Poor bee and some pics

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Amazing what you might find in the garden if you look close.......(day before)yesterday it was new spathes on the Needle palm and...........yesterday-this

I think he lost it in the high winds of the last few days!

What a way to go!

You may have seen some of these plants before but...
they are new pics(grin)

My Castor bean plants have never been so large this
time of year...the trick is getting them through the(hopefully) few cold nights that are left...

Has anyone tried a hardy(I think it's called "Hope") Philodendron?????

I found this at Wal-Mart for $10 but I am not sure if it is the same thing???????

Amazingly-(for my area)these Washys have been uncovered since (at least)March 8th-just a few days(March 5th)after the snow and 5F at the airport event.

March 8th

I was a little concerned they would get off to a
slow start since the leaves were all nuked last fall...........

I am not worried about that anymore(grin)

Here they are on 4-18-12

These leaves are freaking huge!

These yellow flowers have an AMAZING sweet lemony smell-

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I wish I could get a good shot of how big this Agave is-I really love this plant!

Even after 2 years you could twist it on it's stem
but it is rock solid now and working on leaf #5 already!

"credit" card for scale.

Alocasia "Nigra" putting out it's first leaf-cool plant!

Calla "Hercules" also with it's first ("new home")-leaf.

Empress Wu Giant Hosta-first full season in ground.

D.A. only T.fern left/growing right now.

There is a small chance the Cooperi's and Brownii will come back as they are still green.

Thai giant is coming alive

Ran out of time but I wanted to post these too.

S.McCurtain a.k.a. "little Larrick"

Little bit more on the damage to the palms from the 5-12F cold and snow event of early March.

Only slight discoloring on the largest Fortunei.

The Waggie and smaller Fortunei had almost the same
level of damage...one leaf severed at the petiole
and the top of the next spear dicolored.

Waggie

Fortunei

Very close on the Nainital

Leaves were partially severed on it-I think this shows how important spear movement/growth is.

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Posted : 19/04/2012 10:31 am

TimMAz6

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great plants Jim............your Washy's look great.........how big will those Hosta leaves get??

Posted : 19/04/2012 11:20 am

igor.glukhovtsev

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Wish seeing the such updates every week! Bravo, Jim!

Posted : 19/04/2012 11:48 am

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That's called a Selloum Philodendron...I've got one.
Halfway down page here:
http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.ca/2011/10/is-it-hot-in-here-or-is-it-just-my.html

Great photo of that poor bee!
Very observant of you 😀

Castor beans that big mid-April ???? 😯
Incredible!

Wow, those Washies after a month and a bit.
Spectacular size on the agaves.

Now put your credit card away... 😆

your front yard already looks like mid-summer from other years

Congrats!
Barb

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Posted : 19/04/2012 4:51 pm

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Those Alocasia are going to look good.

I never heard of the "hercules" Calla. THAT is going to look good once it sizes up

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Posted : 19/04/2012 6:15 pm

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Great pics as usual, Jim! That Thai Giant should be huge this year!

Posted : 19/04/2012 10:03 pm

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I always love seeing your pics Jim, you have an awesome garden, those palms are getting big.

Bryce G.

Posted : 20/04/2012 12:34 am

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great plants Jim............your Washy's look great.........how big will those Hosta leaves get??

Here you go Tim

http://www.empresswuhosta.com/

Posted : 20/04/2012 9:27 am

hardyjim

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That's called a Selloum Philodendron...I've got one.
Halfway down page here:
http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.ca/2011/10/is-it-hot-in-here-or-is-it-just-my.html

Great photo of that poor bee!
Very observant of you 😀

Castor beans that big mid-April ???? 😯
Incredible!

Wow, those Washies after a month and a bit.
Spectacular size on the agaves.

Now put your credit card away... 😆

your front yard already looks like mid-summer from other years

Congrats!
Barb

I can not see any difference in this one and the cold hardy ones.

I think the cold hardy are perhaps a more northern growing variety?????

That was a great article about how they raise there internal temps.......

it will need to tonight 😀

Posted : 20/04/2012 9:49 am

James in Fleetwood

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Awsome garden pics Jim. It sucks to be that bee though. 🙁

Posted : 21/04/2012 12:14 am

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Hey jim, whats the pic above the arundo of?

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Posted : 21/04/2012 7:03 am

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Hey jim, whats the pic above the arundo of?

I believe that is a Peace Lily-one of those look what they had at Wal-Mart dealeo's!

The other obvious plant in the pic is Alocasia Amazonica

Posted : 21/04/2012 10:53 am

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I wonder if a shrike impaled that bee? I'll see frogs like that on barb wire fence, and first thought is some demented person did it, but there's actually a bird responsible. Helps them hold it while they're eating, but I've seen many prey that was abandoned for whatever reason, and the birds never took a bite.

Your yards awesome, dunno how you manage. Must be a huge undertaking. That agave looks great and is an example of what is possible with great care.

Posted : 21/04/2012 12:49 pm

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Holy crap... Ive never seen such wide leaves on a peace lily 😯

As for the Amazonica, I kill those. Some people just cant grow somethings, and those are one of the few in my case 😀

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Posted : 21/04/2012 12:54 pm

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I think the Amazonica would already be on it's way out if I didn't cover it
everytime we drop below 40F....along with the Alocasia and Castors!

So far so good!

Look how far along these are in June-2010

Mine have about 5 weeks until June 4(pictured)-it's not that important to get them started
early here...as these grew from the point they were in the picture-to over 6' in 3 weeks-actually 25 days............

June 29,2010
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Did you notice how small the Bamboo was then?????? 😯

Posted : 22/04/2012 10:31 am