As far as Agaves go I think havardiana is the most cold/moistue tolerant(-20F)As far as the Sequoia goes,I have 2 ,the one pictured will come back and...

John,I had one 3 gallon needle that pulled a spear the first winter. It has been INCREDIBLY slow to recover... The one pictured there was a 7 gallon p...

Jim good stuff! The nanitial should come back if it hasn't rotted (i.e. you've done some thorough fungicide treatment). The other Trachys look good, t...

Jim, good idea gettng th soil temp up! I'm not usually around so i can't do the same (plus we haven't hit 70f yet, let alone 80f!)Allen, Looking forwa...

We've got a high predicted of -3C on Wednesday, but, other then that every day should be above freezing... Overnight lows may drop below -10C though. ...

Agreed. Yesterday wasn't too bad here, 6c and sunny. But today is AWFUL 9c and RAIN, yuck! If you know me, you know that my least favorite weather is ...

Jim,The inheritance of traits such as round leaf would be controlled by many genets interacting. These 'forms' of fortunei are probably caused by some...

Gary,I know that you're selling the seeds, and I am going to reassert my skepticism on Tesan. First off, MANY people have made claims of survival and ...

Here in Belgium we had -18°C for a couple of nights. TF, butia, jubaea and chamaerops have severe leafburn or are dead. Only trithrinax campestris sur...

Jim,Further to this. The takils that grow in the Rome botanical garden are different then those that James is selling via europalms. For an explainati...

I wish you luck! But I remain skeptical as to the claims.FYI the 'takil' blood you refer to is what we call 'nanitial' fortunei, a genetical identical...

Thanks guys...The bamboo will inevitably return, it was more an experiment to see how the culms would take the true zone 5 cold... Not well apparently...

Hey, you know what this sounds like? Remember the Bulgarian form of Trachy? How those palms survived -20C or lower several times? Too bad their offspr...

I've been nothing but sceptical of these different 'forms' of fortunei... Hoefully some of the seedlings grown from the seed imported in the past few ...