Finally got to see the sun, after the cold spell.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 8:36 am

That's a special Agave! Keep us posted on it's progress this winter.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:41 am

Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful

Surprised to see that much cold damage too.
They're usually bulletproof.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:37 am

lucky1 wrote:
Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful
Surprised to see that much cold damage too.
They're usually bulletproof.

Barb

I never thought they would burn untill I watched them up close. This one in the pic may have burned to the ground but was mostly snow coverd.

What is wierd is my Y. torryi looks fine and last year had burn and was coverd.

Never know how things will do year to year.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:51 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Oh boy! Unbelievable Y. filamentosa looks so awful! What was the minimum t there? Recurvifolia is too bad as well. Mine was touched by the hard prolonged frost last winter but rot at the middle of the stem after late April frost... Friend of mine has Echinocereus for many years growing outside. What is a Hell a difference between your zone 5 and my so called zone 6!

The min. was 13.6F/-25.3C

I think what happened was the j-trees and the filimentosa were still growing and the other yuccas had slowed down in fall. I have always noticed that other than spring time Y. brevifolia likes to grow the most in the fall.

It was still growing in Nov and we had the cold spell in the last part of Nov. With out a dought that is what hurt it so bad.

damir · Post by **damir** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:25 am

hope that joshua trees will survive. today i looked mine in basement. looks just fine. in spring definitly it goes outdoor,and till next winter i need to think how to protect it against moist. rgds

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:51 am

I bet a j-tree will do very well where you are. I think all you need it very good drainage, they dont like wet roots in the winter.

Okanagan desert-palms · Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:55 am

Aaron sorry to hear about your Joshua tree and Y. filementosa. I wonder if a treatment of potash starting early in the fall would help the yuccas store up energy for the winter . It works for palm trees so maybe for Yuccas as well?

John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:43 pm

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Aaron sorry to hear about your Joshua tree and Y. filementosa. I wonder if a treatment of potash starting early in the fall would help the yuccas store up energy for the winter . It works for palm trees so maybe for Yuccas as well?

John

That might be something I should try.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:15 pm

Up-date on plants after such a cold start to winter. As the weather warms the damage looks worse.

Faxon uncovered, looks good.

Parryi uncovered, looks good

Hardiest agave I have, no cover for a few winters now and is still alive

cactus, some burn

cactus first year of burn.

but alive.

rostrata, burn and alive

Torreyi burn and alive

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:24 pm

dwarf j-tree, dead I think. But should come back from roots.

rostrata

baccata everyone I have looks fine, but I have lost them in the past. I guess you never know whats going to live or die.

my big j-tree, alive but top rot, bad.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:33 pm

tompsoniana, uncovered looks good

rigida uncovered, dead just like all the ones I have tried in the past

.

neomexicana, from wild seed looks very good.

glauca from seed off my big plant, burnt but alive.

elata, burns every year. I tyhink I should move it.

elata, does good every year.

angustissima, looks fine

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:40 pm

burnt cactus, lots of them, but not all of them.

rostrata burnt

j-tree

elata, burns to the ground almost every year, but should come back

filimentosa, just to show people that they can burn also.

basilaris burnt, but alive

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:44 pm

tree cholla, alive but on the down hill slide. I should start some new cuttings.

Not everything but shows how things look after last winter. I would say it was my worst year ever, not the coldest, but the worst.

Okanagan desert-palms · Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:56 pm

I hope those pull through for you. It was a tough winter all around. Thanks for those pics Aaron.

John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:59 pm

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:I hope those pull through for you. It was a tough winter all around. Thanks for those pics Aaron.

John

Thanks John

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:02 pm

There are some real standout winners in that group, Aaron.

I'm so sorry for the burn/kill in this rotten winter...I know how that hurts.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:02 pm

I think by the end of the season there will be so much new growth on other plants I wont think about what I lost.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:59 pm

Good for you, Aaron, and your potted speciments will flourish too.
Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun May 08, 2011 6:47 am

More yard pics as the weather warms.

y. torreyi

y. rostrata

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 08, 2011 8:54 am

Assuming this is your Idaho garden, isn't it? How low have you got last winter? No snow cover at all?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:20 am

Aaron, things DO look better now despite the winter carnage.
There are some real standout plants.
And the others make me want to cry.

Great looking yard; you've done a great design job.
I don't think we've ever seen distance pics before that show everything so well.
Thanks for that.

Yup...what a horrible long winter.
Bet half of North America is saying that.

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:47 am

Aaron, it looks like you've been seeing our landscapes while been planning your garden:

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:54 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Assuming this is your Idaho garden, isn't it? How low have you got last winter? No snow cover at all?

Snow cover is from late Nov. - late Feb.

The low was -13.6F/-25.3C wich is about normal, but came early this year before plants were dormant. It did lots of damage.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun May 08, 2011 10:56 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Aaron, it looks like you've been seeing our landscapes while been planning your garden:

Wow, that does look like my garden.

I like it.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun May 08, 2011 11:07 am

lucky1 wrote: Great looking yard; you've done a great design job.
I don't think we've ever seen distance pics before that show everything so well.
Thanks for that.

Barb

Thanks barb,
I think I should get on the roof and take a couple of pics so we can see year to year progress.

When I bought the place I did not even have a road going out there, I built the road over 600ft just to get to my property all out of recycled material a shovel and 5 gal buckets.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun May 08, 2011 12:19 pm

You built the 600 foot road with a shovel and 5 gallon buckets?

That's dedication! Good for you!
And a real love for the property.

I remember when I first saw these 15 acres with a For Sale sign.
I dailed the realtor's number, handed H the phone and (suggested) "make an offer".
Pushy! Who me?

Yes, Aaron, a 360 series of shots from the roof would be wonderful.
In summer all your stuff will have sprung back green.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:54 am

This weekend I might get up there and take a before summer pic and then this fall post an after summer pic. I'm hearing 80f for the weekend...nice!