Castors are around 8' now.

Little snow banana(Ensete Glaucum)and Caryota maxima.

Siam seems to love the hot weather-just not over 100

Cereus peruvianus has not grown from the top yet
but has grown a 4" new branch since 6/28 and the
other branch is growing...I repotted it today
and turned it so the branches can even out...
wish I would have got a pic of the roots!

Never seen the P.Lamerei get such a big head-
the leaf crown is about a yard across-

The smaller Washy is hanging on-it has root damage.

The other is blasting away!

Washy would probably look nicer without the 4'0'clocks around it but they come back there every year.....(happy)

Rajapuri pouring it on!

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The 2 varieties I like are the New Zealand purple and the
Ricin "Zanzibar" -the latter is the big leaved one (-;

Sometimes the leaves on the Purps do look like cooper but
it is difficult to capture on "film"

All the other Castors are normal sized,the 4 big boys jumped
out quick and with the help of a week of 80s in March they
broke out of the seedling stage fast-one of the nice things
about having all the protection laying around from the palms
is that I was able to use some of it on the Bananas and Castors.

At one point my Abyssinian grew like 1' in a few
days because it was hitting the 90s in the cover-

Also-the 4 biggest Castors were planted (by at least)April 6
and I think that is a month earlier than "normal".