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Post by DesertZone » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:17 pm

I am off to Arizona and Mexico, see everyone in a week :D I wish I could bring everyone something back, but you guys now how it goes :lol:
I hope to post some pics when I get back. Have a good week everyone :D


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Post by Kansas » Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:02 pm

I definatly want to see pics!!!
And take some of the palm trees too :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Post by Jay-Admin » Fri Jan 20, 2006 4:16 pm

Have a good time Aaron. :D And take lots of pics.

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Post by Kansas » Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:18 pm

Let me know when you get back so I can order the Sabal. Now that you have a wife, you'll need the extra $$$ :D

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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:39 pm

Aaron have a great trip.Where in Mexico are you going? Take pics of some younger Washy`s if you happen upon them. All the best to you and your new wife. :)
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Post by DesertZone » Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:50 pm

Hi Everyone :D ,
I am back from our trip. We had a very good time and I took a lot of pics and if I every get them developed I will show everyone some of the things I saw.
I did not get to travel into Mexico, only into a border town, but it was so much fun :D It sure makes me happy to be an American. I feel for people in other countries that don't have it as well as I do here.
I seen so many places I have never seen before :D Yuma was very cool 8) and had the best weather, it was a great place to stay. We also traveled into the deserts of California and Nevada. I got to travel into Glendale Nevada, this is where the controversial wild palms are that are not supposed to be native :roll: I seen small forest of palms in southern Arizona along the colarado river, but are nothing like the palm forests by Glendale NV. These palms are old and far away from other older palms of the area. I also noticed that a cold spell came through the area this winter and completely froze back other Filifera palms to the point of looking comepletly dead, but a mile to the north are hundreds of untouched wild palms. I think these palms have been there a very long time. I also think they need to do more studies on these palms :wink:
We had so much fun, I hope everyone gets a chance to visit there :D .

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Give me a PM with your address and I will send out your palm this week :D
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Post by Kansas » Sun Jan 29, 2006 6:20 pm

Glad to have you back. I look forward to seeing your pics.
I sent you a PM about the Sabal.

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Post by Jay-Admin » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:38 am

Welcome back Aaron. Sounds like you had a fun interesting trip. :D Can't wait to see some pics. I'm heading down to Nevada in a few months (LV area) and i hope i can make it to Glendale to check the area out. :D

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:46 am

Hi Jay,
If you get the chance, check it out. It was very cool. Also you might want to check out Valley of Fire state park on the way :D

Hi Kansas,
I did not recieve you PM, so if you want to send me an e-mail with your address, I will send it out tomorrow :D Thanks :D
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Post by Kansas » Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:23 pm

I just wrote that I am going to wait a week or so before I order. The wife wants (OK I do too) a big screen TV for the game, plus our basement is huge and all we have is a little 27". We have to squint to see it from the couch.
So I will get with you in a week or so. How much was it again?

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Jan 30, 2006 4:59 pm

Hi Kansas,
The price is $7.00+$6.00 shipping. No hurry, if you find better priced plants that is fine also :D
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Post by Jay-Admin » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:09 am

Aaron,

It would be cool to check it out. :D I will definetly try to make it there. I'm not sure which route we are going to take when we drive but it would be nice to drive through Idaho again and see the desert.

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Post by DesertZone » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:26 am

Jay, make sure if you go to Glendale NV. to get some seeds of the wild palms. There is a bunch north of the town. I did not have a chance to get any when I was down there (I was not driving :cry: ) But if you do, I would like to buy some off you :D or trade something for them? If you come this way through Idaho I would trade what ever you want for them:D
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Post by Jay-Admin » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:14 pm

Aaron, if i make it there and get some seeds they are yours. :D

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Post by DesertZone » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:11 pm

Thanks Jay :D
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Post by Wes North Van » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:19 pm

I too am headed down to Las vegas on Feb 9. How far is Glendale from LV? If it isn't too far I'll get some seeds. Whenever I go to a place with palms I always pic up some seeds.
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Post by Kansas » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:42 pm

If I send you a SASE, could you send me some too????
I heard on another forum that there are so many Washy seeds that people are giving them away.
Anybody have any they want to give away?????

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Post by Wes North Van » Sat Feb 04, 2006 3:51 pm

What's a SASE?
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Post by Kansas » Sat Feb 04, 2006 4:14 pm

Self Addressed Stamped Envelope.
I can send one with bubble wrap or whatever you need.

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Post by Jay-Admin » Sun Feb 05, 2006 10:22 pm

Hi Wes,

I haven't been to Glendale yet but i believe it's about 45 miles NE of Las Vegas.

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:10 am

Thats about right Jay :D
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Post by DesertZone » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:58 pm

Sorry.... I just noticed that I been calling Logandale by the name of Glendale. My Mistake :? It is the town of Logandale Nevada North of Overton Nevada :roll: That is where the palms are that I was taking about. :D
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Post by DesertZone » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:41 pm

I said I would post some pics when I could well here is one to start with :) It is some nice palms in Yuma Arizona.

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Post by DesertZone » Thu Mar 02, 2006 9:51 pm

CIDP, Yuma Arizona :)

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Post by Okanagan desert-palms » Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:29 pm

Nice pics Aaron. The first photo I`m guessing is of a tall slender trunk W. robusta? the shorter fatter trunk is a W.filifera? Show us more of those warmer weather palm pics.
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Post by DesertZone » Fri Mar 03, 2006 6:17 am

You are right John :)
Except I think their Filiferas down there are mostly hybrids?
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Post by Jay-Admin » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:37 pm

Awesome palms. :thumbup: Wish i could grow them in my yard. :D

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Post by DesertZone » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:19 am

Yuma cactus garden :)

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Post by DesertZone » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:47 am

:)

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Post by DesertZone » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:52 am

Looking inside the eye of the Filifera :)

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Post by DesertZone » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:32 am

Bougainvillea at the old Yuma prison.

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Post by Jay-Admin » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:23 am

Nice pics. :D Looks like you got to see lots of cool plants on your trip.

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Post by Ianmc » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:16 pm

Great to see Saguaro pix.I've been a fan since the days of The High Chapparal!LOL.

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Post by DesertZone » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:59 pm

I love the saguaros also :)
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Post by DesertZone » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:06 pm

This is a sabal palm from the old yuma prison, but not sure if it is sabal mexicana or sabal palmetto? I know in other parts of town there was smaller sabal mexicanas around.

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Post by DesertZone » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:49 am

Filifera's and other palms at the old mission :)
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Post by Jay-Admin » Mon Mar 06, 2006 1:41 pm

Great pics. :D Makes me want to go to that prison. Just to look that is. :lol:

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