What is your weather like ... today

[j.w]

You have a baby palm tree???
Did it take a wrong turn at Nevada?

I have a Chinese Windmill Palm John and they are cold hardy palms for our area. They come from China of course. They can get really big. I stole a few seeds off the ground at Woodland Park Zoo one year and planted the little seeds and they grew. My friend up the road has one over 8ft tall or more growing nicely next to her house. Mine is just a couple feet tall now and so I like to protect it tell it gets bigger. It's been outdoors for a several yrs now.

I also have a Mexican Fan Palm out there not hardy to our area that I doubt will make it through this winter. It made it through last winter but it was a milder winter and I had those old warm Christmas lights wrapped around it and blankets over it when it got cold. This year I only have the lights around it and no blankets.

Chinese Windmill Palm


Mexican Fan Palm

 

[CountryEscape]

Tammy your pond is beautiful, and those views are postcard beautiful!
Haver, I have the exact same set up for my "bubbler". I have pump up on the same green milk crate. LOL And, it pushes water to the surface, which keeps it moving and ice open. My pump is a small one, I think only 1600, but it is keeping a 3' diameter circle in the goldfish pond. The aerator on the koi pond is keeping a larger circle, maybe 4'. I only used the heater to melt an opening in the goldfish pond above where the bubbler is, so the bubbler would have a place to open up. Have not had to use the heater on either pond except to simply open up an area. Bubblers (water bubbler in goldfish pond, air bubbler in koi) are working very well. Temps here are in the mid-20's. No sun today, but with the snow, everything is VERY bright out there! Have an east wind, which typically means a storm, of some sort is on the way. I think freezing rain is out of the forecast.
Addy, your snow is beautiful! Best part of a big snow like that before really cold temps get there is it insulated the areas it covers. I would love a big snow on top of the ice on my ponds right now. Ice is only about 1" thick, that would keep it from getting thicker.
Rebel, I watched my cat stand on the skimmer box on goldfish pond and lean over to get a drink! That scared me, as if she falls in, I would worry she would freeze before getting back out. Thinking that's how my house cat died last winter. He was declawed in front, and could not get out. I have no idea how he died, he was laying by the stream one morning. He was an inside/outside cat, and loved to stay outside all night even in the winter. He to keep the birds in check. LOL I put heated water bucket in the barn for the cats, so hoping she will stay out there now and not come to the pond to drink, or drink out of the stream, which is MUCH safer for her!

 

[j.w]

19F at the present time. Won't be as cold tonight only down to 14F. I think we are headed for a nice warming trend now, back to our regular mild weather. I would not mind a few flakes tho before we get beyond the snow falling temps

 

[CountryEscape]

I hope your palms all make it, JW. I got some seeds from Sissy that I'm going to try to grow this winter. Also, when at Botanical Gardens in St. Louis a month ago, we picked up some seeds from the palms there. I think they were the Chinese Windmill palm, too! Friend picked them up, will see if she gets them to grow, maybe get a plant from her if mine don't grow. Of course, those palms were in a protected shelter, all nice and warm and snuggly. But, I told her I think that type IS hardy for our zone. We shall see!

 

[JohnHuff]

Nice!

They can get really big. I stole a few seeds off the ground at Woodland Park Zoo one year and planted the little seeds and they grew.

After I upvoted you, I noticed that both me and Country Escape approved of your act of larceny!

21F right now. Cold...

 

[sissy]

Raining alot harder right now

 

[addy1]

We are now at 9 inches, so much for the 1-4 prediction

Take a look jw it is beautiful!





9 inches now

 

[sissy]

Time to shovel a pee patch for missy Addy

 

[addy1]

yep she just went outside, sank into the snow..............

This was on the deck, back when it was 7 inches or so She wanted to run out and see what that white stuff was, so funny

 

[sissy]

poor poor missy .Curiosity froze the doggie :cheerful: she must have been hard to dry and warm up with all her hair .Time for a good hair dryer

 

[haver79]

CE our winds are out of the east also. Funny when the storm tracks from the southwest and yet wind and snow from the east. Hows the saying go "out of the east, not fit for man or beast"?
Not suppose to get over 4" here so not too bad. Wind has let up quite a bit now.

I suppose I should shut off my deicer during the day? We have been down in the single digits at night so have been keeping it on.

That silly green milk crate LOL I tried to find black and couldn't, these were at menards and pretty cheap, so green it is for now.

 

[haver79]

Addy, much longer playing in the snow and your little pup might turn into a little snow ball.

You might not enjoy all that snow but your snowy pics are sure pretty.

 

[j.w]

Going to look right now at your snow addy :claphands:

 

[MitchM]

Wow, what a difference addy.
Nice to see you folks down south have some wintery weather.
Once it arrives then melts it's like we all have completely new landscapes to look at.

 

[j.w]

Looks beautiful addy! Where is mine? Tuesday is the only day for any possibility of snow here.

CE I started my seeds indoors and then moved them to the green house in the Summer. Then when they got a bit bigger I left them outdoors in pots during Spring/Summer but for the first few years when they were still pretty small I always brought them in the house for winter. I had 3 and finally planted them all out next to the pond but 2 didn't make it one cold winter. So they can freeze to death when young. I still cover the one I have that made it when temps get below freezing. When it gets bigger I think it can take more of the cold. As I said my friend has one outside here and it is now over 8ft tall. It does get some brown freezer burn on some leaves when really cold but it always makes a great comeback in the Spring.