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I bet a j-tree will do very well where you are. I think all you need it very good drainage, they dont like wet roots in the winter. 😀
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 25/01/2011 2:51 pm
Aaron sorry to hear about your Joshua tree and Y. filementosa. I wonder if a treatment of potash starting early in the fall would help the yuccas store up energy for the winter . It works for palm trees so maybe for Yuccas as well?
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
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Posted : 25/01/2011 2:55 pm
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Aaron sorry to hear about your Joshua tree and Y. filementosa. I wonder if a treatment of potash starting early in the fall would help the yuccas store up energy for the winter . It works for palm trees so maybe for Yuccas as well?
John
That might be something I should try. 😀
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 27/01/2011 10:43 pm
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Up-date on plants after such a cold start to winter. As the weather warms the damage looks worse.
Faxon uncovered, looks good.
Parryi uncovered, looks good
Hardiest agave I have, no cover for a few winters now and is still alive
cactus, some burn
cactus first year of burn. 😡 but alive.
rostrata, burn and alive
Torreyi burn and alive
Shoshone Idaho weather
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:15 pm
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dwarf j-tree, dead I think. But should come back from roots.
rostrata
baccata everyone I have looks fine, but I have lost them in the past. I guess you never know whats going to live or die. 😕 
my big j-tree, alive but top rot, bad. 😕 
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:24 pm
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tompsoniana, uncovered looks good
rigida uncovered, dead just like all the ones I have tried in the past 😆 .
neomexicana, from wild seed looks very good.
glauca from seed off my big plant, burnt but alive. 😯 
elata, burns every year. I tyhink I should move it.
elata, does good every year. 😆 
angustissima, looks fine
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:33 pm
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burnt cactus, lots of them, but not all of them. 😀 
rostrata burnt
j-tree
elata, burns to the ground almost every year, but should come back
filimentosa, just to show people that they can burn also.
basilaris burnt, but alive 😀 
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:40 pm
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tree cholla, alive but on the down hill slide. I should start some new cuttings. 😀 
Not everything but shows how things look after last winter. I would say it was my worst year ever, not the coldest, but the worst. 🙂
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:44 pm
I hope those pull through for you. It was a tough winter all around. Thanks for those pics Aaron.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 23/03/2011 6:56 pm
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I hope those pull through for you. It was a tough winter all around. Thanks for those pics Aaron.
John
Thanks John 😀
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 10:59 pm
There are some real standout winners in that group, Aaron.
I'm so sorry for the burn/kill in this rotten winter...I know how that hurts.
Barb
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Posted : 23/03/2011 11:02 pm
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I think by the end of the season there will be so much new growth on other plants I wont think about what I lost. 😀
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-Aaron-
Posted : 23/03/2011 11:02 pm
Good for you, Aaron, and your potted speciments will flourish too.
Barb
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Posted : 23/03/2011 11:59 pm
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More yard pics as the weather warms. 🙂
y. torreyi
y. rostrata
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-
Posted : 08/05/2011 9:47 am
Assuming this is your Idaho garden, isn't it? How low have you got last winter? No snow cover at all?
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Posted : 08/05/2011 11:54 am
