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" the American-UK mission of the cattle experts is going to visit this place" Hahahah Igor you're so funny! Beautiful mountaintop pictures. In the third ski picture, why are all the tracks ACROSS the hill? I would want to ski DOWN it. But maybe down is out of bounds or nowhere near a lift?...

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Very good Tony, no need to lose sleep over the temps we will see from now forward.

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Welcome to the forum, Montgomery!

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I might just have to post a pic of my Big Mama pic too... been planted outside for a full year now. It is looking quite formidable. I will wait til good friday when I am off.

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My windmill has been uncovered for a month and a half. It does however, as a 6ish year old plant, have nine inches of trunk. How big is yours?
Welcome to palmsnorth Tony!

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Odds are the same as a supermarket coconut. Not very good. We sold them (sprouted, growing ) not as a palm, but as a novelty. I wouldn't waste my time nor the pot of soil.

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Very nice assortment. The Yucca bright edge looks more like a Dracaena deremensis or warneckii, but they probably just used leaf shine on the yucca.

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http://www.cactusstore.com

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Saw this and found it interesting. So did my 7 year old son.. Did you know there really was an "elephant bird"? http://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-want-to-bring-some-animals-back-from-extinction-211102151.html The list of candidates: http://longnow.org/revive/candidates/ And deeper i...

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Turns out the eBay seller has no idea what they are selling, besides, will not ship to Canada. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/380057179902?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_658wt_1271 oh well. Instead, I put through my first seed order this spring to cactusstore.com from them I am ge...

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Barb, I miss the greenhouse work so much. It's been three years away from there now. Fresh air, plants, getting dirty every day in the sun and 30'c January days. Also the 45'c full sun August days, uhhh... after that, I'd go home to feel the need for no AC. Need jeans and a sweater at 25c in the hou...

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well most were 6" or ten inch pots (3 gal). Most were routine, some were as needed (by weight) and some got less or extra water if they appeared stressed (which may also be by weight. This got to be easy to compare stressed plants' weight to healthy plants weight and appearance to those all aro...

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Firstly, I do not think it is a goner. Secondly, plants can go in to decline when rapidly grown in (usually Florida ), then are brought to less light -intense climes. It is their ability to leaf-cull. Barb good point on soil shrink and rootboundedness. At the greenhouse, I have had to cut away as mu...

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We often got Rhaphis excelsa at the greenhouse. It was one of the few we could water by hand (and allow to dry out moderately between waterings ) rather than daily watering on the floodfloors. It can easily succumb to root rot if not allowed proper drainage, i.e. holes at the VERY base of the pot pe...

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Barb, so true cats are bad for plant peeing and future death. In fact that was the fate of my traveller's palm last year upon second thought.

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Andy, that is a gorgeous plant! I know nothing about them though. I see many plants available from Germany or Spain. But they refuse to ship here to Canada. Like: http://www.ebay.es/itm/Jubaea-chilensis-26-cm-Topf-/251079683820?pt=DE_Haus_Garten_Garten_Blumen_Pflanzen&hash=item3a7583eeec#ht_817w...

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Barb with the twin Bizzie trunk!?

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Tim thanks for the headsup. And yeah you have a good specimen now to try again. And it looks like a few agave pups are on their way to me.

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Andy that is a beauty!

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Barb, 30 dasylirion seedlings killed? plant needs water check!
Noted.

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Thanks so I am not losing my mind. Those do not look like baby dasylirion. Looks like yucca or agave pups to me too, but worth a try. I will be getting dasylirion seeds in my seed order soon I think what they are are the plantlets from its spear. Bulbils. Like from the Agave vilmoriniana. I like the...

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So I just went on eBay and bought five D. wheeleri pups. everything said $13.
Lets see how they work out.

also list a two pak for 8 bucks:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/380057179902?ssP ... 658wt_1271

cheers

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I had one more poll option: I'm still not crazy enough to plant my palms outdoors.

Somehow it did not show up as a choice. Let's see if I can add it.

OK. Now added.

Zack, your Washy looks healthy! What were your coldest temps Zack?

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Some people do it by date. Others based on the upcoming forecast. Still others on recent history or a gut feeling or an opportune weekend off. I have put palm protection back on five of my outdoor palms. Twice already, due to changing long term forecasts. But I have NOT taken off my insulated box of...

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I never gave this plant much thought. It is rated as marginal or outright out of my range. It at first looks much like so many of the Yuccas. But now upon further looking, it looks very different from Yuccas. A different leaf profile, and as a mature plant, it can be quite the striking plant with a ...

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Mahonia. Ours here is still green

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My Yucca rigida had ruler straight leaves, not wavy like those pictured. My Yucca schottii DOES have these wavy type leaves. A possibility?

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Limon, those look just like my Yucca pallida. Not like the plants Igor showed that are kind of a guess. Or a mix.
Yours are pallida.

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I would not risk all my other plants. Not with mealy bug. Somehow two years ago I found my groundcover creeping jenny was in decline. It was infested with mealy. Obviously a hitchhiker from a newer plant. Quite a threat, with creeping jenny under one third of all my garden shrubs and flowers. At the...

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Barb that is a wonderful reference chart and info! Thanks for sharing!!,

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Duke for when to plant, it depends on how big and established the plants are. If they are four years old or younger, I'd say forget it. Wait. Til late April cuz its too dicey to risk em I would plant the palmetto on the south side LATER. It will have to be boxed in the winter the first year or so. T...

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Being march break, I will put together my list this week.

Anyone else interested in adding to the order let me know.

Will place the order next week

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We've been having some great successes with medjool date palms grown from seed here. We love eating dates. And now grow them too. We have had some sabal 'mccurtain' seeds for quite some time now with zero success. Until now. We saved the seeds from two failed attempts. Took them, cleaned them. Put t...

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Ryan
Last one.left at the watering can in Vineland hwy 8. You may have some luck at the st catharines or Niagara Falls locations, but I've never been to them.

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Good for you Barb. It will be a wonderful gravel bed of plants. I am so happy to see you have ground planted your Brahea armata. I checked in on mine outside today and it looks wonderful. It's box will come off in one or two weeks.

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Oh yeah. The 15gallon needle palm was 49 dollars. A steal!

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Some of you have seen deals at your local garden centres... so have I! Today I picked up this 15 gallon needle palm with a foot of clear trunk: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/8539520999/" title="Needle palm by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9...

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Hi there Igor! That is probably a Yucca pallida. At first I was tempted to say Yucca rigida, but its edges have some filaments. The filaments should make it pallida. If it were that colour and had a more thompsoniana-like edge serration it would be rigida (which often can show a pale yellowing on th...

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We would get those in at work four or five years ago. I recall they were in limited supply and we sold them for 40 to 50 dollars at the plant auction for a 3 gallon.

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Damir, wonderful pics! I am a bit jealous of some of your agaves. That is also a nice roebellini
You will get double the growth on your pawpaws, if you keep them in 80 to 90% shade, that is if the direct sun hasn't killed them yet.

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