New years eve garden wander

andym · Post by **andym** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:06 pm

had a wander around the garden yesterday. All the plants not protected are thoroughly soggy Here are some pics

Yucca border nice and dry

My unprotected Yucca Linearifolia sending out fresh growth

Dicksonias are still green...just

Borinda Fungosa with nice blue canes

Some idea of the rain we've had

Yuccas and palms under cover

Acacia Longifolia (seed grown) due to flower this year

Sarcoccaca Confusa in flower with the most powerful scent you can wish for. Anyone grow it ? Quite a hardy plant.

That's it for now sorry for pic quality... a really dull day.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:18 pm

Andy, what a stunning garden.
And those yuccas under the rain shelter are outstanding!!!!

Fabulous plants.
Wait till Jim sees that tree fern!

You have had some rain...wow.

Loved the visit, thank you.
Happy New Year.
Barb

andym · Post by **andym** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:06 pm

Thanks Barb... A happy new year to you and all Palms North members worldwide. What a great forum

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 6:47 pm

WOW.........great plants Andy!

I love all those hardy Scheffleras. You have a great trunked Yucca collection too!

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:33 pm

Great pics, Andy!

andym · Post by **andym** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:38 pm

Thanks everyone. Garden is looking green at the moment. The mild weather remains..... 10-12C daytime temps unfortunately accompanied by lots of rain. A few more pics.
Grevillea Victoriae

Myrtus Luma... a self seeder. Survives in zone8 but happier in Cornwall.

Some Palms ... Brahea Armata.... a palm that does not like UK weather especially our summers

Trachycarpus Nova under cover

Jubaea Chilensis... I could write a book about this plant. A beautiful plant purchased only to find it had no roots

Has taken three years to recover

A trunked Dasylirion Miquihuanensis

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 7:34 am

Wow!

Great pics Andy-looks like it's still spring there...dead of winter here.

I saw in your forecast where they said "localized amounts of 5 gallons"

kidding of course....

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 8:26 am

Wonderful bunch of garden pics!

I can't get over the rain water in the bucket.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Jan 05, 2013 10:00 am

WOW Andy.........great plants.

The Trachycarpus 'Nova' is really cool for Trachycarpus.......I want one! Is seed available somewhere?

The Dasylirion is way too cool looking......I'm surprised they survive in your cloudy, wet climate.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:33 am

Always feel envy those people growing the nice plants in UK... Bravo!

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 7:39 am

TimMAz6 wrote:WOW Andy.........great plants.

The Trachycarpus 'Nova' is really cool for Trachycarpus.......I want one! Is seed available somewhere?

The Dasylirion is way too cool looking......I'm surprised they survive in your cloudy, wet climate.

Tim

I have some Nova I am going to sell next year when they get growing again-let me know if you want one.

You won't have to wait for them to sprout this way

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 11:50 am

Hi Jim,

a 'Nova' would be great............do they really look like Andy's? Wow those have great potential. What's the 'story' with 'nova'? Where is it native to? I hope they are hardy like fortunei and not like latisectus.......gave all those to Bill. Let me know what you want since I have a garage full of plants I don't need but can't kill.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:10 pm

I have a garage full of plants I don't need but can't kill.

andym · Post by **andym** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:36 pm

Tim heres the Nova back in March '09

Three years on and two Cold winters later

The leaves droop like spiders legs

Did notice more leaf damage as the plant grew. Decided to put a cover on this year... just as well as the trunk would have been quite wet and more susceptable to a freeze.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 1:58 pm

Hi Andy,

it appears the leaves were green-er when young. The leaves appear blue-ish now like a principes?

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Sun Jan 06, 2013 3:44 pm

Tim

Garry introduced some of these but I think the bigger ones were an accident
as the seeds were originally sold as Princeps=my theory has always been that
Nova is possibly a hybrid between Fortunei and Princeps=Garry has found some other variation too.

I have at least 2 kinds of Nova,one Garry labeled as E and the other D or something like that....
when the time comes we can look at each and see which features you prefer (if different)and I will send
you one or both-you have sent me enough stuff that I think I owe you a couple anyway

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:26 pm

Hi Jim,

thanks for the offer.........how hardy are these? I hope they are not like latisectus? Who's got a large one?

andym · Post by **andym** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:55 pm

Hi Tim.... not many large ones around yet. Heres a nice pic of three good sized one at Pan Global Plants when I visited in August last year.

Inside a polytunnel(much warmer) these palms maintain their elongated petioles.... mine are somewhat shorter although its early days yet

BTW the under sides of the leaves will have a blue hue but green atop.

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:28 pm

Hi Andy,

your nova seems blue-er than those at Pan Global.

andym · Post by **andym** » Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:23 am

Definitely green Tim, although if I want my Yuccas to look bluer, I have the technology

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 7:03 am

Excellent Pics! Nice and green for the winter. Been to Oxford to visti friends a few times. Very nice there.

andym · Post by **andym** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:35 am

Thanks Mike

The mild weather we have been having will disappear by the weekend to be replaced by snow. Forecasters predict this cold snap will last into February

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:48 am

andym wrote:Thanks Mike The mild weather we have been having will disappear by the weekend to be replaced by snow. Forecasters predict this cold snap will last into February

Good luck, our mild weather should break by next week too. It is, after all, winter, sigh....

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:16 am

Tim

I think in general they may be less hardy than Fortunei...that said,
some of the ones on the porch did not pull while Tesan and Takil did-
go figure.

They may have been missed with the watering can though so you never know.

One thing that has been reported is that even if they pull,they usually recover fast
as they are said to be the fastest growing Trachy-not sure how these particular ones compare.

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