Couple of pics from a couple of days ago

[hardyjim]

I put a yardstick in some of the pics to add some scale.



Castors are around 8' now.




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Little snow banana(Ensete Glaucum)and Caryota maxima.


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Siam seems to love the hot weather-just not over 100

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Cereus peruvianus has not grown from the top yet
but has grown a 4" new branch since 6/28 and the
other branch is growing...I repotted it today
and turned it so the branches can even out...
wish I would have got a pic of the roots!


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Never seen the P.Lamerei get such a big head-
the leaf crown is about a yard across-

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The smaller Washy is hanging on-it has root damage.

The other is blasting away!


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Washy would probably look nicer without the 4'0'clocks around it but they come back there every year.....(happy)


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Rajapuri pouring it on!


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[BrugsBunny]

The castors look amazing. The rest of the garden too. Great work.

Love it.

[lucky1]

Agave and castors look good together...guess that's what gardeners call "texture".

Spectacular Pachypodium lamerei.
Mine's still limping along, not doing bugger all above the "pinched/collapsed" area.
Barb

[hardyjim]

Look around it really close you may see a branch starting........


Thats how I noticed the branch on the Cereus cactus,I was looking to see if
the top was moving as it seemed odd that it was taking so long.......
this is when I noticed the little branch had started moving and a new
whole new branch was visible,it also looks like there are some little bumps
forming on some upper spines so,if I am lucky,maybe it will bloom this year

-it is big enough now

[lucky1]

-it is big enough now

Certainly is.
Great looking plant.

Mine's trying to put out a leaf here and there around the collapsed area.
We'll see.

Barb