Trachycarpus

jazid, you should try some winter protection for those banana stems. They take about 4 years and 6 foot to flower but its worth it.

 

No sorry BM - just could not do with that in my back yard, would wake up frightened that I was dead - REAL SCARRRYYYYY !!!!!!!!!!!

 

oh and PS just can't remember what my aversion was to David Austen roses - seem so genteel in comparison....... Love you really BM!

 

If you want scary see this 'war of the worlds' probe of a banana...

 

there should be a ban on that sort of stuff - gives me er**ic dreams!!!!!!! that is after it has scared the ***** off me!

 

I posted it in the chelsea comp, but I doubt I will get anywhere. They have shown loads of great floral shots already.

 

Whars chelsea comp?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/flower_shows/chelsea_2006/photo_comp.shtml

:D

 

Waco, I know this little washingtonia is alot less terminal than yours but it shows what I PM'd you about growing through the damaged leaf tissue.

You can see the staggered line where it has become chilled mid launch from the crown. Another freeze and defrost and I recon I would have lost it.



Needless to say it is in full sun. Washingtonias need it hot to grow well.

[ 26. May 2006, 03:57 PM: Message edited by: Banana Man ]

 

Bananaman's picture reminds me too much of the 'Little Shop of Horrors' film - sorry it did not make the final choice BM.............

 

Sorry you didnt win with your pic.BM I thought you should have won by a mile........... :(

 

Thanks roders, I wasn't even sure if I would qualify as I had real trouble getting them sent. Mr Titchmarsh said the system had crashed at one point. :rolleyes: Still i am going to get this one printed off for my office wall I think is so bizare almost menacing!

 

chobart, "feed me seymour"!

 

Waco
This looks like a drainage problem, as they are supposed to be hardy. It has been a brutal winter/spring. I have three Phoenix Canariensis that have gone the same way, the middles have gone brown and just pulled out, but the outside looks so green that I can't believe they are finished. An agarve, two years ago, had a fasciated centre, but it just grew another. So hope springs eternal.

 

Well Nik we will both just have to keep ur fingers crossed!

I have done as BM's article suggested and sprayed with fungiside.

Good Luck, let me know