tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428399855033732471.post7528663979439336798..comments2024-02-05T20:25:14.080-08:00Comments on Parallel 49 Palms and Exotics: Stanley ParkLouishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06219272603726629982noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428399855033732471.post-30689301842877250842012-07-09T22:47:41.723-07:002012-07-09T22:47:41.723-07:00Well next time you will have somewhere new to expl...Well next time you will have somewhere new to explore! It's really amazing. maybe you got thrown off by all the rose gardens near the entrance from Downtown?<br /><br />I will most certainly go back in the fall. Maybe I could convince them to let me "overwinter them at my house?!" Oh I sooo wish agave attenuata could grow here. That would mean so many wonderful things. *sigh* Oh to live somewhere where we could grow agave attenuata. One day.Louishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219272603726629982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428399855033732471.post-61784158235094903072012-07-09T22:15:02.196-07:002012-07-09T22:15:02.196-07:00I hate to admit this but I've only driven arou...I hate to admit this but I've only driven around Stanley Park, never actually getting out and walking around. Why!?<br /><br />Please promise you'll go back in the late fall and see if they lift the succulents! I was lucky to visit VanDusen the day the we're pulling them, otherwise I might have actually believed Agave attenuata could grow there!danger gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227500551609537140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428399855033732471.post-48777651528555785252012-07-09T22:01:18.136-07:002012-07-09T22:01:18.136-07:00Vancouver is horticulturally insane... in a good w...Vancouver is horticulturally insane... in a good way. I don't think those echeveria are really hardy enough for Stanley Park. I think it speaks more or less of an incredible budget. I question whether or not the agave americana are permanent fixtures or not. I would say that the park is at least zone 8b and sheltered spots are even in the zone 9a range - but it is fairly wet. I have had success with echeveria glauca and I am significantly colder than Stanley Park. And I do know of some agave americana in the Victoria area and of agave americana variegata in Surrey. So it's definitely a possibility.<br /><br />Next to parts of Vancouver Island and the gulf Islands it's the mildest place in the Country. I can still remember my cousin from Manitoba visiting in the winter time. She was shocked ... even dipped her toes in the water.Louishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06219272603726629982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-428399855033732471.post-24158807100871854062012-07-09T20:52:34.220-07:002012-07-09T20:52:34.220-07:00I had no idea that all those echeverias would grow...I had no idea that all those echeverias would grow there, let alone Agave americana...unless Stanley Park is drier? I went there once, a wet, cool winter's day a decade ago. Vancouver really has some things I never see in the US, but with some of the typical NW elements. But those plants...nice!<br /><br />I would imagine people from Alberta or Manitoba feel the same about that area in winter, as many do about southern California...Desert Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952727692048782529noreply@blogger.com