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The folks from the Garden Forums started a mug shot thread so you can see who you are talking to.. Seems like a good idea.. I'll start it off, if anyone wants to follow...


Bill in SC

Here is the thread over there.. We have several people on BOTH forums.. It's great to have twice the friends and sources of info!!
http://www.thegardenforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=5743

OK... Here is a picture made last Spring

Hi Bill and Dominique,
here is my Fero gracilis. The guy in the corner that's me. Harry

Harry, now that's some Ferocactus!
Bill, good idea for a mugshot thread, I got my pic taken yesterday...

DON'T click on this thumbnail...


The prickly one is the Saguaro...

Oh btw since bill has done a count, thought I'd do likewise... 895 (not including all my 1 year old seedlings) ...I haven't bought many lately

CP

Good to 'meet' you folk OK! I'll get a mugshot am usually the photographer not the subject

W-O-W!! I thought I started a new thread "mug shots", for this topic. Now I find it in this thread!! Must be one of my "relatively" unsober moments..
Bill in SC

Must be one of my "relatively" unsober moments.

... I think I can relate to that Bill!

CP

Ok, you guys and gals asked for it so be warned. Heres a picture of some serious prickly's. The one prickly is not very photogenic

click at your own risk


Good to see everyone so far.
It appears theres a few old hippies on the forum

I'm not sure how many plants I have, but there's about 400 species.

Here is my main outdoor cactus garden mugshot, I have some some shade coverage over about 20' x 8'. I have 8 saguaros, 2 cardon, 6 senita, a few palo verde trees, a bunch of cereus, opuntias,and more in there. Mostly columnars. Some of my mamillarias are bigger than some of my saguaros at the moment. I have lots of cacti all over the yard and in pots too.

A few of you old-timers will remember that we did this once in the past, but deleted the thread since out of a concern for space. I remember John described himself as a cross between Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford and it was very true!

That was back before I knew how much activity we could handle here. Now I know we can certainly fill out this thread and leave it going this time.

I'll join in the fun. Here are two of me (you've seen them before):





PS. Be sure to be extra polite in all your comments on this thread.

This is a lot of fun ! Thank you Bill for starting this thread !

Very neat idea It can help to put a face to the nickname. Well, I'm glad this isn't a picture contest, nobody would vote for this one
Here I am pondering whether it's all going to fit in the greenhouse. This isn't even half of it. You should see the back patio. 481 species/varieties of cacti and succulents and counting. Thank goodness some of them are cold hardy.

Franj

Franj wrote:Very neat idea It can help to put a face to the nickname. Well, I'm glad this isn't a picture contest, nobody would vote for this one
Here I am pondering whether it's all going to fit in the greenhouse. This isn't even half of it. You should see the back patio. 481 species/varieties of cacti and succulents and counting. Thank goodness some of them are cold hardy.

Franj

This thread is a lot of fun I'm afraid the prickly is better looking than me, but fortunately none of you collect eldery Irish nitwits At least I don't think you do!