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Hi Canadinaplant,

We are all with you, wishing you good luck and asking for a lot of picks!!!!
Take care,
Rob

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Hi Yuri,

Thanks for the picks. Question: did you put something around your plants before putting the boxes above them? I have never overwintered a palm, so I am starting to be anxious, now that I have only 5 months left...

Thanks again!
Rob

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Hi Canadianplant, All the best, man! Also, you may want to consider the Camellia Forest Nursery on North Carolina. They actually ship tp Canada, with bare root packages. But telling you the truth, patience seems to be our best friend in this case, because Camellias will grow one long tap root if not...

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Hi Canadianplant,

Are yu going to try the real tea (Camellia sinensis)? If yes, which nursery do you plan to get the plants?
Thanks,
Rob

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IT is great to see these established plants in their beauty; mines are almost seedlings compared to these. Also, nature is so much ahead of us. The crape myrtle is in full bloom!?!? Isn't it 'Natchez' by any chance? And those trunked plams, wow! Quick question: are these plants still exotics in your...

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Looking really good!!!!
Rob

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Wow, Mike, that is a nice life story, good for you. I am originally from Hungary, but lived in L.A., Germany, France, too, and worked in a number of other West European countries. It was great comparing the different cultures, would be worthwile to write a book in it. Where did you live in France? H...

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Hey, Rutherock,

Crapes are among my favourites and have just planted four in my South Canadian garden. I guess they might not even reach their flowering stage, being so much North here, so do you by any chance have some pictures on them that you could share with us?

Take care,
Rob

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Hi Yuri,

Nice pictures, thanks for posting! Do oyu by any chance have a pic on your styrofoam box and those layers you used? Your palms look convincing and since I have no overwintered my babies yet, I am curious...

Thanks,
Rob

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Hi Mike, My two cents is that if the plant is a Dracaena, it will be ok with any surgeric activity, especially with the removal of the offshoots. In the greenhouse business, old mother plants are being kept separately and they are pruned back, from time to time. As a result, these plants will just t...

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ZDRAVSTVUY YURI, Greetings from Oakville, but indirectly from Hungary!!!! Welcome and enjoy your stay here. Please be so kind to us to send us lots of pics on your garden, agreed? Also, if you have any exotics worth mentioning in Kherson, can I please ask you to post some pictures on them, too? I gu...

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Mike, Very kind of you, but I need to wait a bit :( The best location for this tree would be in my front garden (SW exposure), where I have a 30 year old Japanese Aralia tree. It has started to crack and loose bits of branches, but it is still going to take a couple of years before it kicks the buck...

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Hi Canadianplant, I would say you could be an excellent investigator. Honestly, your approach seems the best to me!!!! Colocasias (and Phyllodendrons) used to be indoor office plants in Hungary and were all coming from the same, government owned greenhouse complex. Not that I remember what size thei...

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OY-oy-oy, I hear you, Erik, that is really a tough situation though as I heard that bamboos definitely survive everything except for the kitchen training, ending in a bowl of soup.... The Miscanthus is definitely a good accent plant, radiating that Asian feeling and teh bamboos will place a stamp on...

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Erik, Thanks a lot for sharing this file with us, very interesting!!!! You mentioned that you would go and plant some bamboos. Which ones? Do you use mainly clumping ones or intall the running types, too? If yes, how do you contain them? This is one of my fears, though I definitely want to have a co...

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Thanks guys, for your comments. I am sure that I'll come begging for some good advice in a couple of months on the winter protection; I just did not have the heart to leave those plants getting potbound in the nursery, it was pure goodwill (was it?!?)..... The Magnolia is a beauty, no question. It i...

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Thanks a lot, Barb! Yes, it is lots of wishful thinking I put into this and overwintering will be a challenge. Palms burlapped, Gardenias mulched high and maybe protected by a screen, and the fig.... it is a Brown Turkey variety from Monrovia, allegedly winter hardy. We have lots of Italians and Por...

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Hi all, I finally put some plants into the soil the past week - I can't comment on the gardening application, though :-( . I made a couple of pics and would like to share them with you, thanks for watching and for any comments. I start with the first phase of the Asian garden, which right now has a ...

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Thanks, Mike. Again, a plant proving that most writers were too cautious in estimating its hardiness..... if is grows so well there, it might grow out of its space. I saw a row of this Albizia in Russia (in Sochi) it was so nice being pruned to a small umbrella shape, which is its natural shape, but...

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Hi Barb,

re your picture: isn't it rather an Euphorbia sp.?

Also, your plam baby is very sharp....

