Post pictures from your yard today

[Meangreen94z]

It may fall under stenocereus griseus(Mexican organ pipe),there are apparently different variations of it. I have 4 griseus that are more of an olive green, but have seen some online that are the dark green of the cactus in question.

[mcvansoest]

The one in the picture looks pretty much like mine, which I bought as Stenocereus griseus. Obviously the ID can be wrong, but plant color can be pretty variable for a variety of reasons.

[Stan]

Todays Banana harvest! Look,they are smaller than 2 years ago..but taste better. So,the whole mix of cold winter beat out larger root system I guess. One thing too? They really are picked as soon as they get yellow on the plant,not green and let ripe. Hayward is not the tropics and every last minute or ripening time for them and Mangoes is vastly more important.

[Meangreen94z]

A few pictures from today, pardon the weeds

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[Bananaguy]

Mean everything looks great! Not sure if it’s on my end but some photos didn’t show up. My original spot I was planning to setup for my garden is a no go as it’s east facing which won’t get any direct sun during the winter from the house shading it.. so have to use a southeast and a west area... so nervous if any of my non native stuff will live so kinda stuck what to do and don’t want them in pots as they have been in pots for a few years. Plus in the way of the rest of the family haha.

[Meangreen94z]

Thanks. Luckily it’s been mild this winter. Sunny and low 70’s all weekend. I know the feeling on location, I lost several cactus last summer, the ones planted in part shade were susceptible to pest attacks. I’ve spent a couple days back in December clearing quite a bit of the low to medium hanging branches on the rear Live Oak tree. Sunlight has increased dramatically even in winter months.

[Cactifan800]

Stunning collection of plants you have meangreen. Most of the agaves you have are to die for and sadly not offered in Australia.

[Meangreen94z]

Thanks. Most of these aren’t available in the state of Texas either. I had to source them from other members and the internet. Most of what’s pictured does well here. Only a couple are kept on the edge of a porch and out of the rain.

[Stan]

Protea bud?..6 years and it would be its first.

[Meangreen94z]

Nice, looks like Spring is there as well

[toditd]

Yes, Spring is in the air:

2020-02-23 Mexican Gold Poppy - Eschscholzia californica ssp. mexicana

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2020-02-23 Pink Fairy Duster - Calliandra eriophylla

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[abborean]

Mean everything looks great! Not sure if it’s on my end but some photos didn’t show up. My original spot I was planning to setup for my garden is a no go as it’s east facing which won’t get any direct sun during the winter from the house shading it.. so have to use a southeast and a west area... so nervous if any of my non native stuff will live so kinda stuck what to do and don’t want them in pots as they have been in pots for a few years. Plus in the way of the rest of the family haha.

East isn't so bad here! It gets sun first thing in the morning on cold days.

[mcvansoest]

Yep spring is definitely in the air... right now it is impossible for me to keep up with the weeds. Does anybody have a good home grown concoction that they care to share? No HOA, but a friendly neighbor stopped by while I was pruning a Bougainvillea to point out that as long as you spray at least 8" away from them the weedkiller won't harm cacti... I guess he was just being helpful but... and I do not want to spray any of the poisons because their records in terms of repeated human/animal exposure and such are just not that great no matter what the companies that make them want you to believe.

Here a couple of shots from the front yard - in the gravel I am doing a good job with the weeds, but the areas of cobbles is really hard to get after with my weeding tools:

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I got the collection of large Saguaro type cacti: a couple of Cardons on the left, the green one in the back ground is T. terscheckii and the big shorty is the actual Saguaro... definitely the slowest of the bunch. The center piece Agave is my version of 'Emerald Envy, with bovicornuta x colorata (from the DBG) to its right, just to the west of the E.E. facing away is marmorata, while in the foreground we have lophantha on the left and asperrima on the right. Things are starting to come along...

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In this picture the one Agave that came with the house, which promptly decided to flower: A. desmettiana, with a Senita just poking into the picture in the front, and T. tacaquirensis looking quite bleached green right behind the flower stalk. It has 3 nice basal branches that are looking good. During the move the top 3 feet broke off, but there is a new arm developing right at the scar. The top part is trying to root in the big black pot in the top picture. The fire sticks was also already planted when we moved in, it is about 6 ft tall at the moment. The weeds are obvious.

