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Some palm pics from around the yard.
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John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 14/09/2008 2:10 am
Are all these intended for your own use, or do you expect to have these go to good homes?
Cheers, Barrie.
Posted : 14/09/2008 3:20 am
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Barrie I fully expect most of the larger Washy palms to go to great homes and businesses. Most have been spoken for with deposits next spring. The smaller 3 gal will be a couple of years in the making as will the 1 gal seedlings three or four years behind them and so on . I will keep a few as large specimens for myself. Next year I plan on growing a couple larger W.filiferas planted with protection.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 14/09/2008 3:47 am
Looking good John. 🙂
Posted : 14/09/2008 4:49 am
As always 8) Nice job John!
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-Aaron-
Posted : 14/09/2008 3:02 pm
John...you've got a nice collection..hows the "in ground specimans"?
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Posted : 14/09/2008 8:35 pm
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Palmetto I will post photos of just the planted palms. Some are doing better than others.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 15/09/2008 12:48 am
John, there are going to be some very happy businesses and homeowners to receive those!
They've grown a lot since last year's pics.
Love the overhead shot of palms around the sundeck.
Super bananas and yuccas!!!! 😀
Your Washys certainly look better than these from PalmandCycadExchange.com (you'll cry)...
Barb
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Posted : 15/09/2008 5:56 pm
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Thanks for the comments everyone. Barb those washy`s look like they are wild as the tall ones in the background. The smaller ones just need a little trimming is all . I do like the petticoat on the taller mature W. robusta. I would like to have mine 15 percent as big as those some day.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 16/09/2008 3:04 pm
15% as big?
At that size, they would withstand anything an Okanagan winter can throw at them. 😀
I still can't get over how much your palms have grown this year.
And those musa...into the garage for winter or are you selling them?
Barb
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Posted : 16/09/2008 6:19 pm
John,
Looks like everything has done great this year! 8)
Steve
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Posted : 16/09/2008 10:19 pm
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Steve thanks for you comments. I really like seeing how your W. robusta has made it through your winters under your palm hut . Barb the ensete ventricosum is grown from seed two years ago. I am most proud of this plant as most people see this first when they visit our home. The leaves are huge , at least 4 to 5 ft long and a trunk 20". I will save this one for next year. I would never expect a pure W. filifera Truth or Consequences N.M. to survive our zone 6
b 7a? winter without some form of protection. In five years from now I will have some very large 7" ft. or more trunked pure W. filifera . I will try a couple smaller 2`ft of trunked ones next year under protection in a good situation of the yard.
John
Okanagan Palms and Tropicals
6b-7a
Posted : 17/09/2008 12:47 am
Nice looking plants, John. They all look very happy. I like the layout of in ground stuff seen from the roof. Good job.
Happy growing.
Posted : 05/10/2008 7:25 am
