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Wandering around in your garden a year ago transformed me into a non-verbal living entity Tim... The splendour! The splendour!!

Yep. Painful experience makes a person cautious...last year I started the southern hemisphere summer thread about 2 months to early...not touching that one again. Fully expecting that September will be the coldest on record.

This Copernicia is absolutely healthy but it seem like needing an eternity to put on some cm in height. What are possible reasons for it? Too little water (because of slopy landscape and/or competition with an adjacent Guava shrub), too cold in winter, to poor soil all together or what else? By all means it is healthy has 4 spears in different stages of developing.

A few more pics to brighten the day!

A mixture of chamaedoreas adscendens and metallica shining away!

One magical looking Ernest augustii!

Plant more trees I say, more palms even better, I was learning about acid rain in science in the mid 80s what has happened is happening! Richard

and now for the famine.....

Be weary if you have just had your mildest winter in terms of extreme min, and the the next one starts really mild also. It turns out you don't need a long lead in of gradually escalating cold or below average sea temperatures to break an all time cold record - just one super inopportune synoptic setup will do it. 🫣

A nice little shrub sized metrosideros for a bit kiwi touch in the garden with the New Zealand Xmas bush!

Couple of sabinara magnifica, not worried about winter at all, even putting out a new spear. I will say they have some cool tolerance with temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius cold and wet conditions!

Two large clumps of Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) lutescens in Upland, CA. (Inland Empire).

Little dypsis heterophylla!

This beautiful royal palm in San Jose, CA. (San Francisco Bay Area) looking like it’s growing in the tropics.

Merci Tracy !

I was never a big fan of Livistona, until recently I started to admire the beauty within them. Only specialist palm growers have the ones you mentioned above, most of them grow in very isolated areas, or in national parks that are protected, a lot of caravan camper travellers collect the seeds. Being home palm growers they know what they’re looking at. The same with our native cycads in such remote areas and hard to get places for the average person. And national parks officers don’t muck around when it comes to poaching seeds, they have a job to do and that’s to protect our flora and fauna. And a lot of cycads if you get the seeds you need tags to sell them! And they don’t issue those licenses to collect seeds to the home grower that’s for sure!

Iam sure they would be something to see, that is if you could see through the pollution to see them in Delhi, Amritsar was enough for me!

Drop in anytime, Brisbane is about 3 hours drive south, to where I live. It’s a beautiful part of the world. If you can grow a Bangalow you will be able to grow the pandanus. Imagine the seeds your father could have gotten you back in the day in the navy!

It's now been over 5 months since I ordered these seeds and they still haven't been sent!! Not replying to emails now either! I was offered a full refund and the seeds still to be sent but if they can't send them when money and a reputation are involved what chance have I got if there is no incentive. I do really want the seeds as they are hard to source but this is getting ridiculous. Not sure how you can run a business like this?

IF you can grow Hedyscepe, then you should grow Hedyscepe

Everything was perfect: packing, plants and communication. Thank you, Paul!

wow and salute ! I grow this one in JAX out in the opern

this one wasnt covered but was under canopy in my rainforest ---- also it was in a pot ---- I think I got down to 20 F° or so here ---- it was pretty brutal -- then the bad drought after wards

this made it grow slowly originally when it was yournger --- in the 1990s we had annual freezes similar to the past one ---- so it would throw a leaf or two --- that would get frozen a few months earlier --- then it would repeat it self ---- then we started having warmer winters after 2010 --- so it was holding flushes over a few seasons ---- also it got tougher as it aged and it could take freezes of 25 F ° or so ---- freeze events that it wouldnt survive in the 1990s

According to the long range and weekly forecast the tap will shut off for most of the area for much of the rest of the month. 4 weeks of decent rains got the weeds going and some growth on plants but the palms always seem to be playing catch up. Part of that is winter damage setting them back, but the summer pattern (at least here) is only a little bit helpful. I have started on a better irrigation system using the well, but cant finish until winter, so i was hoping the rainy pattern would keep up. Maybe the winter rainfall will be helpful; the outlook is for wet, but also cold, so im skeptical right now.