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Old 08-18-2008, 01:48 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Default Re: Ensete pics

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Originally Posted by tophersmith View Post
My guess is they were overwintered indoors somewhere

I dunno for sure, but I am going to find out. I can tell you they were left out until they died to the ground. Its only about 6 blocks from my place, and I swing by as often as I can to look at them, and last year I did see them out there well into late october, and they DID get flattened out by a "cold" night by sometime in mid November. I remember last winter here was very warm. It was in the upper 60s around thanksgiving, and the trees held about 50% of their leaves here until about christmas. I did look during the winter and there was no discernable hole in the ground either where they were, and in late feb/ early march of this year they started coming back out of the ground. I saw the tips poking about 1 foot up and were bright green and dark red.

Im going to drop off a note at thier place with my email address and a couple of questions on exactly what they do with them. They also have in thier yard quite a few palms that are NOT hardy here, as well as some large tree ferns. Id like to know what they do w/ those too.
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