Cedardave,
what you are doing is so cool. Er, hot. I too want photos!
IMHO, the heat you are using is no more "no fair" than my watering when it is 100 oF and windy down here.
And yes, I use heat for palms down here in January. Just on palms, though--the house is heated with wood. 😆
--Erik

Thanks Mike.
Heck if we each grabbed a branch of our vinca, they'd probably meet in the center as one plant somewhere mid-continent. 😕

They are insanely prolific here too. Although I do like them for groundcover on the side of the house where not much else grows and also behind the shed by the trash cans.

PS I'm up ungodly early today to fly down to Fort LAuderdale/ Miami for a four day weekend in the warmth! Yay! 8)

After and before pictures... I cant seem to find the inbetween . You get the general idea though.

We should call cedardave plywooddave

Great job on the winter structures.
Ceramic heater inside? Christmas lights? or all that hay?

How many years have they been in the ground?

Gorgeous plants...that Bizzie is sooooo blue 😯
Nice sizes! Is that palm in 8th pic in flower? can't see but looks like a C.humilis?
Great butia too!

What is that K-Star box on your irrigation system? not a time clock or pump, obviously.
Nice landscape!
Are the neighbours going to get on board and do the same thing?

Thanks for the great pictures, plyw....er....a....cedardave.

The K-Star is a 5 kilowatt pool heater. The pump and heater push foodgrade antifreeze thru 300 or so feet of underground pipe that coils around the root balls of each plant in the buildings. I have 35 bales of straw surrounding the plants. I figure this will help keep some moisture in the soil as well as add some insulation for them. The entire planting beds were dug up and have styrafoam insulation boxing in each root ball with lots of room for them to grow.So the ground heat rises and helps warm the air. I have skylights on top of each building to allow for some light....probly could have used supplimental light inside as well but didnt think of that at the time. Each building also has a ceramic heater to help keep things warm, as well there are watering ports on the sides(not seen in the pics). The tallest building has the butia capita as well as a small oleander and the bismarkia. The shorter building houses 2 windmill palms , a couple more oleanders a european fan palm and a couple bananas.The plant you think may be in flower ...if its the one directly in front of the window its just a simple mock orange. Finally..the neighbors never get tired of looking at the yard. Its pretty unique to have the tropics in winnipeg all summer. As you can see from the first couple pictures, its pretty unexciting here all winter long.

cedardave, that is crazy cool. 8)

My big plans are to win the lotto and head south. 😡

Im jelous, winnipeg is 2 zones lower then I am 👿 LOL

Grats dude!!!