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I uncovered my palms a couple weeks ago and finally got around to posting a few pics here. Two inground trachies and y. thompsoniana are perfect coming out of winter. They are all now noticeably growing.
And one of my y. filamentosas which got no protection at all. This one is more compact with wider leaves. It flowered last year.
More pictures of stuff to come as I get the time...
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Posted : 14/04/2011 7:54 am
Everything looks great Kory.
This has been a weird spring,it seems a very persistent
front has laid out north of me and while we are in the 60s
I just noticed Tim in Wisconsin is in the low 30s...brutal.
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Posted : 14/04/2011 12:23 pm
great work!
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Posted : 14/04/2011 1:38 pm
Great work! Didn't get cooked this year. I'm happy to see that.
Everything looks great Kory.
This has been a weird spring,it seems a very persistent
front has laid out north of me and while we are in the 60s
I just noticed Tim in Wisconsin is in the low 30s...brutal.
Dude, send the warm air up here. What is this? Been like this all spring!
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Posted : 14/04/2011 1:54 pm
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Thanks guys. Yeah Jim, what a wierd spring weather-wise. We are in the high 40s for highs today and tomorrow with overnight lows just at or above freezing for 2 nights before getting back to the 50s and 60s. It had been 60s and a few 70s up to today. This is why I wait until May 1st to put the bananas back in...
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Posted : 14/04/2011 3:31 pm
Congrats on a great protection job.
They look super!
And that y.filamentosa doesn't need protection even in zone 4, although it would get some cold burn in z.4 above snow level.
More pics please.
Barb
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Posted : 14/04/2011 4:35 pm
Wish I could do that Tim!
May 1 is a good plan!
I just about **** a brick when our earlier forecast was talking about
a hard freeze and possibly snow...and now (today)it was supposed to be in the 50s
and ended up being in the low to mid 70s!
I took a big risk planting all my stuff this early...way to much to cover right now.
I just planted a bunch of different Colocasia/Alocasia and a Ensete glaucum
(snow banana)should be a lot of fun this year...and a lot of watering!
One of my favorite pics of E.Glaucum
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Posted : 14/04/2011 6:52 pm
Jim,
I wouldn't utter the words "snow banana" too loud.
😆
Barb
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Posted : 14/04/2011 6:57 pm
those look 8) 8) 8)
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Posted : 14/04/2011 8:10 pm
your plants look great. Nice job protecting. Keep us posted on the Y. thompsoniana........ it may be a Y. rostrata or intermediate form. If it's a full blooded Y. thompsoniana it will bloom this year. If no blooms, it's likely a Y. rostrata.
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Posted : 14/04/2011 10:04 pm
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Thanks for the info about the yucca Tim. I'll definitely get pics up here if/when it flowers. My gut tells me it will flower... Compared with the rostratas I've examined, I'm pretty sure it is a thompsoniana. Though I have only seen a couple other true/known thomsonianas I'm pretty confident about what it is. Strange though, when I bought the thing it was about a third the price of a comparably sized rostrata from any of the online/mail-order sources. I looked at a bunch of both species at a big nursery when I was in Vegas and they sell the thompsonianas for more than rostratas of the same size. The biggest difference between the two types that I've observed is the size of the head. It seems the rostratas are about twice the diameter (longer leaves) and more perfectly round in shape. That and the thompsoniana appears a little more green than blue, mine is really a blue-green. I love the thing, I wish I would have bought a couple more when they were cheap. Plant World had 4' rostratas for about $100 while the thompsonianas that size were around $200. That's more than 2x what I paid when I got mine and mine is/was bigger!
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Posted : 15/04/2011 7:06 am
Great looking plants!
Posted : 15/04/2011 7:48 am
Plant World had 4' rostratas for about $100 while the thompsonianas that size were around $200.
If--and I mean if--four footers were avail in Canada, you'd be lookin' at $300 to $400 I bet.
You've got a gold mine there Tim.
Barb
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Posted : 15/04/2011 1:33 pm
Rostrata leaves will be less rigid and thompsoniana leaves will be more rigid. I see both rostrata/thompsoniana in yours......perhaps an intermediate form. A good, inexpensive source of big Yuccas is www.select-seeds.com. There is a minimum order but you be happy! 😀
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Posted : 15/04/2011 10:00 pm
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UPDATE!
I know this is the hardy palms section but I wanted to mention that my 5'+ yucca thompsoniana IS GOING TO FLOWER!!!!
It just started to produce the flower stalk and has been growing visibly each day. I'm absolutely amazed, the thing has only been in the ground here in MN (zone 5a barely) for a year and a couple of months. Though it is likely 15-20 years old in actuality, who woulda thought... HERE?!?! It came bare-root, stripped from the desert from the Las Vegas area.
My ground yuccas have flowered here and I thought that was pretty cool for MN, but a large trunked yucca???
I'll begin a new thread in the yucca section soon and post pictures every step of the way. Very, very cool in my opinion!!!
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Posted : 31/05/2011 7:40 pm
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