Re: moving cactus

Donna, I do have a few pictures... I will try to get them online soon.
Thanks,
Tricia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] moving cactus


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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