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Don't forget the occurrence of J. maritima in the interior of the Olympic Peninsula, on steep rocky slopes far away from any likely site of former...
My feeling is you would want to do it in early spring, like no later than April I would think, for best results. I have divided Gunnera tinctoria...
When you're considering what will actually succeed in the Northwest, it seems apparent that you DO need to consider one climate variable above the...
I consider Butia capitata to be worth attempting in milder Pacific Northwest gardens but not reliably hardy in general even there. There is some...
This plant definitely has the potential to be damaged from an early hard freeze. I've seen a couple of them killed outright from this last freeze...
All the ones I've seen/grown of all types in Olympia and Sequim have been killed in the last few cold winters. Cold is probably the main reason...
Celmisia might be closer to the mark, although I don't know if the flowers/seeds ever look anything like that at a certain stage of development.
Hi folks. This plant has stumped me so far; can anyone identify it? It's growing in Pucon, Chile but it may or may not be native. Drimys has...
That's very interesting. I read (following a link on the IPS website) that wild plants P. cocoides were discovered recently in a small area of...
So you're in Ecuador... have you seen Parajubaea cocoides cultivated above 11,000 feet there? I had always thought the palm altitude award went...
I have a friend (coincidentally named David) who was looking for Rhododendron 'David' and a few other older Rhododendron cultivars, and he...
Ever since those records were taken offline, I've had the idea to go hunt for them at the UW. Someday. Salem and Eugene both bottomed out at...
While I wouldn't debate the main premise of your statement, I feel compelled to mention that, according to the Western Regional Climate Center,...
A. angustifolia lived through 12 degrees F (-11C) in its first winter (1998-99) for me; it's now 16' tall. Sandeman Seeds usually offers this...
It would probably come back if you cut it, but why cut it? Just wrap it has high as you can, and if the top freezes, you still have some left at...
I have a large collection of both genera and deer never eat them at all.
There is about a 20' tall monkey puzzle in the Tri Cities, as well as a few at the USFS Arboretum in Carson, which continue to persist despite...
Last winter, my big one (7') froze, after living through 7 winters. A smaller one, about 4' tall, lives on. Unfortunately I didn't keep track of...
My Araucaria angustifolia, planted in 1998 in Olympia, Washington, is now about 15' tall. It endured 12 degrees F undamaged in December 1998, but...
I rode a bus from Lima north along the coast of Peru. Hardly anything grew there, just a few ugly, diminutive species of Haageocereus, Copiapoa...