I think the Queen palm is $10-20 per foot of trunk here. They are one the highest produced palms in the US. :shock: How much? surely they can't be that cheap! :shock: I'm depressed now... I want one! website is very interesting. particulary the defoliation and decline parts, is that a fully rattifi...

im addicted to try and grow anything form a supermarket. Every year one pepper feeds us for a year, same with chillis and tomatoes. currently trying a lychee, managed to get a mango to grow last yr but sadly it died for no reason at 8 inches, avacados r fun, my best success is my 4 yr old pomegrant...

Mine are thriving. slow to establish but now the have they are both rocketing. the cordy is an unknown one Dave, purple but with thick strap leaves like those of indivisa. Ive checked and as said before centre is sound. Strange that some plants survive in your garden and not in mine and vice versa....

Ive decided to do the same Dave. How does one coppice though, Im not too experienced with that kind of thing. My latest addition a 6 foot acacia dealbata is going big guns, laughed of the snow, as did my acacia purpurea baileyana and my acacia melanoxylon. i love acasias. pravissima is my next trag...

So far jus a large red cordy, the wind blew the fleece off and it snowed. Seems ok in the centre so will trim the dead leaves off later, my experiment with an unwrapped basjoo is so far wroking, it seems fine. When one has too many of one plant its fun to see just how hardy they can be. My Phoenix ...

Thanks Guys, If I'd known that it would ripen I would have picked more. The guy who inspired the Council to plant them, Nate Wilson, has picked a few since I said they ripened, but I'm not sure how many he has. He's going to send them, or at least some of them, off to proffessional growers to germin...

Its a pure Syragus Romanzoffianum. They are used as annuals by commercial tourist areas (cheap). They plant them in spring and leave them in until they die. A few died last winter so they did not replace them. Hi turtile, When you say cheap, what do you mean. A Queen palm 6ft tall with a beginning ...

Turtile, :shock: I wouldn't regard the Queen Palm (Syurgus romannzofianum)spellings? to be frost hardy at all, just about everyone of them planted outside in the UK has croaked. I have one in my unheated courtyard which has gone down to about 0C (32F) and it doesn't look happy. :shock: Are you sure ...

turtile wrote:Your lucky, its been below freezing for 5 days straight here. It went down to 10F one night.

Yes, feel sorry for you, but isn't that your normal temperatures? WQe have got used to Meditterannean temps. Just a bit of a shock going back to real winter.

Best regards
Dave

Will it wont it? Whatever way it goes i recorded - 5 last night. poor little plants frozen solid. I am hoping we do not get it too bad. Still dog doo doos easier to pick up!! ewwwwwwwwww. Had it down to -4.1C here and definately mushed the basjoo, and the Washie dosn't look to good. Wind and frost ...

Woke up to snow this morning and the temperature dipped to -1.7C overnight.

Well, it had to happen, we had our first frost of the winter this morning... It went down to the staggering low of -0.1C (31.8F)! :shock: Only got up to 3.1C (37.6F) I had to go to Bristol for a meeting so haven't seen the garden in daylight. It's down to 0.9C already at 18:30 so I think it will be ...

For those in Europe, how are your plants holding up? I heard about the strong winds on the news here. We've been having strange weather here too. Its gone up to 74F on some days and broken records. It has been an unusual month, extremely mild but sometimes wild. We had winds of 54mph with gusts to ...

I started off some date stones, having eaten the fruit. They were planted on 10th Dec and 8 had germinated by 23rd December. The first few only took 9 days at 19 to 24C.

See the Seed page for more details.
http://hardytropicals.no-ip.org/hardytr ... e_palm.php

Best regards
Dave

for me its difficult to believe we are in november, my canna are still sprouting flowers. My palms are growing still. When are the frosts coming? I feel the seasons are adjusting, as in turning round, so summer is later etc. How long b4 we are like australia? lol Well, now we are 4 days before Chri...