Your Trachy looks MUCH better than mine (I'll try to get a photo up soon, but it'll be sad). My wife's Washy looks as good as yours--because it is in ...

Barb,I've been busy but I took a few minutes after checking on the baby goats to lift the 20g buckets off the small Butia (my avatar image) and the C....

Thanks for the photos, Jim. I was thinking about you last week when I saw weather reports from Iowa. Your Trachys look better than mine does, but then...

I just got home from two weeks in Belize a couple of hours ago. I had a great trip, tempered only by extreme guilt at my poor wife stuck in a near-fre...

Barb,your post got me wondering how widespread the cold air is. I found this nifty animation on the NOAA website:The first thing I notice, the cold ai...

Thanks for the report. How cold was it there that did this?Not to be a pessimist, but my Passionflower looked great for a few days after our first rea...

Steve,I took some snapshots of Zamia for you this morning. --Erik

Barb,I have been. Yesterday I took some of Schippia concolor in habitat. I am up in the mountains where the dominant vegetation is pine and oak, but w...

Definitely, but I don't see what can be done, other than to stop using their product. That'll show 'em. As to the Saudi claim, they know it won't happ...

Drive safely, Bill. Drivers down south don't know to look for black ice on the roads.

Hey, can Oklahoma get a cut, too? May paycheck depends on oil and natural gas revenue!

Bill, the non-heated Butia (my "avatar" image) has made it through the past couple of winters with nothing but a bucket for the coldest nights. It los...

The ballroom has stayed at about 40 oF so I'm not worried about anything in there I care about. With a furnace vent open now, it should stay above fre...

"My guess is that Butia with no heat (despite being covered) will not make it, Butia with heat 30% make it /70% won't, the Trachy: 50/50, C.humilis ba...

Yes, I buy tough tenders. The reason is we get some unexpectedly cold (>25 oF) weather for a brief period in October and April most years. Thus, ev...