Couldn't you adhere the insulating material to plywood and a 2"x2" frame? It would screw together in minutes. I wonder if an old skylight or polycarbo...

"Allen, Sabal minors can stand LOWER than -20 C ??? Some web-sites are full of hype and true growing conditions are embelished. If the claims of some ...

Didn't get them.Hope they send them back to Dean, versus confiscating them.Those neurotic border "guards"As though Canada has a PALM INDUSTRY that cou...

Looks like that sling in your original pic, put a lot of unwanted pressure where the roots emerge from the trunk. I sure hope it pulls through. Was th...

Part two of your question is the answer ... cut it back before frost is forcast & bring it into your garage.Cheers, Barrie.

Hey ... You can check Stan's website and see for yourself. There are photos and accompanying text for each entry.Cheers, Barrie.

Unfortunatly I do think it's going to be a bad winter in the west. But what do I know?...I had a buddy who kept telling me every year "It's going to b...

Looks like things start to fall apart by Oct 9 (Tuesday) and seriously so by Wednesday next week. Here's a Detroit forecast.It's either coming from th...

That's one blessing here, when it's warm or occasionally hot, the humidity is moderate or low. All our humidity is during winter so no static electric...

I managed, with the help of another person, to get the citrus from Stan McKenzie in South Carolina. He's the premier citrus guru and his citrus are of...

I just realized after posting that pic that there's 3 Eucs in that pic. A smaller silver one to the right is E. debeuzevillei and on the left just sne...

I have about 15 different species of Eucalyptus growing here. The one in the pic below is Eucalyptus nitens which grows very fast. Oddly, I did come a...

It did clear up during the afternoon and we had a very pleasant finish to the day. Some areas even very near-by didn't get rain at all.Cheers, Barrie.

Nice pics! I've never heard of growing Eucalyptus in containers. Here we plant them small so they root down properly. Older pot bound gum trees never ...