Your plants look great...sorry to hear your summer is over....

We have a month left here(-; but it has looked/felt a little like fall lately
with all the leaf fall from the drought and a week of lows in the 50s....

Nice pics! That basjoo clump is really impressive! Im sure it will be flowering soon! And the cacti flower is really nice too!
I doubt you killed your papaya while transplanting. I planted my papaya in the ground last year and it got to 6 feet tall by the end of the summer. Unfortunately it was growing by my palms so I couldnt dig the roots out very well and barely got any of the roots. By that point it was early October and I left it outside in a pot for a few weeks hoping it would get a little established. It barely did and it lost all it's leaves. But indoors it started growing again and then I accidentally broke the plant in half when removing it outdoors this spring, but it still grew back. So papayas are pretty hardy, Im sure yours will pull through!
-Alex

Oops! sorry for pronouncing the end of summer prematurely. At least it's good to know we still have a good stretch of warm weather left.

Alex, do you think I could get bananas on my musa basjoo this year?

Anyone know if the yucca in the picture is yucca gloriosa?

Jeff

Probably a little early for fruit this year, but if it starts off next year with that amount of psudostem, some bananas are definitely a possibility!!

And your yucca is definitely gloriosa!

-Alex

Thanks Alex. I was comparing it to other things I saw on the net but still wasn't sure.

Nice pics, love the cactus bed. Do you plan on planting your trachy?

That yucca could be gloriosa or yucca aloilfolia marginata. I have both and I couldn't remember which was which till aloifolia started forming a trunk.

Y.Gloriosa...looks like it may be big enough to flower next year.

Thanks chadec!
I'm planning on planting the trachy next spring on the other side of the crepe myrtle. By my estimates its the warmest microclimate in my yard, protected from North and West winds and its closest to the corner and next to a dryer vent. We'll see how it goes. My parents brought it back from Branson MO in one of the blue pots.

I enjoy seeing all the different gardens around the country. Everyone has a fresh take on tropicalismo. :-) Thanks for sharing your garden.

Can you post a recent photo of the windmill palm? I'm curious how different it looks from when you posted this originally.

I wish I could. I had it out one summer and it rained a lot. That summer it got spear pull (I thought you only get that from the winter cold). I guess the excess moisture rotted the crown.