Date Posted:16:13:48 03/03/05 Thu Author: gkksrtkbghkkbrttkkbty Subject: Re: What types do you grow? In reply to:
Cena
's message, "What types do you grow?" on 00:38:47 11/19/01 Mon
>There is a number of ways to answer this, even without
>the Latin. Globular, columnar, regular (meaning the
>ones our grandmothers grew)!
>
>There are SOOO many cacti. I never knew the depth and
>variety till I moved to Southern California, and I had
>lived here a good long while before I really started
>paying attention. We have a local park, where the zoo
>and all the museums are... I had never seen the Cactus
>Garden there until this year, wandering around with
>out of town relatives.
>
>Makes one stop and think about things one might taken
>for granted as being a regional thing.
>South West=Desert=Cactus. Once becoming familiar with
>Euphorbias it is astonishing how many there are all
>around us, hiding in plain sight as cactus.
>
>I grow a huge amout of diverse cactus, but mostly
>because they are available locally in nurseries or
>grown by neighbors. Makes me think about moving and
>how I will ever sustain the plants that I have
>amassed, traveling, wintering over. Especially places
>with full Winter (which I have not had to deal with
>for over 20 years except when I went home for Dad's
>funeral).
>
>This has always been the home of mine and my husbands
>youth and working days. Now, the thought arises,
>after living here so long, how will another place
>affect our lives. And the one thing that keeps
>reoccuring in my mind is "How will a move affect the
>plants that I grow?"
>
>What do you grow, and have you ever had to change
>directions in your garden because of a relocation, an
>illness, a decrease in circumstances...
>
>Why do you grow what you grow?
