Ralph, you certainly got a good deal there, have you ever seen how much botanical paintings sell for? At the RHS shows in the winter months they display some wonderful art and the prices are astronomical! I toyed with the idea of doing botanical art at one time, but don't really have the patience an...

Thanks for all of your warm welcome messages! Wish the gh was tidier than it is, but this is as good as I can manage! Brian - only today I have offered the agave to someone I think might take it off my hands (at a price!) along with a few other venerable old-timers, I could do with the extra space -...

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Hi everyone!:baringt: I'm Diane Walpole, some of you southerners will probably know me (and the CO, Howard)and I've just found this great forum. I'm a newbie to the internet, but very much an oldie to cactus collecting - over 30 years! My collection is "eclectic" as they say nowadays - a b...