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Alchris

Heidi; Your yard looks great. Paul; I object to your reference to Alberta not maintaining good public horticulture. You obviously have missed Edmonton's massive plantings of perennial blooms in our public areas. Once you have seen these areas of Dandelions with their gorgeous yellow blooms followed ...

Alchris

Edmonton already charges for waste water based on Water purchased. It would only take a stroke of the pen for some idiot bureaucrat to add a charge for processing rain water. This is a city that, in order to reduce an unforseen deficit of $35,000,000, closed 1 recreation centre and chopped back hour...

Alchris

That is unfortunate. I hope that some will recover.

Allen

Alchris

Nate;

I got the Y elatas from Las Vegas, bringing them back with us last spring. Your best bet would be the Kelowna Flower Farm.

Good luck with your Trachy.

Allen

Alchris

Looking good Paul.

I have the same variety of fargesia murieli (sp). My wife seems to think that the rabbits are so cute. Funny how my airsoft BB pistol disappeared after I complained about the rabbit damage.

Allen

Alchris

I wish you much better luck with yours than I had with mine.

The only advice that I can offer is ....... Drink Big Rock Grasshopper.

Allen

Alchris

It is nice to see something blooming. I was looking at the snow, again. Luckily we're up north- only 1/2" not like up to a foot in Southern Alberta.

Allen

Alchris

Jay;

I found 'All About The Fans' who specialize in Nascar. They are at 7321-101 Ave 780-462-4320. That is in the Capilano area. They have a web site www.allaboutthefans.ca When I checked it was temporarely closed.

If you like I can PM the yellow pages collectibles section to you.

Allen

Alchris

You will need to take it easy. We are the worst drivers in Canada. (We have to be proud of something, the Oilers suck).

I don't know of any. I'll do some checking for you.

Allen

Alchris

You lucky dog. It will be a couple of weeks before that happens here.

Allen

Alchris

The snow is pretty much gone except in the shaded areas. The temperature is forecast to reach 13*C tomorrow which should pretty much get rid of the last of the snow. Jay; if you are driving be cautious of the "sand" left over from last winter. It is about 1/16" in diameter and acts li...

Alchris

The yard is still an eyesore. The ground never got dry enough to walk on. And after the 6"+ of snow last night it will be a few more days before I can get the yard cleaned up.

Allen

Alchris

It's too bad that you lost some of the needles.

The trachys surprise me at their toughness.

Allen

Alchris

Barrie, I killed off a horrible vine when we first bought this place. Don't know what it was called but it had been allowed to grow without any attempt at trimming it for at least 10 years and had reseeded itself. Roundup just stunted it and I sprayed 2 or 3 times a year to keep the regrowing to a m...

Alchris

Thanks for the advice Jim. If it makes it, I will try moving the window to the North side or remove it altogether.

Allen

Alchris

It's still too cold to put anything out but it got up to 13*C/55*F yesterday and only down to -1*C last night.

Unfortunately it is still too wet to walk in the yard and the garbage and dog shit from last winter will have to remain an eyesore for a few more days.

Allen

Alchris

Paul; Those are the cholas that you sent. When I was transplanting them, after I ripped up the 'desert' last summer, one of the pads broke off. It survived the winter and now I have 3 small cholas again. The biggest is only about 4" but I hope that it will show some growth this year. I didn't p...

Alchris

Sorry Jim; The heating cable was set to come on at 37*F and shut off at 43*F. Last winter the remote thermometer failed so I don't know what the low temp inside the enclosure was. The previous winter the low temp in the enclosure was -6*C/22*F. Barrie; For me it is relatively warm as my wisteria vin...

Alchris

I have 3" styrofoam board 2' below the surface to protect the roots. Above ground protection is 3" styrofoam board with a double pane window. It is heated by a 30' heat tape. The low temperature this past winter was relatively warm at -31*C/-24*F. It had survived -39*C/-38*F the previous w...

Alchris

The snow finally melted enough to check on the yuccas and agaves. All but one baby Agave Parryi survived. http://www.postimage.org/aV1mMJjA.jpg http://www.postimage.org/Pq1lYay9.jpg The Y filamentosa, flaccida and wide leaved elata were all flattened by the snow. They look rough but not as bad as la...

Alchris

The temps finally stopped getting to -10 or lower overnight on the weekend and I uncovered the Chamerops to find the entire top dessicated. It occurred from having the power cut off for up to 2 days last winter and/or the blazing sun with temps of -15*C late winter and spring. If it recovers, I am g...

Alchris

Congratulations. Please post more pics as it blooms.

Allen

Alchris

Congrats Barb;

I hope that you have success with it outside.

Allen

Alchris

It sucks that you lost the sabals.

I wish you good luck with the replacement palms.

Allen

Alchris

That filamentosa doesn't look too bad and the larger palms and holly look good. I hope that my plants look as good when I get to look at them in about a month. I haven't taken the shelter off of my palm but it looks pretty brown. I'm hoping that the power outage was not long enough to harm the roots...

Alchris

It looks like they will survive. It sucks to see the damage to them.

Allen

Alchris

We set a new record for temperature change in 24 hours today. From -29*C to 3*C a total of 32*C/58*F change in 1 day. This does not include wind chill calculations which would have added another 10*C/18*F. When I went out to bring in the garbage garbage cans this morning i wore a T shirt, jeans and ...

Alchris

I hope that the global warming scaremongers are right. If the jet stream, which has spent the last few winters above Edmonton, slips south we will be back to old time temperatures of -40s for several weeks each winter.

Allen

Alchris

My favorite proven hardy plant would be a Belamcanda chinensis which has survived completely unprotected and bloomed consistently for 5 years. I have 2 bushes that have survived consistently without protection but have not bloomed --yet--. So far this has been the mildest winter in terms of actual t...

Alchris

I was outside today. It was sunny, calm and -24*C. It felt so nice that I was tempted to unzip my parka--but I didn't.

Allen

Alchris

That Brevifolia is a beauty.

Allen

Alchris

hardyjim wrote:"Still after the long freeze anything above freezing feels warm!"
I hear ya!

And out here anything above -10 feels warm.

Allen

Alchris

We got that Alaska freeze starting last night. It went from 2*C to -24*C overnight. We only got about 2" of snow but the winds are about 30 K gusting to 70 K. We are drifted in again and have wind chills pushing -40*C. It is just too cold to go out and shovel. Hopefully it will be calmer tomorr...

Alchris

Here are pics from today. I shoveled out the sidewalks and the drifts are gone. The Palm shelter is below the bedroom window http://www.postimage.org/Pq_GMsS.jpg The yuccas in the 'desert' are buried under 2' of snow. I haven't seen them in a couple of months. http://www.postimage.org/Pq_G63r.jpg Wi...

Alchris

It has been a while since we got snow, -15*C and winds of 30+ K. My wife was still thinking of yesterday's 6*C, sunny day when she opened the door just before sunrise this morning. I held the door closed to keep her from coming back in. :lol: Then watched from the window as she waded through knee hi...

Alchris

My agave parryi v. parryi took the initial cold without any outward sign of distress until it was covered in snow. The coldest temperature would have been in the range of -20*C/-5*F.

It will probably be mid April before the snow melts and I find out if it survived.

Allen

Alchris

Nice pics, Aaron.

Allen

Alchris

Welcome to the forum Michael.

I also have an 8' x 6' greenhouse and use it in the summer for my exotics as well as tomatoes and cucumbers. I do not heat it.

Allen

Alchris

Welcome Wyatt.

Allen

Alchris

Amen to that, John. The windchill was horrible.

Allen

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