Yard Update June (long overdue) Lots of Pictures!!!! – Page 5 – Cold Hardy Palms – PalmsNorth.com

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

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coconutmike

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Great job once again bill . I love all the large palms around your place. I did see a few not quite deep enough in the back of your house that leads me to believe you hit a big rock when digging the hole or they are for sale. Good job -look forward to seeing your website soon
Cheers
CoconutMike-p.s I guess your dad is gonna have to give you a hand again putting all those bad boys to sleep for the winter HA-Ha

Posted : 05/11/2011 12:44 pm

wheelman1976

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Can someone tell me what the palm is that is on the far left of the very first photo in this thread? Is it cold hardy to any degree if given winter protection? That thing has some awesome character!

Posted : 06/11/2011 8:49 pm

TimMAz6

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That palm on the left is a Washingtonia robusta. It's still alive....I was at Bills a few weeks ago. His Washy's are protected in winter with heat. Washingtonia filifera is hardier but more difficult to obtain......try to get a W. filifera.

Posted : 06/11/2011 9:10 pm