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Igor, I included 2 shoots of P. bissetii and Pleioblastus pygmaeus var. distichus in the shipment!

Hey cameron, you said your musella was small right ? ( oh the jokes I just opened up... lol). Would you mind taking pics. Im tryin to ID a year old seedling that got mixed up, and its either a musella or a type of small musa

Cameron_z6a_N.S. wrote:Igor, I included 2 shoots of P. bissetii and Pleioblastus pygmaeus var. distichus in the shipment!

Thanks, Cameron! Hope the shipment will be in Kazakhstan in 17 days, LOL.

The Aucubas are now sending out new leaves after the winter. A little hard to see:

Hows the boo doing?

WOW, great news Cameron! The first year is the hardest for the Aucubas....you should be all set now.......they grow pretty fast in my climate.....mine is nearly 6 feet tall now.

I have a few aucuba cutting collected last winter in London. And they have started growing already. Below is a pic of new growth and flowers of my 20 + years plant. Cameron hope your's will be blooming in a few years.

I love Acubas and they grow pretty well down here. Very exotic and they don't miss a beat during the winter. Their only enemy is lots of direct sunshine. I move one to a shadier spot as it was getting torched.

Canadianplant, that Fargesia in between the Aucubas is doing really well also; there are lots of new leaves and shoots coming up!

Tim, thanks! I always enjoy seeing the pics of your Aucuba.

Igor, that's great to hear! I am thinking of taking one or two cuttings from these Aucubas this season.

JackLord, Aucubas are a great shade plant! If you look at the leaves in the front compared to the ones at the back, you can notice a bit of a colour difference. Even though they're planted in a shady spot, I think the front leaves might have still received a bit too much winter sun.

Over the winter, I put the 5 gallon T. fortunei through hell! The reason I did this was because I was re-selling some palms from the same source, and wanted to make sure that they were indeed Canadian-grown palms, and not the wimpy T. fortunei from south Texas or Florida. I left the palm outdoors (with the root ball in a plastic bag, not in-ground) until the temps reached -10 C. I then kept it in my garage for several months, on a cold concrete floor, where the temps rarely rose above 5 C (and the root ball on the concrete floor would have been close to freezing for months). I also barely watered the palm.

Well, a couple of months ago, I noticed that the palm seemed to have handled all it could I ended up cutting off the outer fronds, and the emerging spears were almost completely burnt. One spear continued to emerge, and it was 100% burnt. I made a mark on another emerging spear, and began to water the palm more regularly. The spear grew, and the bottom half was fine. There's also another 100% fine spear that is emerging. I'd say that this palm is pretty tough! Today, I decided to plant it.

The planting area (a sheltered, south-west facing spot):


You can see where I marked the palm, and all of the continuing burnt growth. Towards the bottom of the spear, you can see the emerging green growth:


After planting (again, notice the difference between the burnt growth at the top of the spear, and the new, green growth towards the bottom of the spears):


We'll see how it does!

As well, I have been surprised with how quickly (and far ) all of the bamboo shoots are emerging. Even within one day, I noticed a change in the P. bissetii shoot growth. Here's a pic of one group:


I also planted a small F. nitida the other day

Hi Cameron,

that's a pretty big Trachy......keep us posted on it's growth this season.

The new bamboo shoots look far larger than last years growth.......nice.

Hey CAmeron

Every single bamboo ive planted in the ground has put out a dozen or more shoots. Some took as fast as a week,some took a month, but they all had a flurry of shoots. Only one ended up woth larger culms by the end of the year. THe F scabrida put out shoots from june (a week after planting), and didnt stop till november, when we got REALLY cold. Dont expect to much o an upsize this year, just enjoy the massive amount of new culms ya have

I planted P.Bissetii a few years ago,it didn't do much the first 2 years but exploded this year!

Thanks, everyone. I've heard that it is usually in the 2nd or 3rd year when bamboos really start to grow!

Heres a picture of it 6/4/10


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11/9/11

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And this morning 5/22/12


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Wow, nice comparison shots!

The tallest P. bissetii shoots have now become taller than last year's growth:


Both Aucubas are blooming:

Nice Cameron!

I cant remember, did you protect the bissetti during winter?

In case you are looking in Mike....those castor bean plants(first pic of the P.Bissetii)
are the ones I was telling you about,3 weeks later than that pic they were over 6'!

Canadianplant, I just gave the P. bissetii a bit of mulch over the winter. I still can't get over how quickly the shoots are growing!

This picture was taken last week. At that time, the new shoots on the P. bissetii were around 4.5':


And here is a picture of my Sarraccenia purpurea (a.k.a. purple pitcher plant) in bloom last week:

your bamboo is taking off now!

You can see how the P. bissetii has drooped over and filled out a bit since May:


And here is one of my Pseudosasa japonicas. Look at the growth difference between last year and this year. The lower, older section of the plant has smaller leaves. The taller, newer growth has larger leaves, and the plant is around 3.5':

I knew those bamboo would do awesome

Great location for the bamboo, Cameron.

Barb

Canadianplant, I also recently germinated some of the banana seeds that you sent me! I'll post some pics as the leaves unfurl.

Oh nice! You remember. What kind?

M. "Helen's Hybrid" and M. itinerans have sprouted so far!

Fargesia murielae:


Larger T. fortunei pushing out fronds:


Phyllostachys aureosulcata "spectabilis":

Just wait till next year Cam. That FArgesia is going to explode!

Canadianplant, I have a feeling the Fargesia will do good too. I had never seen anyone locally growing bamboo here, and the only people I had met were living a fair distance from me. Ironically, I was walking down my street the other day, and someone has a F. nitida planted in their side yard! I'll ask them about it the next time they're outside

I had another order arrive today. Some more HC figs, this one with a fig on it! I will keep this one potted and outside during the summer:


All six:


Some Passiflora incarnata ("Maypop"):


And lots of Goji berry plants! A.k.a. Chinese Wolfberry, Lycium barbarum:

Dude, RIchters is bar none my favorite canadian seed source. Ive never ordered plants though... Looks like a good score!

I have been accepting a few deliveries over the past couple of days









Look at the creeping trunk on this T. fortunei:




If you can't tell what those previous trees are, here's a hint!:


Cameron.

Holy cow, Cameron, what great purchases!!!!

That's a TRACHY ????
Will be great to watch that grow.

Can't wait to see where it's all going.

Barb

Wow. And some Sequoiadendron of good size. Nice tall Monkey puzzles... How big a greenhouse is it going in?

What kind of musa you get?

Thanks, everyone.

Adam, I am not putting the MP trees in a greenhouse, as I don't have one I am going to be buying A LOT of hay and heavily mulching them (completely covering the pots) over the winter.

Canadianplant, they're Musa basjoo!

Some of my bamboo plants had become infested with bamboo mites! I figured out that the mites all came from one plant, a newer Sasa veitchii. I cut the S. veitchii and both Pseudosasa japonicas down to the ground. So far it looks as if the other species haven't been affected, but I'll be buying a spray and coating every plant with it!

One P. japonica before being cut down:


And the other one:


Bamboo mite damage:


Closer:


Underneath a bamboo leaf. My camera is blurry, but those little white dots are actually the adult mites!: