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Cool! I'd say that the bamboo is probably dwarf whitestripe bamboo, Pleioblastus fortunei, which is a solid zone 5 type plant!Very cool to see a simil...

Ya mild down here too... We'll see how long this lasts! Also interesting is that there is 0 ice on any great lake yet...

Have any of you tried Aucuba japonica borealis? I always thought it was worth a try in zone 5, but haven't seen it tried!

Beautiful picture!

I'll be interested to hear how your stuff does over the winter. My place last winter (USDA zone 4b) I lost cherry laurel first year, all growth above ...

Glad ot see you back Adam! That Magnolia is it M. obovata? If so, it's by far the largest that I've seen in Ontario!

That's Heptacodium miconioides 'Seven Sons Tree". Beautiful plants, if you seek one out I reccomend looking for one with good exfoliating bark, there ...

Tim,What are the crosses that John sent your way? I visited NS this past summer, and saw John for the first time in (perhaps?) 3 years? Some really in...

The "Hardy" engenmanii are going in to their second winter. Obvioulsy they are still very small so I don't know how hardy they will prove to be.

Dan, Almost certainly they;d be filamentosa in the GTA. The only other Yucca that I've seen around are Y. glauca, but these would have very narrow, sh...

The seed grown "elatas" are maybe 8 (10?) years old now. They were moved once. The arkansana came from a small plant I got from an American friend in ...

Also, sorry the pictures are sideways. I should have fixed that.

I just feel lucky to be able to grow other varieties besides filamentosa & glauca, I think hybrids are the way to go if you have cold/very cold wi...

Pretty impressive Jim! How may GDD do you have there? I can't get anything close to that level of recovery up here!