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TerdalFarm

Welcome to this forum. I'm also new here, and also joined for help with Butia. I have a little one in the ground for its 3rd winter with no supplemental heat, just hay for insulation, water bottles buffer temp. changes, and a big bucket over top to keep rain and wind off. It looses its fronds each w...

TerdalFarm

I was more aggressive than usual in my plantings in 2009 as news of the building El Nino/Southern oscillation (ENSO) came in. It is still building (http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.html) in January, 2010. This week, an ENSO-fueled storm has blown across Cal...

TerdalFarm

I sometimes feel as if my palm purchases from HD and Walmart are "rescues." The local HD, for example, left their Washies, Ch. humilis and Rhaphis palms outdoors during the January cold, with lows in the lower single digits and highs in the teens(oF) for a few days. Not just a few but a LO...

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Serious Belizean gardeners are as fanatic about their roses as we are about palms. I think it is a legacy of the British colonial heritage: a little bit of England in the jungle. As for the Xateros, I hope so. This family once lived smack in the middle of the village but two years ago moved to the v...

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Tough is what I need, as I get busy or travel and my plants have to take care of themselves. My C. radicalis lives in a put. It is outdoors April to October in afternoon shade and thrives despite being ignored. The rest of the year it is indoors in a rather cold room. I'd like to try more Chameadora...

TerdalFarm

Here is another try:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/Lx ... directlink
I'm still having trouble putting photos on this board.
--Erik

TerdalFarm

Here is a photo of my friend showing me his Xate:

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--Erik

TerdalFarm

Steve,
thanks for the Chameadora photos. My only one is a C. radicalis that grows great. I'd like to get some more, and generally learn more about this genus.
--Erik

TerdalFarm

Here is a snapshot I took of a garden in a Maya village: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/cIZMC3mPCc8hNKF2cs_OaA?feat=directlink She is growing roses in the rainforest! I find that as amazing as my palm trees up here. The husband is a farmer, prosperous for his village. He has held elective offi...

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As palm lovers, we can help educate our neighbors about palms. There are so many, and thus so much to learn. About the bayleaf palm, when I am deep in the forest (e.g., rode a horse vs. walked from nearest road) I see quite a few, but I never see large specimens within walking distance of a road. It...

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I won't have time to cross the border in March (my next trip) but maybe I'll do that in the future. It just doesn't make sense to me that Schippia would be widespread in Belize but be unknown outside that tiny country.

TerdalFarm

I'll be back in March and will try for more photos.
I may also look up Jan Meerman, who I think lives in the area. Maybe I can meet him and pick his brain.

TerdalFarm

I'll look up the specific oak species tomorrow. I'm thinking about live oak/water oak/willow oak to mix with palms for a "central american" montane landscape theme. I have read that the highest mountain tops in Belize have trees related to sweet gums as a relict of the ice ages, which push...

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I know this sounds lame, but I didn't look. I was pretty focused on work. :cry: I'll be back in the area in March and will try to do better. I mostly want to grow a cohune palm. The one time I brought seeds back they didn't germinate, but I did not have the expert resources of this site. I want to t...

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Barb,
The habitat shots were not in an area where cattle have been grazed recently, but they were there in the past (up to a decade or so ago). This particular area is now used for pine logging for local construction use.
--Erik

TerdalFarm

I'll share some more habitat photos as they relate to landscape ideas. We tend to think of "palms" as growing in "tropical" forests. Central America mixes that up. The whole isthmus is in the midst of a mixture of "neotropicals" moving up from South America and the sort...

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Jody,
thanks!
That link did not work for me. I think this is the same article:
http://www.cycad.org/documents/43-49_Ca ... _1__06.pdf
--Erik

TerdalFarm

Ask Jody. Species confirmation (if possible) would be cool. The only publication I have handy lists just one species for this area: Zamia furfuracea (Means, 1997). I really know next to nothing about cycads. The only reason I got the photos of cycads in the wild was because I told a friend who lives...

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Other than through the plant store at Belize Botanic Gardens, it is not really in cultivation. It grows slowly, which would discourage the plant trade. It is found in a wide variety of habitats in Belize. There may be more than one species/type/variety. I think some DNA-based work is being done on t...

