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Greenhouse wins again with 10 " snow fall yesterday

Cindy Adair

By Cindy Adair
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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Cindy Adair

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Flowers that would all be dead outside...

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post-4111-0-74453900-1391030276_thumb.jp Macadamia tree

post-4111-0-14315900-1391030276_thumb.jp Macadamias ready to harvest-not too many of these in Virginia

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Here are a few more to bring the tropics inside.

Cindy Adair

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Beautiful collection!

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Wow....now thats a greenhouse! interesting assortment of trees. Why dont you live in P R full time. ?

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

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:yay: :yay: Macadamias, and Cacao.. in Virginia.. Very nice collection Cindy!

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I was wondering how you were doing.

Now I know.

Hmm. How do you crack your macadamias?

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hahaha, that's awesome!

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Cindy Adair Grand Master

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Wow....now thats a greenhouse! interesting assortment of trees. Why dont you live in P R full time. ?

Our youngest child wants to complete high school in Virginia. Also, we have timed our retirement plans to coincide. So in the Fall of 2015 we will finally move. Only one more cold Virginia January so I'm somewhat okay with the snow this year. I doubt we'll see another this deep.

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I was wondering how you were doing.

Now I know.

Hmm. How do you crack your macadamias?

So far with a hammer which doesn't leave the nut intact. I guess I should order one of the special macadamia nutcrackers I see online.

FYI I'm told we may get too much rain on our farm, but we've planted one in PR anyway. Mine in a pot in Virginia is about 20 years old. I'll be sad to leave it here, but will donate it to a local greenhouse rather than prune it severely and try to move it. I got it originally mail order from the Big Island of Hawaii.

Cindy Adair

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Awesome. Every year I swear I won't go another year without a greenhouse. Yet every year I do. Next year, I am shipping my tender stuff to you.

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How u heating it or is attached to house and just leave door open

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Love your greenhouse. So tropical in there.

Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
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Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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How u heating it or is attached to house and just leave door open

I have one vent from the house into the greenhouse (gas heat) plus 2 small utility heaters for the 12 by 20 ft. space. It's also on the south side of my white brick house so on a sunny day that helps.

I could open the door and window to my living room, but so far haven't lost power and the cats and dogs would wander in and "redecorate".

Cindy Adair

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Cindy,

With all of your expertise, energy and passion, this doesn't surprise me at all. I step back a pace or two, to people like you....

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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Such a fine collection! Your photos make it look so easy to keep exotic plants this way, but I doubt it's really so easy.

Do you ever wonder if you'll miss "the seasons" when you are in PR full time?

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Cindy Adair Grand Master

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Cindy,

With all of your expertise, energy and passion, this doesn't surprise me at all. I step back a pace or two, to people like you....

Thanks! I feel the same about you when I watch your nursery video or see your posts identifying palms!

Cindy Adair

Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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Such a fine collection! Your photos make it look so easy to keep exotic plants this way, but I doubt it's really so easy.

Do you ever wonder if you'll miss "the seasons" when you are in PR full time?

It truly is easy to keep tropical plants in pots in humid Virginia Beach. All it takes is a greenhouse and patience.

As to whether I'll miss seasons, only time will tell. I think I'll be fine just visiting family in the states without needing to experience cold and ice ever again! In 2 hours In I can fly to Florida or 4 hours to New York if I get Island fever.....

Cindy Adair

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That's amazing that you are growing cacao in Virginia! That is crazier than me growing mangosteen here. What is your water like? I wonder if it is just not humid enough to grow cacao here.

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I've never tested our water but since orchids do fine with both well water (1 greenhouse) and city water (the other greenhouse) I'm guessing it's okay. Before we built our greenhouses, I did grow cacao and other tropicals inside my house from October until May before vacationing them outside. So the humidity was pretty low half the year. Clearly they love the hot sticky summers outside with some shade and grow slowly inside the house.

Growing Mangosteens outside the tropics isn't crazy. Success is measured by enjoying your trees, not just expecting fruit soon. Dreams are worthwhile and for us have resulted in a future we'd never imagined.

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