Hi all! 🙂
I'm new here. Thanks Igor and Google i find this Forum. I am the owner of that...hm, garden, linked by Igor and a little ashamed, because first: that garden is not always in perfect condition(I'm not living there, just 2 or 3 times a month on weekends at the summer, and usually once monthly in the winter) and two: I think for myself as totally "newby"in this exotic plant gardening - only 2-3 years involved in this hobby 🙂
So, anyway, I'll do anything possible next days and weeks to translate the latest descriptions in the "site" in English too. With my apologize I have not yet done this, but the idea of this site was just to be smth like online photo-gallery for myself and my fiends to show them palms and bananas.
Thanks for your patience and for this unexpected interest to my...casual garden. Hope next years it will survive and became more beautifull. I will be happy to answer any questions related with.
Ivo 🙂

The latest photo, June 6th, of a Canarian Date palm with no winter protection. In March most of the green leaves dried and died, despite the warm weather, but some green spears remained in the center and there was no doubt, the plant is alive. So this is his condition few days ago.
Another one, with protection seems much better and apparently accelerates its growth in may.
To not annoy you, here are (and will uload) the last photos and information about my modest garden. (PROMICE: description in English soon as posible!)

Ivo, incredible photos after a very hard winter.

Wonderful that the CIDP is alive.

And don't apologize for your "casual garden"...we were all thrilled and hoping to see that palm surviving.
Delighted you have joined PN.

Barb

Hi Ivo,

Nice to see you here in PN. Great to see your palms after winter. Keep exoting 🙂

Ivo, welcome to PalmsNorth! Your palms look pretty good considering the extreme temperatures they've been through!

Hi palm fans,
I'am enthusiast from Bulgaria and I love all cold hardy palms and all other exotic plants.
I have around 15 small palms planted in the ground and maybe 100 in pots 😆
Maybe most of you know that this winter was extremely hard 😕

Here are some pictures taken in my home town Ivaylovgrad 😀

Washingtonia with passive protection photographed in March:

Washingtonia with passive protection photographed in May:

Trachycarpus photographed in 01.March:

Trachycarpus without protection photographed in December:

and after the winter in March:

Trachycarpus without protection planted in September(I know that this is mistake) and photographed in March:

the same Trachycarpus in May:

Some of my palms 😆 😆

Kind regards,
Dimitar Katrandzhiev

Hi Zack, welcome aboard Palms North.

How nice to have another palm lover from Bulgaria.
I'm thrilled to see how well your palms look (especially the big Trachy) after such a horrible winter.

A wonderful selection of palms you have.

All look very well cared for.

Will look forward to hearing and seeing more of your work.
Congratulations.

Barb

Hi Barb,
My situation is almost like this with Ivo 😕 My hometown is 350 km. away from the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia where I live and work.
My garden is in Ivaylovgrad and is currently under construction 😆 I hope that it will get a decent look till next year, cause I am going to Ivaylovgrad for only 1 or 2 weekends in the month.
And all these palms which you will see on my pictures I am planning to plant one day in different places in my hometown 😆

Kind regards,
zack 😀

How wonderful your new garden will look when all those potted palms are planted.
Oh what a huge project!
But so very satisfying.

1 or 2 weekends a month...but once the holes are dug, the planting will be sheer pleasure. 😆
Maybe a motorized auger would be good?

Barb

Zack, welcome to PalmsNorth!

Hello Zack,
It's nice to read you here in PalmsNorth. Great plant, I really felt in love with the big Trachycarpus 🙂

Keep us updating with news from your backyard and photos of course!

Last-minute update of D.Orinoco photo: already we have a baby :))

Survivor-Trachycarpus(-9 F, -23 C, 500 hours subfreeze T in february), photo from few days ago: aprox. 12 new leaves and begun to made trunk:

🙂

-To compare, the same plant on February, 26th (left down on a photo).

- and a week after complete snow melting, the begining of March

- the new Butia to test(sorry, not right quality of the picture)

And the Jubaea, ready to meet (and defeat! 🙂 ) his first winter in OG. - - the same plant in the begining of a spring . Well, the landscape is prety more clear. but just now, looking at that picture, I sow the growth(when you see it allmost every week, it seems like no difference:)

I'll post some other photos in the next few days - bananas, and few smaller palms in OG.

Some other plants:

The cute Opra 🙂 in a front of Wachy:

The same chicken (almost young hen) on the big Orinoco:

Musa Orinoco and M. Cheesmanii in the end of September - grown from 2 to 11-12 feet in the end of April to this moment: (you can see the start photos few posts up)

Great palm pics!

I hope my Bulgarian Trachy is that healthy some day....
still recovering from last falls damage.