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During the extreme cold of January, the Siberian burian arrived to the North of Italy: I have registered an extreme minimum temperature of - 14,6 °C during one night and some other nights of -13°C. I have never seen such a bad weather here!!! Luckily among one hundred palms I have in the ground at m ...

This is what google translater did: brothers ingegnqi milan catalog of seeds of plants I thought basjoo seeds were really, really hard to come by? I've found that drawing in a 2010 Italian book entitled "I segreti del giardiniere" by Fratelli Ingegnoli (transation: "The secrets of the gardener" by ...

sidpook wrote:Very interesting. I see it is from a seed and plant catalog. Do you have access to the whole catalog??

No I have only the cover picture. But it could be interesting reading the description inside that catalogue.

Here is a picture of an Italian plant catalogue from 1895. It is dedicated to Musa japonica (actually Musa basjoo). Is is named as "Banano rustico", that means "Rustic banana". Notice the winter ambientation of the drawing, suggesting the cold hardy quality of this species. Do you know further ...

Hi, here is the birtday present from my wife: a new good sized and silver Brahea armata! It's about 1,60 m from the ground: considering the hole 70 cm deep, it has been really a hard work for me to plant it after the job. I love it!!! https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_IPDUeR1wwDc/TcgpH_7jLFI ...

Here is me with my favourite species of palm: the Jubaea. I have several Chilean wine palms in my garden, but I will never see them growing to such size, as this specimen is about 100 years old. You can find it in the park of Nervi (Genoa, Italy). Best regards, Stefano Barone [/img]https://lh6 ...

Thank you very much! I will post new pictures of the other palms as soon as possible. Best regards, Stefano

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Stefano,

the link asked for a password........we could not see the photos.

Hi, you have to register to EPS forum. You can see some pictures here too:
https://picasaweb.google.com/1053572302 ... 4Marzo2011#

But the question remains: If you lived in my zone, would you still use ONLY heating cables? Thanks again. Barb Dear Barb, probably If I lived in tour zone I'd use heating infrared lamps. here are some pictures of the palms after winter that I have taken today, but the palms are too many and the ...

Here are the dates about the temperatures in Cremona, my province. I live 52 Km far from Cremona and about 33 Km far from Milan, in a country town so in some cases the minimum temperatures were about 2 or 3 °C less at night. In any case my digital thermometers with outside probes (putted inside the ...

Hello everyone, I live near Crema (CR), in the north of Italy (zone 8a/b). Tomorrow will be spring and I'd like to write a report about many YOUNG palms planted in the south of my garden in april 2010. I have some other older specimens planted some years ago ad I have many others in pots (I putted ...

I just sent you two shark photos from snorkeling yesterday plus three of the cycad. One shows the entire plant, one shows the base with seedlings growing, some embedded in the trunk; the last shows the crown. Apparently the New York Botanical Garden could only ID it to "Cycas sp." and so that is ...

Stefano, it varies by length, and also among different manufacturers for the same length. All are quite low. My one trial with Christmas lights uses 125 watts for a single string, which I think is as much as all of my pipe heating cables combined. I'll record them when I get home if W has not ...

Hi Erik, what is the wattage of that heating cable?
I will inform all of you about the results when in spring at 20°C I will se how reallt the palms are.

Regards
Stefano

Stefano, thank you for sharing your protection methods here. Of the various palm forums, this one is the best for exchanging winter protection ideas. As with you, and Duncan (in Canada--he was -23 oC today!), I use the thermostat controlled pipe heating cable. I'll place mine in the next few days ...

Seba, Nice cages. With fronds touching the plastic as it gets cold, do you make the cages larger? Barb It is better fronds never touch the garden tissue, so the cages should be of a good size. I prefer transpirant tissue rather than plastic as I know palms could suffer from fungi without a good ...

Both Jim and Stefano have a lot more experience than I do keeping palms alive through winter. Climate-wise, I split the difference between you guys. I don't need electric heating yet--it is 20 oC as I type this; the lowest in the weeks forecast is -6 oC--but this discussion prompted me to start ...

Not sure what your agreeing or disagreeing with or what scientific has to do with it, my question is whether they(cables)provide enough heat to keep your leaves protected- I know they are very efficient at warming pipes or whatever they come in contact with. I think they will do a fine job of ...

I don't use the heat cables so I don't know anything about them. I mainly use X-mas lights. I like them because I can screw in/unscrew a few bulbs for more/ less heat. I think in your climate you could just make a sleeve out of a couple old blankets and some plastic wrap and cover for the coldest ...

Hi Seba, welcome to the forum. Erik, Jim and others using heat tape/cables: I was under the impression that it's too hot to have the cables touching the plant itself? Is this the case? Thanks! Mine are 30 watt cables. One I used them for snakes too. When I touched them I didn't feel too hot. I know ...

Stefano, thank you for sharing your protection methods here. Of the various palm forums, this one is the best for exchanging winter protection ideas. As with you, and Duncan (in Canada--he was -23 oC today!), I use the thermostat controlled pipe heating cable. I'll place mine in the next few days ...

hardyjim wrote:Did you say you are in z8 ?

What are your minimum winter lows?

In general winters never go under - 6/7 °c here, but last winter I registered - 12 °C and one day - 15 °C. I use protections to all the younger palms planted in the ground during the last spring.

As I will be very busy for work in Dicember, I am starting to protect my younger palms from this week. I have bought several German 30 Watts heating cables with a built thermostat: in Germany they are generally used for external water pipes. They had a classic schuko plug. My electrician has cutted ...

Stefano, good questions, and ones I had myself as I was getting started. I'll try to explain. If I cannot explain well enough with words let me know and I'll take some photographs for you. 1) the thermostat is located at the end of the electric heating element in the tape. Thus, it needs to be ...

Dear Sirs, in the North of Italy - where I live - some people have lost some palms due to the actual very bad winter. I will plant 1 young Brahea armata, 2 six years old Jubeas, 1 young Butia capitata this spring, but I am thinking with much terror about the next winter... I've read that some people ...