Kansas' Front Yard pic 5/1/2008

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Thu May 01, 2008 10:32 am

Here is my front yard. Hard to tell, but there are actually two "Madagascar Palms" in front of the Yucca. They Yucca BTW is still hanging on to leaves that died this Winter so it looks scraggly. Middle there is a Dioon Edule and beside it a Revoluta. On the side is my "Snowball Verbanium" tree that is smelling "OH MY GOD WONDERFUL" right now.

Later, when the sun moves around, I'll take a pic of the back yard which is full of Cycad/Dioon/Ecephalartos/Palm

taylor · Post by **taylor** » Thu May 01, 2008 3:29 pm

Woo hoo! Spring is here.

Don't forget to take the pics!

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Thu May 01, 2008 4:57 pm

Here is the back yard. All together..

Here is the left side of the backyard close up.
left to right: Spinulosum, Wilailik, Spinulosum, Wilailik, Spinulosum, Encephalartus Gratus.

Here is the right side of the yard closeup.
front left to right: Flushing Revoluta, Taitungensis, Flushing Revoluta, Single PSP.
Back left to right: Revoluta, Flushing Rumphii, Flushing Revoluta

Closeups of flushing cycads...
Revolutas...

Rumphii

Wilailik

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:13 pm

Very nice layout.

Allen

macario · Post by **macario** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:14 pm

Very nice. You have so much flushing too.

Dean W. · Post by **Dean W.** » Thu May 01, 2008 6:42 pm

Looking good, I like the way you put the pots in the ground. I also like the gravel in your beds.

Dean

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu May 01, 2008 7:12 pm

Wes wow those Pachypodiums have sure grown! Nice
Great specimens, nice layout, looks great with the gravel.

Congrats on your manageable layout...you just need another 50 palms

Great caudex on that big Tait.

Take more pics as flushes progress please.
Barb

Knnn · Post by **Knnn** » Thu May 01, 2008 8:37 pm

It's great to see landscaping with Cycads

Steve

Okanagan desert-palms · Fri May 02, 2008 6:58 am

Wes very nice. Everything looks heathy.Are any palms going to be pot planted as well?

John

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Fri May 02, 2008 7:07 am

Thanks all.
Okie, not that I can think of. I thought about possibly planting in the ground a Washy, but planting it in the greenhouse. But would it grow so fast that I would need to take the GH down in a year or so?

Okanagan desert-palms · Fri May 02, 2008 9:40 pm

Wes depends on what size Washy your talking about. From seedling stage it normally takes two years under optimum growing conditions to get to 3 gal size they really pick up speed from here as long as they go into larger a size pot yearly. You`ll have a few years before they outgrow your greenhouse. How are those Washy seedlings doing from the seeds I sent?

John

Laaz · Post by **Laaz** » Sat May 03, 2008 5:30 am

Great cycads Wes !

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Sat May 03, 2008 7:48 am

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Wes depends on what size Washy your talking about. From seedling stage it normally takes two years under optimum growing conditions to get to 3 gal size they really pick up speed from here as long as they go into larger a size pot yearly. You`ll have a few years before they outgrow your greenhouse. How are those Washy seedlings doing from the seeds I sent?

John

OKie, three of them I know are doing great. I need to pot them up a size. Thanks so much again.
Laaz, as I wrote earlier and Okie was speaking of, I was thinking of planting a Washy in the greenhouse, actually PLANTING it in the greenhouse. However, now that I think about it, maybe I should go with a Butia which is more hardy and a bit slower growing. What would you think about sending me a good sized sappling and me planting it in the grenhouse? Would it grow well you think?

Laaz · Post by **Laaz** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:21 am

Butia maybe, Washingtonia will outgrow the greenhouse in a couple years.

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Sat May 03, 2008 9:41 am

Thats what I was thinking. Plus I like the looks of a buita much better.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon May 12, 2008 11:38 am

That is awesome

Nice place you have.

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:42 pm

Nicely done Wes. The plantings and your place looks great. Its been a slow warm up this springtime here in Kansas , hopefully we'll get some heat soon and things will start to take off.

Burying containers is hard work and you did a good job. Do you bring any bugs inside in the fall when you dig that stuff up?

Kansas · Post by **Kansas** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:55 pm

OP, this Spring is REDICULOUS! We should be in the 70's right now, but we are still in the 50's. I am sick of this.
The first year I didn't have my green house, I had bugs pretty bad. But this Winter I had everything in the greenhouse because the wife was tired of the bugs last year. So no, bugs were not a problem this Winter.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon May 12, 2008 7:45 pm

I looked at your pics, Wes, then looked at my plants...
It's too much work to dig those pots into the ground.
But looks so nice!

Come help me with mine

Well done.
Barb

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