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Way to go you all. I usually try to stock pile soil and manure if possible.

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It's gorgeous!

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12 foxtail palm seeds. and finally got my castor bean plants in the ground before it started raining.

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i do the same. the reason if i get a hankering to plant something and its in the middle of december....nobody has dirt(well the kind that any serious gardner would want) so i try to keep a "bunch" at hand. the end of august ill be loading up on it and will be getting (hopefully) 2 truckloads of mulch.

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Put in another Chinese Windmill Palm just rec'd from Collectorpalms.com. Hope there's enough time for it to stabilize before the cold weather.

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1 Sugarloaf Pineapple that I received from sunfish.

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Put in some Areca palms. Can't wait for them to get big:)

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Tony (sunfish) and Mason came by the other morning and left cuttings from 1 unknown fig and two unknown passifloras -- one of which bears orange-skinned fruits with cherry red filling around the seeds. This evening I potted them up as semi-hardwood cuttings, using Dyna-Gro Root Gel and some peat pots filled with wet Jiffy Seed Starting Mix. They are now sitting in my herbarium waiting to take off!

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Planted a Butia eriospatha...keep your fingers crossed for me this winter! Randy- you made me do it:ha:

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Howard, that's a nice one. Mine are still only one-gallon sized.

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Dean- thanks. I got it from a fellow in College Station "collectorpalms.com". He has very nice palms and yucca.

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That's not far from me. I'll have to check out his website.

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Also Lowe's has a great selection. Maybe they just have them in my zone, but I've seen beautiful Yucca, and nice palms such as the foxtail.

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enigma, I have seen some nice palms at Lowe's only problem is alot of them are not hardy in my zone. :ha:

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Wow that's crazy.. why would they sell trees that wouldn't be hardy to the zone? They expect you to have a greenhouse? :ha:

Also to they have bananas and tropical hibiscus? oh btw, I got some tropical hibiscus for only $4.50 for 1G there.. really cheap!

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Just brought Mom back from hitting the August sales at local nurseries. Now I have a hardy Bletilla striata "Pink", a Stokesia "Purple Parasols", another maidenhair fern Adiantum pedatum, and a Euphorbia X "Martinii" to plant. Also brought a nice big hardy magenta hibiscus for my sister-in-law, and dropped it off for my brother to plant. He didn't look happy.:ha:

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enigma, yes, I guess they truck them in from Florida or South Texas. I guess they think there is a market for plant conniseurs. Poor people buy them to find out they freeze.:ha:

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San Diego County, CA is a large supplier, and staging area for palms shipped from Hawaii.

Today I planted a pineapple top from a suspected Hilo pineapple.

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Potted up from a community pot 10 Sabal causariums.:woohoonaner:

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The plant man came around yesterday with his truck and I decided that I needed a treat, especially when I saw he had a Blc.Waikiki Gold Tea x C. downiana hybrid. A big full plant and the flower is clear yellow with a red flush on the lip, and scented too. I paid more than I wanted to but I had to have it!
Cassie

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This piece copmes from my blog - It's life Jim, but not as we know it under the chook poo tea article.

I don't have a degree in chemistry or agriculture so I may be picked to pieces about the way I use chook poo, but it works for me.

We have four hens. In their coop are nest boxes and a perch. And in and around and under these is the nightly deposited chook poo.

Each morning I pick the poo in a handfull of straw and put poo and straw into a bucket and fill this with water. I use the straw because I don't like the feel or smell of fresh chook poo and I'm too unorganised or lazy to go to the kitchen to get some rubber gloves for the job. Anyway, I reckon the straw is an essential part of the mix.

The bucket of chook poo and straw is my chook poo tea.

It sits in the sun for a day, or longer if you want to, and then I pour about a litre or so into a watering can and top the watering can up with fresh water. This is then spread around the plants you have in your garden. The only plant I seem to have had a bad reaction from is our goji - it's developed a fungus on its leaves since I started giving it chook poo tea.

After the bucket of tea is finished you can either dump the straw and left over chook poo near a tree as well fertilised mulch or fill the bucket of water and use again as a weaker tea tomorrow.

Eventually you will get to a stage where too much chook poo tea is being made. All your plants are healthy, well fed and don't really need some more chook poo until next week.

When it gets to this stage I tip the bucket - poo, straw and water around a plant. I water this in as the stuff going into the soil is very strong.

Another thing to do is to tip it all onto an empty part of the garden, open up a little pocket, put in some compost or potting mix and plant a seedling. I don't know how successful this will be, I've only been doing this with chook poo tea for a couple of days. I've planted Queensland blue pumpkin, gramma pumpkin, Lebanese zucchini, black zucchini, button squash and watermelon this way. The first to go in - the blue - seems very healthy.

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3 Yrs Ago I started some palms from SEED ,
today I planted them with my Avacodo i started from Seed and Grafted .
IM hyped they are looking good small but Looking good .
Pouting i am moving to Idaho and Its Zone 6... Right now im in Zone 9 so Ill have to put one of the 6 bed rooms as a Banana plant Winter room. Tammy :woohoonaner:

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tiger ginger.....meow.....thanks scot!!!!!!!

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MRS Kitty , I have a great giger plant they love water .
i put mine in a small pond and she is doing extremely well. Mine is the hawaiian white . can you send photos of yours ?

