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here are some pics fom my garden
yucca,agave,opuntia....

OMG! pic are too big,sorry.






frontyard

opuntias


o. phaeacantha camanchica


agave parryi


agave utahensis kaibabensis

Very nice, you have done well.

Welcome to the forum

opuntia fragilis


agave parryi


albizzia jullibrissin

here it is. my exotic plants. agave,yucca,opuntia,palms,albizzia,cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis... i also have some fruits from south like kiwi,pomengranate,goji... mostly mediteranean plants that might have future here,with some or none protection. i also have seedlings of some palms that are cold hardy like sabal minor,birmingham,louisiana,washingtonia filifera and filibusta,trachycarpus bulgaria,jubaea chilensis,araucaria araucana,musa basjoo,chamaerops humillis. in spring i'll post new pics.
regards

thanks desert zone! your garden is real inspiration.i specially like joshua trees. i have one also,5 years old,but planted in pot for now,maybe it goes outdoor this spring. hope that mine garden one day looks like yours. )))
regards

Nice to see the detail.

Those "rocks" with labels, or is that a solar collector with uplight on other side?

That trunking yucca is very beautiful, and suckering.
Barb

damir wrote:thanks desert zone! your garden is real inspiration.i specially like joshua trees. i have one also,5 years old,but planted in pot for now,maybe it goes outdoor this spring. hope that mine garden one day looks like yours. )))
regards

Thanks, I hope the j-tree are still alive come spring.

Hello damir, welcome to the forum! Great pics! I think I remember seeing some on PalmTalk

Hi Damir,

welcome to the board. Your garden is very nice. What is the very narrow juniper looking conifer? It has an interesting shape to it.

lucky1 wrote:Nice to see the detail.

Those "rocks" with labels, or is that a solar collector with uplight on other side?

That trunking yucca is very beautiful, and suckering.
Barb

yes it is sollar light,looks like small rock. that yucca is recurvifolia. very hardy.

Cameron_z6a_N.S. wrote:Hello damir, welcome to the forum! Great pics! I think I remember seeing some on PalmTalk

thanks! i think that i posted some same pics at palm talk. you remembered it.

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Damir,

welcome to the board. Your garden is very nice. What is the very narrow juniper looking conifer? It has an interesting shape to it.

hi tim! thanks!
that is italian cupressus, cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis. it grows fast,mine was grown from seed,3 years old now. it is cold hardy to -20C, maybe even more. it reinforces the impression of the Mediterranean.

How far you are from the Pula region? This is the only region of Croatia I visited two years ago...

that yucca is recurvifolia

Did yours trunk at a young age?
I've seen older ones that had no trunk at all.

Then I found this: wonderful tall trunk!
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:aNHD ... -5.jpg&t=1

Barb

Barb, I believe the "yours" is Y. gloriosa. But it doesn't matter.

gloriosa/recurvifolia... maybe. these two species are the same to me. they look the same from my point of view.
rgds

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:How far you are from the Pula region? This is the only region of Croatia I visited two years ago...

oh, you have been here? nice! pula is at coast, i live near hungarian border,eastern croatia. it about 450 kilometers. in summer i like to go to makarska, its a small town in Dalmatia,our southern region (dubrovnik,split...).

lucky1 wrote:

that yucca is recurvifolia

Did yours trunk at a young age?
I've seen older ones that had no trunk at all.

Then I found this: wonderful tall trunk!
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:aNHD ... -5.jpg&t=1

Barb

yes, i think in 2nd year it made some small trunk,now is 5 years old. last summer it started to sucker, but i cut all small ones,so that it dosent look like bush. maybe that one is a hybride with some species that do not trunk. who knows....

The gloriosa/recurvifolia do look very similar...
and hybrids might be common considering how prolific yuccas are when they flower.

Agree a trunking specimen looks better than a bush.
Is there a chance the cut suckers might root with some rooting hormone?
Might be worth a try
Barb

Barb, my "old" Recurvifolia died last spring so I've haven 4 or 5 suckers instead of it as well as a top of mature (died) plant rooted during the growing season.

damir wrote:

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:How far you are from the Pula region? This is the only region of Croatia I visited two years ago...

oh, you have been here? nice! pula is at coast, i live near hungarian border,eastern croatia. it about 450 kilometers. in summer i like to go to makarska, its a small town in Dalmatia,our southern region (dubrovnik,split...).

I like Croatia very much! Lovely people, huge palms and the Nature! And the Architecture! And the Adriatic!

Igor, it'll be interesting to hear how that is doing.
It would be wonderful to get more plants that way.

Barb

lucky1 wrote:Igor, it'll be interesting to hear how that is doing.
It would be wonderful to get more plants that way.

Barb

Since I were there with my Lovely girlfriend the only seed has been raised from our Croatia trip is the Love that has been lasting for a while!

OK, got it, Igor

But 3 glasses?

lucky1 wrote:The gloriosa/recurvifolia do look very similar...
and hybrids might be common considering how prolific yuccas are when they flower.

