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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 9:30 pm
It seems I have this problem ................

I can't stop myself from buying plants especially this type







There were a few more but enough is enough Smile
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San Rainbow




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 10:51 pm
nice looking plants Betty, it's a bad addiction Evil or Very Mad my wife has put the hard word on me until after our holiday (her birthday)
no more cacti... I still manage to sneak the odd little one in Laughing

whats the one bottom left 2 in?
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slim6y



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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:00 pm
You know you two could save money. I hear it is good luck to steal cuttings from other plants Smile

Sometimes cuttings fall off when you pick up the plants....

I mean, I went to the botanical gardens and i didn't look where I was going and a bit of selenicereus landed in my girlfriends bag accidentally.

We were going to return it.... But I planted ti instead.
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:06 pm
San Rainbow that a Psuedolithos mccoyii. The brown one second row is also a psuedolithos.

I went to Bunnings today and found some lithops (first time ever here) and three little mamms Oops Razz

Slim I didn't feel guilty at all when I did that recently. The plant was ugly and needed trimming Shocked

So its going to bring me luck ...............I like that Wink
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slim6y



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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:23 pm
My theory is - you're helping a plant spread its roots so to speak, and by doing that you're giving more life, and helping to remove CO2 from our climate changed atmosphere - so really, it's helping to save the world!

Everybody should steal a cutting from a plant that is able to grow easily from vegetative cuttings - it just so happens that cacti and succulents are the best for this... Smile

We're going to save the world!
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Tula




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:25 pm
mmmmmmm! you got some nice little fattiesI always meant to ask you about the botanical gardens out there in Mildura, any good?I drive past it at least once a year but have never allowed enough time to pop in and have a squizzz
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:26 pm
Sounding better all the time bounce

So if anyone gets caught we just blame Slim6y Cool
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:29 pm
Tula wrote:
mmmmmmm! you got some nice little fattiesI always meant to ask you about the botanical gardens out there in Mildura, any good?I drive past it at least once a year but have never allowed enough time to pop in and have a squizzz


Thanks................ hmm now I am going to shock you. I have lived here for 22 years and have never been out there. Always mean to but something always gets in the way. They have farmers markets there every now and then on a Saturday morning but by the time I remember its on its too late. I will get out there before I leave here though Smile
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Tula




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:34 pm
There is actually a legal precedent in my former homeland which says that taking a cutting from a plant does not equate with theft.
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slim6y



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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sat May 31, 2008 11:53 pm
parrotsheaven wrote:


So if anyone gets caught we just blame Slim6y Cool


Yep, you tell em... if you get caught you just say slim6y said it's ok... That's good enough to hold up in a court of law....

Tula - where's your homeland may I ask?

I personally think - when you see the cacti I took the cutting off of, i was doing it and the gardens a favour... And it's beginning to grow nicely here Smile
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Tula




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:28 pm
slim6y wrote:
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Tula - where's your homeland may I ask?


Err? former homeland, originally Hungary, thats where the quaint laws come from then later Argentina
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Gracie




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:47 pm
when we were in Mildura in Oct 07, we searched for the cactus section and couldnt find it . the gardens are very large and lots of sections which we really enjoyed but left without finding the cactus and succulents. maybe next time.Its over the river on the GolGol side.
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parrotsheaven




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:17 am
Lois I drive past it many times but its always closed when I do or I had someone in the car with me who would not be seen dead inside a Botanical Gardens. Maybe that is why he is an ex lol!

The cacti/succulent section was suppose to have been taken from the gardens by the river on 7th St. but it had been decimated by theft and neglect. They were in a raised ledge against a cutting that I guess was once natural before they built the raised beds etc.

From memory they took were taking what they could when they started the Inland Botanical Gardens which was very little. When I first moved up here they were great to see lots of aloes, yuccas, cactus and others. Maybe there was so little left ???
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Vicki




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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:14 am
Betty, so pleased to see someone else can't bypass buying! That is my biggest downfall at the moment. I pot em up , put em on the verandah and say that's enuf, no more. Then I just take a peek at what's on Ebay and b4 u know it more have found a home, lol.
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PostSubject: Re: I need help   Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:35 pm
Vicki you sound just like me LOL

Ebay gets me quite regularly.............including the weekend and again today........ It seems I will never learn Laughing

What area of Vic are you from?
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