Anybody know what's up with this Bismarckia seedling?<a href="" title="003 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="" width="640" height="480" al...

Well, after a couple of weeks of fine weather, a fast system arrived tonight.Within half an hour howling winds came from the NW (thanks Alaska) and po...

That's why I didn't post the palm underwear photo.Now that was scary.No, not Victoria's Secret.More like Ogre's Promise :lol:

I remember my B. eriospatha x Syagrus glaucescens F1 seeds ...they arrived a year ago, and I'll be dead before the buggers germinate. :evil: Jesse, ...

Keith, aw, that's too bad; that first pic does not look good. :cry: Once spring really arrives and you cut off the Chinese Fan's brown leaves, you w...

Tim, oh man, I hope you got it!Wouldn't that be fabulous?Frequent application to the root zone throughout winter. So vertical PVC pipes in the ground ...

Jim,...been called lots of things, but never little. :clown: :lol: Not planting any more in that gravel bed right now...cooldown coming starting to...

Congrats Janci, Those will make fine additions to your garden.Mine will be planted out as soon as they grow a bit more :lol: Barb

heat cable in my bigger Trachy just stop to work Beny, so cables aren't that reliable after all?I pity the people who use them on water lines :? Did...

Spear pull, Scott?Yuk.Really young palms don't do well with spear pull, few survive.Older palms (as per Jim's method) bounce back nicely.If you tend t...

getting antsy. Don't blame you.I practice for planting by shovelling dog poop. :?

Now that it's been released, maybe send us the link that actually provides the temps.As the article indicated?Enjoy your 83F ... Oregon's nowhere near...

That's the pits, you guys.KEEP IT THERE BARB! If you guys would keep it in Alaska first :lol: :lol: I think we've had our spring.We're cooling off o...