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Excellent, Gonz! Any photos? Barb This was taken with my Iphone last June. I had to trim off the damaged lower leaves. Which is reason behind getting the fleece blankets. This is what it looked like after I was done trrimming. It handled the +30 sunny straight days of 100-116 degree weather very ...

That has also been on my mind. I usual keep a cluster of about 10 C9s around the spear area. I turn them on and cover the crown to trap some heat. I have a wireless temp probe attached to the spear to monitor. This year I am going to use a very large fleece blanket to cover the crown. I bought 4 90 ...

Windmill is doing fine. I have been trying to push it's growth through the summer with Palm food,organic fertilizer,and plenty of water every other day during July and August. Also adding something called Plant Success Great White Premium Mycorrhizae,and my usual stuff. The big palm has grown about ...

I don't think I will wrap it that way next year. Some of the frond fingers have straightened out though. Next fall I am going to arrange the lights a different way to put a little heat at the fronds. and rig a windbreaker instead for strong winds. More lights on the ground instead of just around the ...

Very good video.

Here is my Trachy last night: <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zdz4h6FeUjj65BXevCyJLw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_r-MvN4jW1sE/SzTqvGwFHFI/AAAAAAAAGWk/fGs8EbrZUEs/s400/IMGP0745.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family ...

hardyjim wrote:Snow is a great insulator.
Some of my palm covers stayed near freezing when it was 0(F)without heat.

Good to know.

Hey you guys in the Tulsa area, I think its moving your way. 14 inches or more in OKC. Temps in the low teens or lower. 30-40 mph wind gusts. Thank God and George Bush for this global warming! Here are some pics from tonight. http://s3.postimage.org/HeMQi.jpg http://s1.postimage.org/12OypJ.jpg Here ...

I just had to send my wife out in this--she is a night ICU nurse. Right now I'm more worried about her than my palms, but when she calls to say she made it I'll go out to check. My Butia shelter definitely can NOT take a snow load. I may be sweeping snow off the roof every few hours. (+ need to ...

Right now the weather channel says it's 24F. Windchill is 12 I think. Winds finally down to 25mph NW. My outdoor sensor reads 26F Inside the crown is 30.7F The probe inside the spear base is 44.4F The tree in the back is covered and reads 27.0F in the crown. I knew the snow was coming but I decided ...

GONZ Good plan with the fertilizer schedule. I like to start them out with some potassium and epsom in spring then hit them(palms) with something high in N as May turns to June,then something more balanced like I will be trying this summer(per Bill :wink:)Carl Pools.As we move into the end of ...

Gonz. Thanks for the update. I've been wondering how your palms have been doing. Those are tough plants and the lights must help a lot. In my (limited) experience, March is our hardest month. We get several hot (80 oF) days and the plants start growing, then we get rain followed by temps in the 20 ...

Gonz, thanks. I have a similar display unit, part of an anemometer. Great accuracy. But if there are, say, 4 separate units with 4 displays, could the readouts "cross"? In other words do the readouts need to be very close to the sensors if you have more than one? An alarm is a great idea, let us ...

Nice size specimens, very healthy looking. The silver fan palm will be slower than the windmill but they'll both grow so wide, you'll be relocating your patio in 10 years. :lol: :lol: Barb That's why I put the Euro under the balcony. Yes it is much slower and I was hoping to control the size by ...

Back patio area. This is the windmill and silver euro fan palm I bought from Home Depot in late spring. I will mulch it good and put a card board box on top of them when there is ice or too cold. Installed a french drain. The windmill and other plants are practically on top of it. So far so good ...

thanks for those pictures...a great microclimate in there! any chance you can post a pic of the remote sensor that you attach to the trunk? maybe also the readout/display that presumably is in the house? I'm looking to buy one and am interested in what's available. Great looking palms. Barb I ...

BILL MA wrote:Do you have any oaks in your area that are evergreen? I will be looking for a good specimen from your area one of these days.

Bill

I have not seen evergreen oak.
All drop leaves here.

Nice Palm you have there. Is the black wrapped up palm in the first picture when you first got it? It did really well for planting it in Sept. I think you have one of the best 6b 7a zones on the map for sure. You have a Very nice climate to grow palms. I bet you even have full grown Live Oaks in ...

Your C.cerifera(if thats what you mean by silver Euro palm) would handle the sun/heat better than Trachy's would but would certainly be more cold sensitive. This particular palm is called a Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera. It is considered cold hardy in zone 7,high coastal salt tolerant,and drought ...

Very nice palms Gonz. Have you seen the site http://www.amazinggardens.com/site_index.html Tulsa and Oklahoma city. I have several of his Sabal louisiana. I`m sure it would be a lot cheaper for you to drive across town than it was for me to order and ship. John Yes I have. But nothing about ...

Late winter snow.

I am in zone 7a I think but I have also seen zone 6b on some maps.
Oklahoma winters have gotten milder since I moved here in 1980.

Planted a year ago and doing very well. Also a smaller windmill I planted 3 years ago. http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/gnzmill/palma.jpg http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/gnzmill/palmb.jpg http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/gnzmill/palmc.jpg http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o64 ...

great to here from someone in tulsa im actually in bartlesville but my businesses are in tulsa . im really excited to here the palms are doing good i dont want to wait for years for them to get big im planning on buying several 8 fot palms . have you seen the palms that are near 51 and memorial ...

Hi Gonz, welcome aboard. That's one healthy palm to grow four feet in 3 years! It obviously likes your soil and microclimate on the east. And a 7 footer...wow. :D Hope you'll be able to post some pictures soon. What have your lowest temps been this winter? 70 degrees! that's quite the warm spell ...

THANKS FOR THE INFO I LIVE IN A RIVER VALLY WE HAVE GREAT SOIL AND DRAINAGE BUT WHEN IT RAINS THE POOL WILL OVERFLOW AND THE LOWER GROUND MAY STAY WET FOR SEVERAL DAYS ,LOST A BEAUTIFUL CEDAR THAT WAY . DO YOU THINK THE WINDMILL WILL DO WELL AND THE BIRMINGHAM CAN THEY TAKE THE 100 DEGREE HEAT WE ...