Cal Plants has a great website.Got a chuckle out of their description of Yucca rostrata: Easterners like it because it resembles a palm tree and is co...

Winter is made worse by high winds.Hopefully your fence minimizes the wind around your plant enclosures.Brrrrr....Yikes indeed.Here's to no power outa...

Yes, Jim, I do understand that...I'll watch whether it's all the leaves, or just one.Very informative explanation. thanks. You'll have enough data t...

48 new fronds in 4 years I'm sure I'll screw that up somehow. :lol: Have we seen your Butia, Kent?Barb

Lemme guess, Aaron, you got some more trunking yuccas :) Hope your winter's easy on your plants.Barb

Looked darn good in Low D :lol: :lol: For me, the trick is to kinda ignore the narrator (not a botanist, just a "muser/babbler").I may turn the soun...

Jim you make an interesting distinction re types of spear pull...from transplanting (presumably during spring/summer weather), or from rot/moisture/co...

Thanks everyone! :D Wes, nice to find a palm that can be up-potted before it's necessary.Hard to believe that they grow summer and winter.When do the...

The nainital is similar to T.fortunei but leaves are a bit shorter.Seems to take windy conditions with little damage to fronds.Fortunei hates windy si...

Yup, John, definitely gonna plant the beggar out this year!Especially after seeing your outdoor set-ups.Have already selected the spot on East side of...

Jim,I used to think spear pull was the Final Death of palms.But you are confident some will recover, which is good.I've just finished reading Francko'...

Heidi,Sounds like your soil--with rocks/sand/clay--will be ideal for drainage.Nice musa; it'll love that sunny exposure.I hadn't seen those jackets be...

Husband thought fungus gnats were fruit flies, so he threw out all the fruit :? I hadn't given it enough time ... these sticky things do work!Safer's...