Kazakhstan's palms and etc

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 8:45 am

Finally took a few shots of my exotic plants today...
Winter was horrible (mean T of January - minus 12C, February - minus 9. Abs. winter min. minus 29.)
Enjoy:

And my Mom working in GH. She transplants tomato seedling....

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:14 am

Hi Igor,

thanks for the update. Your Aucuba japonica looks great did you protect it? Your two Trachys look great too. It appears one is fortunei and the other is a waggie? I like your greenhouse too.........I need to get one! Did any plants die from the cold winter?

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:22 am

Thanks Tim! Yes, I did protect my Aucuba a little bit. I bent it down, put a thin layer of hay and some plastic above. I've made it overwintering this way about 20 years.
You are right there are fortuneu and waggi growing in my garden.
More pictures tomorrow (some Scotch and time for pics processing).
Good news - my Gunnera survived! But my Y.gloriosa variegata looks crappy. And as I said more pics tomorrow....

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:00 am

Nice palms and nice green house. Did you cover your palms?

Godfryd · Post by **Godfryd** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:49 am

The plants look very healthy Igor! Nice to see them in that condition. On the first pic is it a Arundo Donax Variegata? Did you protect that plant for the winter?

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:15 pm

Igor, so glad to see that those two palms are fine.
Better than fine!

If I recall, you covered them only with cardboard boxes?

Glad your aucuba did so well.

Your Mom looks hard at work, the dear lady.
Great greenhouse and some very nice plants in there!

Thanks...
Must've been good Scotch...photos are late

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Apr 05, 2012 1:30 pm

Great work! Enjoy the spring! You surely deserve it.

Okanagan desert-palms · Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:02 pm

Igor your palms look great after this winter. I really like that greenhouse it has lots of room for more palms!

John

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:06 am

DesertZone wrote:Nice palms and nice green house. Did you cover your palms?

Yes, i did:

No heat nor light inside. Spent about 160 $ for straw blocks and about 50 $ for rock wool. Quite expensive hobby!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:13 am

Godfryd wrote: On the first pic is it a Arundo Donax Variegata? Did you protect that plant for the winter?

Thanks Godfryd. Yes, it is a variegated Arundo. I have both variegated forms of this species. I used a loose straw as a protection. Of course snow cover was an asset. Among with Arundo fatsia, hortensia and Fuchia magellanica have been overwintering successfully there.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:18 am

lucky1 wrote: Your Mom looks hard at work, the dear lady.

Thanks Barb. My Mom is turning 80 this May. But she is hard working lady. Never stops during either day or night.

Whiskey was supposed to be drinking tonight but I couldn't find my favorite the Jura malt.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:27 am

Okanagan desert-palms wrote: I really like that greenhouse it has lots of room for more palms! John

Oh, no, John! This greenhouse is my Mom's tomato house. I "rent" it during an early spring time. In a couple of weeks I will be moving my stuff out of the GH.

Pics of some plants in GH:

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:13 am

your plants looks good Igor.........you have lots of Agaves and Yucca seedlings growing!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:16 am

Tim those agave "seedlings" are off-springs of the Agave at the upper left corner. Some tender (I think) variety of A.parry. I mean most of them. Yes I have some unsorted Agave seedlings granted by my friend.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:26 am

Sorry for not posting the pics promised yesterday. Since a quality is poor (I don't like my Canon Ixus pictures) I'm gonna try shooting with my DSL Nikon tomorrow.
My thought to be dead Gunnera is alive actually... I found a tiny leaf and a few growing buds of my experimental plant....

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:33 pm

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Sorry for not posting the pics promised yesterday. Since a quality is poor (I don't like my Canon Ixus pictures) I'm gonna try shooting with my DSL Nikon tomorrow.
My thought to be dead Gunnera is alive actually... I found a tiny leaf and a few growing buds of my experimental plant....

Great! Hope springs eternal!! Especially in spring!

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Apr 09, 2012 5:49 pm

Great pics, Igor! I especially like the healthy-looking Aucuba.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 7:51 am

Great job Igor!

That is amazing that you overwinter with no heat!

All your stuff looks great -and-we are off to another great growing season.

Do you think your Arundo will keep growing from the top of the plant???

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:37 am

hardyjim wrote:Great job Igor!

That is amazing that you overwinter with no heat!

All your stuff looks great -and-we are off to another great growing season.

Do you think your Arundo will keep growing from the top of the plant???

Thanks Jim!
No heat at all. Perhaps the straw blocks is a very good insulator! Even I placed them in wrong way 'cos the straw stems should be directed from down to up. Do you know what I mean?
Arundo started growing from the top already. In fact I'm gonna use these stems as the layers propagation. I did that putting the stems on a surface of a shallow water.

Some yuccas look awful after the winter. But my Gunnera manicata has made it! As well as a couple of young Figs. Pics are below:

Gunnera...

Some other stuff...

And some pics just for the spring inspiration:

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:56 am

Yay!

Spring is busting out!

Are you saying you can root the Arundo donax????
That would be easier than digging it up to multiply

Awesome that your Gunnera made it,I have tried that a few times...with no luck.

Maybe I didn't start with a good one

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 5:28 pm

Igor, oh thank goodness for those spring inspiration pics.
Thanks!

Hope the rest of your yuccas come back.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 6:32 pm

Love your last six pics especially Igor! Great macros...Happy Spring!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:34 am

Here are a few today's pics showing a spring growth progress.

Jesse, sorry for your cold... Enjoy our spring pictures!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:52 pm

Igor,
thanks for those hints of spring...thank goodness winter's over for you!

Barb

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed May 09, 2012 9:14 am

hardyjim wrote: Awesome that your Gunnera made it,I have tried that a few times...with no luck.

It's growing but slowly.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed May 09, 2012 9:33 am

Got a small pond and installed it.

This is how it looked last Monday:

Now it looks like this:

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed May 09, 2012 11:19 am

I like it...and a few water plants will keep the goldfish happy.

There's something about a walled garden that appeals to me...probably the privacy and microclimate it creates.
Very nice.

Barb

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Thu May 10, 2012 5:47 am

looks good Igor! This winter was the first year my goldfish survived!