Hello from North Carolina

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MJP
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Hello from North Carolina

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No less so than the prairie rose,

Desert forms were given

To please the eye

and Soul.

MJPapay


Just want to say, "Cheers for the nice website."

Below, a few nice Agave ovatifolia and one of my large Soehrensia formosa in my garden (just west of Raleigh, North Carolina) this winter. Low -13C (7F). They sailed through just fine.
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Glad to see you and your beautiful garden here. The people here really know their stuff!
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Beautiful agaves! How old are they?
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Thanks, Harriet. Good to see you are here!

Melt in the Sun - The A. ovatifolia in the background were planted from 4-inch pots in 2008, so that makes them six years old in the garden. Probably you can add two years to that, or three for growth from seed at the nursery. The very wide-leaf form in the foreground is younger, being planted in 2011 (if I recall correctly).
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hey MJP, I remember you from cactiguide. I havent been there in awhile, and hahaha I have a few of your plants I think that I got as cuttings from someone else which are growing.
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Yo, Peter!

For some reason my password no longer works at CactiGuide, and I have not labored to re-apply.

This site was recently recommended to me, and I like its set up. Seems, too, there are knowledgable folks here setting a standard (a tip of the hat in your direction) that I hope will be followed .
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Hey MJP. Its great to have you here. Martin
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haha MJP, thanks. I am glad to be a member here, i had similar issues and apparently was removed, but I don't want to dwell on stuff like that. :) I am glad to see you :)
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Nice plants- do you always get that much snow?
I gave my brother, in Kannapolis, a fairly large Agave Variegata and the snowstorm a couple years back killed it- he tore it up before seeing if it would come back up from the roots.
Hey Peter- my opuntias don't get around that much- they flower at differing times. ;)
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