wxman,can you take a roadtrip down south? I do that to bring things home from Texas. If you can drive down to even St. Louis you can probably find a b...

I do like gingers, but have not been able to overwinter them in the ground so I dug and bring them in. Canna do great and overwinter with heavy mulch;...

Tim,thanks for the report. Southern Magnolia proved themselves hardy around here. They did better than most other BLE--equal to Ilex; only Boxus was p...

Nice photos, Paul! Keep the updates coming. I have been very impressed with southern magnolia after the record cold here last month. I have not seen a...

-12 F at he Tulsa airport Feb. 10; -13 F at the Tulsa Jones airport in south Tulsa (where NWS gets Bixby data); -22 F (-30 C) at the state weather sta...

I'm looking forward to those photos. Thanks for the damage report. How cold did they get? I would have thought Butia would have been fine for them.

Tim,we have four horses now: this stallion, a gelding, a filly born here two years ago and a broodmare in foal. The mini who was my model for photos l...

We struggled to get up to 43 F today, but at least no lows below freezing forecast this week. Wish I was back down in Texas....

I'm curious, too. I'm on the southern edge of this. Low this morning was 36 F. Not a problem for palms in the ground, but I tossed mulch over emerging...

Link works great, and nice graphics. My only complaint is that it uses the main Tulsa airport for Bixby even though we are quite a long way away and o...

Welcome!I have received great advice here which I credit for keeping my palms alive through record cold. --Erik

Heidi (hilashes) and Don (tropicman) also use picasaweb and post many palm photos there, as do we. --Erik

The only "reset" I ever did was to put it in a freezer, or outdoors (whichever was colder). Seemed to work.

I'm in Texas right now. Spring is definitely here. Dogwoods in bloom; iris has replaced daffodil. I feel like I time-traveled a month in a day's drive...