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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 1, 2016 9:46:48 GMT
I shall clutch firmly at that straw.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 1, 2016 16:56:54 GMT
Poor Mick. You realize that the only way to stop me from endless gloating will be agreeing to meet me for drinks, right?
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Post by htmb on Mar 1, 2016 18:24:20 GMT
You mean, you might get to meet Mick in person, Bixa?
Wow!!!! You lucky people. You can talk plant expertise to your hearts'' content!
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 2, 2016 10:52:46 GMT
OK but not the Tequila Slammers this time.
Your place or mine?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2016 14:54:16 GMT
Ha ha, Htmb! Mick can talk real expertise ~ I will just happily take it all in. *snork* We'll have to see, Mick -- mainly whether or not I can make it to the scepter'd isle.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 2, 2016 14:55:10 GMT
Ok, it is a big YES for Bixa in recognising the trees as Pachypodium BUT, there are several species and the one in my photos looks like this one: Pachypodium geayi from Madagascar. www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/pachypodium-geayi-seeds-madagascar-palm-seeds.htmlThere is however a pachypodium indigenous to South Africa and commonly called a "Halfmens" or Pachypodium Lamerei (translated from Afrikaans...a half man). This is the one I have growing next to my front door. It grows up long and spikey but does not bulge out like an Ali-Baba jar. This is it about 2 years ago: This link is the best one I found on the Net, and shows any number of Pachypodiums around the world. I found it very interesting. davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/539#bCongratulation Bixa for sticking your neck out and getting a medal hung around it!
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 4, 2016 13:12:57 GMT
I know the guy who wrote that - he is a fellow moderator on another forum.
Very good article.
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Post by tod2 on May 15, 2016 9:01:26 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 15, 2016 14:59:54 GMT
Those last two pics are Agave. I am guessing that big beauty in the first picture is some kind of Alcantarea.
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Post by tod2 on Jun 8, 2016 16:01:23 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Dec 18, 2016 5:50:49 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2017 23:37:17 GMT
I have been revisiting a bunch of these threads of late. This one in particular has not had much action along with some others.
Of particular note is the last set of photos from Tod's fabulous paradise. The first two pics are referred to as mini bananas but, while indeed they are in the same "family", Musa, they are a Strelitzia aka "bird of paradise" of the giant variety. Not as flashy as the smaller bright orange cultivar, and, in my garden, take up way too much space and I know are going to be a bitch to remove when the time comes, likely needing to use a railroad pick axe to get out. GRRRRRR... I so regret having planted it.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 19, 2017 19:30:07 GMT
drooling over the keyoard.... hey ho...if the weather doesn't settle I'll be able to grow my own in the back yard...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2017 19:46:01 GMT
Strelitzia aka "bird of paradise" of the giant variety My landlady was rabid for me to plant one of these in the patio, inspired by the huge ungainly messy ones we were viewing in a park. wtf? I put my foot down!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 1:41:32 GMT
Good move Bixa. Do you have any ground space in your courtyard or was she thinking about planting one in a pot? If so, the pot would bust in little to no time. I do not know what I was thinking when I planted this "thing". It has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 20, 2017 8:05:13 GMT
Well, the description of it would make it sound desirable -- a tall, fan-shaped bird of paradise with flowers of gun metal blue and white. The only ground space in my patio is problematic, as it is little cut-outs snugged right next to the walls and bordered with bricks.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 10, 2017 17:58:35 GMT
The town of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne is totally overloaded with banana trees.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 27, 2019 21:54:38 GMT
Bixa, quick! The gardens of Oaxaca is on the telly! BBC2. That was posted by Mick in the Blah Blah Blah thread, where I just now saw it. It prompted me to go look for it online. It also prompted Kerouac, aka The Voice Crying in the Wilderness, to plaintively ask yet again why anyporters have not rallied in any kind of meaningful way around the excellent idea of a get-together in Oaxaca. Anyway, I've put the info about the garden featured on the BBC show here in Tropicana, as probably the most appropriate spot on the forum. There are also two versions of the video, in hopes that it can be seen in all regions. When you all finally get yourselves here, you can make your own brilliant reports on the ethnobotanical garden and the other tropicana to be found in my fair city. www.gardendesign.com/mexico/oaxaca-ethnobotanical.html
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 27, 2019 22:10:24 GMT
You found it! Am I impressed or what?!
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Post by lugg on Oct 29, 2019 19:15:25 GMT
I cant see the videos from your links but will go seek them out. You do know Bixa that Monty Don is our very own adopted Herefordshire lad?
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 30, 2019 0:57:59 GMT
I did not know that, Lugg! But who needs him, when we have you? If you want to copy & paste this in your browser, it should take you to the dailymotion video, which is much better quality than the other one. The Oaxaca part starts shortly after time marker 19:00. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwyeao
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 3, 2019 8:06:13 GMT
Australian gardens this week.
Next week India.
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