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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Nov 15, 2014
I most certainly will not ignore that fifth word - it's far too splendid to let go 
With your permission I shall use it as often as I can 
Any road up, yes, cacti are specialistically adapted - to be drought and heat tolerant. Which is why over-watering and over-colding (see, I can make up words too) will do them in 
It is equally possible to bump them off by not watering them, and there are some that can't take the baking heat of a Texas summer, believe it or not.
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KB Posted Nov 15, 2014
I was hoping you'd tell me more about them. I haven't grown them, but I know you have, and I am fascinated by the different ways they adapt to their surroundings. There are lots of different ways!
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Nov 15, 2014
AHEM A1075646
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Nov 15, 2014
Cacti are adapted to high heat and low rainfall. Their leaves have evolved into spines. That's pretty much the beginning and the end of it. There's no special reason why some are tall and some are round. As far as I remember, they were originally from the new world - the Americas. Any you see growing in Europe, for instance, are essentially a foreign/transplanted/introduced species. I doubt any of them could be considered invasive in the way that bamboo or Japanese knotweed are.
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Sho - employed again! Posted Nov 15, 2014
I want that fifth word on a t-shirt
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Lanzababy - Guide Editor Posted Nov 15, 2014
It was a great word! And Sho has just the space for it 
This is a photo for Gosho - http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/74315463.jpg
it's a cactus garden with all types, from massive, really massive ones to tiny little specimens. If you go at the right time of the year you can see the flowers too. It's one of Cesar Manrique's works, and as I was just asked about him in another thread it brought this to mind when I came over here.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Nov 15, 2014
Ooh, I want to go there 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 16, 2014
It's a cactus garden on steroids .
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Nov 17, 2014
The wonder of H2G2. No where else I will confidently assert, will you ever meet someone related to a person who could kill mint.
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pebblederook-The old guy wearing surfer beads- what does he think he looks like? Posted Nov 17, 2014
Or even, now I re read the post, the actual person themselves.
We are not worthy.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 17, 2014
The Notworthy Family has branches everywhere, and some of the branches have nuts hanging from them. 
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Sho - employed again! Posted Nov 18, 2014
hehe - I am a notorious mint killer, I remember talking about this at the German mini-meet in Koblenz about a century ago 
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You can call me TC Posted Nov 18, 2014
2005 actually A3843083
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Sho - employed again! Posted Nov 18, 2014
blimey, we need to have a 10th anniversary meet up (although I seem to remember ending up in hospital on the way back from that one with a suspected heart attack on the train)
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KB Posted Nov 18, 2014
I'd be on for a German meet, geld and practicalities permitting!
Yesterday I got one of those occasional "feck this for a game of dominoes, I wanna go to Germany" spasms which appear from out of the blue every so often.
I haven't been since Berlin in....was it 2011? Too long.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Nov 19, 2014
I was in Hamburg briefly last year as a stopover on my way to Riga, and again on my way back from Saint Petersburg. After the Saint Petersburg airport, the Hamburg one seemed like heaven.
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