Trachycarpus inflorescence

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Trachycarpus inflorescence

Post by lucky1 » Fri May 25, 2012 6:01 pm

Quit a bit later than everyone else here, but he's growing like mad:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/southslope/7270687318/" title="001 by edible_plum, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7103/7270 ... 347b_z.jpg" width="480" height="640" alt="001"></a>

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Box elder bugs and very small ants seem to be attracted to the flowers (they disappeared when the camera arrived). :|

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Post by CTPalm » Fri May 25, 2012 8:31 pm

Nice Barb! I hope to keep mine alive long enough to see that one day.
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Post by bgodwin1987 » Fri May 25, 2012 10:11 pm

Congrats Barb on getting your Trachy to flower, very nice. :)
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sat May 26, 2012 4:21 am

Your Trachy looks very happy.........once the snow melts it will feel like spring :lol:

I was at Bills place on Sunday and he has Trachy blooms every where. The local news reported pollen counts were higher than normal due to palm pollen :lol:
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Post by canadianplant » Sat May 26, 2012 4:46 am

TimMAz6 wrote:Your Trachy looks very happy.........once the snow melts it will feel like spring :lol:

I was at Bills place on Sunday and he has Trachy blooms every where. The local news reported pollen counts were higher than normal due to palm pollen :lol:
LOL. How is ole Bill doing?

Barb - I hope you manage to get some pollination this year!
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Post by hardyjim » Sat May 26, 2012 6:58 am

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Post by lucky1 » Sat May 26, 2012 10:49 am

once the snow melts it will feel like spring
You would've laughed a few weeks ago :lol: :lol:

Thanks folks.
I think John and I decided last year mine is a male.
To put it gently, he's got "little balls"... :clown:

We were all hoping mine was a female.
But like its owner, it's a pretty old Trachy, so I'm grateful to see ANYTHING actually.

I can well imagine how Bill's place looks with all those Trachies and Washies flowering.
That'd be heaven!!!!

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Post by TimMAz6 » Sat May 26, 2012 6:43 pm

Bill's doing great. All his palms look very good and are growing like mad........except for one large Washy which he didn't get to protect..........it died even though we had our 2nd mildest winter ever......too bad.
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Post by lucky1 » Sun May 27, 2012 12:01 pm

What a shame to lose one of those big beauties.
Hope it wasn't the blue one ...

Thanks for the update on Bill.
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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Sun May 27, 2012 9:52 pm

Great work, Barb!
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Post by sidpook » Mon May 28, 2012 7:59 am

Very nice, Barb!
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