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Backyard Update


NickJames

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@NickJames If you ever sell the house, that photo would do the trick!  Nice work and very appropriate lighting for Halloween.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Its supposed to get down to 41F here tomorrow night :bemused:

Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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13 hours ago, JLM said:

Its supposed to get down to 41F here tomorrow night :bemused:

Ew. LOL. 

59 here.

It is shockingly different over here than up there. Isn’t that something?

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Wind chill is 39F, real temp is 42F. No frost today just cold! Cold enough for the foxtail and bottle palm to come inside for the night. I didnt want to chance it :)

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Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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9 hours ago, JLM said:

Wind chill is 39F, real temp is 42F. No frost today just cold! Cold enough for the foxtail and bottle palm to come inside for the night. I didnt want to chance it :)

Good idea! Got down to 54 here eventually once the wind died down. 

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14 hours ago, ChrisA said:

The Cape Plumbago will help keep your Coconut warm on those chilly nights in the mid 50’s! :floor:

Or maybe the black racers that hide in it!?

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8 hours ago, ChrisA said:

Such cool snakes, fast as hell!

I have SO many snakes, usually 2-3 sightings per week. Mostly black racers...but also have peninsula ribbon snakes, florida banded Watersnake, eastern garter snakes...it’s almost comical how many there are. 

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9 minutes ago, NickJames said:

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Outstanding work! What happened to your "hedge" of Dypsis, did you remove them? 

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1 hour ago, Palmfarmer said:

Outstanding work! What happened to your "hedge" of Dypsis, did you remove them? 

No! They’re still there on both sides. Both these angles don’t show them for some reason. 

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16 hours ago, Palms Brisbane said:

Nice work on lights. Can go wrong quickly when putting lights on palm trees haha.

Exhibit A

 

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Leave those lights up on your royals for the winter. Plug them up when its supposed to get cold! Lots of lights there, looks amazing!

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Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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2 hours ago, JLM said:

Leave those lights up on your royals for the winter. Plug them up when its supposed to get cold! Lots of lights there, looks amazing!

Only problem is...they’re LED :(

still working on another solution for those...

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10 hours ago, NickJames said:

Only problem is...they’re LED :(

still working on another solution for those...

Bummer..
They look amazing thought!

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Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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@NickJames Nope, not getting sick of seeing it yet!

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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Looking great! Keep the pics coming, you know we all love to see pics of palms lol

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Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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@NickJames LOVE THE LIGHTS. Looks like candy cane palm trees just in time for christmas. 

I've found it increasingly difficult to get "vintage," as they are called now, christmas lights. 

When I do find them, they are more expensive than the LED's. haha

 

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14 hours ago, Dartolution said:

@NickJames LOVE THE LIGHTS. Looks like candy cane palm trees just in time for christmas. 

I've found it increasingly difficult to get "vintage," as they are called now, christmas lights. 

When I do find them, they are more expensive than the LED's. haha

 

Yeah, remember when it was the opposite!?

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Frost Advisories go as far south as Lake Okeechobee. Good luck over there tonight!

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Palms - 4 S. romanzoffiana, 1 W. bifurcata, 2 W. robusta, 1 R. rivularis, 1 B. odorata, 1 B. nobilis, 2 S. palmetto, 1 A. merillii, 1 P. canariensis, 1 BxJ, 1 BxJxBxS, 1 BxS, 3 P. roebelenii, 1 H. lagenicaulis, 1 H. verschaffeltii, 9 T. fortunei, 1 C. humilis, 2 C. macrocarpa, 1 L. chinensis, 1 R. excelsa

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28 minutes ago, NickJames said:

Looking rough. Lol. 

 

 

Those palms are definitely not happy even the one by the house.

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1 hour ago, NickJames said:

Looking rough. Lol.

That's nicer looking than my pair of Spindles in the backyard...not a shred of green left!  The spear is moving slightly, so if I don't get another under-freezing cold front it'll live!

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@NickJames GOALS. This looks amazing. 

 

If y'all ever need a butler, lmk. I make some mean chicken nuggets and Easy Mac :floor:

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2 hours ago, Merlyn said:

That's nicer looking than my pair of Spindles in the backyard...not a shred of green left!  The spear is moving slightly, so if I don't get another under-freezing cold front it'll live!

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Unfortunately, my bottle was decimated by my heating cable! I wonder how it would look had I not burned off the two new spears. 

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4 hours ago, Allen said:

Those palms are definitely not happy even the one by the house.

It’s been a rough winter lol. The photos are a little over dramatic because of all the shadows today. The D. Decaryi will be fine I think. That definitely is a deceptive photo because it looks fine in person. The browning fronds have been on there for 1.5-2 years I imagine and are ready to come off soon. 

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