I'm winning Barb.......................high today of 50F...........It will be interesting to see how early the tulips and forsythias will bloom this y...

Hubby can do it! He's getting good at all this palm protection................what's one more 12' x 24' greenhouse? :wink:

It's OK when Barb's cold and we are warm! :bootyshake:

Perhaps he is a cactus collector and he's really trying to collect them without a permit? :laughing6:

Those palms are beauties.......I guess it needs a greenhouse. Go tell hubby to build you a greenhouse. :toothy8:

Nice heavy wet snow............that's the worst. It's nice your hoop houses are still up for most of your plants. 8)

Hi Jim,I'm in the 9th inning now.......I don't need lots of rain followed up with a low in the single digits or teens........that would mean Trachy sp...

Hi Jim,the Caryota 'himalaya' and Arenga micrantha are totally not hardy. They died the first hard freeze (like the first night it went below 32F for...

nice Y. schottii find! Those have some nice trunks.

Hi Barb,I can get use to this 7b weather...........give me another next winter!

The Licuala grandis is a beauty.............how'd it die?

I guess that's an even trade off.

Hi Barb,your right with my microclimate.............I forget about that. Perhaps they would be toast up here too every year with out that fence??

What I've read is that Loquat is surprisingly hardy. I'm not aware what the leathal temperature is.........we'll find out!Tim