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cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 9:56 pm

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Aug 27, 2012 11:48 pm

Nice plants! Where are you located?

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:05 am

Thanks Cameron. I'm in Springfield, IL zone 5b/6a.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:32 am

Holly cow - nice plants! Seems you have a nice climate you yucca rostrata - your banana ana Indian lilac grow there!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 11:55 am

Agree, great selection of plants you've got!

Great job posting pics

Would you mind adding your location/zone to your Profile, cuja?
That way we won't ask you 50 times where you live.

And some members here may even reside nearby.

Will the potted yuccas and agaves be planted?

Nice rabbit protection around the Hesperaloe.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:07 pm

What's the red flowered bush?

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:40 pm

Aaron Looks like a Crape Myrtle to me and Cuju I am located in IL as well except im farther south in Jonesboro, IL thats about 45 minutes south west of Carbondale, if you know where that is. I actually have some cousins that live in Springfield, nice plants. Some of my sedum's have died too or are near death. I don't think they like the high humidity. Nice plants too

nice to see another person on here close to my area.

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:41 pm

Aaron Looks like a Crape Myrtle to me and Cuju I am located in IL as well except im farther south in Jonesboro, IL thats about 45 minutes south west of Carbondale, if you know where that is. I actually have some cousins that live in Springfield, nice plants. Some of my sedum's have died too or are near death. I don't think they like the high humidity. Nice plants too

nice to see another person on here close to my area.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:45 pm

Most like that sedum is Sedum spathulifolium it requires acid soil conditions....

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:15 pm

Thanks for reminding me Barb. I kept meaning to put my location down.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:18 pm

Aaron, the bush is a crepe myrtle dynamite. I was pleasantly surprised that it has survived the last 2 winters here. The first year it died to the ground and came back from the roots. It grew about 4 feet in one season and the blooms were awesome. This last winter there was no dieback at all.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:18 pm

Aaron, the bush is a crepe myrtle dynamite. I was pleasantly surprised that it has survived the last 2 winters here. The first year it died to the ground and came back from the roots. It grew about 4 feet in one season and the blooms were awesome. This last winter there was no dieback at all.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:21 pm

Thanks Igor, so far I have only tested the banana. The canalilly and yucca rostrata haven't seen their first central illinois winter yet. The banana made it through the last 2 winters easily.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:24 pm

Igor you may be right about the sedum. They called it Old man's bones. I think I may have over estimated its drought tolerance as I planted it in soil with about 75% pea gravel and 25% sand. then came back from a 2 week vacation and it was a goner.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:31 pm

Aaron Looks like a Crape Myrtle to me and Cuju I am located in IL as well except im farther south in Jonesboro, IL thats about 45 minutes south west of Carbondale, if you know where that is. I actually have some cousins that live in Springfield, nice plants. Some of my sedum's have died too or are near death. I don't think they like the high humidity. Nice plants too nice to see another person on here close to my area.[

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Hi Bryce. I love Southern Illinois. I came back that way from Florida about a month ago. I actually got the yucca Gloriosa from Carbondale. I was really surprised to see it and I had no idea what it was. I've never been to Jonesboro but I work for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and I noticed that there is a Looking for Lincoln site in Jonesboro. I think Metropolis is awesome too! I would live anywhere in So. IL.[/quote]

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:39 pm

Barb, I plan on planting the 2 agaves next year after I see how this parryi does this winter. I think I'm gonna wait on the faxoniana. It doesn't sound like it stands a chance in Central IL. I might just enjoy it in a pot at least until I move somewhere more accomodating.

Have you had luck with hesperaloe where you live? I was gonna try to go without protecting it. This is the first year I've had it.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 6:55 am

Everything looks awesome-what did your Hesperaloe do to end up in jail?

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 11:35 am

what did your Hesperaloe do to end up in jail?

Haha! Hi Jim! I know you from gardenweb!
I surrounded the hesperaloe with wire because I heard that animal like to eat them. If it survives long enough to get bigger I will eventually remove the cage. I do have a brakelights hesperaloe in my front yard and nothing has ever eaten it, so it may not need it.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:02 pm

Better safe than sorry...I hear ya.

Should bloom next year-mine did this year and the patch
on the west side is going to bloom too-I should say it is sending
up a nice bloom-stalk.

You can see the 2 bloom-stalks -in front of and-above the Y.Gloriosa.

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:46 pm

Hi Bryce. I love Southern Illinois. I came back that way from Florida about a month ago. I actually got the yucca Gloriosa from Carbondale. I was really surprised to see it and I had no idea what it was. I've never been to Jonesboro but I work for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and I noticed that there is a Looking for Lincoln site in Jonesboro. I think Metropolis is awesome too! I would live anywhere in So. IL.

Cuja nice, I have a few Gloriosas, and a few other kinds of Yucca. Pretty much every garden center down here sells Variegated Gloriosa now and "Color Guard". Yeah Abraham Lincoln is big in Jonesboro it was one of the towns that the Lincoln Douglas Debates were held a few years ago they had a huge reenactment with people dressed up like they did in the 1800's and carriages, horses, and an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, lol. There is even an Abraham Lincoln Statue in the Jonesboro park. I have been to Metropolis a few times, nice town gotta love the riverboat casino too, and superman, lol.

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:47 pm

I ment to Quote the paragraph above the one I wrote, oops I dunno how to do the quote thing apparently.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:51 pm

Jim, what is the columnar cactus that has at least five columns together in the lower right behind the agave, looks about 1 foot tall. Is that an echinocereus trigloc? Also, do you cover your ice plants?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:31 am

You got it right.

The ice plants are partially covered by the edge of the protection
and in some cases smashed by it-always comes back and I spread it
around where it ain't.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:37 am

Wow, I've got one of those from High Country Gardens, mine are really small though.

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