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WTF your last frost is april 15th?? LOL Thats not even fair 😀 North carolinas last frost is april 10th.....
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Posted : 17/04/2011 8:52 am
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That was funny Barb!
Tim
The issue here is the Arctic wind chill,these are undamaged to -18F
in my experience if completely protected from wind.
When they are small they do not have enough sap in their "veins"
to act as a protectorant/antifreeze,supposedly as they age this improves.
Mine doubled in size in the last year 😀
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Posted : 17/04/2011 6:15 pm
the Sequoiadendron sure looks better when green!
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Posted : 17/04/2011 8:05 pm
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the Sequoiadendron sure looks better when green!
😀 I agree! 😀
I love seeing it in it's natural blue green state!
It's starting to break out of it's dormancy now too.
As much as I don't like the cool rainy weather right now....
there is plenty of stuff that does-T.ferns,Sequoia,Trachys.
We really need the rain too-such a dry spring this year.
With any luck we get a few inches(+) of rain this week(+)
and next week the warm weather hits!!!!!
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Posted : 18/04/2011 11:02 am
we already got 4.12" of rain this month.......things are real greeeeeeeeeeeeen!
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Posted : 18/04/2011 11:14 am
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An inch of hail and maybe another inch of rain this morning-arg!
2 more days and it warms back up again-hope my tropicals can make it!
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Posted : 19/04/2011 11:10 am
An inch of hail? 😕
Sheesh.
You must live next door.
Come over for a beer.
Barb
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Posted : 19/04/2011 2:02 pm
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Think I need to grab some.
Anything with tropical leaves on it was shredded-
all the palms look o.k. but one of the new T.fern
fronds was severed by a(mf) frozen marble :blob6:
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Posted : 19/04/2011 5:01 pm
Sheesh, Jim! 👿
I'd invert cardboard boxes over them to let 'em recover from the carnage.
Barb
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Posted : 19/04/2011 5:18 pm
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Barb
There is to much stuff to pick and chose what I would cover.
So far everything is holding up well to the cold and wet.
We had an inch of rain with the hail 😯 and although the tropicals
are battered,they really haven't started growing yet.
Tomorrow more Colocasia and some other stuff arrive,
at least this stuff will have a warmer greeting than the last batch,
that said,everything looks good still.
You guys gotta check out some of the stuff I ordered.
C.Frydek has iridescent leaves with beautiful white highlights on the veins-
here are some links to some pics of what I ordered.
C.Chicago harlequin
C.frydek
C."Jacks giant"
C.Nancyana
C.Ele Paio
Oxalis regnelli triangularis
Ginger alpinia vittata
E.Ventricosum
Variegated Caryota mitis-("houseplant")
Variegated Osmanthus
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Posted : 20/04/2011 5:14 pm
Holy cow, Jim, you've got some great stuff ordered!
Jack's Giant is sure named right. 😆
Great color on the Oxalis, and the short fat "ventricosium" is a stunner.
My jaw dropped at that variegated Fishtail...
Might do better on the patio with some humidity than in the house.
You'll get a kick out of this email I received today:
INSTALLING SPRING...
███████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 44% DONE.
Install delayed....please wait.
Installation failed. Please try again. 404 error: Season not found.
Season "Spring" cannot be located. The season you are looking for might
have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try again.
😆 😆
Looking forward to seeing pics of everything planted Jim.
Barb
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Posted : 20/04/2011 5:26 pm
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Holy cow-so true!
I am sure Kory / Tim will appreciate that too!
Jacks giant looks a lot like Thai giant to me.
I basically looked for the coolest looking stuff I could fine!
The Caryota will be outside until it's to cold...
not my favorite Caryota but I love the variegation!
The C.Frydek picture doesn't do it justice,the leaves
have a silvery deep green sheen to them-absolutely beautiful!
I basically typed in "variegated plants" on e-bay and fired away. :director:
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Posted : 20/04/2011 5:40 pm
and fired away
You sure did...like it's Christmas again 😀
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Posted : 20/04/2011 6:54 pm
Holy crap Jim did you ever go EE crazy this year!!!
Is that C Frydek as sensitive as the "Alocasia Amazinica"? IT looks damn close to it....
That ginger should do good there. That one is hardy to zone 7 right? OR at least dig it up? The consevatory here has a large ginger labled "zingiber officinal", yet, even im sure its that alpina you showed. Im hopeing they might do a trade. Its ginger, that stuff is hard to get rid of once its estabolished...
How many types of EE do you have now?
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Posted : 21/04/2011 7:52 am
I'm also eager to hear how Jim grows his ginger. I like them, but have not been able to over winter in the ground. So, I dig them up each October. It gets harder each year so I'd like to try again.
Posted : 21/04/2011 9:18 am
