Don,
Links are working now.....I am going to have to take a day off to finish looking through your photos 😆
Quite an extensive and amazing collection you have, Gives me new hope for some of the things I am trying.

Thanks for sharing!!

Steve

Thanks,
Day off every now and then is a good thing,especially when you enjoy what your doing!!!
The water tour,are ponds here in Wichita,during the kansas pond society,pond tour during the spring and summertime.
Every fall,I give away about 2/3 of my plants away,I don't have the room to overwinter everything.
Fall of 2004,I gave two semi truck loads to the Sedgwick county zoo,I gave them a call,and they sent a crew to dig everything up,I had a heart attack,5 by pass,and wasn't able to dig everything up,and I wanted them to go to a good home,and I can go visit them anytime I want to,because they planted a lot of it in the jungle/rainforest exhibit.
So if you see anything,let me know!
Don

It was nice of them to help you out with your plants, and even nicer to be able to go and visit them 😆

I have some medical concerns of my own and know what a damper that can be, Hope these things work out well long term for the both of us. Will look you up when the weather turns nicer, have been starting into tropicals, hoping to find some Brug. cuttings and some Philodendron varieties. Have P.Selloum in the middle of the GH now, might not be the best choice due to its habit, but I like it so it stays. ( makes a nice canopy for the lower light stuff 8)

Kansas ~ Sorry if I hijacked your thread here a bit, Let us know how the construction works out!, Will have a few things to send your way to help fill it too 8)

~ Steve

Hijack all you want buddy.
You just name the date you need me to come up.

Steve,
P Selloum,will get mighty huge in time,mine was so big,one man couldn't lift it.
Your welcome to come on down,anytime and take cuttings on anything I have,or we can divide just as easy.
I wished I'd have moved to palms a lot earlier,,but getting close to 60 now,probably won't have a lot of time to see my babies become full size palms!
When I first started with tropicals,everyone here was so negative about growing plams,they were difficult,so I never felt I could grow them,and to this day orchids are my hardest to keep alive,less lone getting them to rebloom again!!
I just bought a couple lotuses from Texas waterlillies.com.and they just arrived last week,and I potted them up,AND HAVE LEAVES ALREADY.!!
If you have a bog or pond,look these guys up,great prices and good healthy plants,fast shipping too.

Hope to see you soon.
Don

Don. Very nice collection you have there !

Thanks Laaz,
I just recently,recieved some Yazu lemon seeds,trying to germinate them now,with some winter protection,I might just be able to grow a citrus tree outside in Kansas,you have any expeience with this Yazu lemon tree?
Don

Hey Don. Yes I have mature fruiting Yuzu's in the ground here. From seed they will take many years to produce fruit. If you have rootstock I can send you some budwood in the spring. If not I can bud one up for you in the spring.

Sorry,I don't have any rootstalk,but would be glad to get one from you,and give it the test try here in zone 6,or zone 7 according to the new zone map!!!
Always looking and experimenting with plants looking for the cold hardy tropicals I can get my hands on.
Thanks
Don

Don without major protection, even a Yuzu will not make it in your area. Probably the only citrus that would make it in your area would be Poncirus Trifoliata. Yuzu are hardy, but not that hardy... Yuzu is good to brief periods to 10 F but not prolonged periods like that.

Ok,thanks,
The fellow I got the seeds says there is a guy in Colorado springs area,that has had one for I believe going on 5 years now,planted in the ground,on the south side of his house,not sure of the amount of protection it is under,but I'm willing to give it a try with a straw bale greenhouse protection that I'm currently giving my trachycarpus fortuneri palm,which seems to be doing just great under there so far.
It will be in a micro climate area as well,next to the drive way and garage for extra wind protection also.
I will have to look up about the Poncirus Trifoliata,I'm not familiar with this one at all.
Thanks for that info.
Don

Don,

My plan is to put a couple CIDP's in the ground here this year, will take some heroic measures thru the Winter's but I like them so why not?

I think anything in the ground is worthwhile as long as you like it and are willing to do what it takes to keep it going 8)

Hey Steve,
I was thinking on the same lines as you,I bought one this fall at the Johnson Nursery fall sale,a 3 fter,at least for 30 bucks.
It continues to put new growth quite fast,which is rare according what everone says that they are such a slow grower.
I also bought a pindo butia,jelly palm,on line back in October,that I was planning on planting in the ground this spring,I've seen so many pictures of them covered with snow,I think it is also worth trying as well.
I also purschased a couple trachycarpus waggies from Mark Wonder in Conniecut last month,he said he had grown them from seed that he got from Japan,and he had them growing for 4 years,there about 2 ft,I'm also going to plant them this coming spring,on top that I'm going to test a red tiger musa sikki banana,for it'd hardiness as welll.
I happen to have one left,a 3 fter if your interested in giving one a try as well.
I'm also germinating some Yuzu lemon seeds I got from a fellow in Colorado,who says a friend of his is growing one outside of Colorado spring,for at least 5 yrs now,heck I got a lot of things,I'm wanting to try,you never know until you try,it's not like I haven't lost a plant before,for one reason or another.
I left a pink beauty brugmansia in the ground this winter to see if it will come back next spring,but after seeing tonite's weather on next weekend,about a big artic blast coming our way,highs only reaching the teens,I'm afraid it's not going to make it,but I have plenty if it doesn't.
I have a running taro,elephant ear that keeps coming back every year now for about 4 years that I got from south florida,so anything is possible,and that has convined me you just never know what to expect!!
Don

Don,

I might take you up on that, Have a couple things to send down your way. Do you have room for a Banyan in your GH? 😆
Have some 2'-4' seedlings that are already developing aerial roots. These can be contolled, at least for a while by under potting.

The CIDP seedlings I have were frozen in their pots at 15*F, Thawed and started growing again. ( That happened two Winters ago at the 2-3 strap leaf stage) Might not mean anything in the long run but I'll take it as a good omen. The hay bales are a good idea. I'm going to construct 3' x 3' x 4" squares this season. Cover both sides with plastic and then just piece them together over what needs protection thiis fall. I think this might be a workable solution for some of the larger growing stuff....

Steve

Poncirus Trifoliata is normally used as a cold hardy root stock. Flying Dragon is the dwarf variety. It should handle your zone without protection. The fruit is not edible but makes a cool plant.

If you are going to provide protection you can grow just about any Citrus. If I was you I would try some Satsuma mandarin varieties, very sweet & cold hardy.