Author Topic: For you folks up nawth. (Read 1524 times)

Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2005, 06:21:44 pm »

A cemetery palm!!

Lenny_M · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2005, 06:27:25 pm »

Is it good stramed with a bit of butter and some salt and pepper?

Fraxinus · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2005, 06:28:17 pm »

Qu'est-ce que c'est? What kinda nasty varmints inhabit that vegetation?

maple flats · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2005, 06:47:33 pm »

looks good, what is it?

sprucebunny · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2005, 07:28:34 pm »

I don't know what it's called but I've had one for 20 years

It was a bonzai tree but while my mother was taking care of it years ago, she felt sorry for it and put it in a bigger pot so now it's only semi-bonzai

Thanks for the picture, TR. Looks warm and sunny there.

There is a banana tree and a pathetic orange next to it and a dead cypress , too

Riles · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2005, 08:01:54 pm »

Sago palm. Big ones in yards around here are worth some money. They will reproduce and can be transplanted relatively easily.

Tom · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2005, 08:23:39 pm »

Yep! It's a Cycad. A plant that comes to us, changed very little, from millions of years ago. A time when the Forests of the world were due to be coal. It is grown from seed but more commonly from "pups" The pups are little plants that appear on the trunks of an older sago. They can be removed, stuck in a pot and will produce another plant. Because of their size, they are commnly found in Cemeteries. That'a why many folks here call them the Cemetary Palm.

Texas Ranger · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2005, 10:30:42 pm »

Years ago there was a book written called "Outside My Back Door" maybe by Eull Gibbons or one such. About what was found in nature out his, naturally, back door.

So, out my front door.

CHARLIE · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2005, 11:05:43 pm »

Hey Tom! I've always been suspicious that you couldn't read but now you have confirmed it! Let me type the subject line real slow for you so maybe you can figure it out.
"F-O-R Y-O-U F-O-l-K-S U-P N-A-W-T-H". And that don't mean Nawth Florida either.

Tom · « **Reply #10 on:** May 09, 2005, 05:59:48 am »

Oh!

Riles · « **Reply #11 on:** May 09, 2005, 07:43:48 am »

Anything north of I-10 is Yankee.

tnlogger · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2005, 10:19:52 am »

riles anyone south of the NH lines is a rebel

just ask spuce bunny

OneWithWood · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2005, 12:25:21 pm »

Ah, yes. Cycads and Bromeliads. My house is full of them

It helps when your better half operates a greenhouse that specializes in them. I have always referred to them as dinosaur plants.

Roxie · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2005, 04:27:16 pm »

Sprucebunny, while Tom and Charlie are fighting, let me tell you that I have empathy for your situation with the orange tree. I have some plants that are 28 years old, and they are doing fine....but someone gave me an orange tree once and nothing I did kept that tree pretty. It was alive, but just pathetic.

Thanks for the picture for us nawthern folks, I like the dinosaur plant!

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #15 on:** May 09, 2005, 05:57:29 pm »

I'll just take yer words for it and bow out. I'll stick to eatin those ferns we pick this time of year. Fiddle-heads of the Ostrich plume fern.

http://www.ontariowildflower.com/fern.htm#fiddlehead

sprucebunny · « **Reply #16 on:** May 09, 2005, 06:43:15 pm »

Thanks for the sympathy, Roxie

My best orange tree grew from a seed in a grocery store orange ...it looks like an avacado , though ...about 3 feet tall and that old . The others are older and only 1 foot

I started the cypress January a year ago from seed I got in Louisiana and they got 2 feet tall but I don't think they are going to come out again. All my warm climate conifers are doing well, though