Great cactus garden in country NSW

[holymountain]

Been a while since I posted on here, but thought that this was definitely worth sharing. I was visiting my folks house in the country a few weeks ago and though I grew up in that town, somehow I never noticed this one house with an epic cactus garden.

I left a note on the door about my interest in cactus plants and asked if I could come around one day and have a look at the garden. I got a phone call and was told I was most welcome. A little old lady and her husband had been collecting cactus plants for the last thirty or forty years. They'd gotten most of their plants from a mail order company in South Australia. They were kind enough to give me a bunch of cuttings of all sorts of different types. I returned the favour the next day with a small box of different trich cuttings, which I have no doubt they'll look after and hopefully will one day be as big as the scops they've got all around their place.

Note- would have been very easy to just break off some branches in the middle of the night, but that's just not the way to do things. In my experience 100% of the people I've approached for cuttings have been very generous and in one case told me I could take the whole thing. It's always better to ask permission, trade some cuttings of your own if you have them and develop a relationship with the owners, who knows, maybe one day they'll say I can have the lot.

Anyway... thought I'd share some pics. I got a cutting of the massive scop, it's already taken root and looks like it will flower soon too. Remind me in a year or two and I'd be happy to send out cuttings or seeds if anyone is interested.

[hostilis]

That is a badass TBM. Wow! And those scops! That's awesome. I would have been honored to take a look at this garden.

[~shameless~]

Yeah nice picks mate, something's wrong with my tablet, it won't save my "like".

Good tip as well , I always ask , once saw a big aarse Cuzco in this front yard once, asked the owners to do a trade for a tip for some potted cycads and yucca I didn't want, they gave me heaps of cuts as well as this big bad potted specimen!

Edit - ask and most of the time you'll get more than what you bargained for

Edited November 23, 2013 by ~shameless~