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Thought I would post a mid-summer update. Everything is growing well this year. Plenty warm finally after a cold spring.
Overall shot of yard. Loving this year (happy)
Christmas palm.
Perennial bed with caladiums thriving.
Ensete maurelii, musa orinoco, croton and rhododendron.
Large ensete maurelii. Canna in the background.
Another large ensete maurelii. (happy)
Kalmia latifolia, ensete maurelii, ensete ventricosum, pennesetum fireworks, tiarella black snowflake and musa thai black.
Yucca color guard and my magnolia edith bogue. The magnolia is on its second flush of leaves right now.
Magnolia closeup.
My oldest trachy planted in 2008.
The trachy I planted last summer. Cut all its leggy fronds off; everything is new growth this summer.
Trachycarpus wagnerianus and siam ruby that I overwintered.
The grass you see in my yard is a mixture of Penncross creeping bentgrass and A1 creeping bentgrass. Mowed every other day at 3/4" tall.
Thanks for looking!
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Posted : 25/07/2011 9:17 pm
Lookin' good tim!!! 🙂
Posted : 26/07/2011 1:43 am
yard looks great Tim!
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Posted : 26/07/2011 8:03 am
Ensete will be monsters next year!
Hope your ready,mine reached 11' in the second year.
The good news is,they are ridiculously easy to dig up!
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Posted : 26/07/2011 1:45 pm
How do YOU over winter your palms? And the Ensete's you just dig up and store in the basement?
Scott/Omaha
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Posted : 26/07/2011 6:27 pm
Tim nice to see your Ensete`s taking off. Any of your neighbors caught the palm ,banana bug yet? Nice pics.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
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Posted : 26/07/2011 7:27 pm
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Palms are overwintered in a poly box with foam insulation on the outside. Inside there is a space heater set at 35-40F. Bananas I did up and store in the basement.
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Posted : 26/07/2011 11:25 pm
All looking great.
Gotta add that the potted Manilla palm looks super!
Posted : 27/07/2011 9:32 am
I also like that Christmas Palm! 😀
Bet your yard turns the head of every motorist who passes.
Everything looks sooooo good, well done, Tim.
Hey, did you know that Penncross creeping bentgrass and A1 creeping bentgrass are for golf greens?
What's left of your lawn would make a nice putting green if you sink a few "cups" ... would make a nice 5-hole putting green. 😀
Barb
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Posted : 28/07/2011 4:38 pm
Great work!
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Posted : 29/07/2011 4:35 pm
PICS of the winter protection.
I just envy this yard.
Scott/Omaha
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Posted : 29/07/2011 10:46 pm
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I also like that Christmas Palm! 😀
Bet your yard turns the head of every motorist who passes.
Everything looks sooooo good, well done, Tim.Hey, did you know that Penncross creeping bentgrass and A1 creeping bentgrass are for golf greens?
What's left of your lawn would make a nice putting green if you sink a few "cups" ... would make a nice 5-hole putting green. 😀
Barb
Thanks. Yeah I did, that's why I planted it. I love how thick it grows when mowed short.
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Posted : 30/07/2011 9:51 pm
