Basjoo frost damage

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:47 pm

I just wanted to share a few pics of the frost damage on my Basjoo Bananas and my Trachy and my "Spike Plant"

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TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:23 pm

too bad about your bananas...........I'm sure they will bounce back soon.

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:04 pm

Yeah They will they are already sending up new leaves the stems weren't damaged really.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:42 am

They def look healthy, just enough damage to toughen them up and give them something to talk about around the grove....

Good luck.....
I covered mine a few weeks back for a night when the temps dipped and I COOKED a few leaves...I'll never do that again...

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:08 pm

Heck, my (former) musa looked like that after being INSIDE all winter

Nice trachy.
Do you know the name of your spike plant?

Barb

bgodwin1987 · Post by **bgodwin1987** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:16 pm

Barb, I think it's a Cordyline australis.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:23 pm

Thanks Bryce.
I'm starting to really like Cordylines.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:06 am

lucky1 wrote:Thanks Bryce.
I'm starting to really like Cordylines.

Yes you are. I remember last year you decided to try to keep yours and not throw out as an annual. Any luck? Mine are already getting ready to bloom again. So warm here this year that people left them out in their gardens and many survived and are still growing. I of course went trash picking...

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:06 am

Keep an eye out Bryce.............

We may be flirting with more frost Fri-Sat if we don't get some help from the clouds overnight.....

hopefully for the last time this spring!

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:04 pm

Oh sorry, Mike...I had thought that idea was Tim's! (to dig up the cordylines and keep them indoors overwinter).

Yup, they turned out great, my Red Star Cordylines, even growing during the winter.
Thanks again for a great tip.

Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:34 pm

lucky1 wrote:Oh sorry, Mike...I had thought that idea was Tim's! (to dig up the cordylines and keep them indoors overwinter).

Yup, they turned out great, my Red Star Cordylines, even growing during the winter.
Thanks again for a great tip.

Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

Will do, they are such cool plants!!! And very fragrant...

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:28 am

lucky1 wrote: Post pics of yours when in bloom please.

Barb

Here ya go , Barb...Smells so great too!!!!

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:49 am

Due to the warm winter, mine began growing and burst through their protection- a thick layer of mulch with pots on top of the stumps. The pots were being raised off the ground. So I unearthed them so to speak.

But there have been a few remaining nights of frost. Rather than reshovel the mulch and all that, I found that laying burlap potatoe sacks over them worked. Very quick and easy and they kept them from being singed.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:58 am

Barb

I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots.

This year the tops did not die and even the 2 that looked dead regrew-as if from spear-pull.

The leaves have become much more slender over the years as they fight to adapt to a hostile climate.
They look like little soft red yuccas now.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:32 am

hardyjim wrote:Barb

I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots.

This year the tops did not die and even the 2 that looked dead regrew-as if from spear-pull.

The leaves have become much more slender over the years as they fight to adapt to a hostile climate.
They look like little soft red yuccas now.

They are beautiful. You see them all over The British Isles and parts of coastal Europe.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:54 am

[quote="hardyjim"] I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots. quote]

Jim, would you please post a pic. of this Cordyline in the Cactus enclosure ?

hasty22 · Post by **hasty22** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:46 pm

I could only wish for frost damage like that . lol. Mine is also perking up this spring thanks to heat tape last winter in zone 5b.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 7:04 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:
hardyjim wrote: I have a little Cordyline "Redstar",it has returned each year(in the Cactus enclosure)from the roots. quote]

Jim, would you please post a pic. of this Cordyline in the Cactus enclosure ?

Yea,it's kind of a little dud but I will get a picture of it.

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