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by nate74
Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:11 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Pushing Flowers
Replies: 9
Views: 10951

Looks like 3 days in the mid 80's have brought the flowers out. http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Jungle%202016/E870E6AB-B333-4F3A-8B56-3AD4D5DB48AF.jpg And an overall shot cause I liked the light tonight. http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Jungle%202016/7FB0F0DC-FEDC-4FC4...
by nate74
Thu Apr 14, 2016 8:28 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Pushing Flowers
Replies: 9
Views: 10951

I snapped a pic this morning http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Jungle%202016/D9F17F71-0EE6-41AC-9C11-DFD3B8C767E6.jpg It has 33" of trunk this year compared to 24" last year so I am pretty happy about that and there are 9 flower pods. http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/t...
by nate74
Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:31 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Pushing Flowers
Replies: 9
Views: 10951

I don't have a pic of the whole palm but I'll get one when I can this is what it looked like last May.
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by nate74
Sun Apr 10, 2016 10:06 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Pushing Flowers
Replies: 9
Views: 10951

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Hi Nate. Do you have any other Trachy`s planted near this one?



John
Unfortunately I don't have any others old enough to flower. I have two in 15 gallon pots that will go in the ground this spring but they are still to small to flower.
by nate74
Tue Apr 05, 2016 2:43 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Pushing Flowers
Replies: 9
Views: 10951

Pushing Flowers

Seems my Trachy has made it through another winter and has now started to push some flowers for the first time.
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by nate74
Wed Jul 29, 2015 2:25 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Road Trip to San Diego.......
Replies: 4
Views: 4143

Can't wait to see the after, your haul from Texas had me jealous San Diego will be nuts for sure.
by nate74
Mon Jul 13, 2015 1:09 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Some pics from July 12,2015
Replies: 3
Views: 2774

Looking good, thanks for sharing
by nate74
Mon Jun 01, 2015 3:19 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Road trip to Texas......
Replies: 13
Views: 10090

thats awesome, my wife would kill me.
by nate74
Sun May 24, 2015 8:16 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: New Trachy and other pics
Replies: 4
Views: 3579

some great looking palms there, thanks for sharing.
by nate74
Sat May 09, 2015 6:37 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Help ..........please
Replies: 7
Views: 5536

So the good?,bad and the ugly. I get some brown tips through the winter and if we get a real hot stretch in the summer if I don't keep up on watering but I haven't ever had leaf die back. However it gets watered daily through the summer since there are animals planted around it. Any ferts that it ge...
by nate74
Fri May 08, 2015 11:45 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Help ..........please
Replies: 7
Views: 5536

Perhaps I could have used a different title. There was a post on another forum that got me thinking that this one was stunted or maybe not the variety (Trachycarpus fortunei) that I thought it was given its growth.

Thanks for the response.
by nate74
Tue May 05, 2015 11:15 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Help ..........please
Replies: 7
Views: 5536

Help ..........please

Ok so I have this palm that I picked up from Home depot coming up 10 years ago as a 1 gallon "windmill" palm. http://i888.photobucket.com/albums/ac89/tiwaz74/Mobile%20Uploads/47268D3E-A476-4A73-B78E-7B392F904C13.jpg The trunk is about 2 foot now and its just over 4 foot total. It has South...
by nate74
Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:24 pm
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: My Hardy palms and bananas
Replies: 38
Views: 53660

that Ensete is gorgeous what are your plans for wintering it?
by nate74
Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:38 am
Forum: Cold Hardy Palms
Topic: Early September Pictures
Replies: 10
Views: 4557

Your yard is simply amazing.
by nate74
Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:27 am
Forum: Member Introduction
Topic: Howdy, from Abbotsford BC
Replies: 3
Views: 4221

Howdy, from Abbotsford BC

Hi there, I am pretty new to palms and tropicals but am looking to learn more. I currently have one windmill palm (Trachycarpus Fortunei) that is doing fairly well in spite of how I have treated it. I found this site while trying to find some information on keeping it happier through the upcoming wi...