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DesertZone · 2013-02-18T12:47:06Z

Tim, I have been looking around Cochise county AZ in google maps, because they have updated maps "May 2011" street views. This is the spring after the "big freeze". This is of interest to me because of the plants in area. Although NM and West Texas seen the same kind of cold they don't have the saguaros and other plants that this county in AZ has. I have seen lots of dead cactus/plants but I also have found plants with no cold damage at all, and even some saguaros in bloom. The big agaves in Bisbee look like real gems and are unlike any A. americana I have seen. I think they are not typical of the species, but have shown to be much hardier than the norm. :wink: PS Sierra Vista AZ, by the golf cource area is a good place to look fopr survivers. Bisbee type agave in Tombstone AZ, untouched. Some places seen as cold as -5F

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I should also state that the "big freeze" Feb 2 2011, because there is healthy cactus pic Jan 2011. 😉

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Posted : 01/01/2014 1:58 pm

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No saguaros around there either.

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I think they don't go that far east, but I think they would have done better.
Saguaro's are found wild in zone 9 areas, and organ-pipe cactus are mostly found in Zone 10 areas.

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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.
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Posted : 01/01/2014 3:02 pm

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Plus the saguaros are smarter (sorry). 😆

speaking of brains..or lack...avatar's gone nanners. 😆 😆

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Posted : 01/01/2014 3:52 pm

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speaking of brains..or lack...avatar's gone nanners. 😆 😆

Mine or yours? Yours looks like it's working. 🙂

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Posted : 09/01/2014 8:49 pm

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Yup, back to normal again.
Even the weather stickers bombed en masse yesterday, but they're back up again today.
Must've been the heavy snowload 😆 😆

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Posted : 10/01/2014 10:51 am

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The biggest Brahea armata I have seen in SE AZ, at least in cold country. The flowers made me look or I would have thought it was filifera.
https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.344438,-109.534244&spn=0.001574,0.002068&t=h&z=19&vpsrc ="6&layer=c&cbll=31.344476,-109.534651&panoid=GVh50ksZn9ACNgnRbb9BEg&cbp=12,319.76,,1,-5.2"

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Posted : 09/03/2014 12:44 pm

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That's a prize specimen, wow!

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Posted : 09/03/2014 12:48 pm

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That's a prize specimen, wow!

Barb

I wonder how old, I hope one day to have one half that size. 😀

My baby might see it that big. 😆

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Posted : 09/03/2014 12:56 pm

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Those are troopers. That Sabal P. behind it looks a little damaged also, but seems to have shrugged it off.

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Posted : 09/03/2014 1:17 pm

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Those are troopers. That Sabal P. behind it looks a little damaged also, but seems to have shrugged it off.

The image is june 2013, the winter before got down to 5-6f. So those plants took -2f in 2011 winter and than a 6f in the 2011-2012 winter.
Not bad after two bad winters in a row. Not sure, but I think the other palm is a robusta.

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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 : 09/03/2014 4:47 pm