10-01-2007, 04:47 PM
thanks for the sympathy guys! Tolley, I'm glad they got yours out!
The frond I was grooming was from over my head and I was using loppers and catching them by the safe parts, but I got careless after doing it for about an hour and this one slipped and came down on me like a spear ... going deep into the joint where the fragments could never work themselves out...
with these buggahs they never stop irritating until they do come out, thus the surgery (which set me back almost a thousand bucks and that hurt almost as much).
almost a year later my thumb feels almost normal most of the time. One of the worst things was not being able to type -- typing with one hand is brutal when one is used to touch typing.
They are great barriers, for sure.
But for a silhouette in the garden I'm now happy to stick with hapu'u or more friendly palms. I would rather have a row of triangle palms which are low maintenance.
I had three rows of them in my yard so that made for a big chore ... in fact I let the dead fronds hang down in two of the spots but the third one was situated so prominently in the center of the yard that the fronds looked really bad when they started to turn, and drooped down over other plants.
Having a couple specimens would be different and I don't mean to discourage you. If they grow in Waiakea, I don't see why not in HPP. I also had a small one on the dry Kohala side so it appears they tolerate hot and dry as well as rainy Hilo -- as long as they get drainage.
amyhow, I appreciate the sympathy.
The frond I was grooming was from over my head and I was using loppers and catching them by the safe parts, but I got careless after doing it for about an hour and this one slipped and came down on me like a spear ... going deep into the joint where the fragments could never work themselves out...
with these buggahs they never stop irritating until they do come out, thus the surgery (which set me back almost a thousand bucks and that hurt almost as much).
almost a year later my thumb feels almost normal most of the time. One of the worst things was not being able to type -- typing with one hand is brutal when one is used to touch typing.
They are great barriers, for sure.
But for a silhouette in the garden I'm now happy to stick with hapu'u or more friendly palms. I would rather have a row of triangle palms which are low maintenance.
I had three rows of them in my yard so that made for a big chore ... in fact I let the dead fronds hang down in two of the spots but the third one was situated so prominently in the center of the yard that the fronds looked really bad when they started to turn, and drooped down over other plants.
Having a couple specimens would be different and I don't mean to discourage you. If they grow in Waiakea, I don't see why not in HPP. I also had a small one on the dry Kohala side so it appears they tolerate hot and dry as well as rainy Hilo -- as long as they get drainage.
amyhow, I appreciate the sympathy.