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I have grown them before and I only have a couple of left I will be planting in my own garden. I obtained the seed from Locarno, Switzerland. The cross O have is a Butia x Jubaea. I have mine in 1 gallon pots now so hopefully in a few years they will be big enough for me to plant out. Sorry about no...

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They were both planted in 1992 by Palm Society member J.D. Rowell of Sacramento, Cal. They are T.fortunei growing up close to a building in a good microclimate. They have been featured a couple of times over the years in HPI. They were featured last year in one of our journals and they look awesome!...

banana joe · Current temps. on Salt Spring Island 9:30 pm here with a temp. of 8 C. Joe

9:30 pm here with a temp. of 8 C. Joe

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Very beautiful area. I love the way those Palmettos selfseed along the road. They are weeds!! Those Serenoa repens clumps are Very nice. Joe

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Those are all so awesome! Joe

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It never freezes long enough to really worry much about the ground frost penetrating. None of my palms are ever mulched because the deepest I've ever seen the ground freeze was and inch or so in the worst blast. My main water pipe from my well to the house is laying on the ground under my sundeck an...

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Sarted snowing here this morning and lasted for a few hours. In that time we recieved 4" inches. Now the skies are clearing and the temps. will drop. Just sitting above the freezing mark here. Joe

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Seasons Greetings from Salt Spring Island. May your palms & Exotic plants flourish in 2007. Cheers, Joe

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Those nasty Winds missed us here on SSI. THere were some gusts up to 52 kmph at my loction, but on the most part just breezy here. Sooke got nailed really bad, and so did area son the lower mainland. More winds in the forcast for tonight and tommorrow. Nothing here at the moment. At least it mild ou...

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I see your Jubaea in the foreground, looks good!! Nice to have normal temps. back. Cheers, Joe

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Thanks Wes. They are growing in a friend's garden. They have a huge clump of bananas in the front garden. Those Cordies do just great despite all the salt spray and south easterlies. Last year the extremely high tides covered that entire area with salt water and seaweed, That was last January, it ma...

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Thanks for posting Jay. Those Cordylines are not in my garden, but in another private SSI garden. They were planted in 1991 and you can see the Yuccas are ust coming into bloom. I think the lake country in Ontario would have much nicer fall coulur than here. I can see how this would look similar fro...

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Those are awesome old specimens Jay. I first saw those about 15 years ago when my friend spotted them as he was driving through that area. He took some pics. for me back then. I'll see if I can dig them up and I'll send you them. They were much smaller back in 1990/91, but still very impressive. Tho...

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Go for it Jay. Cheers, Joe

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Jay, I took a bunch of pics. today here on SSI. If you wish I can e-mail you some. Do you have the same e-mail address? admin....@...? Cheers, Joe

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Barry, It was a nice sunny day so I decided to take along my camera and snap some pics. I e-mailed you a wack of them. Check out the Cordylines, they were planted in 1991. The Yuccas in that garden are just coming into bloom. They have a nice big clump of Yucca gloriosa 'Superba'. We toatlly esacped...

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Right on Barrie. They are an amazing plant. Very drought tolerant too! Joe

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How does your Cordyline look now? I bet it looks awesome with multitrunks. There was a huge one in town rigt in front of the sewing store. They cut it down in June because they said it was getting to big. The trunk diameter at the base was 6"inches or so. It has more than a dozen shoots that ha...

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I have dozens of them in my garden. My tallest are like trees now. The largest I've seen on our island have 20'ft of trunk and branched crowns. They are hardy down to approx. -8 C. or 17.6 F. They are cheap to buy and they do grow fast. If they freeze to the ground they will resprout. Joe

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Barrie, My Basjoo were still nice and green last Christmas day, but I recall many of the leaves being broken and bent from some wet snow we recieved earlier in the month. I'll have to dig up a pic. Joe

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Those are great! You ahve a nice collection of palms and exotics. Where abouts are you located? I'm guessing somewhere near Seattle? Cheers, Joe

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Barrie, It will be interesting to see how mild this winter will be. I took those pics. in the afternoon of Oct. 31. I'm hoping they make it until Christmas. This rain sure is nice for the garden. Cheers, Joe

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Jay, late this afternoon I went out int my garden a took some pics. I just e-mailed them to you. A few areas of our island got nailed with frost this morning. I drove past a rather sad looking banana clump on my drive into work this morning. Everything looks great up here on the north tip of the isl...

