Hello All,
It's been some time since I've posted pictures of my little slice of zone 6b tropics. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.
Here's the front of my house that I've managed to fill up pretty well over the last four years, it changes every year. LOL! In the third picture are a couple of new additions planted this week for a winter test. Three Thai Blacks, a tetrapanex, my second largest raja puri, and some bordelons. I'll mulch them all in good and hope for the best, I don't mind testing them. There also a musella lasiocarpa mixed in to the left of the Southern Mag. that I'm leaving out too.
This year I've managed to get three blooms so far two on my velutina's (which have gotten big!) and one on a basjoo. Hopefully I'll get a flower off this SDC which has been around for two years, I think it's close. The trunk is just over 3 feet.
Here's a few miscellaneous pictures, My biggest washy I'll post it since I'm proud of it making it through last winter, it's over ten feet now. A basjoo grove on the west side of my shed, and a giant Calidora that I've had for three years now pushing out some flower stalks.
Last but not least my basjoo patch from last year that started with nine plants. The top of the biggest leaves are just about 16 feet, pretty crazy for up here and summer isn't over yet. I'm going for 20! I did a major trim job on them so they could get more sun to the back row. These picture really don't do them justice!
Oops, almost forgot my Maurelli overwinter in the cellar last winter Just over ten feet! I had to strap it to the fence after a potted umbrella tree tried to take her down.
Thanks for looking!
Bill