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04 /22 : Venus rising.. ..... 04 /25: Twilight flight on the wing.. 04 /29: Pinks and Oranges.. 04 /30 ....And fin.. What a month..

Here’s a cross from Kevin Weaver I’ve never seen before. Should be pretty cool when older. Encephalartos Natalensis x Middelburgensis -dale

The Green Escape Welp one of my plants looks like they took a 2" pot, threw it against the wall, and then dropped it In a 4" pot. I also just realized another of my begonias is the wrong one. Orange Lake - cool and reliable for plugs and TC. Salad Beard Farms on Etsy - literally the nicest lady I've ever talked to. Super cool for plugs. Oddfrond on Etsy - free shipping, great prices and wildly overgrown plants. RarePlantDaddy - well, I ended up falling into the trap of buying stuff I didn't want because it was a deal. Plants are cool but I'm honestly disappointed in the Styrofoam packing peanuts. I won a free bag of his magic dirt too so we'll play with that and see how it goes. Plantnoob on Whatnot - killer stuff. Great prices.. auction.

Kentiopsis Oliviformis opened a new leaf today. Compared to some others on here, it looks to be more stretched out. It has no rings of trunk yet but it’s 10ft+ to the top of the frond. -dale

Get your mate who’s in Japan to get you two of them for you. Unfortunately no seeds will be available with this variety of palm. Richard

Welp I might need to get my dr to up my dose for the emotional roller coaster that is being a Cub fan.

I signed up as a seller. I dunno if any of yall have used it since I've seen zero palm content. Anyway I have to do my.first live show within the next week to get a bonus. Am I allowed to post my affiliate link in here @kinzyjr @PALM MOD? You get a $15 credit by signing up. I do have some plants but half the show will probably be me repotting stuff and swearing and walking the dog.

All will be good growers, the only one I have not grown is the pritchardia. And as for the rest they all have seen temperatures at 2 degrees celcius, so the zone pushing has been tested on all but the pritchardia. I have lost so many palms to cold weather over the years I have been pushing the boundaries in relation to cool weather, don’t look at as a experiment but as a win for your garden!

Obscenities screamed loudly.

Yeah, I heard that about the Pritchardia. If it’s indeed hardly differentiated from P. remota, that’s okay since there’s no remota in the garden. Pinanga ‘Maroon Crown Shaft’ was recommended to me based on its possibly being the most cool tolerant of the genus. We’ll see.

No fluoride in our water here thankfully. Acid rain has significantly improved here over the last two decades and is no longer considered a major threat to the environment. I’ve measured the ph of rain water here a number of times and it’s always been about neutral. Our tap water is very alkaline however so I need to keep lots of acidifying organics on the soil here.

None whatsoever on those. They are very nice looking palms and I’m sure , with your expertise , have a very good chance. You have the perfect environment in your garden . Now that my garden has matured a bit , I am venturing out as well. When my friend gets back from Japan , I will be getting my first FB order in . We are going in together on an order. Harry

Nice ones Jim! Have had an Aylmer-Robinsonii for a number of years. I sort of ignored that species name after reading Hodel’s Pritchardia book, in which he rolls it into remota. I was curious when FB resurrected that name, so I’m not sure what the latest genetic info shows. Anyway, for me it’s grown pretty well, with a very upright growth habit. I can’t tell you how many times I walked by it and think that it has a similar shape as as the “double coconut “, whose Latin name escapes me at the moment. Lovely palm, whatever it is, however. The Chamaedorea grows well here, as does the “baby red stems“. Would love to hear your experience with Pinanga maroon; would be great to have another one of that genus that actually survives here.

Why not let volunteer orchids grow

As far as I know still there. Its at the federal building in downtown. Its about the height of the building itself. https://maps.app.goo.gl/FuW2TDcjyvE5nMpN7

04 /11: Fade to Reds 04 /13: Lava Glow, Take two.. ..Take Two... 04 /17: Not all are winning..

Iam so glad iam not on town water, flouride they can have on their own. I have a note for water that’s a bit high in iron thankfully the palms dont seem to mind it, although I have lost some small batches of palms, not to sure if it’s the iron, but they damp off so most likely grower mistake. What are your thoughts on acid rain?