Rob

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Hi Jim, Thanks for posting the pics. When in bloom, cactuses put on their best ball dresses and celebrate life with an unbeleivable beauty!!!!!! I still remember the thrill I felt when I saw my first cactus in bloom (Rebutia sp., I think not wonterhardy). Quick question: - the broader leaved, bvarie...

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Hi Mike, Sturdy plant, no question. Interestingly, it is called mimosa, though this term is rather used for the Acacia species... We know this from teh English plant names like berries, cedars, etc... I'd love to have at least one Acacia in the garden, but currently I think it is too much of a wish;...

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Congrats, Jim! Great job, all my respects to you; this was a lesson to all of us.
Rob

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Hi Sidpook, Beautiful!!!! And how it is shooting out, just lovely, you convinced me! As for the silk tree, it is the Albizia julibrissin. Its story is amazing. It started as a very tender greenhouse plant and due to homwowners trying their luck (or being forgetful), they started to emerge as year-ro...

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Hi Bill,

Thanks for your nice words. Imagine, I just discovered a silk tree in the neighbourhood. It is about 10 years old, 3 m high. It has just leaved out 2 days ago, that is how I recognized it. I do not know yet if it will be able to push out flowers, too, though.... Tough guy, eh?

Rob

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Erik,

Also, with your climate, no wonder that themusical said: Oh what a wonderful morning, oh what a wonderful day......

Rob

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Erik,

It was worth wrestling with it

I especially like its flowers being pinkish and not the original yellow. Are you going to trim the bush to be a round globe or do you let it grow to its own taste?
Rob

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I totally agree with Willy1der! Consider South Coast Gardens, too. Kevin - the owner - confirmed the same to me, too. He goes down South once or twice on a shopping spree and gets a lot of stuff from North Carolina. Also, he experiments with a lot of things, so keep an eye on him! If you can manage ...

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Hi Bill, No, unfortunately, I am not starting a nursery, being an accountant... But I am a great fan of exotics, that was my masters thesis as a horticulturist. So I am starting to develop an Asian garden in one part of my garden, I am building an exotic gartden in the front section and in the third...

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Hi Jova,

It is going to be very beautiful. Loving care is felt by plants, I am (almost) sure

Good luck with your planting!
Rob

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Hi Sidpook, Nice! Aren't they beautiful? That is why I will make the nursery rich..... Would it be possible to have a pic on the site, too? I just do not know if I dared to put it into teh SE exposure, but you may have half shade there; that is why it would be great to see it. Thanks for posting!!! ...

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Hey Jova, A very nice looking baby. Especially the top of it, were it started to grow liek crazy. Yes, it loves water, possibly you can never overwater it and it kindly pays it back by showing its vigorous growth rate. I can not identify it unfortunately...... It is not Little Gem (darker smaller le...

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This week-end I went to see the South COast Gardens and Nursery in St Williams, by Lake Erie. Very nice, small nursery trying to speciallize in rare plants i.e. exotics in South Ontario. Kevin the owner showed me around and showed me a tiny live oak, which successfully overwintered in South Ontario,...

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Oh Erik,

Two more jasmines to try:

- Jasminum humile - nice evergreen with yellow flowers, shrub of 1.5-2 m tall, blooming in the summer and
- Jasmimum fruticans - very compact evergreen with yellow flowers, shrub of about 1.5 m tall, blooming in the summer, too.

Rob

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The Jasminum nudiflorm should be OK in zone 6 and maybe zone 5. It is a weed in Hungary, even in the coldest places with zone 5... The only thing is that the flowers may be frozen off in mid winter if they come out too early for the location. Have you tried Laurocerasus officinalis, too? It is prett...

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Bill,

How old is your Natchez? Looks beautiful, I am just wondering if it will grow to a 30 feet tree...
Your garden is marvelous!!!!
Rob

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Erik,

Is the winter jasmine the Jasminum nudiflorum? Does it start blooming already in the dead winter in Oklahoma? If yes, your place is already a spot to envy.... Have you tried crepe myrtles?

Rob

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Bill,

Just beautiful... How old are your needles? They look very well established....

Rob

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Erik, I just checked my Camellia book by Ackerman for Jan-Feb blooming camellias. The ones I fond are the following (in order of blooming period, the last two blooming in February and the previous ones in Dec through Jan): Ashton Snow, Winter's Snowman, Winter's Toughie, Winter's Joy, Winter's Peony...

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John,

Great pictures, anyone could envy you for this collection. Nice, healthy plants. Congrats.

Rob

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