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Up dated sept 2010

hallo! this is my first post here. i live in croatia, usda 7a, and i am big fan of yuccas,agave,opuntia,coldhardy palms.... this is the right forum for me
i have few yuccas like filamentosa,recurvifolia,brevifolia. brevifolia is my favourite yucca. mine is about 5 years old. and i think to plant it outdoor this spring. filamentosa and recurvifolia are grown outdoor and i never had problems with overwintering. i'll get few more species that might be good for my climate like thompsoniana,glauca,elata,faxoniana.....
also i have few opuntias that i never had problems with. one small agave utahensis kaibabensis survived at my garden few years ago. this spring i'll plant and 2 other agave, parryi and utahensis eboryspina.
i am really glad that i found this forum.
best regards
damir



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some yucca seedlings. big one -elata, small ones filifera

Welcome to Palms North!

Great zone you live in...and a nice big yard to plant more
Good looking specimens.

Your palms don't get ANY winter protection at all?
Or maybe that will be in another post...

We love to see lots of photos!

Barb

thanks!
i cover trachycarpus just when the temps are lower then -10 C. this is it's 3rd winter outdoor. phoenix canariensis was planted this year,it needs very good protection,since it is not so cold hardy as trachy. ill post some pics. few leaves are already dead,but central spear is ok, so it might survive this first winter.








it was good wrapped in few lays of fabrics,and covered with small wood box, and then the mini greenhouse made of windows with double glass. it wasn't heated,like some people do, put the xmass lamps around the palm tree. i wanted to see will it survive without it. for now it is ok, even if it loose all the leaves and starts to grow in spring i will be happy. next year i'll think something better.

i will open new topic,with my garden pics, sorry for off topic here.

Nice construction job, Damir!
I bet it gets REALLY warm in there on sunny days.

I'll keep my fingers crossed your CIDP makes it.
My old one lives in a big plastic garbage can and goes into a barely-heated building mid to late September.
They do not like cold soil, especially cold wet soil.

Nice size.

Barb

damir wrote:i will open new topic,with my garden pics, sorry for off topic here.

Not to worry, we are easy here.

thanks guys/girls!

so do i hope that cidp will survive. even we have cold winters here, this year it isn't the case. few weeks just real cold, these days, morning temps above zero C, at day 10-15C. and it will be like this maybe for 10 days,plus 10 days before it was like this. you have a feeling it is spring. cidp is open now, and i will wrapped it if the low temps came back. usually in this time of the year, january is the coldest month of the year. global warming, or what?? but i like it when it's not cold. just it is not good if it stays warm like now, and then sudenly temps below zero come back.

Temperature "swings" are often as bad for plants as prolonged cold.

But we humans need the swings to get through winter