Its been a good growing year. Amen.

Wow!!! Looks great! I love the T. princeps and all the palms! Your banana plants got huge especially that Abyssinian banana! Mine is going in the ground last year and I would be excited to see it get HAlF the growth yours got! You will definitely be getting some fruit soon! Cactus and yuccas are looking fantastic too! That madagascar palm looks really nice. Is the pot in the ground? It must be really hard to dig the pot out of the ground with all those spines on the trunk! The thai black banana looks really nice. Mine was doing good but its on its way out now. Im hoping that it will make a comeback when it goes in the ground next year, if it lives that long.
The growing season is going to be ending in the near future, but it looks like all your plants soaked the warmth up and are definitely bigger and better than ever before!
-Alex

What's a Korean waggie?

Looking great!!!! I'm still fairly amazed at all the growth you get up there. What size was the Red Abyssinian when you planted it? Are you going to dig it up and store it for next growing season or just let it go?

Great job!

Is your castor bean flowering? Mine is about 16ft tall now and i finally see one flower cluster near the top. Have no idea if i have time left to make seed or not.

I really like the variety you have. You just need some mangoes, papaya, pineapples :)

Very nice. What was the source of the E. princeps? I'd sure like one.

Wow jim everything looks awsome just like you said. Everythings nice and clear here at home on my personal computer. My work computer sucks. Heres the link to c couple pics to the palms I was talking about same crap just getting bigger

Here is a link that might be useful: Pics

Thanks Greg/Alex!(-:

jos-

Korean waggies are said to be like the true Japanese Waggies,
very stout with very tight formation-we'll see.

Ken-

here's picture of the Abyssinian when I planted it 6-6-09

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In Aug-(30th) of 09

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9-7-10

-it get's lifted and put in the basement,stored like a Canna,EE-hopefully to fight another year!

Frank the Tank!

The Castors have been flowering for a few months,I think yours should have time to seed but it's not hard to
get seeds.

houstonpat-

I bought mine from a seller on e-bay,they are wicked expensive!
There is one for sale(presumably Princeps)at a great price
but check out the shipping.
If you are serious about getting one,I can send you the e-mail of the guy I went through(-:

Looking good Mike-you da man!

I just ordered a bunch more Takil,that I will hold on to!-
also some Geminisectus and Oreophilus(-:

What can I say?
The bug bites hard!

Yeah the bugs definatley got you !!

Everything looks great Jim.I like the look of the purple Castor,different color besides green and very tropical looking also.I think I told you already that I love the Madagascar palm,it looks like it really grew this summer.Those are some beautiful Trachys.I found a website that has a bluish silver looking princeps on the top of the fronds and with the white on the back of the fronds.All your bananas look great also.Don't you just love the look of the fiddleheads on the tree ferns?It looks like you have your own piece of paradise there :)

Thanks Butia

Yea,the T.ferns have been fun to watch and with the cooler weather and 1.18"
of rain Thursday night they are really moving!

Really getting huge-the Cooperi anyway!

Mike-

I forgot to mention the T.ferns(-:

I just ordered 3 Cyathea brownii and 2 more C.medularis,if I can get these through
winter they will really be the most unique plants in the garden-especially when they put out
10' fronds,which(at the rate they are growing could be next year!

Brownii is even faster and bigger than Cooperi(-:

Hey Mike

I just checked out your pics again,looks nice.

That Washy will be a beast next year!

Love the X-mas palm,also is the Waggie potted?

Princeps looks good too-that's another that will blast off next year-should be a beauty!

Jim no the waggies are in the ground. Washys in the ground too. Did you post somewhere about the trachycarpus leaves?

O/k/ Mike looked like one is sunk in a pot,maybe just edging or irrigation?

I posted on Subtropical maybe I need to here too(-: