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My Garden in 2005 Blast from the Past.

Started by Palm crazy , Mar 31 2012 12:20 PM

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#1 Palm crazy

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:20 PM

Here is my garden back in 2005. I had spent the whole spring getting things ready for a garden tour in my garden and this was about a week later.
Some of these plants are gone killed in big freeze of 2010, other were taken out for outgrowing there space. It was a garden tour so I planted lots of flowers.

South facing front yard.
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I have quite a few bird houses.
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Green cordyline to the left. Kill two years ago but has regrown since.
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#2 Palm crazy

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:22 PM

Still in the front.
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Some more New Zealand flax, was taken out when it got to big. My palm need more sunlight.
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:25 PM

More NZ Flax.
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East side of house.
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This area was redone last year.
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I still have all these Chamaedorea radicals plus many more.
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#4 Palm crazy

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:32 PM

These palms now have around 10" of trunk.
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This trachy is now 15" tall.
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I miss that orangey fencing.
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Several years later all the Gum trees were all cut down. Growing 9' per year was fun to watch. They gave lots of overhead winter protection.
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#5 Palm crazy

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:35 PM

Back yard more shady and private, but so shady.
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Posted 31 March 2012 - 12:38 PM

More from 2005.
Greenhouse looks so clean back then. And more sunny.
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That's my Blast from the Past 2005.

Thanks for looking.

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#7 Don Little

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:57 PM

Very Nice!!! Beautiful color

Don_L Rancho CUCAMONGA (yes it does exist) 40 min due east of Los Angeles
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July Averages: Hi 95F, Low 62F
Jan Averages: Hi 68F, Low 45F

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#8 Tassie_Troy1971

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 01:59 PM

Garden looks great . I can see why you ug out the NZ flax not my cup of tea thats for sure .

Have you tried Trachycarpus princeps , martianus etc

Love the 2 house colour as they work really well together .

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#9 Palm crazy

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 03:01 PM

Thanks Don!!! Back then I would call my garden a big leaf temperate tropical garden, now I have embraced my wet climate and have gone for more of a temperate wet subtropical look.

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Troy thanks.
T. martianus is not hardy for me, only lives a few years and then dies in one of my z8 winters.
I replace the flax with cordylines, but still have some smaller ones around.

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 03:19 PM

I have three T. princeps...it's raining cat and dogs here so the pic is terrible but here one taken today.

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#11 Bill Austin

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 04:57 PM

Great looking garden really like your colors.Thanks for the pic.

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#12 rozpalm

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 05:38 PM

Your garden is incredible. I can't believe its Washington. Its so tropical looking!

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#13 Kim

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 07:48 PM

You have really honed your gardening skills over the years. Your garden is so beautiful now, such flair.

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and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, USA

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#14 BS Man about Palms

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Posted 31 March 2012 - 09:11 PM

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."
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#15 Palm crazy

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Posted 01 April 2012 - 08:04 AM

BS Man stop picking on me....or I will have to send this big guy to deal with you.....

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BTW....its going to be 90F today in Seattle!............................. April fools.....

Thanks everyone I have learn to use the right plants for the right climate. That doesn't mean I won't try something way out of my gardening zone but the bones have got to be hardy.
Sometimes I wonder what I could do if I lived in z10-11.

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Edited by Palm crazy, 01 April 2012 - 08:18 AM.