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Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:16 pm

Anyone have any experience with these. Although not cold hardy they look really cool, very prehistoric looking plant.
John
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Post by **Jay-Admin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:42 pm

Those look cool John. Would make a good houseplant.

Regards,
Jay

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:21 pm

Very cool looking plant but by looking at the picture this is a true tropical.

By the way John nice looking set up yopu have there. What elae do you have growing from seed?

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:45 am

Wes I have quite a few on the go now. Bismark nobilis, Med fan palms , Trachy takil?, triangle palms, Joshua trees, Queen palms, blue hesper palms,hawaiian fan palms,Bottle palms, Butia eriospatha, Chilean wine palms,Washy filifera, Washy filibusta,Washy Cabo,Washy Truth or Consequences NM., Sabal minor , S riverside, S.louisiana, S.blackburnia, needle palms still waiting for germination. As you can see my hobby may be turning into an obsession LOL

. I honestly haven`t bought any more seeds for the last 2 weeks Lol.
John

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:49 pm

As you can see my hobby may be turning into an obsession LOL .

I hear you there

Sound like you have some very cool palms, are you selling any yet?

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 11:55 pm

Aaron I will be hopefully selling some of what I have in a year or two. The market here is still so perenial "flowers" and plants. I think it will be hard to change attitudes regards to cold hardy YUCCAS first of all, never mind cold hardy PALMS. I will be planting a select few of my seedlings each year two to 3 year olds to see how much protection if any they need. I am looking forward to finding out for myself what will grow here

and what needs protection for our cold snaps zone 6b 7a. I`m looking towards the future and futhering more cold hardy YUCCAS and PALMS.
John

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:26 am

Hey John, Did you give the owner at the flower farm a list of yuccas to order in for next year? We have to keep bugging him since he seems like he's interested in bringing some in.

Regards,
Jay

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:58 am

I hope that you have some success. The nursery where I spend between $200 and 400 per year is not interested in ordering in any Zone 4-5 Yuccas or any bamboo. I seem to be the only one interested and they are not ordering in one or two of a specific plant.

Allen

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:39 pm

Jay I talked to the owner Barry, very nice guy by the way. I asked him for some needle palms for next spring looks promising.I didn`t ask him about any Yuccas.He brings his orders up from California so there should be alot of Yuccas he could bring up next order.
John

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 9:49 pm

John, I hope he brings in some yuccas.

I talked to him about some yucca elata and rostratas when i was delivering some of his stock before his grand opening. He probably forgot about it. I'll have to ask him again next time if he's around.

Regards,
Jay

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 11:36 pm

Please let me know if that nursery brings in some needles. I would take a drive up there for those. By the way I am probably going to be in yours and Jay's town in the first week of July.

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:12 pm

Wes You are more than welcome to come to see what I`m growing here when you are up in July give me a pm. Jay I will be seeing Barry this weekend to give him 2 of my W.filifera I will pass on the word again about Yuccas.
John

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:33 pm

Same here Wes if you have time to stop by i can show you what i'm growing as well. Send me a pm when your on your way up here. John, that would be great if you could ask him to bring some yuccas up here.

Have you been by the house off of clifton rd lately? I drove by with my wife today and he has some awesome trunking y. recurvifolias and huge clumps of Opuntias growing. Lots of palms and i noticed a trachy in the ground there also. His yard is looking awesome!

Regards,
Jay

Wes North Van · Post by **Wes North Van** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:15 pm

I will let you know for sure. I would really like to see what you have growing up there. I believe Kelowna is mild enough to grow many different things like palms and yuccas long term.
I should know what days I will be up there early next week.

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:17 am

Sounds good Wes.

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