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Jova

Hello. I just got back from a vacation in the Virginia Beach area, and I was surprised to see that they had some really nice pindo palms growing down there. I think that area is around 7b/8a. From what I've read, Pindo's aren't nearly as hardy as a trachy or a needle, but almost all of the trachys I...

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Isn't Ontario IN Canada?!

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Very cool to hear that there are some other musicians here. Music is what I do, and I've played since I was a kid. I'm a manager at a music store and I play out live and do recording sessions from time to time. I'm primarily a drummer and guitarist, although I've been the lead vocalist in a few band...

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Thanks for the comments everyone! And Barb, no chiropractor visits thus far, but the ole' tylenol bottle took a hit:) I'll have some new pics up in the next couple of weeks that actually show some plants:)

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I gotta agree with Barrie... I find myself pulling those things up constantly while weeding my beds:)

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Looking very good!

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Rob: I'd say that explains why they can sell these things 2 feet tall at Lowes for 8 bucks a pop:) Thanks for the info guys!

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Hello... I bought this yucca last spring at Lowes... picked it up in the houseplants section and immediately brought it home and stuck it out in the yard. It was tagged as "cane yucca", but I'd like to know the exact species so I can look up hardiness info and what not. I brought it in the...

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wxman: Looks excellent! The large trachy and washy in front of your house are stunning... I wish mine looked that good.. maybe in a few years:) You asked about companion plants for the new beds, and I would go for bananas. In my opinion, bananas are almost more of an "eye-catcher" than pal...

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Are you planting these as annuals, going to take them inside for the winter, or going to try to overwinter these in the ground? Seems to me that would be pretty rough in a 5a. Looks very nice though! I wish I had a pool:)

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Hate to hear about the palms Jim, but if anybody can get them to pull through, it's you:) Best of luck!

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Steve, 1up on the excellent photography! And Bill... The way we take care of those "tree rats" around here usually involves a 12 gauge shotgun and some game loads... There's no fat on em', so can be a bit tough, but if ya cook em' right, it's not bad! Skinning them is the worst part though...

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Looking good Jim! My trachy's are about in the same shape as yours, burnt leaves, no spear pull, and the bases are still green, so hope that mine and yours will both pull through. Interesting that you posted pics of your arundo donax, because I just bought a 25g pot of this stuff today (posted a pic...

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Just picked up a clump of this stuff today... It's also referred to as wild cane, giant reed, spanish cane, etc... It caught my eye last fall at a local nursery that had a huge clump of it that was at least 15 feet tall, and it looked very tropical to me. Today, I stopped by the same nursery, and on...

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Last November, I covered my largest basjoo clump with a leaf enclosure that ended up being about 5 feet in diameter and 5 feet tall, in an attempt to overwinter the entire psuedostems... In past years, I just chopped them to the ground and mulched them, but this year I wanted to see if I could overw...

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Welcome Ron! I'm also from southern Indiana (between Terre Haute and Bloomington) and I grow many of the same plants that you mentioned. I also started my own desert this year (http://www.palmsnorth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2634 for the build thread) Perhaps we can share some ideas since we're in t...

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Alrighty, so we spent all day working on the "giant litterbox" in the driveway:) We removed most of the soil from inside, and filled the bed up with several loads of a nice sand/rock/whatever else mixture that we pulled out of a local riverbed with a backhoe. We filled it a bit higher than...

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I'm definitely going to be following this thread, since I've been trying to find a good place to buy one of these as well... Found lots of places that sell them, but the prices just seem ridiculous compared to everything else I've bought.

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Hah Jim... Well maybe I can still sweet talk you guys out of a few hardy cactus starts, even if I only have my good looks to trade:)

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Wenike, I have to agree with everyone that posted above, and I can tell you from my own experiences that the needle palm is probably your best bet. I'm in a northern 6a, and I have needle, trachys, and a few others planted in the ground, and the needle is the only one that made it through the winter...

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Bill, I know I'm posting on a thread that's a year old, but if you still need some basjoo pups, I can send you some. I think I remember you mentioning that you had some hardy cactus starts available, so I'm sure we could work something out. Just let me know!

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The subject says it all:)

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Paul, thanks for the reply. I had wondered if these were just the normal yucca filamentosa that grows everywhere around here, but what made me wonder was the fact that several of these yuccas had trunks, and I didn't think that filamentosa was trunking. I'm in SW Indiana, but not in the "extrem...

