3 Jubaea chilensis blue seedlings doing well; the other 7 haven't popped.
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Really disappointed that none of the B.eriospatha x S. glaucescens F1 seedlings from March have popped
The recovering Pachypodium lamerei:
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the big Wodyetia bifurcata, each new frond is more plumose than the last one:
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Under the big overhang, morning sun only:
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2 pics of Cycas debaoensis, finally pushing a new leaf (thanks cycadguy):
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Ponytail:
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Grapefruit doing better thanks to everyone's advice to increase watering:
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Christmas palm seedlings in total shade, some died from sunburn last month:
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Yucca rostrata sapphire skies. This one has to stay in the pot
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This year's Brahea nitida seedlings:
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T.princeps seedlings:
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a few more of each:
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2 Yucca "big mama" (thanks Tim), in front of a T. tesan (thanks Cam):
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3 Chamaerops humilis "cerifera", and a little Cycas panzhihuansis, and misc:
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Thinning the herd, dying foxtails, sunburned:
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Red Star cordylines are 3 feet tall and trunking, but the crazy petunias are climbing them
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Goldfish might be ready for shake-n-bake after this weekend's heatwave
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Misc stuff bunched in the shade:
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The nicest Foxtail seedling 4 ft tall, in the middle:
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Remember the Brahea armata twins? (cold winter test = the little one, warm winter test = the tall one)
Nice and blue up close.
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My camera doesn't do the blue color justice!
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the taller b.armata:
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My little trunking yucca...the trunk had a small crack, but it's healing over:
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succulent flowers with rosemary plant, see all the little grasses coming up? That's that darn Mexican Feather Grass that has seeded EVERYWHERE!!!!!!
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the little sabal mexicana and sabal riverside love the heat:
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Cocos nucifera, looks so-so this year, now that all the sunburned leaves from last year have fallen off:
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Dioon spinulosum is finally pushing a spear after having been nearly sunburned to death last year. These MUST be in shade!
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The needle palm (from coconut mike) hates the wind as much as my Trachies.
Sorry Mike, I should've taken better care of it:
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DRUMROLL, ta da!!!!! The planted Trachy is on its sixth leaf and has shot up this year:
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Its trunk is sure skinny now compared to when it was in a pot for 35+ years
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Crowded at its top...nice to be able to stand under it and look UP:
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The planted Washy filifera is growing slowly, and still shows some fungus damage from winter on some leaves:
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The planted Washy filibusta is doing better, and had the same winter protection as the W.filifera:
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One of 3 planted Y.rostrata sapphire skies...loves the heat on the south side of house, under the eave:
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Wollemia nobilis FINALLY flushing...
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That's it folks, thanks for looking.
Barb
PS...oops, forgot the little P.sylvestris "deglet noor" seedlings (the tall stringy ones nearest), more somewhere else
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