John,the wife thanks you for the hydrogen peroxide trick. She says it saved her beloved Washy. --Erik

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Jova,yes, the wife is a good deal. Not cheap, though. Here is her hobby:<a href="

Tropicman,the wife and I can be there in two hours. :D My wife is a strict carnivore. She drooled over the meat shots while I was in awe of the plant...

I sure like the idea of palm trees around a hotel in Iowa. However, planting them in the ground makes no sense unless they are going to contract with ...

Sounds to me like we need more DNA from wild Trachy over a diverse area. Anybody looking for a PhD project that involves extensive travel to Asia?--Er...

Hey All!!! This is W replying for Erik...Just to set the record straight, I went shopping at a road side set up with plants from Florida at Erik's en...

Bill, Jim and mnpalms all know a lot more than I do about overwintering palms. I have a single datum about using pipe heating cable as the only heat s...

Barb,great question!I did not know where NOLA was, either, until I got there and only then realized that the folks there referred to their own city as...

Jim,you'll be 10oF above me on Monday! (use zip code 74008). Yes, your garden will shoot up by Memorial Day weekend. --Erik

Mike,nice pictures!My first (and hopefully not last) trip to NOLA was in March of last year. We stayed in a hotel in the Garden District and walked th...

Mnpalms,does your red yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora) over winter? Mine does, and looked good even when most everything else did not. It is also floweri...

Penny,preach away ! I did not know that. Any other advice?--Erik

I experimented with pipe heating cable this winter and was very impressed. The specific model was M-D pipe heating cable, which I found inexpensively ...

I'm looking forward to it. Include a snap shot of the new Sabal you just planted. I'm all into Sabal right now, both for thew new one my wife brought ...