Jack, that is great. I'll see if I can match that in a week. The sales guy let slip that all palms have to be gone by Nov. 1. --Erik

This is the time for sales. Last year I got very cheap palms down in Texas: everything in a 5 gallon pot was US$15. My local (Tulsa) Home Depot has pa...

Igor,welcome!I would like to visit Kazakhstan some time. My brother and his wife have been there. If you can grow Aucuba and Phyllostachys, you are do...

Beautiful photographs. It also helps me visualize where you live. Perhaps all of us should make a photo series showing their local landscape. As for t...

Very cool maps indeed! It looks like your growing conditions aren't all that different from mine. Do you happen to know GIS? If so, I thought it might...

I agree. Is there any palm that brings out so many, "aw, isn't it cute?" responses as Waggie? It is one of the few palms I can think of that everyone ...

Wow! I'm still wearing shorts, but you folks are making me feel under dressed. My only consolation is that we got 1" (2.5 cm) of much needed rain toda...

Igor,please forgive my earlier rudeness in my excitement about the weather here. Welcome! I have not been to Kazakhstan, but my brother and his wife h...

Did it! You are 1 oF above me right now. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sorry, guys, but I'm excited. This link says I have a 40% chance of warmer-than-normal temps the next three months!

If La Nina means the weather we have been having it can stay all winter and spring,I won't mind watering as long as it's warm :D Lucky Erik probably w...

Kindergarten? Now that's the exciting news here! Congratulations! As for me, I have done nothing at all except plan and discuss with W. For wind, last...

Heidi,nice H! I see a lot of evergreens in the background, so I assume wind is not the problem for you that it is for my Trachies. The poor things get...

No apologies needed. W took it as a sign of how much I love her! :D Like when I run out to check her horses in big storms....--Erik