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- Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:07 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Ever been screwed and not known till later?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8813
Kansas, I got your PM and tried to reply, but I don't think it worked, it said there was an error. Yes I will have the plants you want at the price we discussed. Winter is over here, all the plants are leafedback out and resuming active growth . We will be gone for this week and not back in town til ...
- Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:06 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: What are your three most favorite palms?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11719
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 5:01 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Winter Protection Methods
- Replies: 19
- Views: 22478
I have used this same idea but on a much smaller scale, often protecting just one single plant. I know that this forum and I are not really comparable, this is for folks in really cold climates and I am in FL zone 8B, where it rarely gets down to 20F, but believe me, one night in the low 20's is ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:57 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Greenhouse Heating?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6566
I can't help you, there is no comparison in our climates. We arrely get below 20 here and I have a 1730 sq ft greenhouse that uses a 200,000 BTU Modine propane heater. I maintain a "tropical" zone 11 house, that is, above 40 yearround. Actually in winter I am a zone 12-13 as I maintain 55-60F. Its ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:53 pm
- Forum: Greenhouse & Outside Protection
- Topic: Ants & Gnats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4013
Hi, I have a 1700+ sq ft greenhouse and am also a state certified nursery in Florida where fireants are King. I have a Fireant Certification from the state and it requires me to treat my plants and my greenhouse space every 3 months. I have to use stuff from a list that the stste of FL USDA gives me ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:48 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: TYTY Nursery and zone 5 afghani palms?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
I looked at their website and they have definitely changed it. Their website used to be really "beefcake". There were a lot of hunky guys some tatted up some not posing with a lot of plants almost in a calendar like dealie. Now, I see, its changed. There are still some photos of guys, but also of ...
- Fri Mar 10, 2006 3:48 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: TYTY Nursery and zone 5 afghani palms?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
I have a friend who regularly drives from FL to AL on business (she owns a health club in AL and has to go check up on it almost monthly) and she drives right by that nursery in GA. She wanted to get some plants and since she knew I owned a small nursery myself, she asked me if I knew anything about ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:13 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: TYTY Nursery and zone 5 afghani palms?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15568
- Thu Mar 09, 2006 2:11 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Off topic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19636
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:57 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: pics of a few of my new palms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6310
and lastly....Pinanga sp "Thai Mottled"
This is another mottled leaf Pinanga.

- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:55 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: pics of a few of my new palms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6310
Pinanga species "Blue seed"
This is a species of Pinanga from Sarawak. It is very rare. It has a beautiful mottled leaf and at maturity, its seeds are a bright blue color. I hope I get to eventually see that!

- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:52 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: pics of a few of my new palms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6310
Marojejya darianii
This is the Darian Palm. Its a highly endangered palm from Madagascar. It is basically solitary and trunkless, the leaves will get up to 20 ft in the wild.

- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:49 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: pics of a few of my new palms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6310
Gronophyllum pinangoides
This is Gronophyllum pinangoides. I have little data about it. It sure is cute though!

- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:46 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: pics of a few of my new palms
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6310
pics of a few of my new palms
I know I am probably going to have to post all these separately because I seem to recall I couldn;t figure out how to post them all at once. These are some of the almost 40 new rainforest understory palms I got from Hawaii. This is Asterogyne martiniana. It only gets about 3 ft tall and is solitary ...
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:42 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Off topic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19636
I have seen Miami Ink a few times, but am not a regular watcher. The only show I watch regularly on TV is the original CSI on Spike. I got my first tattoo in 1979 and have been tattooed on and off since then, but this large piece has been approached from the lazy way for certain. I have to have time ...
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:56 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Musa Basjoo too
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11381
- Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:36 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Off topic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19636
That's some nice flash, Jay! Your friend is lucky to have someone like you who can do an original for them. I have a full shirtback, shoulders to buttocks, almost 100% coverage. The tattoooing has taken over 3 years, and contains a mermaid (the Hajime Soyrama sharkfin tailed mermaid done in portrait ...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:23 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Not cold hardy but.....
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18860
Not cold hardy but.....
Okay, I know the object of this forum is that its for folks who live in cold places to talk about palms that are basically cold hardy. But I don't have many of those. I did however recently score some gems from Hawaii for my greenhouse. Many of these are rare, most all are small growing rainforest ...
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:12 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Off topic
- Replies: 24
- Views: 19636
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:09 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: ? bout a Pygmy Date
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17947
- Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:07 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Musa Basjoo too
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11381
- Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:47 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Coldest temps?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16525
- Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:59 am
- Forum: Wanted
- Topic: Have: Heliconia rhizomes for trade
- Replies: 0
- Views: 20041
Have: Heliconia rhizomes for trade
I am discontinuing 5 varieties of heliconias from my greenhouse in order to consturct a palm/aroid/bromeliad/orchid area across one back all (36 feet). I am interested in making trades for these plants: Heliconia latispatha "Red Orange Gyro" Heliconia pendula "Red Waxy" Heliconia latispatha ...
- Sun Jan 29, 2006 2:02 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: "SuperThrive"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3656
I have used Superthrive for over 10 years. I have to say that the things I have seen it make the most noticeable difference in is Vandaceous orchids. If used in conjunction with a good fertilizer at the suggested rate of application (one drop per gallon) it will grow orchid roots like there is no ...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:23 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy - General
- Topic: anana Pineapple plant
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3802
Yes you can. Depending on the type of pineapple you have (Ananas comosus blah blah blah) some readily make offsets (pups) and some don't. You can always wait til your fruit is ripe, cut it off, eat the fruit and save the top and plant it, and get a new plant. But look around the base of the plant ...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:18 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: PlantDelights.com
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11845
I'll certainly try to give you all the benefit of my pineapple knowledge (hah hah) Actually I grow a few pineapples, mainly the big variegated ornamentals that very rarely bloom. Here in FL the deer have a predilection for the green type of pineapple, probably because their spines aren't as wicked ...
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:32 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: PlantDelights.com
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11845
- Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:20 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: PlantDelights.com
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11845
As an eBay seller, I know that shipping is expensive. But there are a lot of companies that are charging you a handling fee and a packing fee mixed in with their postage fee. I am not saying PD does that because I don't know for certain, but their shipping seems very expensive to me. Plant Delights ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:37 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Got my palms today...
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18353
Got my palms today...
I got my JOey Palms and my Watermelon Palm today...they look great. Planted them in a super-draining media as was suggested to me by "experts", then retired to listen to Bauhaus and "Bela Lugosi's Dead".
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:48 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Greenhouse palm: Licuala peltata
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4334
- Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:47 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: just seeing if I can post a photo....
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4272
Wes, those are Heliconia inflos. No, they don't do zone 8B unless you have a greenhouse. The hardiest heliconia known to science (haha) that is widely cultivated is a species called H. schiediana, it will survive a light frost most of the time but bloom sporadically after and the blooms are nothing ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 9:16 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Hi I'm new...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4075
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:22 pm
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Post your needle palm pics.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8278
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 1:21 pm
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Which is this....Chinese windmill or Mediterranean Fan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3370
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:16 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Greenhouse palms: Bottle, L. grandis, Pelagodoxa henryana
- Replies: 0
- Views: 18522
Greenhouse palms: Bottle, L. grandis, Pelagodoxa henryana
These are the rest of my more rare palms. The Bottle Palm isn't rare, it grows all over South FL, but its not at all cold hardy here, so has to be greenhoused in the winter. That's it with the reddish color to the fronds. The round fan type palm is Licuala grandis, and the large unbroken feather or ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:05 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Greenhouse palm: Licuala peltata
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4334
Greenhouse palm: Licuala peltata
This is one of my favorite palms. I love all the licualas and plan to collect some more. I have read that they are not cultivated a lot outside So Florida and that many of the species have never been collected for propagation. They come from shady lowland rainforest mainly Solomon Islands. Fairchild ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 8:01 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Greenhouse palm: Licuala mapu
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2900
Greenhouse palm: Licuala mapu
This is one of the more unusual palms that I have. This palm is so slow growing, I am 45 now and by the time it actually suckers I have a good chance of being dead. I have had it for 2 years. Its planted in the ground in the greenhouse. That's it, the little variegated mapu squeezed in between the ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:54 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Which is this....Chinese windmill or Mediterranean Fan
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3370
Which is this....Chinese windmill or Mediterranean Fan
I have 5 clumps of this palm growing out by my swimming pool. I think that they are possibly as old as 20 years. They seem pretty slow growing. All the clumps are between 8-10 ft tall. Someone told me it was a "Windmill Palm" but photos of windmill palms I have looked at all seem much larger than ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:48 am
- Forum: Photo Gallery
- Topic: Post your needle palm pics.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8278
My needle plams
These palms grow well outside here. They are very hardy. I do not know how old these clumps are. They were here when we bought the house about 3 1/2 years ago. All in all, we have perhaps 15 clumps of this size. They were planted as a xeriscape with Korean Rock Ferns, Sago palms and some other stuff ...
- Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:24 am
- Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
- Topic: Merry Christmas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5170
Yes everyone have a great holiday weekend. I didn't get any plants for Christmas, but I did get a great garden bench to put out by the pond. I took the "liberty" however of ordering a few new things for my birthday coming up in less than 2 weeks... This is my neat new bench (thanks, hubby!) http ...