Licuala pelata var sumowongii, super sun tolerant! Richard

To me all the hose does is keep them alive, but the nitrogen in the rainwater is the best fertigate system one can have. Richard

I got out the tape measure to see how long the inflorescence is. It was 54" long with only a few buds open.

Around the palms, or to cover the yard? You can put gravel around the palms, though it might not stay there, depending on how wide the rings they are planted in are / mound like vs. being more bowl like and the size of stone mulch used. If referring to the yard ..and/ or to cover planting beds?, I know there are a few who will try to give me grief about it but, here at least, Gravel is the best " bare soil cover " option one can put down. That said, laying it 1-2" deep will help, but not by a large amount.. 3" ..or a little deeper.. is better, if you can.. If you have burrowing yard menaces where you're located ..Gophers, Ground or Antelope Squirrels, you'd lay down a deeper layer for sure.. Laid it in both yards i've landscaped here and can say ..with plenty of evidence to support what i've noted.. that it helps keep moisture in the soil ..and helps drive more of it, deeper into the soil, when we get good rains ..and cuts down on erosion. Adding to that, just because you lay down gravel, that doesn't mean you have to leave it bare ..the " sizzling gravel grave yards " you probably see just as often in yards on your side of town as i do down here.. I made a point of throwing in everything from certain Cacti to native grasses, perennial and annual winter / summer flowering things in gravel covered areas ..below the larger things planted when i put each project together.. Why? A: so it doesn't look as bare, and B, because ..if you ever walk the desert, ..or any habitat really.. you'll see how extensive areas of bare ground ..gravely or not.. are pretty rare, rather than the rule.. Unless it an extreme habitat type where something chemical in the native soil hinders much -if any- growth, there is usually something leafy trying to cover that bare ground.. Soil, rocky or not, is supposed to have a living skin, not be bare. Bigger plants, like trees ..and/or palms.. benefit from having other plants around their feet both in those things helping keep the soil cooler ( ..than if the space between them were bare of -any- vegetation ) and because ..in the words of a famous plant geek " Plants aren't islands " and the more diversity you have in a planting, the more each thing benefits from the other.. Legumes fix nitrogen and attract certain soil microbe flora vs grasses or your Yuccas and Palms yet they all work with each other to keep the whole " group " ..if you want to use such a term.. healthy.. Another thing is if you have trees like Mesquite or Palo Verde anywhere nearby, the duff they generate each year that may blow into gravel will filter thru it, decomposing as it reaches where the soil is, and release nutrients into the soil itself. I get several types of mushrooms popping up in gravelly areas when we get enough rain ..is a sign that organic material from the trees here and nearby / what debris from dead annual stuff stays in the soil is breaking down /filtering through the rock, and releasing nutrients. Slower process than occurs w/ organics obviously but, yes, gravel, of any type, also releases pulses of nutrients as well.. Depending on the rock type, that gravel could add stuff like Iron, Magnesium / Manganese, and Potassium < = Granite and other volcanic origin type rock, > ..or Calcium < = Limestone / other Carbon -rich rock types > to your soil, over time. Chunky, hardwood mulches here are pretty useless, imo.. If they don't get blown around, or washed out during a storm, they take forever to break down.. ( It's a lot of work breaking down lignin, here esp. ) While the rumor that wood mulch attracts Scorpions is greatly exaggerated, ....-any- thing that provides a cool moist spot to hang out / find an easy meal will attract bugs ..the ones you want, ..and those you might not want hanging out so close to a home.. honestly Termites ..they are more likely to show up in wood mulch covered areas rather than Scorps. Another reason i myself stay away from them, here ..or anywhere.. Gravel looks much nicer anyway..

Last post was in October when it opened a leaf and it just opened another yesterday. It does seem to be getting faster as the last leaf took a whole year. It’s a super slow palm for me but it’s not dead so I’m stoked. The leaves holding look perfect too so that’s good. Not too impressive tho. -dale

Me too. Our tap water is sourced from city wells so it’s very hard. Lots of calcium and high ph. We’ve had lots of springtime rain up here so everything looks so happy especially after the HOT month of March. By summer’s end, some of my palms have brown tipping as the calcium salts build up in the soil. I do try to flush the soil around the more affected palms with the garden hose periodically and that seems to help a lot.

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