Simply amazing Bill!
😯
Your place looks awesome!

Mark

Bill that is some great work. Your place looks tropical. What are your winter plans with the Washy Robustas? Those are great looking palms.

You've put a lot of work into your yard! Everything looks great 8)

Steve

God bless Canada too 😀

Lookin good Bill!

That banana fertilizer really works!

God bless everyone,esp coldhardy palm peeps! 😉

Anyway!

Bill those are some great pics,unbelievable how big/fast the nanars,Trachys,Alocasia grew!
Looks like you have a similar situation as me,all(most) the cold hardy stuff is planted next to the house for protection so,ya can't really plant nanars and stuff in front of them without shading them!
I need to rethink where I will plant some of my Bananas and Castor's next year,esp that Abyssinian,that thing is going to be HUGE next year!!!

I still get a kick out of seeing you lugging that monster($60 washy,jeez I paid 20 for my midgets!)through the yard! What is planted between the 2 Washys in the back yard? I see you have 2 Needles,what are the 4 palms in the middle? Sabals? Chamaerops? which ones are which?

Thanks for posting the pics,looking forward to seeing them all covered-not really!

B.T.W. I did hack those Castor's down-so much better,my Washy,Butia and Agave get 3hrs more sun not to mention the cactus garden,oops 🙄

Ya no kidding! Tons of work, some of which looked back breaking 😯
Any winter plans ... didn't the Patriots play in snow last weekend?
Interesting to see a 3 level home, something you never see here.

Cheers, Barrie.

hello bill. Great stuff and the ball busting labor is one of my favorite parts of being a palm nut !!

Simply amazing Bill!! I think that inspires all of us. Thanks for the props to Canada!!

Thanks a ton everyone!

This is the greatest hobby in my opinion, plus it makes our yards unique and beautiful! I've learned so much from everyone here over the last few years, the internet has really made this possible for so many people that would have had no clue unless they had a degree in horticulture. Which I would love to have by the way! I'm not even sure they would realize they could grow these types of plants, it's all about trial and error without us and the internet palms would still be zone 8b+ most likely. Hats off to all the hardy palm growers we deserve it! 😀

As for the washys guys, they are amazing trees! The weather men blew the forecast by 11 degrees late night here. All I can say was Ouch!!! They said 36 low it was 25.6, what is up with that? All my nanas except for my basjoo were zapped! I don't know why the basjoos made it but it's kinda amazing, maybe it's all the potasium from the banana fuel! Trust me when I say 25.6, there was a 5 gal. bucket 15 feet away from the basjoos that froze 2+ inches thick. Wanna hear the kicker? The washys appeared 60% damaged with black all over them at 9 am when I went out to look. Talk about a very upset palm nut! All I could do was walk around shaking my head looking at all the damage for about a hour before I started chopping. Funny thing is by 11 almost all the black was back to green on the washys 😯 I couldn't believe my eyes, it was sunny all day and around 70 so that probably made the difference. I never knew palms could repair themselves like that. I wish I took pictures because it sounds fishy I know but if you saw what I saw you would be amazed too. No more messing around there getting freeze pruf tomorrow. My goal is to leave them out as long as possible not kill them 🙄

The middle palms are saw palmetto (they had purple spots) behind is a chamaerops. The sabals are in a different bed not pictured.

I love the hard work guys it's good for us! Plus it pays of by saving us tons of money. I'll post pictures of my insulated/heated washy houses when there up. Hope it's a while still.

Thanks again guys,
Bill

WOW! 8)

AWESOME job Bill! Amazing work! Holy cow~!

Heidi

Nice Bill,I was happy to hear your Washys recovered -getting back up to 70F the next day is probably a detail that gets left out of some palm survival(fish)stories! 😯

Yeah they look Ok! The day after the cold was high 60's and yesterday and today are low 70's I'm sure that didn't hurt them. They should be able to take those temps with no long term damage anyways.

Bill