canadianplant
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RE: Trees and Bushes with great showy summer flowers

Hortico has some Mags listed. THey have a decent selection of rhodies too. Their catalogue is massive. The mags are pricey, but some are 170cm tal...

14 years ago
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RE: Trees and Bushes with great showy summer flowers

Jesse- Be wary of those zone 7 ratings, those are for areas with much shorter/less intense freezes than anywhere in Ontario... besides we only have on...

14 years ago
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RE: Trees and Bushes with great showy summer flowers

Some "new", "hardy" species of banana that ive read about:Musa Itinerans (and var.) (ive seen zone 6 with multch)Musa "helens hybrid" (supposedly zon...

14 years ago
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RE: Trees and Bushes with great showy summer flowers

Oh! Do NOT forget the brugmensia and datura!!!!!!

14 years ago
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RE: Trees and Bushes with great showy summer flowers

I second magnolia. Try and find Magolia tripitala, virginiana, hardy grandiflora hybrids (24 below/edith bogue), stellata or kobus. I do believe ...

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RE: hot

Barb, if the temperature goes up in the winter, what do I do with my hut? I like my palm hut!Tavi Use it to grow Citrus :D

14 years ago
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RE: The (Slowly) changing woodland garden

Thats a pretty nice piece of property you have paul. You have any before pics? Im assuming it was just a massive mess of brambles before...

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RE: Bottle Palm collapse

What soil did you use, the sunshine mix? Im starting to find that stuff really slow to drain. YEs, it does drain well, just sortve, slow. I usually...

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RE: Welcome to July! Pictures inside.

I cant believe how big those Ensete have gotten. Same with the canna. Mine arent going good at all this year for some reason.Do you remember type of...

14 years ago
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RE: To the moon? Check this out!

You probably dont have to water as much this year, if youve been getting rain like Minnisota, and NW ontario. Im sure the awesome growing season so f...

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RE: Bottle Palm collapse

Barb - I had something similar happen to my Chinese Fan Palm. Of course there were 2 plants in one pot, but they lived for years with no problem. La...

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RE: Corpse lily

IGnore the previous post in your other thread LOLThose are a GOOD size to start with. You might get them to flower next year.You going to try to over...

14 years ago
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RE: Storm and a gift

Dude.. How big were the corms when you got them?

14 years ago
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RE: Eastern Ontario Native Cactus

It did look like some I seen out in Drumhellar. I was surprised about the amount of cacti that were growing there. Thanks for the IDAlso, there is n...

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