Tarchycarpus are all over the place.Not a terrible winter here; low for winter was +12 oF, with a few days below freezing, back in early December. No ...
I'm so impressed with your success with Washies. Mine always rotted when I tried to protect them over winter.
Nikau lives! Just now I was doing some tidying up and discovered a green spike coming up from the centre. :shock: So, killed to the ground but not de...
and last but not least: waggies!I have two Trachycarpus fortunei "wagnerianus" here. Both did just fine with lower zone 8 temps, as expected. As with ...
In the foreground of that last pic you can see one of the Sabal minor "Ft Worth" seedlings. I grew those from seed I collected in the wild in Ft Worth...
The survival (if barely) of CIDP was a surprise. The biggest shock to me was Chameadorea radicalis. I bought this one from Phil at Jungle Music a few ...
W has nurtured a couple of sagos for years. She trusted me to plant them. What a fool! :oops: One looks totally dead; I have [tiny] hopes for this on...
The survival of CIDP was not expected. It should be dead.Dead, and not at all surprising, is the Nikau palm. I had high hopes for this risky palm as i...
But spear is green and pushing so it will recover:<a href="" title="Palms manzanita may 2014 007 by Erik Terdal, on Flickr"><img src="" width...
CIDP looks very bad:<a href="" title="Palms manzanita may 2014 006 by Erik Terdal, on Flickr"><img src="" width="640" height="425" alt="Palms...
I don't know the answer (never had a Trachy flower) but lovely, and thanks for posting!
Bummer about the Sequoia. I grew up in Oregon with one in the front yard and had dreams that children would one decade climb up high in yours, in Iowa...
Oh, sorry. :(