Ive thought about trying fig. They can apperantly grow back romt he ground, as a dieback perrenial ( like some eucalyptus). Any suggestions to waht species? The one I remember was Ficus Csomething ( memory span of a gold fish). You have any figs outside?

ITs hard enough to get any palms for outdoors or any other musa besides basjoo ( so far), let alone fig, or anything else... I have to ship almsot everything in, including seeds. THats what I get for my city being 8 + hours away from any larger city....

THe seeds i got, hd mroe seeds then expected. I got 20 Dypsis Lanceolata instead of 10 and even more happily, 12 Nanus seeds instead of 10 Hopefuly in a year or 2 a few of them can go outside...... and see how they handle it here....

Next year is when the real experiment starts..... IF these bamboo survive, and the Basjoo, im planting a Trachy. Unless i happen to get my hands on one this year....

Just some updated pics.... Been hot an humid. Was about 34C in my yard, and was probably 43 or more with the humidity.

Great results, especially with the papyrus.
Mine croaked, must need lots of humidity (which we don't have).

You'll soon have no place for a lawnchair.

Thanks 😀

Im trying to figure out a way to over winter it. I dont have very many south facing windows, and the one is gonna be taken up by the musa.

If I had it my way, there wouldn tbe a lawn, or deck, or garage........ LOL. Lawn isnt the greatest thing to have anyways, take up too much nitrogen, and creates a savannah like enviroment, which makes it easier for "weeds" and unwanted plants to grow, due to lack of trees and shrubs.

Well, the fall /late summer tasks start. Potted up my alocasia, colocasia and one of the Basjoo.

Potting up early?

Ya....... My frost date is sept 20th. If its a fall like last year, middle of october. The musa wasnt getting enough light, and neither were the elephant ears. This makes it easier to climitize them to shadeish, and if its colder at ngiht, and warm during the day ( which out falls can be), i can brign them inside, and leave them out during the day. If it stays warm, oh well, theyll grow well any ways 😈

Sept 20th is early.
Seems a lot of Ontarians were playing golf till nearly Christmas last year!
But with climate change, doubt anyone can be sure anymore.
Barb

Ya, it wasnt cold here at all. No snow, we had a zone 6 mabey 7 year here last year. ID rather be safe then sorry with my plants 😀

Hi Canadian Plant!

I myself am experimenting with fig in Oakville, ON, basically GTA. It grew like crazy in the summer. I am originally from Hungary, where we have only one growing period, say, until end of July and then all plants are simply getting ready for the winter. Here in Canada, I can't believe my eyes: all of my plants have shooted out again: the Magnolia grew another 20 cm (Little Gem - dwarf variety!) and the same with the fig.

The trick is overwintering, since figs are OK until about -15C. Methods:

A./ Lazy approach: throw 50 cm mulch over its trunk and wait. Chances are that you might end up having a bush, with shoots about 1.5 m long and maybe one set of fruits in August.
B./ Bulgarian/Portugese approach: pull down its flexible stems to the ground and bury them, about 20 cm deep. Throw mulch over them and wait. Chances are that you'll have a small tree next year. You now want to mention the fact that figs as any other plants grow until they die so time will come when the shoots will become branches then thigh thick trunks. Well, the Portugese figured that out, too and they actually made small ditches next to the figs, cautiously lifted part of the root systems and then were able to lay down the whole plants to the ground level. They also figured out a special pruning technique whereby they let only very small shoots grow on the trunks and as a result, these smaller shoots are easier to lay.

GOOD LUCK!!!!! And go for the Brown Turkey variety, if possible.
Rob

Ive read up on them quite a bit in the last week or so. Ive read that you can propagate then by burying the stems, but I never read about burying all of the branches. I was thinking of doing it like Basjoo. Cut the top off, then, wrapping the crap out of the trunk, so I can give it a good good head start. Ill have to read up a bit more on that... thanks for the tips!!!!! Now i jsut have to try to find some seeds or some cuttings 😥

Heres a few more pics
1- Datura Double Queen. 3 ft tall so far, in 2 months, has a flower or 2 developing
2 - Canna, 5ft+
3-Unknown passiflora (cerulea??)
4-Summer flowers on clematis "the president"
5- Unkown banana, Musella lAsiocarpa or musa velutina. Leaves look thinner, and oblong, so im assuming Musella.

Canadianplant: Try "Adriano's figs". I'll be ordering some cuttings from him soon as well 😀

Already contacted him LOL, thanks for the lead cameron 😀

My passiflora bloomed finaly today. I have no idea what it is, of ourse the tag didnt say anything. Looks liek cerulea......... or a hybrid of..