Hardy Tropicals UK

Just won this one on ebay, almost had it at £32

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/WONDERFUL-SAG ... 5d3c1974ca

Result I have had one in a pot for about 5 yrs and it is still tiny compared to yours(cycas,that is ) .I can't even begin to guess how long it would take to form a trunk like that.There's a very similar size one on ebay at buy now for £110 which is still a fair price,beers on you tonight

Just been looking at your photobucket page.Wow
Plenty of awesome specimen plants.Your new sago is going to look right at home.Love the banana grove

Thanks for your nice comments.......but........ unfortunatly that was taken just before the winter of 2010/11 & it decimated alot of them, in the front garden I lost my Jubaea chilensis , Butia Capitata , purple & normal cordy , while in the back garden I lost the 2 big cordys & my original tree fern .
Right i'm now off for a little cry.

I hope you are going to give some of the plants you lost another try as I agree your garden looked fantastic and you obviously have not let the bad winters we have had recently put you off much. I plan on planting out one of my jubaeas and one of my butias in the near future and I have even got a couple of replacements ready if my ideas for protecting them are not enough.

JBALLY wrote:I hope you are going to give some of the plants you lost another try as I agree your garden looked fantastic and you obviously have not let the bad winters we have had recently put you off much. I plan on planting out one of my jubaeas and one of my butias in the near future and I have even got a couple of replacements ready if my ideas for protecting them are not enough.

Yes all have been replaced since but with smaller ones due to prices - if you see the size of my jelly in picture 2 it was huge & I only paid £20 for it a few years earlier (when Simon first bought Amrulee Exotics I bought several palms off him that were in need of tlc for a while before planting out) And even the wine palm was getting quite big as seen in the same picture.

I must get round to updating my photobook soon.

Nice sized Cycas for that price, you don,t often see them that size, and a smaller one would take many years to get to that in our climate.

Nigel Fear wrote:Nice sized Cycas for that price, you don,t often see them that size, and a smaller one would take many years to get to that in our climate.

About 12 years ago I bought my 1st one from a garden centre on the Brixham Rd in Paigton while on holiday, (at the same time I bought my original Musa Basjoo) it's about the same size as this one so i'll have a matching pair

Nice a good size cycad at a good price Freebird, just going to look at your garden ..

I had that one in my watch list, i was so so tempted but im out of greenhouse space and no room indoors so it was the wrong time. Its a great size for the money, i think you had a bargain

Deedee wrote:Nice a good size cycad at a good price Freebird, just going to look at your garden ..

That wont take long then.... thought I'd go & have a trunk at yours and WOW ....very colourful, ours is very lacking in colour & ground cover but we aim to put that right this year

Delboy wrote:I had that one in my watch list, i was so so tempted but im out of greenhouse space and no room indoors so it was the wrong time. Its a great size for the money, i think you had a bargain

would have been even better at £32 if someone else hadn't put a bid in 3 seconds earlier but luckily I left a higher bid with 7 seconds left

Freebird wrote:would have been even better at £32 if someone else hadn't put a bid in 3 seconds earlier but luckily I left a higher bid with 7 seconds left

They were probably using a Sniping service, like gixen.com - which is a good job because if they had bid, manually, earlier it might well have driven the price up even more ...

Great buy.

Your garden/borders are just how a tropical garden should look Freebird, The height, form and the choice of plants are just Amazing, Im sure after your losses your garden looks just as good as pre 2010/11 , we have to adjust and me (and others) more so with living up north. Im really looking forward to seeing updated pics of your Tropical Paradise Go get a blog started . Dee.

OMG, that garden is like a tropical paradise,

Its beautiful freebird!