Agree a trunking specimen looks better than a bush.
Is there a chance the cut suckers might root with some rooting hormone?
Might be worth a try
Barb

all my gloriosa/recurva,3 plants, were cutings from older plants. i didnt use hormone,just stab it into the soil,and in less then a month they produce roots. also this methode is working with filamentosa. the best time to do that is spring or summer. so it has enough time to grow roots,before winter. here is often that in winter because of the wet snow,older gloriosa broke in winter if the trunk is not fat. at my neighbours garden few times that happened. he just takes the part which is broken and pit it in garage till spring and then put it in the ground and it make roots. the main plant often after that makes branches.

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:

damir wrote:

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:How far you are from the Pula region? This is the only region of Croatia I visited two years ago...

oh, you have been here? nice! pula is at coast, i live near hungarian border,eastern croatia. it about 450 kilometers. in summer i like to go to makarska, its a small town in Dalmatia,our southern region (dubrovnik,split...).

I like Croatia very much! Lovely people, huge palms and the Nature! And the Architecture! And the Adriatic!

thanks! here are few pics from croatia














from Dubrovnik,very populare and beautiful place

damir, your reply is so very encouraging!

One more Q: what if a piece of the stem (wood) broke off with it?
Would you let that woody part "air dry" for a few days before sticking it in the soil?
Or stick it in the ground right away?

I thought the woody end had to dry out first, form a callous, as with succulents (including jade tree).

Thanks for this interesting discussion!
Barb

Our posts crossed.

BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL PICTURES !!!!
Oh what a gorgeous place, and those palms. WOW.

I'm mad I live so far north 50.25 N latitude

Compared to yours:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/cro ... -long.html

Thanks for those pictures!
Barb

lucky1 wrote:damir, your reply is so very encouraging!

One more Q: what if a piece of the stem (wood) broke off with it?
Would you let that woody part "air dry" for a few days before sticking it in the soil?
Or stick it in the ground right away?

I thought the woody end had to dry out first, form a callous, as with succulents (including jade tree).

Thanks for this interesting discussion!
Barb

it is better if you let it dry few days,and then put it in the ground. i'll take some pics these days,and post it here. also, i have more pics from croatia,palms ,beaches..... now is too late. it is 2.20AM.need to go to sleep
here i am Osijek 45°34'N 18°41'E, and pics of dubrovnik ,Dubrovnik 42°39'N 18°06'E
see u tomorrow

regards

just few more pics from croatia,before i go to sleep






















i think this is a good reason to spend your hollydays here
regards

Hi Damir,

I may have to try one of those cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis! I like it alot. What is the typical coldest day time high temperatures you get?

Damir,
Showed your pictures to my husband, who travelled extensively in Europe (a long time ago.)
He smiled and said "ah yes, that beautiful city of Dubrovnik...I was there for 3 weeks"
He loved his visit and said the people were so friendly; he said the water temperature was the same as the air temperature at the beach mid-August.

Thank you!
Barb

TimMAz6 wrote:Hi Damir,

I may have to try one of those cupressus sempervirens pyramidalis! I like it alot. What is the typical coldest day time high temperatures you get?

you should try to plant cupressus s.p. lowest temp here in winter was -25C few years ago,regulary it goes to -17,maybe -20. that -25,was just for one morning around xmass time. this year is not the case. lowest temp this year was -13C one morning. few days -10. mostly around -5 to -8C. this year even my cidp survived,good wrapped,not heated,with some leaf damages,but central spear looks green like in summer time.
we have hot summers, to 35C, so most of exotics can recover after/if there was some damage. frost free march/april to october/november. only problem is that we have lot of rain,sometimes snow in winter so it could be difficult for species that do not tolerate cold/wet conditions.

lucky1 wrote:Damir,
Showed your pictures to my husband, who travelled extensively in Europe (a long time ago.)
He smiled and said "ah yes, that beautiful city of Dubrovnik...I was there for 3 weeks"
He loved his visit and said the people were so friendly; he said the water temperature was the same as the air temperature at the beach mid-August.

Thank you!
Barb

thanks! dubrovnik is most popular with tourists,but i think that all other citys are same the beautiful. i'll make some colection of few city's pisc and post it here. have you heard for the film "wow croatia"? it won emmy award last year. here is link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45oXdB_Kl3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xJhNz5 ... re=related

need to see this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-9O3_ZE ... re=related

Hi Damir,

your climate sounds similar to mine. We receive about 4 inches (10cm) of precipitation every month of the year.

maybe. but we dont have much rain in summer,just in june. july and august are mostly dry.

some pics from my garden this winter

Damir, thank you very much for posting those outstanding videos. No wonder they won awards!
Magnificent!
Tour guides did such a good job of explaining culture and history, wonderful to learn more about it.

Rich history from Roman times and such beautiful architecture!

That's what's missing in most of North America (obviously because we live in a young continent).
Seems in my town (and many others) the oldest building is a Midas Muffler Shop
I marvel at the work the stonemasons did, the cobbled streets are so beautiful compared to our ugly asphalt roads and concrete driveways.

Thank you also for your winter plant pictures!

Wonderful way to start my day...
Barb