Hey dixieboy,
I try to sit down and relax,I don't get much relaxation now days.I've been digging up Lantana stumps.I'm replacing them with Chamaerops Humilis cerifera's.There blue color should really standout in the bed by my house being it's white.I see you've got some veggies coming up.I use to have a big vegetable garden every year.This year I only have four Tomato plants.You have a big backyard,with great views.
Randy

Just a couple hours down I40 and the palms look picture perfect. You always have nice pics.

Randy, the silver/blue meds should look very nice for you, that's the way to do it, keep plant'in & the next thing you know you're stepp'in in some high cotton. lol Walked over to my cousins the other day & took these two of his green form meds. Thanks! Carl
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Nice pics, the pine forest provides a nice backdrop for your garden

Was in the Smithfield area a few years back & took 40 to Wilmington, wow it was fast gett'in there, hardly no traffic at all. Where are you located? Thanks, Carl

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the pics, the woods bring plenty of birds to the feeders!! And skeeters lol

I'm located just north of Winston Salem, in King. Getting those scenic views up here of the mountains.

dixieboy,
I haven't heard that saying in a while,stepp"in in high cotton.I like that second picture at your cousins house.That a beautiful palm.It doesn't look like it got hurt at all by the cold temps.this past winter.Does he have any blue ones(ceriferas)?I call them mini palms,but that one is not to mini.That second palm looks kinda blue looking.Do you have any idea how old that one is?

He's had them for quite a few years & i think i gave him at least one of them & the other from Gary's, they are just as hardy as butia & i can't remember him having any problems with them, he just has the greens. I had two but they developed nematodes & slowly regressed. He has more of a loamy type soil where mine is more blackish, his near roof top red oleanders are start'in to do their thing.
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Nice. As a clamdigger myself, I'd be lounging in a beach chair with a cold Corona nearby and maybe some Buffet on the radio. After this Winter (which seems to be holding on for all it's worth lately) some blue sky, bright sun, and warm winds would be just about perfect...

Yepper, soon it will be blaze'in hot & with humidity's that are suffocating, then this old man stays where there's the hum of some kind of ac device! Sometime mother nature provides a nice seabreeze though, that's nice!

Hey dixieboy,
I found these pictures of some Mediterranean fan palms.These pictures is what made me want some of these palms in my yard.
These are my favorite,the ceriferas.

Here's the green ones.It looks like it has at least 3 trunks.

I found those pictures a long time ago,before HD and Lowes started selling them.I now have 8 ceriferas.When I bought the first one 4yrs ago,I just thought it looked neat looking.A palm with blue fronds,I didn't realize how rare the were.There's more people selling them now,but at some outrageous prices.I hope I live long enough to see mine as big as the ones in the pictures.If not my son will have some nice palms in his yard,LOL
Randy

I agree, nice & compact & a neat palm, those thorns on the stems will get'cha though if you're not careful! Nice pics!

Great pics! I love that oleander and those Sabals too. I have a silver european fan palm, but I would say its going to take another 50 years for it to look anything like the ones in the pic you shared!
Thanks for sharing!
-Alex

Yes, oleanders are start'in to do their thing now, ours are not the deepest reds around that i really like best but it's good to have some anyway. If i run into a sliver med i most likey will get one & place it somewhere, i really don't have that much yard space! lol Thanks
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The is one beautiful yard!

I love the way the pine trees wrap around it
and provide some shelter but don't block out to much sun.

The photos make me look forward to summer.

Like you mentioned the cool weather has been hanging on lately.

Thanks, yes the woods provides shelter but is a wide enough opening to let the sun do it's thing also, those summer time veggies will be ready for consummation soon!
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Hey dixieboy,
My tomatoes are about 3ft tall now,thanks to all the rain.I'm trying something new,growing them on a trellis.So far there growing and doing fine.I had a double pink oleander that said cold hardy to 0f.Well it died around 18f,of course I don't have any protection from trees.I always like your pictures dixieboy,I can see at least 4 different kind of palms in the last photo and it looks like your standing under another one.

Alex,
All my blue meds.are small also,two are probably a 15gal.size they have about 2ft of trunk.I cant tell the one planted in the ground has grown much from last year,except the trunk has gotten fatter.I will show it in some pics I'm currently taking of my yard.Yea I agree with you,I will probably be 60 before mine gets 8ft,LOL.There supposed to grow 6" of trunk a year.I think there slower growing than that personally,but look what you get for the slow growth.

You said you saw 4 different kinds of palms in the one pic, i guess you should be able to spot at least two more species in our yard out of the 3 photos? lol
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Hello Everyone....

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Love those pictures DIxieboy....

Love the feel of them........cold "Corona" ..."Pina..." or just sitting in the beach chair..watching the tide ...roll in................

Brings to mind..Zac Brown...."Life is good today..."

Got my toes in the water..."

Hope everyone is having a great mothers day....

Take care..

Laura in VB

Sounds like you're gett'in in that good ole summer time spirit Laura! Happy mothers day!