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yoritomo
12-30-2009, 07:14 AM
Hello
I am living in a very humid climate 6b in center of Belgium.
I am a lover about any exotics, but especially palms, banana plants and cycads.
In the garden actually i have Chamaerops Humilis, Jubaea Chilensis, Sabal Minor var louisiana, Sabal Minor var blue, Butia Capitata, Brahea Armata, Musa Basjoo, Opuntia Humifusa, Eucalyptus Gunii, Ficus Carica and a lot on native plants and trees not exotics
i will show you some pictures of my garden to let you see a bit, but unluckily i got some problems on last winter which was -21C. Luckily all of the palms are alive, ....
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/9949/jardin2.jpg
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/6782/sdc10235z.jpg
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7958/jardin3.jpg
http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1022/palmiers.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/8428/rhododendrongenet.jpg
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9372/yuccaenfleur.jpg
My protection assemblies for Butia Capitata, Brahea Armata and Jubaea Chilensis
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7059/huttepalmier.jpg
Dammage on my Butia capitata after the 7th january 2009 (-21°C, -5°F) it has been cutted above the sproud using a trunk cutter to avoid risk of rotten in the hole on place of the missing flush.
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/8689/butiacapitatacoup.jpg
guerich
12-30-2009, 08:57 AM
Welcome from SE Indiana, U.S. Nice photos.:goteam:
lorax
12-30-2009, 09:13 AM
Welcome from Ecuador. I'm impressed!
cherokee_greg
12-30-2009, 10:02 AM
welcome from California nice garden there thanks for posting the pictures
shusui
12-30-2009, 10:57 AM
Welcome on the org compatriot! :goteam:
Can it be I have seen you on other forums (cemunnos?)
I have the photos of your garden and winter protection already seen I think ?
Abnshrek
12-30-2009, 11:36 AM
Hello and Welcome from the Sportsman's Paradise :^)
Youngbb
12-30-2009, 11:37 AM
Welcome to the bunch!:lurk: You'll enjoy visiting with all of us
Hear no evil :0517:
See no evil :waving:
Speak no evil :goteam:
yoritomo
12-30-2009, 11:53 AM
Thank you a lot for your friendness, and i am really sorry for the lot of english's mistakes i will make , it is not my native language, i am french speaker.
Welcome on the org compatriot! :goteam:
Can it be I have seen you on other forums (cemunnos?)
I have the photos of your garden and winter protection already seen I think ?
Yes i've just registered to palmsnorth.com and i am member of the french forum "fous de palmiers" as well but i don't know what is "cemunos"
Dalmatiansoap
12-30-2009, 12:15 PM
Welcome from Croatia!
:woohoonaner:
shusui
12-30-2009, 12:40 PM
oh , You are French
Cemunnos is a dutch forum, I thought I have seen your photos there , I probably mistaken
ps: also my english is not so good
Welcome from zone 6A in New Jersey. It's very encouraging to hear all the varieties you have there...... I wish I had that extra 5 degress in winter.... the Butia Capitata just doesn't seem to make it here. Now at least I'm encouraged to try the Brahea Armata ... if I can find one blue enough.
LilRaverBoi
12-30-2009, 06:40 PM
Welcome to the site! I think you'll enjoy the discussions we have here. Hope you have a great time and learn a lot!
saltydad
12-31-2009, 06:10 PM
Welcome from Maryland. And your English is fine (don't ask about my French).
