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Whoa, now that’s something you don’t see very much of in cultivation! That’s a botanical garden botanical dream right there!🌱

This was my immediate thought as well, however there isn't a good photo of the entire leaf so I doubted myself. An overall photo of the entire palm tree would be good giveaway.

Hey who’s a croppin now Jim, I know the feeling very well, keep them coming, I wanna see more!🤣

Totally alien like male flower! And yes they did change there, but to me it will always be a densifolia.

Funky flowers too. And they get big! Now Arenga oblongifolia I believe.

Why only one, a dozen of each more like it!🌱

Beautiful as usual, I’ve heard stories about them Tasmanian characters @Jonathan and @Tassie_Troy1971 I know what goes on down in the refrigerator! Happy gardening guys this winter and I for one am not looking forward to winter!

You’re doing everything correct, some palms sulk when planted out in the ground. Give your palms just normal love and care, they will be fine and in a couple of years you won’t even notice they had a setback on planting. After all it takes a lot of years to create a palm garden, instant results with palms is slow!

A few in the collection getting a bit of attention! Dypsis lantzeana dypsis ambositrae dypsis rivularis carpoxylon macrospermumrhopalosytlis baueriJohannesteijsmannia Altifrons Areca vestria red formCrysophilla warscewizianus

The change in the season with winter approaching, and it’s very dry at the moment for the garden.

It’s always evolving the garden forever changing with the seasons!

Nice one absolutely beautiful!

Here’s a lovely rare Australian orchid. The tag has been broken so the full name slides me for now. But she’s one beautiful ground orchid!

With winter approaching it’s time to start slowing the watering down. This will hopefully stop the dreaded winter strike rate on seedlings. Just the greenhouse for them in the microclimate I have created there. And try to water on the warm days so the foliage drys out before nightfall. Also no fertilising either, the metabolic rate will be down on a lot of tropical palms that’s for sure. So there on there own for winter we shall see how many casualties we get!

I have two in almost full sun and they both dislike the sun, with the new leaves soon looking tattered and dry as in your picture.

They do prefer the seasonal change liking the cool conditions, as they do grow at higher altitude than fosteriana.

I have seen them on the Gold Coast, but had that dry look about them, but I think Brisbane is the cut off point. Someone must have a picture of one further north g for sure you would think.

One of the densifolia I have is in the understory and it seems to like the dense understory tolerant of low light. While the other one is very bright light conditions. A very tough palm, that tolerates dry conditions. And cool conditions, along with I will drink whatever water is available palm!

Beccariophoenix Madagascariensis

Wallichia densifolia in the garden!

A little chelyocarpus

Sad day for me. Took out 400 plantings of areca’s to the base. Likely 2k individual stalks from 6ft to 15ft. Years to recover. Birds gone, 3 triple Christmas over 12ft of wood, trimmed the Bismarcks, ribbons and sabals at the same time. I feel naked. The inner fence of jasmine looks simi bare now without the backdrop. 😢

Eugene

Smaller F2 natwood sending out a few new ones. I’ll take a couple update photos of the larger ones tomorrow along with some f2 trans woods.

Looks like Sabal Yapa