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Hi Jim, Thanks for posting the pics. When in bloom, cactuses put on their best ball dresses and celebrate life with an unbeleivable beauty!!!!!! I sti...

Hi Mike, Sturdy plant, no question. Interestingly, it is called mimosa, though this term is rather used for the Acacia species... We know this from te...

Congrats, Jim! Great job, all my respects to you; this was a lesson to all of us. Rob

Hi Sidpook, Beautiful!!!! And how it is shooting out, just lovely, you convinced me! As for the silk tree, it is the Albizia julibrissin. Its story is...

Hi Bill,Thanks for your nice words. Imagine, I just discovered a silk tree in the neighbourhood. It is about 10 years old, 3 m high. It has just leave...

Erik, Also, with your climate, no wonder that themusical said: Oh what a wonderful morning, oh what a wonderful day...... :-)Rob

Erik, It was worth wrestling with it :-) I especially like its flowers being pinkish and not the original yellow. Are you going to trim the bush to be...

I totally agree with Willy1der! Consider South Coast Gardens, too. Kevin - the owner - confirmed the same to me, too. He goes down South once or twice...

Hi Bill, No, unfortunately, I am not starting a nursery, being an accountant... But I am a great fan of exotics, that was my masters thesis as a horti...

Hi Jova,It is going to be very beautiful. Loving care is felt by plants, I am (almost) sure :-)Good luck with your planting!Rob

Hi Sidpook, Nice! Aren't they beautiful? That is why I will make the nursery rich..... Would it be possible to have a pic on the site, too? I just do ...

Hey Jova, A very nice looking baby. Especially the top of it, were it started to grow liek crazy. Yes, it loves water, possibly you can never overwate...

This week-end I went to see the South COast Gardens and Nursery in St Williams, by Lake Erie. Very nice, small nursery trying to speciallize in rare p...

Oh Erik, Two more jasmines to try: - Jasminum humile - nice evergreen with yellow flowers, shrub of 1.5-2 m tall, blooming in the summer and- Jasmimum...

The Jasminum nudiflorm should be OK in zone 6 and maybe zone 5. It is a weed in Hungary, even in the coldest places with zone 5... The only thing is t...