The Chino Desert Botanical Garden

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More pot shots for Andy, but you all can have a look too. :)
Copiapoa tenuissima monstrosa
Copiapoa tenuissima monstrosa
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mammillaria viperina
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Pot bases, natural and man made.
Pot bases, natural and man made.
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Empty pot
Empty pot
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Same pot, but upside down showing the natural stone base.
Same pot, but upside down showing the natural stone base.
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Mammillaria pot showing the man made acrylic (corian) base. Yes, its heavy!
Mammillaria pot showing the man made acrylic (corian) base. Yes, its heavy!
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Cool. The plants look like they love those pots!
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Well many of them do naturally grow in and around rock so, ya, I don't think they mind it one bit. :wink:
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Now that's something I'd like to try! What do you use to bond the rocks together?
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tumamoc wrote:Now that's something I'd like to try! What do you use to bond the rocks together?
I picked up some Gorilla Glue for the job. Now I just need some suitable rocks.
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Tony wrote:More pot shots for Andy, but you all can have a look too. :)
Sweet, thanks for posting!!

now I really gotta get going on making some.
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Tony cool pots you made. I have seen several types of cacti grow out of cracks in rock. (mostly Echinocereus and Mammillaria)
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great looking pots, your plants must love them!
but doesn't it take a lot of room in your collection?
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StrUktO wrote:great looking pots, your plants must love them!
but doesn't it take a lot of room in your collection?
Yes they do take up a lot of room, but I will make more room for them.

I have been contemplating starting a new personal topic for awhile now because quite a few of my older Photobucket and ImageShack links have mysteriously been broken, will probably continue to so and Im getting tired of having to go back and fix them, and now thanks to sun spots or who knows what, most of the images in the middle of this thread are gone, so I have decided to start a new thread.
Thanks again everyone.
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yes, lead and we shall follow :salute:
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Your unusual pots / bowls are really eyecatcher! Looks great!
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