After 26 years of growing palms and exotics ... yes, I could pass this over. Good deal or not, I have to find a way to over winter this rather demadin...

I had a 'Riverside' sometime ago ... hummm. I wonder where it is now?Cheers, Barrie.

Wes ... yes.Laaz ... the "red" is cut, dead or dying petiole bases and not the coloring associated with living filifera plant material. Notice the li...

Wes ... I did cut the front lawn on Sunday in the heat. Much cooler today while cutting the back 40. Good news is it's finally drying out and going do...

Looks like a switching from indoor to outdoor issue and some excessive soil moisture. Adjustments to varing conditions require a period of time to acl...

Arctic PalmI don't know how you guys manage with the temperature swings. let alone your palms and exotics. Allen (Alchris) is right about watering to ...

A few rain sprinkles this morning and mostly pleasant after that with high overcast and some sun breaks here. Dead calm and mild at 22c (72f) which wa...

No easy way to put it ... ants are bad news. They seem harmless and unobtrusive but over time will establish themselves in an unwanted fashion. Ortho ...

Nice Opuntia Jay. I have an Opuntia basilaris ssp. treleasei (same color flower) that appears to be a week or two from flowering. Here it is now and I...

jenThe males are usually first to start flowering followed shortly by the females. The only time I have a hand in pollenation was when I clipped a mal...