New Yard Pics

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:21 pm

Wanted to show off my new desert scene we finished and show some other pics. Here goes:

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yucca elata:
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crepe myrtle zuni:
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papaya:
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So. Mag. BBB
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Poor little Mexican fan palm amongst garage sale junk:
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mimosas:
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gloriosa, canna lillies (came back this year no protection), and crepe myrtle:
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This is my needle palm the spear didn't pull but they are brown. Does anyone know if Ill lose the spear. It looks like its pushing out:
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Thanks for looking I'd have put more captions but I have to go to work in 9 minutes.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 2:28 pm

Good job, great specimens in that cactus bed.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Jun 04, 2013 8:53 pm

Love the little cactus garden, and everything else looks good also.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 12:56 pm

Garden looks great,those needle palms can be a little perplexing,
they are so hardy and yet sometimes they are damaged by temps
you wouldn't expect to see damage in-and losing a spear can
be a big deal for smaller slower Needles...

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:27 pm

Thanks all!

Jim, do you think the spear is lost. It hasn't pulled and it seems to be pushing itself out slowly. I thought maybe I just covered it too long and it turned brown from lack of sunlight. Any thoughts?

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 9:51 pm

Looks like I was wrong. The needle did have spear pull, I just didn't pull hard enough.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:28 am

Yea they have tough leaves hard to pull out...

Bill and I used to kid that if you think you don't have spear-pull,
you aren't pulling hard enough-I could go out there right now and they would all have pull...lol

Can you see anything in the center area? Usually pulling the leaves out this late is
a function of them growing out already...and they just kind of break off more than pull.

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:51 pm

I tried cutting the trunk back to see if I could cut past the rotted parts. I ended up cutting almost to the bottom. At the center is just a small open hole. Looks like the main trunk is done for. It's weird I thought it was a good sized needle palm. Do you think it may just be a needle palm that's not very cold hardy? One other detail, I pulled the leaves up around the spear (for protection) wrapped them up in burlap (at this point it looked like a funnel on top of the trunk) then I put leaves in the funnel. The whole palm was enclosed in a chicken wire with leaves stuffed around it. It stayed this way from mid dec. to mid march. Could that have been a bad move in and of itself?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:39 am

One thing I have always been fearful of with Needles is damage
because they can be slow to grow out of it...the warmth and closed,dark space
inside the trunk is a perfect place for infections to grow,to bad you did operate
sooner but it can be hard to tell if it is necessary if the palm has green leaves still..

I lost the main trunk off one of mine but it regrew from pups and even the
smaller ones of these pulled from our cool/cold spring.

Hopefully it comes back from the base...I still don't think mine is very hardy
even after 6 years-they just need to get some size first.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:52 am

Looks very nice. Love the papaya. I made the mistake of planting a crepe myrtle in my front gardens a few years back, it got too big and now I want to dig it out. It has taken over and I always just cut it back to the ground. Nice trees, but too big!

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:15 pm

Thanks Mike!

I wish I had that problem with crepe myrtles here. Usually they are die back perennials here. Fortunately the last 2 winters have been warm here. I'm thinking this year is the biggest it will ever get, unless we get blessed with another warm winter. But given the cool trend we've experienced this spring, I have a feeling it's going to be a cold winter. The one in the picture is a crepe myrtle Dynamite. I think they are my favorite.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:36 am

cuja1 wrote:Thanks Mike!

I wish I had that problem with crepe myrtles here. Usually they are die back perennials here. Fortunately the last 2 winters have been warm here. I'm thinking this year is the biggest it will ever get, unless we get blessed with another warm winter. But given the cool trend we've experienced this spring, I have a feeling it's going to be a cold winter. The one in the picture is a crepe myrtle Dynamite. I think they are my favorite.

That's wild. I never thought of them as perennials. I love the smooth wood on the trunks. Good Luck!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:26 am

cuja1 wrote: Usually crepe myrtles are die back perennials here.

Wow.... You have your gorgeous silk tree, the south magnolia and crepe myrtles growing as the perennials. What should I expect from mine having minus 30 C every winter....

Nice plants anyway!

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:28 pm

Thanks Igor,

the mimosa has seen -23 C when it was less than a foot tall. Other ones around here have probably seen worse. I'd say they are good for at least a zone 5b if not colder. We got some from Tennessee about 15 years ago and it acted like a die back perennial. I think it was a less hardy strain. I always get seeds from people around here that have the trees so I know they are hardy. Southern Magnolias loose their leaves sometimes here and I've seen some get tip die-back. But crepe myrtles are only sometimes hardy here. Sometimes they aren't even root hardy. It probably depends on the type. I've heard Crepe Myrtle 'hopi' is wood hardy in a zone 5b.

miketropic · Post by **miketropic** » Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:59 pm

will everything in the cactus bed stay out all winter? I have thought about growing a papaya a few times but taking it in for the winter seems like to much work once it gets larger. wonderful pics

cuja1 · Post by **cuja1** » Sat Jun 15, 2013 7:07 pm

Mike,

everything in the cactus garden will stay out all winter. The one hitch is that I doubt the large prickly pear has much chance of survival. It's an opuntia from santa fe. I looked it up and it is supposedly hardy only to zone 7a. I'm still going to leave it out and see what happens. As far as the yucca rostrata, a. parryi, hesperaloe, claret cup, and a few other cacti those stayed outside all winter with no problem (although we never hit 0 F this past winter). I just covered them with a clear storage container.

The papaya will probably stay outside all winter but I'm only sending it to its death. It requires too much sun and I don't have enough direct sunlight in my house to keep messing with it. Unless I feel sorry for it and dig it up and ask my parents to watch it for the winter. They have a large sunroom.

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Wed Jun 26, 2013 1:43 pm

Great shots, especially the cacti!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 6:09 am

very nice