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New lows!*Not yet official!Airport: -6.7CDowntown: -3.6C(WOW does the open water really help to regulate the temperature!)And, the garden near K-town ...

The worst thing about all this warmth here is that it is not preparing us for the onslaught of winter. I havent even wrapped any trachies yet!!!! He...

Love the hockey nets! Classic Canada!I don't have volume here, what is the palm that is wrapped on a angle?

GRRRR. Still listing Trachycarpus fortunei var. wagnerianus under it's old name (T. wagnerianus)... Rabble rabble rabble.Good info. though! Thanks for...

Barb- It's not that I agree 100%, it's just that I think Trachys are so tough they can handle damn near any soil.Personally I use a dark compost mixed...

Coldest to date here in Toronto is...Downtown= -1.2C (Nov. 21. 2011)Airport= -4.3C (Dec. 3 2011)My garden near K-town has not been so lucky:Low to dat...

Welcome Rob. Good luck with Trachys in Barrie! Paul

Barb- Don't be too angry. It is, right now, 1C with a wet snow/rain mix. I would MUCH rather have -1C and snow than this crap. Oh, but if it warmed up...

Hey man.My seeds never arrived! From what I researched, it is a pretty tender mountain species. I think that I did dig up someone cliaming that -15C h...

Gary- The Sabal seedlings that I have all have a blueish tint to them (they are S. minor 'McCurtain' strain). They seem to hold the blueish colour eve...

Garry- I'm embarrassed to say that I had a breakout of damping off and lost all but one seedling from the entire tray! It was really unfortunate that ...

I do have 2 needles, one has been planted out for a few years now (3 winters), the other is still in a pot. The one planted out has some damage each ...

I like the angustissima. A really underused species. I'd like to try some here in the east. Given their native range, I'd expect they should be simila...

Agreed!That needle is a FANTASTIC example of just how tough they are. They really can take temps of -15F without batting an eye... If it is a quick fr...