Taylor
12-31-2009, 10:09 PM
Yorimoto,
I think I've found some more of your pictures and posts, well, under he names Fred C. and Ezekial. This just keeps getting more and more interesting... it's "super!!" (quoted from links)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59053#p59053)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59057#p59057)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5404&start=15)
[Donne] graines de Palmier de méditérannée (http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/echanges-dons-ventes-f12/donne-graines-de-palmier-de-mediterannee-t1232.htm)
EXOMETEOFRAITURE: palmiers rustiques, plantes exotiques, météo et ornithologie à Fraiture en Condroz (Tinlot - Belgique) (http://www.exometeofraiture.net/)
paradis express: Exometeofraiture (http://paradisexpress.blogspot.com/2007/08/exometeofraiture.html)
Taylor
12-31-2009, 10:14 PM
Looks like you have a neighbor here! He writes just like you, though... ;)
http://www.bananas.org/f11/greetings-belgium-2480.html
yoritomo
01-01-2010, 06:06 AM
Yorimoto,
I think I've found some more of your pictures and posts, well, under he names Fred C. and Ezekial. This just keeps getting more and more interesting... it's "super!!" (quoted from links)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59053#p59053)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?p=59057#p59057)
LE FORUM DES FOUS DE PALMIERS - Afficher le sujet - Jubaea chilensis en zone 7 ? (http://www.fousdepalmiers.fr/html/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5404&start=15)
[Donne] graines de Palmier de méditérannée (http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/echanges-dons-ventes-f12/donne-graines-de-palmier-de-mediterannee-t1232.htm)
EXOMETEOFRAITURE: palmiers rustiques, plantes exotiques, météo et ornithologie à Fraiture en Condroz (Tinlot - Belgique) (http://www.exometeofraiture.net/)
paradis express: Exometeofraiture (http://paradisexpress.blogspot.com/2007/08/exometeofraiture.html)
No i am notEzekiel or Fred.c (i ever met him) they are just posting on the same forum, on that one my name is Ruddy_yoritomo if you wanna read my posts but in french unluckily for you.
Exometeofraiture is the excellent website of Fred.C i am not alone to grow palms here, and i saw some very nice palms and exotics gardens around here.
Fred.c as already a mature garden mine still be too young.
Idon't know the forum plant_passion, but i recommand you to read gardenbreiz if you may read french. And there are posted a lot of nice pictures.
I will give you the adress of my personnal website , unluckily not up to date at all, but you can find a lot of good hints about seeds sprouds, taking of cuttings, the hints to make a japanese garden, winter protections, and i enable in download the schematics to build your eletronic thermostat yourself very simply adapted for non electronicians.
firstly on the main page click on the palms to reach the gardening section of the website it has 3 topics actually, the website untill now contains most of pictures got from other peoples but you can see mine too. I plan to adapt it soon.
Les voitures US,le jardin tropical belge,et le bon vieux commodore 64 (http://home.scarlet.be/palmiers_belges)
good reading, you may use babelfish but it is not really the miracle solution
calinromania
01-05-2010, 04:20 AM
Amazing!
Never thought there are so many exotic plants that would survive outside in my garden... zone7, i guess.
great garden!
yoritomo
01-05-2010, 08:13 AM
Amazing!
Never thought there are so many exotic plants that would survive outside in my garden... zone7, i guess.
great garden!
yes, it has some peoples around here they improved in exotic gardens, but don't forget, all of us use elaborate protections with home made electric heating system to insure sufficient temperatures. And some of them are in the cities which are sensibly warmer than country side areas, as well as most of city gardens are protected by some walls.
calinromania
01-05-2010, 09:12 AM
aaaa... got it!
not for me. i don't live there. my parents do. and they have a lot of work without me asking them to look after my part of the garden.
i would really like to have only care free plants in my garden. something that stays there and doesn't need any protection.
i guess i will have to settle for plum trees, apple trees...
:(
bikoro child
01-20-2010, 02:22 PM
Salut Ruddy content de te voir ici çà fait un peu de compagnie!!!
Hi Ruddy glad to see 'u there this makes a little company!!!
yoritomo
01-20-2010, 03:29 PM
Hello bikorochild looks like you are here since longtime, i just registered not longtime ago, seems interesting as well this forum, i would say complementary to "fous de palmiers"
what is it on your avatar looks like an Ensete ventricosum maurelii right ?
bikoro child
01-20-2010, 04:42 PM
no, my avatar is just a musa acuminata zebrina...
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