Hi Tarkus, welcome aboard.Will look forward to seeing your pics.Wondering how big they are.7A is a great zone for Trachies but if you have a brutal wi...

Grouping palms together (with similar light/heat requirements) helps to increase humidity too.Here's my ugly sunburnt Cocos.<a href="" title="DSC05...

Had it only about a year Scott.While I agree with Jesse ("canadianplant") that a Cocos needs probably 12 hrs sunlite a day, the reason I'm not using t...

Scott,have a large garage, so can still keep a couple cars in there and plenty of room for cold hardy tropicals. I move my tropical palms into the ga...

That's a good technique Erik to sink the entire pot into the ground to keep roots cooler in summer.Barb

I can imagine how much water they got to look THAT good!Whenever I have enough pots, I double pot palms that will spend summer on the patio.That way t...

That's a good sized one.Mine is in the best south window light.Last winter I kept it under one of those blue/red LED light thingies on 24 hours a day ...

Re gov't legislation on incandescent...why is it that dumb ideas spread like wildfire?I'll stock up if I see any.Maybe infrared heat lamps too.They mi...

MA Tropics! :lol: Glad the big whallop missed Bill's place tooGreat pic Tim, man, those are gorgeous yuccas.Barb

Agree it would take a lot of heat.I was looking forward to building it today.But some days are good and some aren't so good :lol: Care to guess which...

Erik's right, wheelman...those light strings sure are cheap.And like I said, BC government has a new law in place where it's now illegal to sell/buy i...

OK, thanks for the latest tips.Protecting Washies is a whole other ball game than Trachies.Will take some pics as it goes up.Barb

That's funny Erik!Hey, Jim, gotta ask:What store did you get rolls of bubble wrap and foam from?I was thinking of trying shipping places like Fedex, b...

MA had 26" ??? Oh oh, Bill's GH!!!!!!Cameron, saw that you folks have had 3 times your normal October rainfall. :shock: Barb

Thermocube is in a good spot.Wouldn't put it any higher myself.hey, I've got one of those very fine SAUDER pressboard pieces of furniture...even put i...