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For sure! I just mentioned above all the stuff that I love to grow around here. It's really hard to watch your ani also get old. Like really hard. And losing them feels so wrong because they should live as long as us. But! It feels good to spoil them and give them a great place to spend their lives. I bet your little jungle cat has had it pretty good.

Hahaha no worries! I like just sitting back and watching the banter 👀 Yeah I'm in sabal cou try for sure! I have the biggest and most impressive one im in love with. Mexican fans get huge here. Chinese fans. Canary island dates. Sylvester and regular dates are what you see here on the border of zone 9a/b. There are others too so I can make a pretty good jungle look here. 😁 Nothing super tropical though. But lots of people and the city plant them so its pretty sweet. The woods is full of sabal minors and big sabals along the rivers.

36.5 and slowly dropping with calm winds. Not sure if the drop will stop or not, but if it does frost is certain yet again. If it lives it's getting dug up if it's a palm and damaged. I would rather have them in the greenhouse until they are too big than keep up with them outdoors just to have the aesthetic value be minimal between freezes. Not really worth it. Oh and the Japanese maples that like the chill tried to leaf out already and may have died back due to the early heat. Lol. The damage is noticeable on everything now after that warm week, so it's clear that this year outmatches the others that have street views back to 2008. The damage from 2010 was similar but from frost, and I have seen wind burn on tolerant natives this time that I never have (like some cedars/junipers of some kind that were just planted had some minor tip burn😳). If climate change includes freezes two days after 90 degree weather each year then the consequences are more than just our gardens (like my cool season veggies that bolted), so hopefully this is a one off rarity that's another 50 years before it happens again. In any case, I have seen what it's like in my yard here in a bad winter and it's not fun gardening. Almost everything has failed or taken damage, including some natives that I hope come back, even the smilax vines were fried in spots. What a winter.

Yeah, I did see the post. The needle palm looks really good! the biggest one I have seen is planted in washington dc at the national arboretum it's massive , it was planted in the 60s. Its Massive!!!!!!! (Me for scale in the photo)

That sounds about right. Most palms outside of what you find in the big boxes are NOT fast growers and generally take about 5 years or more to produce a saleable 3/5 gallon size plant. Rare palms are often rare because they are usually too slow growing to be economically feasible to produce for a profit. Hobbyists that grow these rare palms from seed generally aren't looking to make a profit when they end up with extras to sell. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

It sucks that SA doesn't have Date Palm lines like those.

I can tell you put a lot of work into creating this Allen. Thank you for sharing it with us.

@HudsonBill What was the absolute minimum up there this winter?

May be a good idea to let it get lower since tropicals can handle 50F and some tropicals and subtropicals especially subtropicals need. Bit of cool. Also Will save money

Yeah, we might not though just one property is right next to it others are like 5 miles inland def can grow needle palms idk if you saw my other thread but that needle in Cincy man crazy, I might also get chickens cause in general I also like farming and gardening! If you want me to grow anything in a tropical setting for you idk to look at give suggestions! I’m expecting at least a (No variation like one year will be lower than avg this will be the avg) it will be a zone 12b aka (55-60F) lowest. greenhouse.

I think mine just took a few more days to show the damage. Mine look slightly better than yours, but my smallest is also about twice the size as the ones in your photo. All of the Bismarckia around I4 from Lake Mary to Orange City look pretty toasty beige too. Most have at least one or two decent looking new fronds, so they probably will grow back. I can't say the same for other palms...like pretty much all of my Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus.

It was 29.3 at my place last night, with light frost around 8AM. It was just barely visible on the rooftops, probably because it was so dry. The airport hit 34F for 2 hours, with no significant wind. The UHI effect helps them again! I took a look through the yard over the past couple of days...much death and destruction. You know it was cold when the Allagoptera Arenaria have at least 25% burnt fronds. The damage is definitely a LOT worse than 24.4F a couple of years ago. But it's hard to judge whether it was: The extra 2 degrees (22.5F vs 24.4F) The high wind this year vs frost 3 years ago Duration of cold (30 to 50% more hours under freezing this year) Repeated sub-zero cold fronts Very low daytime highs after cold fronts Late timeframe with 6 or 7 freeze nights in February I can't even make a guess as to what part of the above items made the biggest difference, and there's probably more bullet points I haven't thought of.

Right now it's 20f and Tomorrow the high is 52. it looks like we could get some snow on Monday and Tuesday But looking at different models, they show rain. So we won't really know until it's here. but I think after that spring is here!!

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The greenhouse sounds like it's going to be really cool! by the river you can grow quite a bit of plants , it's realistically z7a.

Man! Dedication thanks for showing us all of this!!

Well we are staying here until at least August but we will start ya know moving things there and contacting construction companies for the greenhouse, yeah I can’t visualise but it will be uhh.. large nough to fit a decent size inground queen palm for example. It’s only 1 zone lower and one of the houses is very close to the OH river (btw we will be on the KY side of the river so) but yeah! Very exciting very stressful and anxious cause it’s just… idk what to do lol gotta plan and do lots of work.

No problem 😊 I have obviously never met you before.But just by watching your videos, i can tell you are a great person And you really enjoy making these videos. i'm hoping one day I will be able to see your garden in person!

I got the map fixed and I worked on readability a bit. I agree that is a problem Thanks again and let me know if you guys see anything else Thanks So MUCH! Mr. Rogers!!! well I'll take it if anyone has ideas to add to the guide content or constructive feedback let me know

That's really exciting good for you! there's quite a bit of tropicals that you can grow in ground in the cincinnati area, just pick the right micro climates. let us Know how it goes. When are you moving?

Me too I haven't received anything yet. I'm hoping Charlie Sneed who is in charge of the memberships, Excepts them soon lol

There tough little palms, he does water his garden a bit, and the soil is beautiful for vegetables. It’s amazing what you see around in some peoples gardens. Theres one house in my hometown thay has two Bismarckia palms planted either side of the house steps, that’s fine to do that but he’s planted them so close to the steps and house, they are in for a big surprise and bill later on when they grow up past the juvenile stage. Richard

For those of you that sell regularly, and have been inspected and licensed, have you noticed that mentioning state inspections or a license makes a difference in your sales? I'm still waiting on my license in the mail, but I'm hoping that mentioning a state inspection gives me a leg up on others. Has it made a difference for y'all?

Nice!

@DoomsDave any idea when more seeds or sprouts of this one might be available? Or your Radicalis? After it warms up I've already got some sales pending so I can actually send you a shipping label this time. And I dunno if I've got anything you'd want to try at the Death Camp but you're def on the list of people I owe favors to.