.
>
> Pictures?
>
> Donna
>
> --- pdickson <pdickson@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > I just got home from Santa Barbara.  I just had to
> > reply to this one to tell
> > you that I got to see the huge new cactus garden at
> > Lotus Land.  It is
> > fantastic with over 500 new plants and more than 300
> > species.  I forgot the
> > man's name that donated it... but he was 97 years
> > old when it was all moved
> > and completed.  He had collected for over 70 years.
> > He died not very long
> > after being at the dedication.  This is the part
> > that I really wanted to
> > tell you Jim.  It costs over 450,000 to move and pay
> > the new landscape.  It
> > is beautiful with huge basalt boulders and mulched
> > with black slate.  When I
> > was there several of the cacti were blooming.  It
> > was really beautiful.
> > Tricia
> > zone 6b
> > (where I am so glad to be back home at my own
> > garden)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <islandjim1@verizon.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 5:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Inside Bon Vivant Nursery
> >
> >
> > > RE packaging Opuntia... When we repot or
> > transplant any of the spiny
> > > devils--and many are worst than Opuntia--we wrap
> > them in newspaper
> > > [sections of a newspaper, many pages thick] tied
> > in place with twine, then
> > > just pretend it's any other plant. It's easy once
> > you get the hang of it,
> > > and it produces no damage to the plant or the
> > person.
> >
> >
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-- 
Pam Evans
Kemp TX
zone 8A

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