Heidi,
Don't worry about the over fertilization, just give the proper amount next time. If you are worried irrigate well to wash the salts from the soil more quickly. The basjoo is probably fine, it's just having to regrow from suckers, which, in soil temps below 20 celsius can take a long time!

I would move to Vancouver or Victoria if only the summers were better! The climate, in terms of USDA zone, is so awesome and the plants you can grow are amazing! I also love that the cities are willing to plant palms and bananas publicly. You would NEVER see the kind of dedication to public horticulture in any of the other places I've lived in Canada (Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia).

Heidi,

Very nice work! The yard looks great! Very cool landscaping.

Paul: It must be noted that, in terms of dedication to public horticulture, the City of Calgary excels at maintaining vast expanses of dead brown grass! 😉

Duncan

Hey thanks Duncan! Hopefully things will green up in your area very soon! lol

Paul, thanks for your reassurance. I will post more pics when pups push through the banana. and maybe I shouldn't fertilize the palm for a few more weeks, what do you think?

Heidi

Heidi; Your yard looks great.

Paul; I object to your reference to Alberta not maintaining good public horticulture. You obviously have missed Edmonton's massive plantings of perennial blooms in our public areas. Once you have seen these areas of Dandelions with their gorgeous yellow blooms followed by wonderful white globe shaped seed heads, I am sure that you will retract that nasty comment. 😆 😆

Allen

Paul; I object to your reference to Alberta not maintaining good public horticulture. You obviously have missed Edmonton's massive plantings of perennial blooms in our public areas. Once you have seen these areas of Dandelions with their gorgeous yellow blooms followed by wonderful white globe shaped seed heads, I am sure that you will retract that nasty comment.

Allen that is so funny! I can appreciate what you've said....I grew up in Camrose.

And thank you for the compliment on my yard.

I will soon post a pic of another new Trachycarpus Fortunei that I bought today! woo hoo! 😀

Heidi

Heidi nice to see your pics. We all need an El nino next winter . You might want to hold of on watering to much until it really warms up. Bring on some warmer seasonal temps for this time of year would be great.

John

Hey thanks John! I agree about the watering - especially now that we've had a week of rain. Today I noticed my Musa stopped pushing out it's leaf. I expected it to be opened by now. We're supposed to have sunny skies into this weekend so I'll just leave everything alone for now.

Heidi

Don't worry about over fertilizing hilashes. My 15 gal. windmill after 5.6 degrees no heat it's first winter in SE MA covered only had 3 good leaves + the 2-3 spere leaves. I then fertilized 20-20-20 for 6 weeks straight on heavy duty. It grew leaves almost as fast as the basjoo. Warm humid summer when it gets here. It grew 14-15 leaves nice ones by winter. This winter with c-9 lights for protection about 70 watts my tree flowered 7 seed stems and looks as good as when I wrapped it. Hardyjim has inspired me to protect my plants and tree's even more this year. I bought 3 giant 30 gal. washys and added heat to there roots along with other tropicals. hardyjim seems to be on par with me for planting things that do not belong?

Heidi, thanks for those pictures.
Always love to see your yard.
That's a great looking new windmill, and the musa looks good.
The musa out front should be sending up a pup soon with soil warming.
Maybe GENTLY poke around a few inches down with your finger...if nothing's coming, you can head off to the nursery again 😀

Bill, welcome to the forum! Your data is VERY encouraging, especially since I've got a lot of 20-20-20!
the thought of a windmill growing 14 to 15 leaves is unbelievably exciting.
Did you add any magnesium and manganese?

You're right, Jim is a great teacher of winter protection.
I've learned a lot too from Jim and others here.

Barb

WOW Bill that's amazing - 14 or 15 leaves! If I could only see that with mine. I'm learning so much since I've planted my new Windmills. Thanks so much for the tips, I'm already planning new action for overwintering them. I hope I have the success you have this year....I lost 2 little Trachys from last winter so I'm really going to baby these ones! At least they'll have longer time to establish themselves.

Barb - Great to hear from you...thank you for your sweet comment on my yard! It is my pride and joy and I could not wait to get my hands into everything again this year. I did what you said with the Basjoo and unfortunately turned out to be a goner. So I'm hoping a get a new one for Mother's Day?? 😉

I look forward to gaining more knowledge from the great experience and advice everyone here has! I planted the second Windmill today, so pics to come. I've found a new soil from the nursery that I am crazy about (not to mention the Basjoo) it's Sea Soil, full of micro-macro nutrients and trace elements. I've mixed it in with the Windmill soil, does anyone here use similar stuff? here's the link to it if anyone's interested, it's in the orange and white bag.

www.seasoil.com

Heidi

Thanks lucky 1 & hilashes!

I thought the same thing last year when my palm was suffering. The only thing I was thinking with the 20-20-20 was rebounding leaves. I figured a second year palm could take it. It did with flying colors I did also use a cup of epsom salt in the beginning and a month or so later. I also used palm and iroxa food from florida about around mid june I think in the mix.

This was about a week after uncovering.

One more week or so.

This was close to the end of the year late Oct.

Hope the Pictures come out this is my first time 😆 [/img]

Bill, those are some great pictures, thanks! I can't get over the difference that Trachy is in only one month. Love the rest of your garden too!

Heidi

Spectacular pics Bill...

That's it!!!! I'm going to overfertilize my stuff too 😆 😆
Barb

It worked for me with a little yellowing on the tips. I Just say keep an eye on it as you go. You'll be able to tell if it's not happy. Like I said the only reason I tried it was I wanted more leaves and I didn't want to wait. The stuff I used was the miracle grow 20-20-20 mix. It was blue.

I won't be as aggressive this year since it stared with a full head. It'll still get juiced when the weather is warmer. The last picture was after about six months of grow. I stopped fertilizing after about seven shots or so, way before cold. I'll try to get some photos this weekend when get some time.

Bill