Kim,
I saw a picture on my other garden site of a very old Pachypodiym that' closely related to Euphorbia. The guy cut it right off it's big fat growing roots. Then after calless over he planted in a shallow dish. He won awards with it on show.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/fo...
Don't look if Squamish. Shows you how tuff these guys are in the right hands. (not mine)
Stush