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I love the Halloween theme! Those little bats are cool. Cheers, Joe

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The crates are custom made to make the root systems easier to over winter. The palms are actually bagged sitting inside those crates then sawdust is packed around them for insulation. With the crate on they are $450 plus tax and without the crates only $420 plus tax. They are nice palms. I'm trying ...

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Wes, go to the Palm Trees of B.C. site and you will see a pic. of my wife standing between both of them. I took the pic. a few days ago. They are fair size palms. palmtrees.cybersites.ca/gallery

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Our cooler valleys on the island here saw some patchy ground frost a few days ago. Nothing here yet and I don't expect it for a while. Lowest temp. here so far was 44.4 F. Cheers, Joe

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I have two large crated B.edulis for sale. They are full healthy plants. Joe

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Good one. That is very rare to find a husked and shrink wrapped coconut sprouted. I use to bring back sprouted ones from Hawaii in the past that were fully in tack. I hope that does well for you. Now I'm going to be checking all the cocnuts in our grocery store. Cheers, Joe

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I believe you are correct. Looks like a Dragon tree to me as well. Cheers, Joe

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Aaron, Even my wife was blown away at the size of those monster palms. It is really difficult to fathom their massive size until you stand beside one. The petioles and fronds are the most massive I've ever seen on any palm. I took pics. of those same palms nearly 7 years ago, but these pics. are muc...

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John, Glad you enjoyed the pics. I always rattle off bag loads of them when in Hawaii. Those two massive palms and I do say massive because they had to be the largest specimens I saw in that area. They are a native to Asia and the latin name is Corypha umbraculifera. There are approx. 8 species of C...

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I go for the Palms. Just over 5 hours by plane and I can see all the palms in the world. It is a palm lovers paradise! Cheers, Joe

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I believe number two palm is either a species of Johannesteijsmannia or Licaula. I spoke with Ray Baker the Palm expert that works int he garden and he said that the Trachycarpus fortunei that once grew there died. They obviousley didn't like the tropical heat. Joe

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Jay, Glad you liked the pics. I took approx. 360 or so. I think I sent you near 40. Wes, whenever I'm in Hawaii I always bring back seeds, but they are just in my pocket undeclared. This time my wife said see that sign, that says $10,000 fine. Well I had to go to the Agriculture inspection at Vancou...

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I just returned home from Hawaii several days ago. Every time I'm there it is like being in Palm Heaven. Lyon Arboretum has an unreal collection of palms with over 600 species. I payed my second visit to that particular garden since the Fall of 1999. I could notice a big difference in growth on some...

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Allen, What's up with the seedlings I sent you? They should be flourishing, not declining. What type of soil mix did you plant them in? I use a Pro-Mix HP mixed with approx. 30% sterilized potting soil to pot most of my palm seedlings in. I've also planted many in a mixture of bark chips and soil. I...

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Allen, What's up with the seedlings I sent you? They should be flourishing, not declining. What type of soil mix did you plant them in? I use a Pro-Mix HP mixed with approx. 30% sterilized potting soil to pot most of my palm seedlings in. I've also planted many in a mixture of bark chips and soil. I...

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He sold four palms out of the back of hs truck when he was here last Friday. Two double trunked bagged T.fortunei for $900, a 15 gallon Chamaerops for $140 and a large bagged Brahea armata for $475 . The Brahea edulis were huge. Joe

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I'm sure if the customs dudes discovered you had your pockets full, they'd just take them away and slap your wrists. Heck, I'd just play dumb and say, " I didn't know that bringing seeds back was not allowed" I just wanted to grow them as house plants. Cheers, Joe

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