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Always enjoy the MB pics. There are some Trachys around, they don't do very well there (too warm for them?)... And some Butia, Washingtonia too. Also ...

Jim- Have your winters been bad recently? We've had most (8?) of our top 10 mildest winters of all-time since 1998.I think it is premature to say that...

So you're telling me that our top 5 January was followed by a Feb that equaled the alltime? Man, this must have been the all-time mildest winter for T...

That is a lot of record highs! Wow. We've broken only one all-time record high so far (but we've been close each day this week)... And here I am still...

Should be gone shortly for sure.No frost in the extended forecast! Yeah!

Might be O. macrorhiza... However, Opuntia taxonomy is, at best, a guessing game based on a few distinguishing characters... The clade is really poorl...

Looks like that F. rufa came through OK. What about the Phyllostachys?

Ha! I've got my Y. filata f2's in the greenhouse. Good germination thus far!

Yup. The damned wind kept waking me up last night!

We've got -7 in the forecast and a couple days below 0 (not sure this has happened for a few weeks now). But then finally some decent temps later in t...

I don't know, I thought that was pretty funny!That -22C is not funny, however.

Erik- That's the only downside I can see to the West Coast, lack of heat! Well, maybe the rain too... Still they are able to grow a massive range of i...

It will be interesting to see if that seedling can make it, AND if it will retain the colouring! Keep us posted Igor.

Bizzie went outside? Ya, well... We've got 2cm of snow followed by rain and freezing rain! Beat that!