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Jim, you certainly have an amazing garden! The main thing I wanted to ask you about is that it appears that your garden is rather flat, and right at the soil line. Did you dig below the soil line and put sand in the hole? I'm afraid that if I dig below the soil line, in order to put the sand to the ...

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Jim, the soil thing was something I have been wondering about. I had planned on leveling out the soil in order to put about 6-8 inches of sand on top of it, and I had read that amount would be enough sand. Do you think I'd be better off to just remove the soil entirely and fill the entire thing with...

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Thanks for the info guys, the build thread is up!

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A few weeks ago, after seeing some pics of amazing cactus gardens online, I decided to fill the ugly, empty space in the center of my circle driveway with a cactus bed of my own. I found a large pile of old bridge timbers from a railroad back in a clearing on my farm, so I planned to use those for t...

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Thanks for the replies folks... I love the idea of not having to add any potting soil or peat moss, since that was going to be my only expense in this entire project:) Already had the railroad ties in a pile here on the farm, and I'll just be digging the sand out of a local riverbed. As far as the i...

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Couldn't they just saw it off a few feet down and it would regrow from that point? I think I remember something from Dr. Francko's book saying that you could do such a thing...

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Hello. I found a group of these yuccas growing in the woods just off of the road near my home. They appear to be growing wild, and aren't anywhere near any houses, and there's probably around 30 of them. Can anyone tell me what they are? They are a trunking yucca, about 2 feet tall with trunks about...

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Hey all... I've never posted any pics of my plants here before, so I thought I'd toss up a few pics from october/november of last year. Almost everything in these pics, except for the large basjoo clump, was planted last season. These are a few pics that I snapped in the fall before covering everyth...

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Jim, now you've got me going on these Itinerans:) Doesn't seem to be very popular, and I found little information on these when I did a google search. I'd like to try a couple of them this year though... Do you have any links or info on where I could buy some of these? I've got basjoos all over the ...

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Paul, I'm near Terre Haute, about 30 miles southwest. And as far as temperature around here, yes, we have had cold snaps well below 0 in the past, but not that I remember in the past few years since I've been into this hobby, and the really cold weather is usually just overnight and doesn't last for...

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I've had basjoo clumps in the ground for 5 years here in zone 6a southern indiana, and they've always came back stronger every year. I have them on the south side of my house, right up against the foundation. In the winter, I just chop em down and put a trashbag over them, and then cover it with 8-1...

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Josef, your desert garden is amazing. Actually, it was looking through your pics on this post that got my mind going on the subject, and now I've begun work on a desert garden of my own:) It looks like your garden is growing on a hill, is that correct? Also, what zone are you? Any recommendations on...

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Alright, so I've started working on building my new cactus bed. It's going to be in the middle of my circle driveway, in full sun. The current plan is a 12 foot by 12 foot square raised bed, using old railroad ties for the sides. I've heard it's best to grow cacti on a hill, so the plan is to make a...

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It's been in the 60's here the past few days, with lows in the 5 day forecast not dropping below the high 30's, so I went ahead and uncovered the needle palm, crapemyrtles, and one small cactus (unsure of the species). Everything looked just as good as it did before I covered them up. Only thing lef...

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Hello. I've just begun work on a desert garden here in zone 6a Indiana. I'm looking to get some starts off of several species of cold hardy cactus, or anything else that would make sense in a garden like this. If anyone can help me out, please let me know! I don't really have much for trade, other t...

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Thanks for the replies guys... Bill, to answer your questions, all of my plants, except the basjoos, were planted last season. The 2 trachy's are about 18" tall, the needle and the crape myrtles are about 1 foot tall, and the chinese fan palm I cut back to the ground. So everything is rather sm...

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Hello. I'm located in zone 6a southern Indiana, and I have 1 needle palm, 2 trachy's, a few basjoo clumps, a chinese fan palm, and 2 hardy crape myrtles that are all planted within 5 feet of the east and south sides of my house. All plants were sprayed with fungicide and covered with leaf piles/cage...

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Pindo palm in a 6a???

Yucca ID please!

Arundo Donax... any opinions on this stuff?

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Tree frog on livistonia from last summer

Jova's raised cactus bed build, with pics!

Need an ID on this yucca please!

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