On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jim McKenney <jamesamckenney@verizon.net>wrote: > Bill and Boyce have touched on a theme which has been on my mind a lot > lately, especially since I'm giving a talk tomorrow which will touch on the > events in my life which got me going in gardening. > I can say the knowledge that you have touched someone and passed the horticulture bug along to someone is very rewarding. I had a nursery many years ago, one of the things I grew were proteas. On returning to visit the area a couple years back a friend told me I should go look a relatively new nursery in the area. I did not remember the fellow who ran it, but he remembered me. As a teenager he saw some of the Proteaceae I had on display and he went on to found a nursery very much like the one I had operated. Randy Monterey Bay Area