HotandSunny

Chainsaw Kid is a spoilsport, Dogman. Ignore his comment about Bismarkias. I have a much more positive approach......enjoy the challenge....then you can weep when they fail
(Other than that, just go for it and prove us all wrong )

CloudymorningSunnyafternoonDrythunderevening

CloudymorningSunnyafternoon

'The Beast' claimed a number of mature Aloes and Brugmansia from the unheated greenhouse. A few smaller versions of some of the Aloes survived, simply because they overwinter in sunny classroom windows at a nearby school. Like Ted, I was out of the country when it hit and again during the recent hea...

Sunnyspells

MORE than upper crust, CK. My name has an attachment to botanical royalty. The exotic Grevillea jenkinsii is named after me. Lol

I seem to remember in the days of your alter ego that you used warm bathwater on your plants, CK. Are you giving this to your Jubaea? It should make a difference. I started using heated water for all my palms around twenty years ago. The Jubaea gave me about 6 leaves a season after a few years estab...

Cloudythensunnybutcomfortable

Coming back from the Canaries to see most of the plants in good health, (thanks, son) but the lawn is looking very yellow. I may have to live with a measure of guilt and a measure of hose water if the heatwave continues.

HotnSunnyagain

I'm back to say hello again after a 48 hour leave of absence. I was asked to log in and discovered in the one and only attempt I had exceeded the allowed number. I therefore tried to get back in by the other prescribed routes and ended up having to reregister with a different Username. (Surname init...