Hello From Audubon, NJ

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:40 am

Mike Trautner here from Audubon NJ. I have many varieties of palms, mostly indoors in winter, but I do have a trachycarpus fortunei outside (2 yrs old) in the ground in front of our house. Hopefully it'll survive the winter and the 24 inches of snow we just got here...
MT

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:03 pm

Greetings and salutations "sidpolk", welcome.

Pics is nice,we likes pics

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:52 pm

The last picture has that Trachy under an umbrella greenhouse...came in handy with the 24 inches of snow we just got....

tropicman · Post by **tropicman** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:03 pm

After all I do see a sign saying let it snow!!!!LOL
Welcome aboard.
What other palms to you grow,including the ones inside during the winter?

Don

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 3:41 pm

Great photos!
How many lights do you have on that Trachycarpus fortunei?
Did you wrap it or anything before you put that cover over it?
(I'm trying to over-winter one myself, so I'm asking for advice, not giving it.)
--Erik

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:07 pm

tropicman wrote:After all I do see a sign saying let it snow!!!!LOL
Welcome aboard.
What other palms to you grow,including the ones inside during the winter?

Don

I have four really large majesty palms with at least ten clumps of shoots in each pot.

I have two large Chinese fan palms.

I have two really big Pygmy date palms that gave flowers/fruit this summer.

I have a medium sized sago palm

I have a very tall travelers palm that has given three new plants

I have 3 medium sized madagascar dragon trees that are growing very rapidly

I have a large indoor yucca tree

I have eight shorter variegated yucca plants that grow outside and spread all over the place.

I have a huge grove of clumping bamboos in the back of the garage

I also have two big fragrant oleander plants that i have to cut back each year.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 4:10 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:Great photos!
How many lights do you have on that Trachycarpus fortunei?
Did you wrap it or anything before you put that cover over it?
(I'm trying to over-winter one myself, so I'm asking for advice, not giving it.)
--Erik

Hello
I put two strings of lights around the base...it looks like a lot more because I did a slow exposure ont hat pic. I did not wrap it but laid about 1 foot deep of oak tree leaves all around the base spreading about two feet out all around. The Umbrella greenhouse has large zipper sides to let air in on warmer days and nights. Although, i think i may have coddled it a bit too much: I kept it closed for a bit too long and it heated up inside there and got too wet...I think i may have caused a bit of frond pull. Im leaving it open more frequently now to avoid this in the future.
Mike t.
good luck!

tropicman · Post by **tropicman** » Sun Dec 27, 2009 9:24 pm

Might I ask where you keep such a large collection?
Lot of keep house plants and have greenhouses,and even some of us keep them in our garage thru the winter months.
Always looking for good tips on overwintering palms inside thru the winter months.
You have any summer pics of your palms?

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:48 am

tropicman wrote:Might I ask where you keep such a large collection?
Lot of keep house plants and have greenhouses,and even some of us keep them in our garage thru the winter months.
Always looking for good tips on overwintering palms inside thru the winter months.
You have any summer pics of your palms?

Hey Tropicman...
We have a large house so there are lots of opps to give our palms enough exposure. We also keep some of them at our place down the shore in Cape May.
I am attaching a few pics of some of the places we keep them. We have a big sunny (southern exp) front porch with large windows on three sides so that gives them a lot of light and heats up pretty well during the day even in cold of winter. We also have a large master bedroom loft above the family room with large windows and two big skylights so that helps also. We have large living and dining rooms but theyare not good for winter light, so the palms in here are ones that go down the shore , kinda liek a palm vacation from December to March..... There is also a pic of the palms behind the couch in the attic lounge. This is basically the dogs' bedrooms. They seem to like the tropical feel..LOL. I also keep two large Hibiscus trees up here: they lose their leaves for the most part in winter and then come alive again in spring outside. The dogs love to eat these leaves....don't know why...
Pics attached...
I also have alot of pics on facebook in my two garden albums.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... 8841c71b49

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1 ... 08d34f21ab

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:49 am

Welcome Mike!

Love it!!

Kind of looks like my place with 29 palms in it.

Mark

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:01 am

Mike,

WOW!

Just checked out your facebook pics.

Incredible pictures and garden!! Especially the bugs. (Praying Mantis ect.)

Mark

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:08 pm

Welcome aboard, Mike!

Great pics of great plants.
Your passion is evident...you've still got a few square feet left for new palms

Love the blue wall color.
How old is that Strelitzia on the stairs, any pics of it in blossom?
Mine is 5 years old, haven't seen a bloom yet.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:17 pm

lucky1 wrote:Welcome aboard, Mike!

Great pics of great plants.
Your passion is evident...you've still got a few square feet left for new palms

Love the blue wall color.
How old is that Strelitzia on the stairs, any pics of it in blossom?
Mine is 5 years old, haven't seen a bloom yet.

Barb

Thanks Barb, yeah the blue sun room walls really pop with morning and early pm sun. The strelitzia is about 8 years old now: never bloomed. I even had to cut off a few arms after it had high wind damage this summer and four stalks bent all the way over. Although I do have a whole bunch of corn palms that finally bloomed this year. Thy smelled amazing.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:19 pm

Mark wrote:Mike,

WOW! Just checked out your facebook pics.

Incredible pictures and garden!! Especially the bugs. (Praying Mantis ect.)

Mark

Thanks Mark. I do love working in the garden. Chat soon.
Mike

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:25 pm

Michael,

My Strelitzia is one-tenth the size of yours...

This Spring, I'm going to give it a push...maybe 0-60-0 will do it.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:36 pm

lucky1 wrote:Michael,

My Strelitzia is one-tenth the size of yours...
This Spring, I'm going to give it a push...maybe 0-60-0 will do it.

Barb

It gets loads of water and sun all summer from May to October....outside

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:47 pm

loads of water and sun all summer

Mine too.
But we ought to be able to force bloom.

Barb

Okanagan desert-palms · Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:31 pm

Welcome. You are definetly another palm nut.

John

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:42 am

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Welcome. You are definetly another palm nut.

John

Thanks...Some would just qualify me as a nut...but that works....

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:43 am

Welcome aboard Mike!

NJ is a great place to grow hardy palms and other cool plants.

Bill

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:05 pm

BILL MA wrote:Welcome aboard Mike!

NJ is a great place to grow hardy palms and other cool plants.

Bill

Thanks Bill

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:29 pm

welcome Mike. your collection of plants is impressive. looks like we could all learn a little from you. Keep postng pictures. we love them.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 5:16 am

oppalm wrote:welcome Mike. your collection of plants is impressive. looks like we could all learn a little from you. Keep postng pictures. we love them.

thanks ...Hope the cold Plains winter is not too harsh!!! It is even pretty cold here now. I was in NYC yesterday with 23 degree high temps and 50 65 mph wind gusts. It was brutal atop the Rockefeller center observation deck...Aye!!!!!! I felt like a cold hardy palm myself trying to survive. I also noticed that in Central Park now by the seal attraction they have about 10 cold hardy palms planted (most were wrapped in Burlap and mulched with leaves) Can't wait to see them in Spring.

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:11 am

Mike,
That's great that there growing hardy palms in Central Park. I know the Brooklyn Botanical Garden has a huge trachy that's been out for many
years. I'm planning on going there this summer, it's only about a 3 hour drive from here. Have you been there?

Bill

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:15 am

BILL MA wrote:Mike,
That's great that there growing hardy palms in Central Park. I know the Brooklyn Botanical Garden has a huge trachy that's been out for many
years. I'm planning on going there this summer, it's only about a 3 hour drive from here. Have you been there?

Bill

No, never been there yet, but will have to check it out....

Happy new Year!
Mike

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:26 am

lucky1 wrote:Michael,

My Strelitzia is one-tenth the size of yours...
This Spring, I'm going to give it a push...maybe 0-60-0 will do it.

Barb

Hey BArb, How do you load the weather underground forecast onto your profile? I tried several things with out success...???
M

BILL MA · Post by **BILL MA** » Wed Dec 30, 2009 7:47 am

Mike,
Here's the link Barb sent me when I did it.

http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/Weather_Stickers

Bill

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Some pics of my Trachy, Audubon NJ, South of Philadelphia

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