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I just got back from Yuma AZ. It was a lot of fun and ofcource there was many palms there. I wont bore anyone with pics of palms from Yuma becuase it is not much of a challenge to grow them in that area. I will however post a couple of pics of palms from the Tombstone area. This year we got to take a day trip across to the eastern part of the state.
One of the first things I noticed in Tombstone was the abundance palms in the area. Tombstone is above the 4000 ft mark and has winter nights that can dip into the 20's and the teen's F. Sence my property is only 21 miles away as the crow flys, it gave me a good idea what I might be able to grow at my own place. I never had a chance to see my place and it about drove me up the wall. I was so close to my place and could not check it out. That's ok because I will be spending a week down there in July.

Here is a couple of pics, there is more in my home page the album "palms of cochise county".



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Awesome pics Aaron. looks like my kind of place.

It is was a very cool place. It reminded me of Idaho, but with bigger cactus and palm-trees. There is plenty of room Jay, if you and your family ever need a place to winter just let me know. I hope to have a couple of RV pads and a house there one day.

cool pics...especially those palms and the blue sky's...


PalmettomanZ6-Ajax, On

DesertZone wrote:It is was a very cool place. It reminded me of Idaho, but with bigger cactus and palm-trees. There is plenty of room Jay, if you and your family ever need a place to winter just let me know. I hope to have a couple of RV pads and a house there one day.

Sounds good Aaron. We'll see you there in about 15 years or so.

Those cacti would be cool to have around.

Nice pics, Aaron.

Allen

PALMETTOMAN wrote:cool pics...especially those palms and the blue sky's...


PalmettomanZ6-Ajax, On

Yea...it was kinda hard to come back home, even though we were above normal temps in Idaho. I sure miss the 80 deg weather there.

Alchris wrote:Nice pics, Aaron.

Allen

Thanks Allen.

Thanks for sharing those photos Aaron. Those Washingtonia filifera look great and also seem to be pure. Guess the cold nights in the winter would kill off any W. robusta`s to x with. Desert has always been my favorite climate sunny and hot. Nice that you have land there.


John

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Thanks for sharing those photos Aaron. Those Washingtonia filifera look great and also seem to be pure. Guess the cold nights in the winter would kill off any W. robusta`s to x with. Desert has always been my favorite climate sunny and hot. Nice that you have land there.


John

Hi John
I thought maybe the robustas would be toast, but even after a low of 17F this winter they still looked good in Tombstone. On the other hand in Beson where the elevation is lower the cold air must settle, because most of the palm had frost bite. The 3 filiferas in the first pic are from Benson, as you can see they even have some burn to them.

Here is a pic of robustas in tombstone

Aaron, thanks for those great pics.
I can imagine how you felt...being 21 miles away from your place and not seeing it!

At 4,000 feet elevation, desert nights are cold, yet I'm amazed at the palms' health.
Obviously their age has something to do with it.
But they were young once--and presumably more intolerant of cold then.

Do you have an ID for the agave where your wife is pictured?
That plant is a monster!

Ah...blue sky and sunshine.
Send some please.
It's currently snowing again

Barb

lucky1 wrote:Do you have an ID for the agave where your wife is pictured?
That plant is a monster!
Barb

Yes I do, it is agave palmeri. It is native to the area, but I had no idea they could get so big.

As far as small palms go, there was several. Some were burnt some looked fine, but I am sure all will make it. The weather is interesting there. It gets cold but not for long, as soon as the sun comes out it warms up quick. The plams looked bettter there than they did in Kingman AZ. Kingman has warmer nights on average, but struggles to warm up during the day. I will try and post some Kingman palm pics.

Here is a couple of burnt robustas from Kingman AZ. Not all the robustas were this burnt, some up against tall buildings looked good.

Aaron,

So that's a palmeri...have only ever seen little plants.
They're gorgeous at that size.

Such a small palm population when they obviously thrive.
I'm surprised Tombstone residents don't plant additional palms, you mentioned you saw some small ones.

Barb
PS--We must've posted at the same time.
Thanks for the new pics. They'll shrug off that winter damage in no time.

DesertZone wrote:Here is a couple of burnt robustas from Kingman AZ. Not all the robustas were this burnt, some up against tall buildings looked good.

Love those brevifolias. What's in front of the big Yucca brevifolia? Rostrata clump?

Cheers,
Jay

Jay-Admin wrote:Love those brevifolias. What's in front of the big Yucca brevifolia? Rostrata clump?

Cheers,
Jay

Lots of nice brevifolias around Kingman.

The yucca in front of the large brevifolia was a y. baccata. I have a pic of a nice brevifolia at Dolan Springs I will post.

Cool. Can't wait to see it.

Jay, Here is a better pic of that baccata

DesertZone wrote:

WOW! That's a beauty. How old do you figure that one is?

DesertZone wrote:Jay, Here is a better pic of that baccata

That's a nice baccata. I hope mine survives the winter and grows that big.

That Brevifolia is a beauty.

Allen

Jay-Admin wrote:That's a nice baccata. I hope mine survives the winter and grows that big.

I think yours should one day.
It is hard to tell from the pic but that yucca was about 4ft tall. All the baccatas in that area were the blue form. Very nice!

Alchris wrote:That Brevifolia is a beauty.

Allen

I agree, I really liked the form it had.

Here is 3 palms that were looking very well in Kingman.

Pindo


CIDP, suprized me that it did so well there.


Med Fan

Aaron, those are beautiful palms, and obviously quite old.

I'm also surprised the CIDP survives...is Kingman the same elev as Tombstone?

Barb

lucky1 wrote:Aaron, those are beautiful palms, and obviously quite old.

I'm also surprised the CIDP survives...is Kingman the same elev as Tombstone?

Barb

Kingman is lower in elev. about 3500ft, I think it is a zone 8.

DesertZone wrote:

Jay-Admin wrote:That's a nice baccata. I hope mine survives the winter and grows that big.

I think yours should one day.
It is hard to tell from the pic but that yucca was about 4ft tall. All the baccatas in that area were the blue form. Very nice!

Looks like it was tall one. I really like the blue form.

Zone 8 for the CIDP...darn it!
Was hoping for a miracle.
Barb

Here is some cool stuff from Grand-Canyon-West

Barre cactus, looked like ferocactus wislizenii


Yucca Baccata, blue form


Agave utahensis v. kaibabensis