Lets go fly a tree fern, la de da de da!

Its a bit windy today!!! LoL my sunflowers are all fine. :rolleyes:

 

That must of been some wind to knock that down Bm
mind the winds were terrible here yesterday its not to bad today :(

 

I think Bananaman really could fly today if I put my cape on!

 

the wind ripped a lot of my banana leaves, more like gales over here.

 

Hope the tree fern didn't suffer any from it's mishap! Actually, I wouldn't mind one of them .. what's their Latin name, BM, please? Am I too hot / dry for ferny things?

 

Dicksonia is the group. I water mine morning and evening with a watering can full. If you can do that I see no reason why you shouldn't grow it.

Has squashed my mature Leptopteris superba (Prince of Wales Fern). Has been growing well and has formed a trunk, well did have a trunk. Still has lots of babies just have to wait another 8 years for a trunk. :(

 

Must dig out my local magazine which recently had articles on palms etc as I'm sure Dicksonia was mentioned. But have to leave for the vet's soon so will do that after.

Oh, poor Lepto! :( Luckily you have lots of babies ... but eight years ... I'd cry! :eek: ... and I'd certainly be annoyed!

 

Oh no BM!
The wind also snapped one of my 15ft tubular steel washing poles today, but luckily it stopped just short of my fence and my plants Wasn't much fun retrieving my smalls from the neighbours though :( Does give me the opportunity to get rid of the hideous path that I had to keep for access to it though But really need a washing line because the Spawns can get dirty in a vaccuum... Oh what a dilemma...

 

15ft tubular steel washing pole :eek: Bit of a change from can I have my ball back ?

Hell of a gust! These tree ferns are properly, heavy!

 

More like 'can I have my thong back?' :D :D
Is the tree fern ok? Much damage to surrounding plants or itself? Lucky Baby BM wasn't playing near it when it went :eek: :eek:

 

Its all fixable apart from my mature Leptopteris superba (Prince of Wales Fern) which went from a 6 inch trunk to a 1 inch trunk. Might be ok but I have babies of it which will only take about 8 years to get to the same height :eek: Plus I need to fix baby bananamans hand rail which got a bit squashed. Im glad it didn't squash my acers or the catalpa beyond. I can't believe how strong it would have to be to do that!

 

The wind has been bad today. Coming from the opposite direction than usual here, and it's unusual for it to be so strong from that side. Luckily all my plants seem to be ok, but they are only ickle

 

we had terrible wind as well, not quite as bad as losing a tree fern but my jalapeno plant snapped clean off at the base. They were soing really well as well, about 2" long already :(