Rade's Garden

[Rade]

Hello everyone, I'm new here, but I read this forum for over a year. So I'd like to share with you about my
joy .

I mostly cultivated exotic fruit plants and this year I mostly cultivated palms and other exotic plants.

Something about my climate conditions: I am from the Czech Republic, near the metropolis of south Moravia, Brno. USDA zone 6b, This year, the lowest temperature was -24 ° C in January
, high near +36 ° C in July. This winter (2010/11) was coldest -17.6 ° C and that just today  .

And here are some of my plants:

Butia capitata:


Phoenix canariensis:


Brahea armata:


Bismarckia nobilis:


Jubaea chilensis:


Washingtonia filifera:


Chamaerops humilis 'cerifera':


All palms:

[dalmatiansoap]

Nice collection Rade!
Welcome from Makarska and I hope we ll see more from you pretty soon.
 

[Rade]

Trachycarpus fortunei under snow:


Trachy was wrapped in cloth and heating cable:


Then I put the big bag on a palm:

[Veruda]

Welcome Rade  

[Rade]

Nice collection Rade!
Welcome from Makarska and I hope we ll see more from you pretty soon.
 

Thank You .

I was in Makarska in September/October 2008. Specifically in Baško Polje, Baška Voda and Makarska, It is paradise .


Chamaerops humilis in soil:


I made her a wooden box:


I wrapped palm on cloth and shining Christmas snake :




And it's done:


Shining snake works great with today's -17.6 ° C in the box was almost +20 ° C, and under palm wrap +30 ° C  . So more problem was high temperature . I turned on the heater at temperatures below -8 ° C.

[Ovar]

Vrlo lijepa .

[Rade]

Vrlo lijepa .

Hvala Ovar, na sreću, postoje kompilatora .

Welcome Rade  

Thank You very much .

[Yonex]

Welcome Rade!  You have nice collection.How you manage to protect  all those tropics? 

[Dahe]

Dobro došli Rade

[Rade]

Welcome Rade!   You have nice collection.How you manage to protect  all those tropics?  

Thanks . I constantly cultivate outside Trachycarpus fortunei and Chamaerops humilis, other palms are in frost-free room (other Trachies, cerifera) or in wintergarden (Bismarckia, Brahea,...)
I'm going to land out some other palms next year, more exotic .

And when the temperature falls below -8°C, I must be on guard .

Dobro došli Rade

Zdravíčko


Sve Česi naučili hrvatski .

[Treehugger]

Vitany Rade!  Štasne s palmami.

[Zexland]

Welcome Rade ! 
Nice exotics ! 

[Rade]

Vitany Rade!  Štasne s palmami.

Welcome Rade ! 
Nice exotics ! 

Treehugger, Zeaxland, thank You friends .

[porat]

Welcome Rade  !

Nice pictures, and nice palm protection  ! Temperature of 20 C / 30 C under protection, could be problem, because it can brake palm dormancy (sleeping). Try to install some sort of thermostat, to automatically swich of your heating cable on lower temperatures.

[Rade]

Hi, thanks .

I know, it's very high temperature and it is certainly a shock for the plant, so I'm unwound the lighting snake from palm, and I placed it in a box to avoid touching the palm. That's better, the temperature in the box is already around 15 ° C. But it is true that this method is more suitable for wintering Howea, perhaps . Thanks for Your interest .