Wow, no snow over there at all. My garden is covered with melting snow at the moment 🙁 How come your cidp has such a miniature short leaves? Is it a cross with a pygmy date palm? Waitin for the spring too...

Hi Corrosion,

How come your cidp has such a miniature short leaves

You'll laugh when you see what this poor bugger has been through.

More than half the roots snapped off when I tried to repot this 4 years ago.

I'm surprised it has ANY leaves after this treatment:

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But each year it gets about 2 or 3 new fronds...a new one is pushing now. 😀
Barb

NICE BARB! I've always wanted rostratas...so glad for you to get out there planting! It's so wet here I can't do anything yet, we need a few days of sun.

Thanks Heidi, the "sappire skies" rostrata are such a lovely blue form.

Thanks for sending your mild weather inland, but we could use some rain.
Much of it falls on the mountains around Hope etc. (and the Coq), but only a few sprinkles left in the clouds by the time it gets here. Darn.

Will look forward to seeing your Trachy updates soon.
Barb

Hopefully you'll get some good rain soon! Sure is nice to step out into mild temps now isn't it - AAAHH Spring! Sappire skies hey? I'll have to check out our local nursery for that...maybe my next purchase??

Trachy update soon - it was quite a busy Feb so I can finally get caught up again here.

Hope all is well with you Barb!
Heidi

Heidi,
yes, we want Trachy updates! Mine look awful so I want to enjoy, vicariously, yours as well as Barb's.
Barb,
I like the concept of using W's tractor to help with palms but I'm afraid your photos have convinced me it's not such a great idea. 😯
--Erik

Hi Erik! okay now I'll have to post because the Trachy without a shelter this year is pretty fried up on the leaves - very unattractive, but the other one is looking awesome.

Heidi

One thing you could do with your newly planted palms etc,
is use a root stimulator like Superthrive.

I did this with all the plants I wrenched out of the ground,o.k.
mainly the Bananas but also watered all my indoor plants for like
3 months..basically until ran out.

Rowe red ans Siam Ruby are troublesome in my cool dry apartment
during winter but they really rooted in well this time and are both growing-

I can't wait to get the Bananas outside and in the ground again.

One of my planned plantings will be a Musa Ae Ae,Rowe Red and Siam Ruby
'in a triangle all right next to each other 😀

Barb-your Washys should love that spot,I think one of mine grew 9 leaves and the
other 6 last year...they may both double that this year as I think they have 9-12
leaves already to start this year!

Nice work Barb! I can't believe you are already planting up north. Nice John Deere tractor - I think eventually all of us palm nuts will need one of those.

Paul

ah HA! I looked up Sapphire Skies, also known as Blue Beaked and I remember now coming across that at our nursery and loving it! Gotta get it now 😀 :hello1:

Heidi

Paul,
before you buy a tractor read this thread and make sure your neighbours have a bigger tractor 😳
http://www.palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2901
--Erik

Paul,
before you buy a tractor read this thread and make sure your neighbours have a bigger tractor 😳
http://www.palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2901
--Erik

Holy crap! 😆

9 leaves, the other 6 ????? for one year's growth on Washys?????
Holy Jumpin' Beans 😯
I'd be thrilled with half that amount.
It'll be good to see all your stuff planted out again, Jim.

Paul,
Tractor still needs another pair of hands to keep the roots from ripping apart. 😆
People vanish into thin air when a 200 lb. plant needs repotting. 😕

Yup, Erik's tractor versus tree picture is famous!

Heidi, that yucca will want to be planted in the hottest and driest spot you have.
The closest spot to YOUR place would be MY place. 😆 😆
In Vancouver, I'd recommend the south side of a building near an overhang, but away from downspout.
(Remember I lived there until I got webbed toes).

Barb

Looking real nice! You folks in the lower USDA Zones are putting me to shame. My boys are still in their winter quarters.

Barb Lucky- Are you going to plant that Date Palm outside?

9 leaves, the other 6 ????? for one year's growth on Washys?????
Holy Jumpin' Beans 😯
I'd be thrilled with half that amount.
It'll be good to see all your stuff planted out again, Jim.
People vanish into thin air when a 200 lb. plant needs repotting. 😕

Barb

😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

I'll have to get a count on those today-

they will definitely outgrow a Trachy in a hot climate!