Mean: I wonder if your DBG unknown plant, which I think you may have gotten from Keith (KLC) could be what I bought from the DBG as A. bovicornuta x colorata. Here are a couple of closer pictures of the plant, which started out looking quite green like your but got more and more glaucous as it grew and got used to sun exposure:

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[Stan]

Looking good. Nothing with rot or burn.
In the background...really neat how the palms are growing in a "v" shape. I wonder how he got them to do that?

[Meangreen94z]

Nice Mcvansoest, I’m going to say it appears you are correct. They definitely look alike.

[Bananaguy]

Tell your neighbor to mind his business haha. Weeds four seasons here suck. Hate spraying for health reasons as well for that and bugs, fire ants. Everything looks great man

[Meangreen94z]

An update to an old post. Much has changed, the biggest being location. Shooting for a permanent location this Spring, in the mean time here is a shot of my bed for Agave development. I didn’t plan on a second summer drought in a row, so most of these would appreciate more shade. Larger Agave are in ground to the left, out of view.

Post pictures if you have time.

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[Melt in the Sun]

Yikes, that many plants in ground and it's not a permanent location! You moving houses again or moving plants around the yard?

Here are a few - I keep saying I'm not going to keep things in pots anymore. We can all see how that's going. I'll put it all in the ground I promise.

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Full sun bed in the front yard is looking pretty good - got a bunch of survivors, including even a bunch of Aloe (karasbergensis, littoralis, tomentosa, lavranosii, gariepensis, hereroensis).

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A. immaculata is another survivor, and this little corner of one of the front beds is doing well and shows my vision pretty well...lots of small interesting things. The Senecio vine is totally dead but its corpse is still providing precious shade...

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Starting to think I should have put this in the ground rather than the bed. Oh well, probably not going to dig it up again...probably.

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Food garden has gotten wrecked this year. Just replanted some tomatoes for fall (probably a waste of $) and we have pumpkin sprouts (probably too late). The grapes survived and the Ceiba behind looks much better this year than last.

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[mcvansoest]

Looking good Melt and Mean.

It looks like we are finally getting break from the heat... they say highs barely above 100 or just below for the coming weeks with lows hitting the high 60s at the end of the forecast, but solidly in the 70s starting Wednesday...

Then I can finally start seriously watering and seriously cleaning up the devastation... Just took what was left of my Aloe 'Spiney' out... even the two small offsets had succumbed... got a replacement plant ready - Aloe wickensii which made it through the summer in a pot at almost no water so I have high hopes for that being OK in the ground.

I have not been in my side yard in weeks so I am not sure how bad it will be - that side yard gets only morning sun so I think it will be OK - the entry to it is currently blocked by Bougainvillea growth, which appears to have loved the crazy heat and almost no water of the last few months....

Four major victims in the front yard. Asperrima, 'Saw Tooth', americana variegata and 'Mad Cow'. jury is out on a couple (titanota 'white ice' being the main plant of concern atm).

Best performers despite some summer scorching: Agave sobria, 'Green Goblet', murpheyi 'Rodney/Engard', zebra, my neomex and havardiana also made it through but have some persistent scale in their crowns.... so now that it is cooling down I can finally go at it with some pesticides, spraying with just the water hose has not worked.

In the back no major Agave losses - just a dwarf agave desertii and a cerulata clump that I am not sure will pull through - am a little concerned about my striated weberi that I got from Gee.S, but it still appears solid. A few cacti and as said Spiney as the major Aloe victim. Have not really looked to carefully at the potted stuff in my shade structure. There sobria was also a star with regards to dealing with this heat.

Clearly the message is to grow Agave sobria...

Pictures to follow after the major clean up.

[jam]

@Meangreen94z loads of excellent material to start your new permanent garden. Can't wait to see it being developed. Is the FR x lechuguilla suckering?

@mcvansoest sorry to read about the damage you guys have gotten from the extreme heat. I am surprised your deserti is among the ones mostly affected. Always thought this one was bullet proof in the AZ sun.

[mcvansoest]

@jam it was not so much the sun - for years it has been fine in the full sun, but the pretty much 2-2.5 months of night time highs in the high 80s and 90s did it in. Pretty early actually. I also was surprised, but it has been a tough summer. We had seen high night time lows like that before but not for that long, before it was maybe a week or two at a time.