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RE: Rain and winter cover

There's a heck of a big spread between middle teens and "colder than a needle palm"Yes your mazari looks very robust.Is it my imagination/coincidence ...

17 years ago
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RE: Windmill Palm in Chicago needs help

Gary, welcome to the forum! Agree probably transplant shock from digging up and potting.But my next guess (a close second) is that it is drying out (h...

17 years ago
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RE: Hey from Halifax

Hi Cameron, welcome aboard!Nice to have a Nova Scotian in the group. :D Man, that's some list! One palm I think you could try (but put it in your ho...

17 years ago
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RE: Rain and winter cover

JimD.Francko of Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths states that Mazari palms might be even more cold hardy than Needle palms, so that's encouraging ...

17 years ago
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RE: Rain and winter cover

Jim,Your hardier plants will certainly benefit from the parryi/havard.-protection temps.Still growing!They'll "think" there wasn't any winter at all! ...

17 years ago
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RE: winter protection, zone 6

Kent...and with snow cover it'll be warmer yet under there.Good plan for smaller plants.Stock up on lumber and leaves for when they get larger. :lol:...

17 years ago
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RE: Rain and winter cover

Attaboy, Jim!Those agaves are especially nice.I looked for agaves last month...not one to be found around here.Will check again in spring.Since your g...

17 years ago
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RE: Re-potting a sick Pygmy Date Palm & some misc.

I think your PDP looks good!Wow, you got THAT for only $12.00 ?? :shock: I looked it up; one website said Areca, one said Golden Cane.Nice one...what...

17 years ago
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RE: Rain and winter cover

Thirty degrees above outside temps.Great!A good feeling knowing your valuable plants are safe for the entire winter.You'll want a chair inside :lol: ...

17 years ago
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RE: chopping down and digging up Ensete ventricosum 'Maurellii'

Don, that's huge! :shock: bet it's a 200 pounder!Since your ceilings are like mine...too low, would you consider planting it again up against the h...

17 years ago
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RE: Re-potting a sick Pygmy Date Palm & some misc.

Steve, your example is a reminder to us all that containerized palms need more care...Perhaps it was salt build-up from fertilizers, a typical problem...

17 years ago
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RE: Rain and winter cover

Nicely done, Jim.Be that'd work nicely for temps down to 10 F.Or even a bit lower, I'd imagine.Barb

17 years ago
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RE: Cycas debaoensis

Thanks Steve.Mine look so "juvenile" compared to yours...As though mine just popped :cry: I've moved these two into 2-gallon pots as a test to see if...

17 years ago
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RE: Palms planted zone 6b Palms garaged

John's got fabulous huge palms and bananas at his place. He hasn't posted pics of the palms that fill each room of his house! They're just as beauti...

17 years ago
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