Great pics! Your yard already is looking like a jungle! I like the Ensete Glacum and Raja Puri bananas, I'll have to try them next year. So far my Ensete Maurelli has been fast with leaf growth but not too impressive with height growth (It was already tall when I got it, but I would like it to get to 10 feet by fall!)
Great looking cannas! Mine are starting to bloom now after overwintering in the ground very well (a little too well even since now I will have to divide them in the fall!)
The corpse lilies look great and are definitely a nice replacement for the tree ferns, although I can imagine exactly how bad you feel about the tree ferns since I have lost my share of them. I lost a beautiful Australian Tree fern 2 years ago during a dry day in October and had a lot of damage to my Dicksonia during a dry day in October. Apparently october is not a good month for tree ferns in my yard! At least the Dicksonia is recovering, but it doesnt look anywhere near as nice as it did last year!

The Madagascar palm looks nice too! Mine is finally making a flush and it's growing fast now! I dont know how long I'll have to wait for blooms, but I cant wait for that!

Thanks for sharing! You have a great collection of palms, cacti, succulents, and other tropicals!
-Alex

Alex

My Ensetes always take until the second year to hit 10'.

The E.Ventricosum may be 8' this year though,the way its growing.

Don't know what to make of the T.ferns,I have heard of them taking more than a year to recover though so,
even though they are stumps, they are still green and I will still protect them.

Just think,when the Madagascar palms do bloom,they will branch.

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Good to know that about ensetes. Mine grew really fast the first year I had them, but I lost that one to aphids so Im hoping this one grows just as fast, so far it seems to be a little on the slow growing side.

I probably should have given my T. Fern another chance, but mine had no green at all on it. I would definitely give yours another year to see what happens!

And I do like it when Madagacar palms are unbranched so I guess I can wait a little while for blooms! They do look interesting when they are branched though!

-Alex

As far as Ensete, I do find that Glaucum doesn't like heat, and slows down with temps in the 90s, while Maurelli grow faster in the same weather, but they too seem to have slowed down, although not as much. We've been at 90 degrees or hotter for daytime highs for several consecutive days now, and we're supposed to continue that trend at least through next weekend. It's turning out to be a very hot summer...

nice plants ! i really like the succulents especially the pachypodium ! do you have protection for it in the winter ?
i personally like my pachypodiums unbranched.

and nice echinocereus flowers ! ive never had any of mine bloom though...

Thanks Micro

Some cactus require cold winter temps to bloom.

I cover all the planted stuff except the more tender cactus
like the Cereus.Torch cactus and Pachys-they all come in
as they are potted still.

I think the Glaucum likes it a little cooler and even the Abyssinian does not like it above 90F,so far though the
Ventricosum seems o.k. with the heat but it does get afternoon
shade,so not quite sure-but i do think it is faster than the other 2,by the end of the month it will be as big
as my Abyssinian got the first year!

Heres the Maddy

June 6th-I need a fresh pic-buts it scary outside!

Nice pics Jim, your trachys look great. Cannot wait to see how big your naners get. Mine are really dragging this year.

Awesome pictures you really do take care of them and nice yard too.

Thank Kao

Chad

My Nanars are slow this year too,except the Rajapuri
but they are moving now-I don't think they have a choice
when the temps are 75/80 at night and 95/100+ during the day!

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Jim, nice job!
Your Hesperaloe blooms look a lot different than mine. What species is yours? Mine is H. parvifolia, sometimes called a "Red Yucca' although it's not a Yucca at all. There's also a yellow variety but I don't have that. Here's a photo of mine I just took the other day.

Here's a visitor who stayed on my true yucca (Y. recurvifolia) for quite a while.

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They are exactly the same-I wish I had the yellow one on the other side,that would be nice!

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