Speaking of not much time to garden, I'll start the rest of the pics with the fatalities...and there were quite a few.
Deader than a rock are starfruit, coffee, jasmine, both calamondin orange, ficus benjamina, and two palms whose names escape me right now.
Strange that the Wollemia nobilis hasn't yet flushed this year. Last year it came on gangbusters. Still looks OK though.
Still waiting for Flower One on the Bird of Paradise. Obviously takes a few years.
The Washy filiferas (from JOHN) are stunning!!!! Love their hairy fronds. Sure love the heat, but they need more water.
Also from JOHN, the Agave, Dune Aloe and young Joshua Tree grew like crazy. Nice blue on the joshua.
The 2 blue hesper palm seedlings are getting their first true leaves.
The CIDP seems to like its new deep pot...er....a garbage can. More room for water in this heat!
This Echeveria has never bloomed; the other two bloom each year on tall spikes.
The Dioon edule did bugger-all this year...Nada.
This ... (oh what the heck is it called?) palm is really getting stout in the ground.
The ponytail palm's razor sharp leaves are deadly. Just touching against it leads to multiple blood-dots on hands/legs!
This sick Sago has had coffee grounds, safer's soap, sun-to-shade, shade-to-sun. Finally I cut the bugger's fronds off to see if it'll come back. My other sago's doing great.
The yucca rostrata (or rigida...or whatever someone called it) seems to like being in the ground (wait till winter!)
The Papyrus is pitiful; all the tall fronds with their beautiful little pods/flowers fell over into the pond in a storm.
Just looks like a bunch of sod growing in the pond
Chinese fan palm's tallest fronds broken by high winds, lots of new fronds starting.
This guy almost didn't make it through the heatwave.
Lost most of this palm (name???
forgotten again!) but cymbidium orchid spears are coming for winter flowers.
The 3 Triangle palms are growing slower than last year.
I just love this Spindle palm, almost bulletproof, with a nice spear coming...deserves a larger pic.
The 32 yr old Jade looks tired.
Other sago's gettin' attacked.
The chamaerops humilis is as blue as the joshua tree, but my camera never captures it well. From Barrie.
The zamia furfuracea that almost croaked during winter is STILL sulking. It oughta grow a new leaf in, oh, say, 2015
The zamia vasquezii that got eaten by grasshoppers last year managed to regrow those leaves, and that's it.
It'll never be like Steve's...he's GETTING 3 CONES ON HIS!!!!
The one remaining Panzhihuaensis that I started from seed last year looks OK.
The four Cycas debaoensis that I started from seed. Haven't done much this year, couldn't give them enough shade w no wind!
The Hyacinth Bean (Dolichos lablab) were again stunning this year, scrambling up string to the top of the posts.
I was going to throw out this sick Pachypodium lamerei, until Steve said to repot it last year. Great tip. It's doing fine now.
Poop...forgot to take a picture of the big Trachy that went in the ground this spring (and is staying in the ground)
Now I can try and catch up on everyone else's posts.
Cheers.
Barb
