Growing Aspen in Southern California
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Comments (17)Uhoh this is a little disheartening. I just bought a whole crop of bareroot peonies online from a reputable source - Brecks. I've been pretty ambitious with the things I've planted and had success so far. My area is supposed to be Zone 10a in Newport Beach but we're almost on the Back Bay and it doesn't get as much sun or as hot as it does even 2 miles further inland. Water keeps the nights cooler in the winter too. Crossing my fingers that the anemones, peonies, and everything else I bought do ok....See MoreSmall tree, grows in southern california coastal. What is it?
Comments (4)reminds me of trumpet vine ... which can be a nightmare to eradicate ... but i dont really know CA .... ken https://www.google.com/search?q=trumpet+vine+leaves&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx6ojxh-rNAhUH_IMKHVXZDFMQ_AUICSgC&biw=902&bih=745&dpr=0.9...See MoreWhich Garlics Should I Try to Grow in Southern California?
Comments (10)Wild: I grow tulips with my garlic, planting them at the same time, with tulips between the garlic varieties just planted quite a bit deeper. I also dig my tulips every year and they bloom every year, too; they do mature quite a bit earlier than the garlics do. I have to leave enough space so that digging the tulips does not impact the still active garlic. I dig the tulips at the beginning of yellow so I get the whole stem, which is easily a month and more ahead of digging the garlic, but they cure very much the same, on the same screens in fact. I keep my own tulip bulbs to plant back just like I keep my own garlic seed, in fact Istore the cured bulbs together more or less in the same place under the same conditions. So the comparison is not very far off, even though we are in significantly different climate zones. I have been more or less following Grey Duck for a couple of years, although I have not had the need to buy from them. I hope they return to business, but small family operations often reach some sort of impass and simply disappear. That happened to one in Wisconsin in the past couple of years too. There are also Whistling Duck, Red Gate, and of course Filaree as well as a very large number of other pretty well reputed online growers, most of whom are able to provide generally good cultural advise. One a bit different from most is http://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/ Most of them will have some sort of cultural guide page set, and it is very interesting to look through those. Then there are the local county extension services available in most of the country, at least here in the Midwest they are and quite a few state agricultural publications from all over the country. You can probably tell from this forum there are several ways to grow garlic. Several successful techniques is true for most things human. The issue is to find the one that works best for you. One quick thought that you might be able to protect your favorites from wildlife by growing inside chicken wire or hardware cloth cages. I have had to do that here to protect my tomatoes from the local tree squirrels....See MoreAttempts at trying to grow Coconut trees in Southern California
Comments (20)I observe that the few specimens which did succeed all seem to have one thing in common - protection by buildings (e.g. Newport Beach, Corona, Orange County, Del Mar, La Quinta Inn). Perhaps a systematic study of thermal shielding should be done regarding this. Do not plant in the ground until it develops a foot or so of solid trunk; it may need to be kept indoors part-time until it does. When planted in the ground the palm must have its own isolated soil (almost as if it were still in the pot) so that it does not get affected by other plants. During the summer water it almost daily. Also, some sort of transparent coating over the soil allotment (but not covering the rest of the tree) during the winter would help to protect it from rain but let in the sunlight; only open the coating to give it lukewarm (not cold) water during the morning. Else, Winter monthly rainfall must not exceed around 60-70 mm, and no more than around 2 or 3 months where the record low has dropped below freezing. For the coldest month, daytime high close to 70F, with corresponding night temperature not below 45-50 F. A couple of slightly inland places in Orange County may satisfy this requirement. At first one may think that the likes of Pasadena and Palm Springs could also satisfy the requirement, but the former has almost double the allowed winter rainfall, and the latter has too many months where the record low was below freezing, increasing the risk that chilly nights can be semi-regular rather than being a relatively rare occurrence. On this note, I hear that the Nepal/Mexican/Jamaican tall species are slightly better at tolerating the occasional chilly evening than the Malaysian dwarf varieties - in fact the Corona tree may be of such a type. The nearest comparison to Coconuts being planted in semi-Mediterranean type climates with mainly Winter rain are Madeira/Porto Santo (latitude 32), and Geraldton W.A. (latitude 28). They just about manage in those locations. A whole week of daytime temps consistently below 56F is a critical threshold for (non) survival, and perhaps this is what causes so many specimens in CA to fail. Indeed, Southern Florida, parts of coastal Queensland, and even Hong Kong have all experienced this at least once in their history with the loss of some weaker specimens. (BTW, I am temporarily living in the United Kingdom in a village near Gatwick, where in 2019 I kept a mini Coconut Palm from the supermarket outdoors in the pot and wanted to see how long it could survive with minimal assistance. Thanks to an unusually hot summer where there was a week of 100F followed by a relatively dry fall that year, it remained largely undamaged until the first week of November, then temperatures suddenly nosedived where a Canada-style frost arrived and within a week it was gone)....See Moreflattie
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