Paul Ont
@paul-ont
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Joined: Dec 13, 2007
Last seen: Feb 21, 2017
Topics: 124 / Replies: 1261
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RE: Are we heading for a new ice age ?

Can we put that "global cooling" myth on ice finally? Never was a consensus and was only a small minority of scientists who ever pushed this idea. I'm...

12 years ago
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RE: Deals now on last year's plants

Great find! I suppose I should get my act together and see if Sheridan has anything left over...

12 years ago
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RE: Some winter pics from zone 4b/5a Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Not a great picture, but:We shall see if it recovers. I prefer the solid leaf colour on yours Igor!

12 years ago
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RE: Cold Hardy BLE Recommendations

Jesse-I'm having a think about this right now. I think that I'm too cold for a So. mag to be anything more than a curiosity, so I'd rule them out up t...

12 years ago
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RE: Some winter pics from zone 4b/5a Kingston, Ontario, Canada

I've just got access to the tags on the Southern Magnolias, and my analysis was backwards. The Kay Paris is the small leaved one and the larger leafed...

12 years ago
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RE: Some winter pics from zone 4b/5a Kingston, Ontario, Canada

The succulent bed is fine! Most of the species that I grow are mountain things that are used to snow cover all winter long! The Agave do have a hard t...

12 years ago
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RE: Desert plants in the Pacific Northwest?

Always appreciate the opportunity to post this one from a cold rainy/snowy December day in Vancouver in 2005:This is an Agave growing along English Be...

12 years ago
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RE: Still looking mighty wintery around here!

Look the same there as it does here. Right now anyway! You've not got the great lakes to keep your spring cool, so I expect that you'll have the luxur...

12 years ago
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RE: Native Rhododendrons in Rhode Island USDA 6b/7a

Awesome. Tim, I have 1 of the 2 Max x calo's left. It is burnt but looks OK. I will probably try to get another this spring... And holden's spring pro...

12 years ago
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RE: Some winter pics from zone 4b/5a Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Jesse- yes, do try more BLEs. I'd say seek out some of the harder to find stuff, do your research first!. Yes, I have a new plant of A. gigantea 'maco...

12 years ago
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RE: Some winter pics from zone 4b/5a Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Barb- Yes, the KP seems good, but I am always skeptical when plants seem to be too good to be true. I got it from my friend Kevin who runs Southcoast ...

12 years ago
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RE: In memory of plants we have LOST!

Tim,I've found with those 'ball' or 'barrell' types that they can survive several winters, then mysertiously rot one year. I can't make sense of it. O...

12 years ago
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RE: In memory of plants we have LOST!

Adam,Almost all of my Yucca do that too. The exception is the Yucca filamentosa... I think it has to do with these plants not having a true dormancy p...

12 years ago
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RE: In memory of plants we have LOST!

Now this is a topic I can get behind. These pics are from way back in 2005 or earlier! Yucca thompsoniana, crapped out first winter despite being prot...

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