harveyc

Scot, my enthusiasm was similar to yours when I first saw Richard's (GATrops) discussions of his Ae Ae success, but this is sort of an old thread and not really "news". But it does give me the opportunity to bring up a bit of trivia on the origin (supposedly) of the term "news". Some paper used it to refer to information from the North, East, West and South.

I had three Ae Ae at one time but two died late last winter indoors for reasons I don't know. I think I was so afraiid of over-watering them that they didn't get enough water. I had planned to plant at least one outside but since I only had one left, it stayed in my greenhouse all summer and is doing great. I just bought another one a month ago or so but it's a bit late to be moving my big one outside now so I'm waiting until next spring.

I think a big part of Richard's success besides being in the ground is the frost protection his plant gets from the big oak tree. I really wish I had something similar but am going to resort to a large shade structure.

Good luck with yours!

Harvey

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