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These saw -2C 28F after they were on the front porch during a week of really mild weather.
Siimply had to get them out of the house and into fresh air.
Wish I hadn't done that!
Flimsy plastic that was stapled to the overhang posts obviously didn't protect much.
Dioon spinulosum...this hurts!
oh man!
I'm an idiot!
Barb
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Posted : 21/03/2010 2:14 pm
Your not an idiot,your plants are 😉
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Posted : 21/03/2010 2:28 pm
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Two steps forward, four back 😥
Last night a friend said he was moving to Australia.
I think I want to go too.
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Posted : 21/03/2010 2:35 pm
Watch that center growth point on your Dioon spinulosum for damage or ill effects from that frost.
Both should recover nicely.
Cheers, Barrie.
Posted : 21/03/2010 8:36 pm
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That's encouraging, Barrie, thanks.
Barb
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Posted : 21/03/2010 8:45 pm
Soooo Sorry Barb! 🙁
Hopefully they'll be ok.
We just had 2.5 inches of snow yesterday. 😯 Thank God its gone today.
Mark
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Posted : 21/03/2010 9:38 pm
Sorry to hear about your plants Barb, that really sucks!
They should have been tougher, I'm surprised they got
that beat up with no frost on them 🙁
Bill
Posted : 22/03/2010 11:28 am
Very sorry, Barb.
I get eager, too. I wanted to move my "ballroom" palms to the front porch before coming down here to Belize but the W said that was silly. She was right. --Erik
Posted : 22/03/2010 7:47 pm
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I should've listened to H, he said the same thing as your wife.
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Posted : 22/03/2010 11:41 pm
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I won't even post a pic of the crunchy Nainital. Too sad.
Dead cat palm:
Dead hibiscus:
Almost dead Sabal minor:
Sick (again) sago:
Still hasn't bounced back:
Even the indestructible crown-o-thorns is toast:
Pachypodium lamerei...this time it's going into the garbage!
Jeez, thinning the herd this year just about decimated the gene pool. 😆 😆
Oh well, room for new stuff 😀
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Posted : 22/04/2010 7:32 pm
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Can't believe I missed a few...
here's chapter 2:
Papyrus:
I think this WAS a cordyline:
The saddest of all, the Y. rostrata x.
This Norfolk Island Pine is so crunchy, it's almost petrified:
Barb
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Posted : 22/04/2010 7:40 pm
I'm so sorry. That is heart breaking. --Erik
Posted : 22/04/2010 10:12 pm
I won't even post a pic of the crunchy Nainital. Too sad.
Pachypodium lamerei...this time it's going into the garbage!
Don't throw the Pachy away,the top still looks green.
Is the whole thing mush?
If not it should recover fine 😀
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Posted : 23/04/2010 11:51 am
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Thanks folks.
Jim, nope he's going into the trash.
Each year the Pachypodium gets some kind of a disease, wasn't robust when I bought it so it should have probably been culled at the nursery.
So I repot it, and it comes back gangbusters, only to do the "death throes" all over again at the end of winter (cold or not!)
I'm tired of playing nurse with this stuff.
Barb
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Posted : 23/04/2010 5:47 pm
I'm tired of playing nurse with this stuff.
Barb
I feel like I'm a nurse to my wife's sick Washy--the one that spent the winter in the dining room.
So, it's hard to know what to do.
I'm going for hardier plants, hence my recent purchase of Trachy "Takil" (?) and the needle palms.
My wife recently bought Royal palm and Traveler's palm. 😆
--Erik
Posted : 23/04/2010 6:08 pm
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