Total recoveries from weird winter of 2022.

[GregVirginia7]

Well? So far so good. Mild 2023/24 winter and all the palms are doing great. Very hot and dry this summer so @Allen I’m watering a lot. More than ever. Palms look really happy as a result.

Trachy has put on about 1.5 feet, I think. It’s stretching at the crown like crazy. Fronds are relatively stiff and healthy. The 2022 winter damaged fronds are the bottom tier now.  Will probably cut the off this fall. Gotta deadwood that Leland Cypress in the background.

Medi back to normal…good trunk height though not much change and the minor trunks are gaining. McCurtain is growing into the Medi. I always plant things too close together but my microclimate is limited.


Brazoria is just a big, old, ugly, clunky palm with massive fronds. I do like its blue hue though. Two new fronds coming up and several seed spikes.

Sunny, needle is just taking over. Will be engulfing the deck soon…hot, sunny and yellowish but happy.

 

Shady Needle happy out of the sun. Green and perfect. I deep water this one…so dry under the Holly.

McCurtain doing its best to overtake the Medi. Two new fronds launching.

And here’s a little 3year old Trachy on its way but I don’t think it will perform like Sasquatch. A bit more teens F. sensitive.

Hope everyone is surviving the heat, drought, hurricanes and water bills…😂

 

 

 

 

 

[Allen]

1 hour ago, GregVirginia7 said:

Well? So far so good. Mild 2023/24 winter and all the palms are doing great. Very hot and dry this summer so @Allen I’m watering a lot. More than ever. Palms look really happy as a result.

Trachy has put on about 1.5 feet, I think. It’s stretching at the crown like crazy. Fronds are relatively stiff and healthy. The 2022 winter damaged fronds are the bottom tier now.  Will probably cut the off this fall. Gotta deadwood that Leland Cypress in the background.

Medi back to normal…good trunk height though not much change and the minor trunks are gaining. McCurtain is growing into the Medi. I always plant things too close together but my microclimate is limited.


Brazoria is just a big, old, ugly, clunky palm with massive fronds. I do like its blue hue though. Two new fronds coming up and several seed spikes.

Sunny, needle is just taking over. Will be engulfing the deck soon…hot, sunny and yellowish but happy.

 

Shady Needle happy out of the sun. Green and perfect. I deep water this one…so dry under the Holly.

McCurtain doing its best to overtake the Medi. Two new fronds launching.

And here’s a little 3year old Trachy on its way but I don’t think it will perform like Sasquatch. A bit more teens F. sensitive.

Hope everyone is surviving the heat, drought, hurricanes and water bills…😂

 

 

 

 

 

All those palms look so great!! It's awesome

[KPoff]

18 hours ago, GregVirginia7 said:

Well? So far so good. Mild 2023/24 winter and all the palms are doing great. Very hot and dry this summer so @Allen I’m watering a lot. More than ever. Palms look really happy as a result.

Trachy has put on about 1.5 feet, I think. It’s stretching at the crown like crazy. Fronds are relatively stiff and healthy. The 2022 winter damaged fronds are the bottom tier now.  Will probably cut the off this fall. Gotta deadwood that Leland Cypress in the background.

Medi back to normal…good trunk height though not much change and the minor trunks are gaining. McCurtain is growing into the Medi. I always plant things too close together but my microclimate is limited.


Brazoria is just a big, old, ugly, clunky palm with massive fronds. I do like its blue hue though. Two new fronds coming up and several seed spikes.

Sunny, needle is just taking over. Will be engulfing the deck soon…hot, sunny and yellowish but happy.

 

Shady Needle happy out of the sun. Green and perfect. I deep water this one…so dry under the Holly.

McCurtain doing its best to overtake the Medi. Two new fronds launching.

And here’s a little 3year old Trachy on its way but I don’t think it will perform like Sasquatch. A bit more teens F. sensitive.

Hope everyone is surviving the heat, drought, hurricanes and water bills…😂

 

 

 

 

 

Everything is so beautiful! Random note/question in that first picture is that an agave under the windmill? I’ve seen huge ones in west Texas but never one growing on a trunk like that.

[GregVirginia7]

On 7/8/2024 at 9:55 PM, Allen said:

All those palms look so great!! It's awesome

Thank you. Yours are a standard of excellence.

[GregVirginia7]

On 7/9/2024 at 3:02 PM, KPoff said:

Everything is so beautiful! Random note/question in that first picture is that an agave under the windmill? I’ve seen huge ones in west Texas but never one growing on a trunk like that.

Yes it is and super cold hardy. It sits low enough under the canopy of the Trachy and the angle of the sun is such that it gets a lot of sun but I do see it is reaching out a bit. But the angle of the sun is such in my little micro climate that everything leans south. 

[Swolte]

On 7/9/2024 at 2:02 PM, KPoff said:

Everything is so beautiful! Random note/question in that first picture is that an agave under the windmill? I’ve seen huge ones in west Texas but never one growing on a trunk like that.

Looks like an Agave Ovatifolia. Pretty sure that is a pot and not a trunk though! Great garden!  

[KPoff]

4 hours ago, Swolte said:

Looks like an Agave Ovatifolia. Pretty sure that is a pot and not a trunk though! Great garden!  

Yeah I realized that after I zoomed in later. It’s a nice agave nonetheless.