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BILL MA · 2011-06-07T14:50:30Z

Hey Everyone, It's been a long time is I've posted pictures so hopefully I don't overload anyone. Lots have things have changed here since my last post, lots of new palms and plants have mysteriously found there way into my garden. LOL! Enjoy.Here's a picture from the front of my house before the plants found there way into the planting beds. This was a week or so back.And here it is now. Check out the overwinter sago's starting to flush that stayed in the ground last winter. It's already so much bigger since yesterday.S. Mag lil gem getting ready to bust open a ton of flowers after taking a beating this year. The one in the back is much father behind. Two out of three of my old trachies bloomed one is male as I already know for years now but the other one turned out to be female this year. The seeds are starting to grow now, sorry not the best picture. Look closely at the male flowers and you'll see a bird nest that's been there for a couple of months now. Now heading around the corner of my house to the left is (west side) the totally unprotected minor starting to come back finally not bad after -7.5f it was buried under snow thankfully. Next to that is a banana clump ice cream and two zebrinas with hilo beauty ee in from, you can see indian hawthorn next to them flowering that also saw no protection.And a little farther down there's my overwintered butia (which came out better then any other palms in my yard) followed by two velutinas that are already flowering and two monster thai blacks. That area needs a little more work.Down a little more looking into the back yard is the two newly planted waggies male and female and a monster needle. Check out the seeds on the waggy, I didn't think there was that many at first. Waggies are 8 feet for scale, with 5 foot of CT. Thanks for your help Brett with those waggies!!!Heading into the backyard is my little R&R area that hopefully I'll get to use on of these days, 10 mins. altogether this year. That's about to change!!!B&B's starting at 375$Musa AE AE planted from a 7 gal. into a 20 gal squat has just erupted, it's definitely one of the coolest bananas I've ever seen!!! Check out the stripes on this guy. Right now it's putting out a new leaf every 4-5 days in the opening of the greenhouse. An instant favorite!!! The smaller one seems to have more white in it, I think they change some as they get older. Here's a couple shots from inside the greenhouse. My favorite little princeps in the second one.Last but not least my poor ensete that was left in the basement for to long with a giant dioon edule behind it with some angel trumpets to the left. Plus some 15 gal. waggies that are for sale for 225$ and up. LOL!!Hope you enjoyed the pictures. There's many more but I overloaded the board enough for now.Thanks for looking,Bill

BILL MA

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Hey Jesse,

No the house was conceded when I bought it in 2000, then my father and I gutted it and put it back together.

Yeah Paul , my idiot neighbour doesn't like my palms or protection I put up for 3 months or so. He thinks my property is going to become a retail center, sounds realistic right. I'll be fine though.

Thanks again everyone.

Bill

Posted : 11/06/2011 10:36 am

hardyjim

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He's jealous because you get all the attention!

:fart:

Posted : 20/06/2011 5:15 pm

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Bill,
I feel your pain. Really, I do. --Erik

Posted : 21/06/2011 7:50 am

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Good stuff! I can't get over how fast everything has grown. 8)

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Posted : 21/06/2011 8:39 pm

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Bill, how are you preparing for the hearing in a couple of weeks?
You've gotta be one step ahead of whatever might be mentioned (take it from me...I know).

Thankfully you've got some time to work on it.

Barb

PS--maybe the troublesome neighbor will forget to attend. :hello1:

Barb

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Posted : 21/06/2011 11:50 pm

hardyjim

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Bill, how are you preparing for the hearing in a couple of weeks?

PS--maybe the troublesome neighbor will forget to attend. :hello1:

Barb

Or have a little accident! :violent1:

Posted : 25/06/2011 2:35 pm

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I'm officially jealous!

Don't you get brutle winters there in Mass? How do you over winter you palms?

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Posted : 15/07/2011 8:11 am

hardyjim

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Bill is a carpenter among other things so,
he can churn out insulated boxes all day long!

Posted : 25/07/2011 12:01 pm

lucky1

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There must be an update on the hearing by now.

Sheesh...hope everything went OK with the lame-brain neighbor and officials.
Maybe the guy didn't even show up?
That would've been good for Bill.

Barb

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Posted : 25/07/2011 10:20 pm

TerdalFarm

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Oh, don't get me started....
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Posted : 25/07/2011 10:22 pm

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Interesting. Except when our former neighbors got a bit edgy about the protection cages (they were selling their house), nobody even notices my palms. A contractor was by on Saturday to give me a siding removal estimate. Stood right next to my Butia and never even glanced.

If its an internet based business, I cannot believe someone would care.

Posted : 26/07/2011 9:32 am

lucky1

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If its an internet based business,

That's what Bill has to focus on... 😉

The lame-brain probably complained because Bill's place was getting too beautiful, making neighbor's place look like a dump.

For Bill's sake we hope the moron moves (I think he was just renting?)

Barb

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Posted : 26/07/2011 12:07 pm

hardyjim

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I think they were worried about heavy traffic-still....lame.

My understanding is that Bill can sell for 3or4 months a year....
I think thats what he said-

I'll let him explain it when he gets done watering 😆

Posted : 26/07/2011 1:36 pm

lucky1

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Bill can sell for 4 months a year.

Good!
I hadn't heard about that...was that a ruling by the officials?

4 months? sounds like they were born in Canada 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

Barb

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Posted : 26/07/2011 3:00 pm

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Bill what a load of crap. I hope the powers that be will do the right thing. I put my sign out on the street to attract people to buying my palms and bananas on Sat. and Sun. The bylaw nazi`s haven`t bothered me so far"knock on wood" Good luck Bill!

John

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Posted : 26/07/2011 7:38 pm