D-zone,this thread is an old one but the blue needle palm is one of my favorites,so much so that I considered digging mine up today :wink: however I w...

Thanks Barrie.The archs will be connected across the middle,as in braced from one side to the other about a third of the way down from the top,this ke...

Thanks Josef,I actually have a Echinocereus reichenbachii,very cool!

Oppalm,looking forward to your stratiegerie :wink: Antti,good to see you over here! :D

Beautiful yuccas D-Z,I did not realize they are so beautiful when young.We have had a wet summer here in Iowa and mine rotted,it was also covered in s...

I just put up my rain shield on my cactus garden,which will become the winter cover for the palms too. <a href="" target="_blank"><img src=""...

Wow!,now I feel like the lucky 1 :shock: ! I did not even notice there is a desert area,its going to take days to look through all these threads :lo...

Beautiful blooms!What kind of cactus is that?

I agree that princeps is one of the faster growing trachys,mine has put out 5 new leaves since opening its first fan in march-<a href="" target="_...

Very cool palm,thought it would be more cold hardy,guess I won't be growing one in Iowa :lol:

Absolutely beautiful!!! :lol:

WOW!awesome pictures!I think we can all agree that trachys have mixed like the domestic dog.Your palm really looks like a, dare I say TAKIL oh god,I ...

I think the palm pictured is referred to as T.nova

Palmman.definitely don't fertilize anymore from roots,you want it to start hardening growth off at this point for winter,the only fertilizer I would...