Beautiful Bizzy in the morning sun

[MattyB]

[Kris]

Very nice !

[edric]

Nice looking tree Matty, Ed

[LJG]

You Ficus D looks great. Mine fried from the heat. It lost most its leaves.

[Al in Kona]

Nice contrast with the other greens and purple plants around that Biz. I like the Ficus d. too. What are the palms to the right side and the other trees also?

[MattyB]

Len, that Ficus d. fried this spring when it hit 103F. But I hadn't watered for several days and I didn't have the drip irrigation set up yet. This last heat wave I had 3 days over 100F with one being 104F (my hottest ever) and it did not even burn slightly. It looks perfect. I'd say the drip has got the roots down deep and strong. I'm very happy with it. I've got several propagations from it in 10 gallons that I'm gonna sell hopefully.

Al, I've got lots of stuff to the right because it's my rainforest area. The trees are mostly Inga edulis, a great evergreen canopy. Visible in the pic are some Ravenea glauca, Dypsis leptocheilos, Syagrus sancona, Coccothrinax fragrans, Dypsis madagascarensis, Roystonea borinquena, and just a leaf or two of one of my Paulownia tomentosa trees.

[oppalm]

me likey bizzie. very nice looking specimen.

[Walter John]

Looks great Matty, my fav size, shape and colour for bizzies.

[Walt]

Yes, Matty, sometimes those bizzies really look stunning in certain types of light, some light much better than other, like on an overcast day where the bizzies look more gray. In bright sun they look the best.

My bizzies got burned very badly this past winter when my low temperture dropped to 23.5 degrees F (-4.6C). Most of the cold/frost burn was on the lower fronds, which I cut most of them off. There's still some fronds with partial burn on them but by year's end they should be gone (I will cut them off as they grow lower on the palm, as new fronds develop).

[Kris]

Dear Walt

Nice visual..

Love,

Kris

[Walt]

Dear Walt

Nice visual..

Love,

Kris

Thanks, Kris. BTW, my corypha seedlings (from the seeds you sent me) now have two leaves. (I said I would keep you informed.)

Walt

[Peter Pacific]

Dear Walt

Nice visual..

Love,

Kris

Thanks, Kris. BTW, my corypha seedlings (from the seeds you sent me) now have two leaves. (I said I would keep you informed.)

Walt

I love the bismarckias and, Walt, those are some beauties you have there. Peter

[Bags]

Looking good Matty. I have a Ficus Dammeropsis that was a large one gallon this spring, but has been growing like a weed all summer. I hope to take some cuttings off it in the next year or two. Can you give me some tips on the propagation process? I know you need to air layer them, but not sure the best way to do it. Thanks, Aaron

[Walt]

Dear Walt

Nice visual..

Love,

Kris

Thanks, Kris. BTW, my corypha seedlings (from the seeds you sent me) now have two leaves. (I said I would keep you informed.)

Walt

I love the bismarckias and, Walt, those are some beauties you have there. Peter

Thanks, Peter. They were all planted as 5 gallon sizes in 2002 and 2003. The smallest one was blown over by Hurricane Jeanne in 2005 and was set back.

Walt