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Here is what I think is a Schippia concolor: <table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gLb2FeyQCh9rlZ7u3zFVdw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_r-MvN4jW1sE/S1tcRd7Y98I/AAAAAAAAG00/pp5bRCA_p-Q/s400/IMGP0847.JPG" /><...

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Here is a slideshow of palms at the Belize Botanic Gardens ( http://www.belizebotanic.org/). http://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/PalmsInBelizeBotanicGardens# I start with Schippia concolor ("silver palmetto palm"). Belizean botanists are proud of Schippia as they claim it as an endemic ...

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Here is my Picasa slide show on cycads in Belize: http://picasaweb.google.com/terdalfarm/CycadsInBelize?feat=directlink The first snapshots are of cycads at the Belize Botanic Gardens ( http://www.belizebotanic.org/). I took notes, but somehow not well enough to match up my snapshots to my notes rel...

TerdalFarm

That is an amazing price!
If you want one that is bigger, a road trip down I-35 to Dallas should do the trick. Or even less. I bought mine at the local H-D.
--Erik

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Not yet as I had classes start up right away plus my older son visiting home from college.
I think I can go through photos tomorrow. --Erik

TerdalFarm

[quote="lucky1"]
ps...heck, it was your guys who taught our guys how to do the "border stuff"![/quote]

Touche'

TerdalFarm

Ok, that is one form of winter weather for me to look forward to. We get more of those ice storms than we do snow, but so far this year we just had the snow. It has been warm lately. I give myself credit as I promised to bring warm air home with me and I did. Last night we had a regular spring thund...

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LOL

TerdalFarm

you're a lot closer than I am, Jim.

TerdalFarm

I'm grumbling about Trachies lately, but really my fault. I'm celebrating his European fan palms, which I think are underrated for cold tolerance. My hunch about his Pindo palms is that he had soil heat which the plastic trapped with aid from the wind protection, while the uncovered Pindo palms with...

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I plan to invest in Sabal this Spring, too. As with you, we had a much colder spell there than I am used to.
I saw your pool. We had pretty thick ice on ours, despite it being a salt-water pool with the pump going. We are definitely not used to that.

TerdalFarm

Thanks for the photos. I'm sure it was painful. It was a bit colder here (3 oF vs. 14 oF) and fortunately I did a bit more protection. As with your case, my Pindo palm (Butia) and Euro. Fan Palm (Ch. humilis) did surprisingly well. My Trachy will live but it looks as bad as your Washies. I lost my o...

TerdalFarm

Jim,
I did have to join EPS to read your link but that was no problem. The information was great.
My Trachy looks much worse than any of the photos.

My Butia and Ch. humilis look better, however.

--Erik

TerdalFarm

Barb, I understand your fear. Regardless, I've been giving gentle tugs each day (there is no such thing as over-tugging, is there?) and so far, so good. However, last year my Washies didn't finally succumb until March. I kept seeing green petioles and feeling firm spears and so was confident that th...

TerdalFarm

The photos are great even if the damage is not. My leaves are showing increasing evidence of damage from the cold of 10 days ago. That is why I sprayed the copper fungicide yesterday. We have at least a week of warm weather so they are all enjoying sunshine and relative warmth. I'll take photos agai...

TerdalFarm

Barb,
please post here when you find the links Jim refers to.
Short term, I need to know what to do with damaged trachy leaves. Long term, I need help selecting Trachys that are extra-hardy.
--Erik

TerdalFarm

The rest of January looks wonderful here: highs near 60 oF, lows about 40 oF. We were forecast to get to freezing this morning but bottomed out at 38 oF. Our coldest temps are always in December/January so I'm not worried about single-digits again. March is what worries me as we swing from the 80's ...

TerdalFarm

That phrase is used down here in gardening circles.
--Erik

TerdalFarm

That is outstanding! Your coldest has been 8 oF lower than mine, and weeks earlier. You've seen what I have.

Is it the wind protection you credit, or the genetics behind this palm? --Erik
Edit: or the FreezeProof?

TerdalFarm

Nice palms. Were these all started from seed? --Erik

TerdalFarm

Very nice. Thank you for making the time. --Erik

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