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i just got her today shes a little wilty, give her a few days to start looking her best and ill post one for you.

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4 types of ee's from randy. and another plant ( i forgot the name). thank you so much randy!

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Rooted Plumeria cuttings - Kohala (Scott Pratt), Kimi Moragne, "Mystery". Awaiting Iolite (purple-red) and Mai Thai (purple) from Thailand.

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varigated monstera!!!!(wahoo finally!) vanilla bean vine, and a yellow ginger!

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Cleopatra canna..and I blame it on this forum. Otherwise I would never have gone on eBay after I read about it here.:ha:

The variegated monstera looks amazing!

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It's not crazy,..its retail. Lowe's provides a 1 year guarantee on thier plants. If you can prove you bought the plant from them and have the receipt, you will get a replacement (not a refund).

But its a great deal for them. Few people keep their receipts and those that get replacements also buy more. Palms are special.....you probably won't notice that the plant is failing as it dies slowly. By the time it dies, the year is up.

In our area, many garden 'professionals' treat hibiscus as an annual. It dies to the wood in the winter but returns the following spring providing some tremendous color in the fall...

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OK think of next spring: i started Elephant head in pots also more Passiflora Red giant Musa Helen's White Bat Plant
and more Bird of Paradise tree not the plant this ones a tree called "Pride of Barbados" more of a shrub beautiful Orange and pink iridescent flowers looks a bit like Catala Orchids still no white orchid trees which i planted 2 months ago
Nun of my Rock Bananas as of yes and nun of the other passiflora about 8 different kinds but I'm trying a new system instead of that Germination station thing just regular pots raped in plastic to keep them moist all post when i get some plants the Burgamasea cam up sorry don't know if i spelled that right its a big red one giant French red double hollyhocks have also germinated the red and green garden is going to be fabo next year

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Star nursery give a two year guaranty i always put the recites in a file folder with notes as to what they are for.

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is the Vanilla bean vine a Vanilla Orchid? vary hard to get to fruit have to be hand pollinated

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did that ginger perk up ?

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slowly she is perking up. i brought her inside and watered her again and her leaves are finally opening up. and its the vanilla bean vine.

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Yesterday put in a white guava. Also got a bunch of King Palms, but they are a little too young for full sun yet, so I am letting them adapt first.

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Today's plantings-Ferocactus hamatacanthus Alpine Tx (barrel cactus), Zephyranthes sp. labuffarosa, Z. sp. labuffarosa 'Confection'., Z. x 'Ajax' (rain lilies), Rhodophiala bifida (oxblood lily), Plumeria 'Mai Thai' (finally arrived from Thailand).

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Yea for the white guava! And congratulations on the Mai Thai, I'm jealous now.

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Put in a Hydrangea macrophylla 'Frau Taiko' (Halo Angel Song). Richard, the Mai Thai had some roots on it already, so I'm really looking forward to it. I have about 6 Plumeria cuttings going now. Have to get more pea gravel.

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Howard,

What do you need pea gravel for?:0517:

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I plant the plumeria cuttings dipped in rootone in a mixture of perlite (2/3) and potting mix (1/3). I then add 1 inch of pea gravel on top after potting to act as a mulch and keep the cutting upright. When the cutting is transplanted the pea gravel is no longer needed.

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Planted some monarda roots and potted a really pretty little snake plant (thanks Sam!).

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yur welcome howard! when your ready for some ornatas lavander lmk, i have about 8 to find a home for.

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Sure, I'll squeeze it in somehow. Thanks!:woohoonaner:

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:goteam: Chilean Guava (Ugni molinae) :goteam:

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Took 6 cuttings of Babaco Papaya. Anyone else growing them successfully (fruiting) in the greenhouse? Mine only fruited once. MsKitty, I also just got white variegated Monstera ,finally ($15), saw it on Marathon Key @$75 back in 2000. Is there a yellow variegated form or is that just large Pothos? Also just bought Plumeria obtusa. Is that really the same as P. bahamaensis as one book claims. This one has shiney leaves and the one I saw in the Keys were dull.

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Just went by a friend's house and took back a bunch of stuff which he kept for me for about 2 years ago when I moved house; 1 Vanda luzonica, 2 Vanda merillii, 1 Aerides odorata, 6 hybrid orchids and he was kind enough to give me 1 comp of Hedychium coronarium and 1 Occeoclades mamorata

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I just repotted several agave's(5) that were delivered in the spring. It's amazing how many roots some of them can produce. I also repotted one aloe that I picked up at Lowes on sale for $0.99. What a deal. Red

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Dragon fruit seeds from fruit I found in the market today - never seen them before much less tasted them! They had red skins and the flesh is an irridescent magenta color which looks amazing - they taste good too. Now I know I like them - I will rush back tomorrow to get some more.

Barbados Pride - the expensive seeds that I bought in England are doing nothing, but the locally picked seed germinates within the week, so the bought stuff must be old!! Grrr!

Also planted some pothos vine offcuts to climb up one of the fishtail palms that is flowering. I figure that if the palm is going to die in the near future, I might as well get a decorative covering going now. Of the 4 fishtail palms, one has local orchids planted on it, one has bromeliads, one has pothos and the last one has a small cut-leaved philodendron (or something similar) as well as that monster passiflora vitifolia.

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10 ginger plants between the bananas, 4 sagos, a replacement peach tree and a couple of giant birds of paradise.