Plants that absorb water n the winter n the northern climate
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repotting, water? heat mat? Y/N?
Comments (7)4. I am the one for the past eight t0 ten years responded to the question of why my jade was dying, oozing, black spots in the hydthodes (stoma) Norma Sometimes it helps to know you are not the only one given sound advice or with humor There is no I in team but there is a me. Point is for either of the two plants mentioned and re-potting Norma is right the soil does need to be loose, rocky, gritty, peat free, fast draining, course, peat free, sharp, peat free .... and in case I forgot to mention it NO PEAT moss for cati & succulents. Watering will become a second nature to you regardless of where you live how much when to when not to as all doubts will to slip away. Doubt is gone water before the leaves wrinkle and not when there plump and thick. Problem is as a new to you plant C.Jade you don't know what a wrinkled leaf looks like until you see. Good news is when you see the wrinkling leaf(s) you can water with out worry of over water if the soil is sharp, free draining, course, gritty YES peat moss free. Fertilizer: Regarding both of the plants mentioned. As soon as I say I don't use any have never used any and don't plan on ever using any fertilizer someone else will /might drop in and say use this one or that one. It doesn't matter what they use or not use for fertilizer. The plants still have no idea what hemisphere there in. Yet as Norma said they do grow in a more rocky courser out crop (or media that's being suggested to use for re-potting) I would have to agree the plants are more mineral needy than nutrient needy. As most fertilizers do contain high nutrients as well as trace minerals over fertilizing with nutrients would be a concern to me IF USED. Also sufficient mineral content is already in most rocky type soil mixes that are very very much peat moss free....See MoreCold Hardy Palms N Yucca paradise in Northern VA (PIC intensive)
Comments (4)That must have been fun to walk around a place so close to home and check out all the cool palms.As far as what you said about the protection methods,I think people would be surprised at the difference putting a clear frame of any type over palms or cactus makes.There are quite a few cactus that grow in places that go below freezing,and even below zero in many cases,and that includes several of the Trachycarpus palms,what a difference keeping cold rain, dew and frost off of fronds and petioles in winter as the water makes its way into the crowns and refreezes over and over again.Nice pictures!I made my "final" two purchases to fill in my last couple of spots I had open for this year,a sabal birminghamn and a echinocereus caespitosus for the cactus garden.Good luck with yours!Post some pics when you get everything planted...See MoreBald Head Island, N.Carolina
Comments (20)Personally, I just dont think that VB, or anywhere in that general area along the immediate cost is going to suffer that kind of super killing cold snap. The power of the ocean and the gulf stream is just too great. Even areas of the Chesapeake bay coast are suitable for naturalisation of S. Minors and R. Hystrix, as are areas of the large cities of the mid Atlantic. As I said, and Brooklyngreg has also apparently seen, they are naturalising in the DC area, and not just downtown. In fact, the windmill and the S. Minors and Needle palms in front of the Air and Space museum are doing SO well, and naturalising so much, that it appears ( based on what I saw last summer) that the flower/ seed stalks are now being removed, and there are literally hundreds of volunteers beneath all of these palms. There are now 3 needle palms in the national arboretum that I could count on my trip there last weekend, and it appears that two were offspring of the 50 year old palm, and have been moved to other areas. I do remember there were more than just the big one in the asian valley section, and now there is just the big one by itself again. at the very minimum, S. Minor and R. Hystrix already are ( and probably will) naturlise in the mid Atlantic & DC and quite possibly so will some Windmills. That said, I just dont think that Sabal Palmettos will ever be able to naturalise this far north / indland. Perhaps on the lower coastal areas of the delmarva peninsula but I dont seem them going much further than that. They just are not hardy enough IMHO. In very protected locations sure, they could survive, as does saw palmetto here, but just out in the open, probably not....See MoreCamelia - Buttons N Bow
Comments (2)Late answer to your post. Last winter (2013-2014) was really bad, so that fact that your camellia even survived that is a very good sign -- especially after a fall planting! I would expect your camellia really needs time to get established before you can make to many judgements about holding blooms. Give it at least three years. It never hurts to provide extra winter wind protection this far north. Even some light frost cloth to keep the winter sun off of it would be beneficial. Eastern exposure with winter sun can be really hard on camellias this far north. All that said, we just hope for a milder winter. So far, so good. But we will see....See Moreboxerdog19
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