I was intrigued by Ian's comment "Isn't that the whole point?", so I started reading the front of the book to see what the point was. It's an interesting piece. I'm still slogging through it. There is a lot of technical jargon that I'm still coming to grips with. One interesting tidbit is ...

Great photos there CP! That Stars and Stripes is a stunning image!

Tim

A person could certainly do worse than "Perpetually Couth". I think it would also be fairly unique considering the current level of public discourse. Present company excepted, of course.

Tim

When I was looking around for cactus books I noticed that Amazon was listing USED copies of E.F Andersens The Cactus Family for $650 yesterday, $750 today. (that's each, not for a half-dozen!) Barnes & Noble, same thing. The publisher doesn't even list it on their site. What in the world!?! I go...

You guys are killing me! I don't know if I'd be able to stop laughing if it were named most of the suggestions here.

I am partial to Cactilog. That one really made me laugh!

Cacto-Master?

Tim

Thanks for the feedback all! I do tend to spend more time looking through the atlas than through the text. I think it's very well done, but a little confusing when compared to my fairly limited exposure to other references. I found two books on Amazon that were published in 2007 that I haven't seen ...

I got a copy of the two-volume The New Cactus Lexicon. I've been going through it, but it's somewhat frustrating to me. There is significant divergence from E.F. Andersen's book The Cactus Family as far as names/groupings are concerned. I still don't "get" the organizaton of the book, it's...

If you are in Western Washington I think your biggest challenge is going to be getting the soil to dry out. I lived in the Seattle area for ~25 years. If you are in Eastern WA, never mind!

Good luck!

Tim

Cylindropuntia fulgida mammalata - that's a big one!

Anything else of interest in that feral garden?

Tim

Christer,

I can test Vista functionality. I've got a couple of machines with it installed.

You can email me @ timnevins@cox.net

Very nice display! having them all in one box like that is a really nice look. Great looking plants!

Tim

I dunno...that doesn't look like any of the leptocaulus around here. The stems don't get more than 3/8" across and they have the needles like the second plant pictured. Old growth gets very woody but the growth is much thinner than these plants. The ones I've seen look very bushy/brushy. It cou...

I took pictures of most of my plants today. I've put a selection up on my picture site here -

http://timnevins.spaces.live.com/

Click on the album on the left and it will give you a better view.

Starting to get some nice fall flowers.

Tim

WOW! Amazing work so far! I'm willing to be a beta tester, I'm using Vista and can also test on XP SP2. My only caution is to define some incremental so we are developing/testing a specific/known set of features/functionality. There have been a lot of good ideas about links, etc, that would be aweso...

RE: #6. I got a matudae cluster that seemed to be matude and something else. They looked exactly like what you have pictured. At first I thought it was a variation of matudae without the pectinate radial spines. I'm unconvinced at this time... The plant got frosted last winter and the matudae parts ...