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Exotics in ABQ?
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Posted by cactus_dude Albuquerque (My Page) on Mon, Jul 19, 04 at 14:04
| Anybody here in ABQ growing exotic plants outside, or seen exotics around town? I've seen in landscapes the following:
Phoenix dactylifera
Phoenix canariensis
Washingtonia robusta
Washingtonia filifera
Cycas revoluta
Ficus carica
Opuntia ficus-indica
Opuntia microdasys
Punica granatum
Nerium oleander
Carnegiea gigantea
Echinocactus grusonii
Tephrocactus spp. |
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RE: Exotics in ABQ?
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I have a nerium oleander growing here in abq on the side of my house. It's doing great. Although like most oleanders in albuquerque, it'll get frost-bitten/brown leaves that need to be removed in spring. |
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| I have Canary Island Date palms, pygmy date palms, washingtonia robustas, and a sago palm... all doin good, but they havent had to survive winter yet... ill try to keep em indoors and alive |
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Hey ABQ people! Nice to see some more exotic plant gardeners in NM.
I have 14 Windmills
11 California and Mexican Fan Palms
A large European Fan Palm
3 Brahea armatas
5 Butia Capitatas
Several yuccas both trunking(3) and non
4 Large eucalyptus
12 Oleanders
2Argentine saguaros
Castor beans
2Hibiscus
1 Large bananas
I have some very small strap leaved sabals(birmingham, tamalipas etc)
The largest in my collection would be my two 6ft filiferas, one 6ft windmill and the 4ft by 4ft european Have plenty of seeds if any locals are interested as well. |
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| Transvaalboy- You have quite an impressive collection! You must have an enormous yard for all those plants. What kind of cold protection do you use during the winter? |
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Cactus dude,
My yard is on a corner lot and I also like the lush jungle effect of having 'too many plants'.
I have used several diff types of protection over the years: bubble wrap(bad), burlap, burying them in leaves,covering w/ sheets.
This past winter was cold enough to do some real damage, but I still didn't lose anything really. Burlap for the filferas when they are small seems to really help. For larger than 15gallon sized plants---just leave em alone.
Only the eucalyputus cinerea gets burnt, the rest do just fine. I learned u must cover bananas they will not come back w/o it. |
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Transvaalboy-
Where do you live? I'd love to drive by and see some of your plants!
thanks
Scott |
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| oh,are you the same andre on the hardy palm and subtropical board? |
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Hey Transvallboy,
I'd love some seeds! I'm dying to try some tropicals and palms and exotics. I'm in the far south valley up on mesa, so it's pretty hot and sunny. My neighbor has two smallish palms and they're lookin' pretty good. Let me know if you have seeds to spare or to buy. thanks, Moonsinger |
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