A few pics of the garden- taken in the last few weeks.

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hardyjim
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I'll take a peak some day real soon, :lol:


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coconutmike
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Nice Garden

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Garden is looking very good. I like the palms and the agave progress
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anttisepp
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Jim, that's true Iowa's Treasure.
Have you always overwintered Washys otdoors?
Do you dig abyssinian and eleph ears and that tall cereus from the ground?
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TimMAz6
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Hey Jim,

what's the tall columnar cactus.....Trichocereus pachanoi? How much cold to you give it??? or let get to it!
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anttisepp wrote:Jim, that's true Iowa's Treasure.
Have you always overwintered Washys otdoors?
Do you dig abyssinian and eleph ears and that tall cereus from the ground?
Great regards,
Antti
Just about 3 years now on the Washys Antti,
I do dig up the others you mentioned including the Cactus .



Tim wrote-

Hey Jim,

what's the tall columnar cactus.....Trichocereus pachanoi? How much cold to you give it??? or let get to it!


I leave that one(Cereus Peruvianus)in the ground until about the low 20s.

It grows about a foot per year.
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I hope the Cereus is big enough to bloom this year.
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