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 bit of everything, but I'm very fond of Mamms, Arios, Haworthias, Astros and conos. I've got a 16' x 6' gh, which is now bursting at the seams, but I still can't help propagating stuff. I grow a lot of my plants from seed, and have had a lot of success with some of the rarer and slow growing spp.
My other hobby is painting (in pastel) which is a bit spasmodic, when I get a bit of inspiration! I'm also a member of WetCanvas - a wonderful website forum for artists all over the world.
Looking forward to posting on here, and will pop up whenever I can, and will try to post some of the happenings in my gh.
Here are general views in the gh.
Regards,
Diane
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And here is the other side
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Hi Diane and to the forum!
Very nice GH & collection (very tidy too!)
Look forward to seeing some more specific pics of plants!!
Very nice GH & collection (very tidy too!)
Look forward to seeing some more specific pics of plants!!
Maria
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Joined BCSS April 06 (# 48776)
Tending more towards cacti , particularly Gymnocalyciums, Rebutias, Sulcorebutias, Echinopses, Thelos, Feros and Mamms (and anything else I like the look of!) all in an 8 x 6 polycarb greenhouse and a few windowsills!
Shrewsbury Branch - Shropshire UK
Joined BCSS April 06 (# 48776)
Tending more towards cacti , particularly Gymnocalyciums, Rebutias, Sulcorebutias, Echinopses, Thelos, Feros and Mamms (and anything else I like the look of!) all in an 8 x 6 polycarb greenhouse and a few windowsills!
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Hi Diane,
A warm welcome to the form.
Your plants look excellent
A warm welcome to the form.
Your plants look excellent
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Sandi
Sandi
I'm a cactoholic!!
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I'm a cactoholic!!
Lenart, Slovenia BCSS 49031
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Hi Diane,
Hope you enjoy yourself here. Looking forward to reading your future posts.
Just like to echo what a beautifully tidy collection you maintain!
P.S. Get that Agave victoria reginae from under the bench and into the light!!!(:D
best regards,
Brian
Hope you enjoy yourself here. Looking forward to reading your future posts.
Just like to echo what a beautifully tidy collection you maintain!
P.S. Get that Agave victoria reginae from under the bench and into the light!!!(:D
best regards,
Brian
Especially interested in Mesembs. small Aloes and South African miniatures and bulbs.
Keen propagator and compulsive 'tickler'!
Instagram #myscottishgreenhouse
Keen propagator and compulsive 'tickler'!
Instagram #myscottishgreenhouse
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Hi Diane , is that a second G.house i spy in the second photo?? Looks like a nice varied collection
Stephen.. Bangor. N. Ireland.
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Welcome to the Forum Diane.
Founder member BCSS # 32426,
Growing Cacti and Succulents for over 40 years,
mixed collection but prefer succulents particularly caudiciforms.
Growing Cacti and Succulents for over 40 years,
mixed collection but prefer succulents particularly caudiciforms.
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Warm welcome Diane: like the footstool (5ft 2, eyes of blue?).
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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 - well, not under the bench, waiting on a reply to the offer.
Stephen - well spotted! There is another a gh, belongs to the CO, and of course, is bigger than mine - 24' x 8':X (he also grows c & s, but not as well as I do!)
Peter - I need the stool - 5'1" but eyes of brown! only way I can see
what's on the shelves!
Regards,
Diane
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 - well, not under the bench, waiting on a reply to the offer.
Stephen - well spotted! There is another a gh, belongs to the CO, and of course, is bigger than mine - 24' x 8':X (he also grows c & s, but not as well as I do!)
Peter - I need the stool - 5'1" but eyes of brown! only way I can see
what's on the shelves!
Regards,
Diane
Diane - member of Kingston branch
Growing cacti - balm to the soul!
Growing cacti - balm to the soul!