Yeah, I had read that (I read all his blog posts). Wild times. Right now I wish I was skiing in Oregon....'

Nice!Should we all add new spear photos to your thread or. Should we all start our own threads on this fun topic?

No reason for you to have known about it, but apparently lionfish (native to the pacific ocean; very pretty) were popular in the aquarium hobby in Flo...

I'll say--that is a 70 C temp. swing in the first half of the year! :angryfire: Anyway, starting plants from seed is satisfying. So is finding palms ...

I suspect may interest in the hobby will have to go to seed germination for the next few years, so might as well embrace it.

Sorry if I hijacked an interesting thread to talk about tropical fish. I've been reading up on pacific lionfish in the Caribbean recently. Leading hyp...

Mike (from the Hardy palm forum) got the seeds in December 2009 and sent them to me early in 2010, so they are about a year and a half now. You also k...

Very interesting. The Panama canal could potentially have done the same thing, but the designers a century ago put a freshwater barrier (the Gatun Lak...

That reed fence cover looks nice, although bamboo will last longer. It should be easy to drive a few hours to the south to buy a huge palm, but a good...

It hit 105 F in Bixby today after a low of 86 F. The seedlings would probably love it, but as part of the packing up process they went back to my lab....

Yeah, we spayed the cats and got them their shots etc. They also got the canoe, stove, sewing machine, driving harness, jump stands etc. But--we got t...

We had some friends over for the weekend, up here in Tulsa for a horse show. We sent them home with stuff. They live south of us, most of the way to S...

They are naturalizing in those beds, and the little strap-leaf palms all look perfect (snow...).The ones Jay dug up and gave me in September all died ...

Part of me wants to volunteer to help bring in his plants in October. But maybe not his pachy....Yes, they bloom. He makes everything look easy! :x

He has several huge pachypodium, and reports that they are "not easy" to bring into the greenhouse each October. :lol: :lol: :lol: