Anybody else having trouble opening Mark's links? :? His photohost might be down?noticing the mites on my queens now John gave me a good tip the oth...

plant it in the ground for the summer with the pot to keep roots cooler You may be onto something there, John. I'll do that for sure this summer. The...

I've seen a reference to digging a big hole and filling it with black soil, like your friend did.Also that previous reference to 50 pounds of rotted m...

Sitting in a horse barn for shade in AZ...wonderful!Understand why you don't want them hauling buckets of water to look after plants at your place...

A few days grow is showing:<img src="" width="500" height="375" alt="DSC04360" />Gave it palm special fertilizer 12-4-12.This Australian nursery...

damir,Ah...to be able to grow bougainvillea, olives, lemons and CIDP outdoors is a wonderful dream!Once again thanks for great links, fabulous Mediter...

Thanks guys!John, This old palm (34 yrs now) has been so confined in pots that I expect it'll take a while for roots to grow away from the encircled b...

oops, blue/green :? :? my 83 year old Dad can tell the difference By 83, I'll have mastered it too.Barb

should come back from the roots, thats how they keep the farms going Thought that field picture with hundreds planted were the next crop.You got that ...

Aaron,Even when I exclude hybrids (which I'll never figure out), I had trouble telling apart younger specimens.But seeing both varieties in the same p...

Wow! (except the photo of your foot) :lol: :lol: Such healthy looking pine trees overhanging the beach and on the mountain slopes. Our pines aren'...

Amazed at the size ... he was standing on a leaf segment!What a lot of work! (poor agave...) :lol: :lol: I am trying to imagine how the natives fig...

a dream driving along the highway from Toronto to Thunder Bay That's not what people who live there call it :wink: theres almsot nothing but little t...

Aaron, so robusta don't have ANY filaments at all?That would be a surefire way to distinguish between them if that's certain.Mind you, once they're 80...

Aaron, your nursery sounds amazing to stock that.These things are shown on Google Images to grow bigger than cars. :shock: