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I had considered a quick, April update regarding how things are looking as it concerns the " much hyped " " super " EL Nino talk but.. A better voice has spoken and ..You'll just have to be patient and wait. Better yet? check out this weeks' thoughts from that voice of reason himself.. As always, you can skip on past the Surf - focused / current pattern centric, first half section of Mark's videos to get to the ENSO -related section ( .. Which runs a touch long this week, btw. ) An interesting side note Mark had touched on in the video? the full article regarding lingering effects from the Hunga Tonga Eruption a few years ago.. https://indiandefencereview.com/hunga-volcano-space-plume-stratosphere-froze/ See ya on the other side of the Spring Unpredictability Barrier in ... June..

Yellow Latania

That’s my memory of the story behind it too. I believe they couldn’t be flexible on the planting time for that reason.

The best I can capture since it is in the corner of banana collection

Looks like a lot of fun!

Bottles take a while and operate on their own schedule. The survivors here will take a few years to flower, but we're not in an optimal climate range for them. There's one up the hill a little further that has/had flowers, but not sure how it handled the cold snap. It has a pretty thick trunk and survived 2010. That means it is fairly old for here. I agree with @SeanK on Adonidia. They typically start flowering somewhere between 4ft. and 8ft of clear trunk.

@Merlyn You've been a busy bee this spring. After whatever decides it wants to live comes back, you should be in good shape as far as spacing goes. If there are some holes that need filled, the sale at St. Johns should help.

I use a mixture of coco pear perlite with a good quality potting mix. most likely the problem comes from watering in summer, it has been a long hot dry summer so I have been watering quite a lot, most waterings in summer had seaweed via a Venturi. I did do a couple of Agrifos systemic fungicide waterings in combination with the seaweed. I don’t think there is any reason Agrifos has had a detrimental effect on the gausia palms. Possibly some leaching due to heavy watering. So that may have been the boron culprit at play. I have seen at work 15000 blueberrie trees burn due to boron being used, the rate for fertigating should have been 200grms not 2000grms. What an argument that was with the boss trying to blame me, in the end it came down to well that’s your handwriting to I would have used a different pen looking for an excuse to blame me. Well I had it in writing, his writing!!!

Plant it

..I should add, 20ft is a general, upper- end height. exceptional specimens, like the one below, can exceed that. Puts the ..much smaller.. specimens in Glendale to shame Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, 09 / 2021: Very unique bark for a " desert " tree as well.

I could be wrong, but I think they wanted to get rid of it because they were closing the tropical greenhouse. They have an educational exhibit there now with temporary exhibitions related to education and conservation.

Didn't get to make the sale in Winter Garden, but looking forward to making this one.

I have a feeling our brief reprieve from the burn bans will come to and end this week. Very surprised they don't have one in effect up there. Walking on grass probably sounds like Rice Krispies.

As I understand it, usually there's enough boron available in organics breaking down for most mature in-ground palms. But it can be a problem with lots of heavy rain (or I suppose tons of water in pots) or in potting mixes that are mostly inorganic...or in ground with rock for mulch and mostly sandy soil. I think some people blame "twisted crown syndrome" in California plantings on a lack of naturally occurring boron. I did have problems with one or two palms straight out of pots from a mass market nursery. They had the same weird distortions. I put a few teaspoons of borax powder in a 5 gallon bucket and watered it in. Subsequent fronds opened up normally.

AZ. / Desert Kidneywood, Eysenhardtia orthocarpa. Airy tree to about 20ft, if provided enough water.

Everyone share your recipes here! Or favorite things to eat drink and share. And palm pictures if possible. A feast in every sense.

We have a Euromarket in town. They sell two types of the sausages; one with casing and one without. One is spicier than the other. For awhile they sold a rack of smoked veal ribs for $4.50 a pound but I haven't seen those in 6 months. Attached to the store is a small restaurant that makes the best espresso for miles around.

Here’s the recipe for the mushrooms: INGREDIENTS 1-2 pounds crimini mushrooms chopped; 1 large onion skinned and diced; 1-8 cloves of garlic peeled and grated; olive oil; 1-2pounds ripe tomatoes; salt pepper chopped basil and thyme to taste; 1 cup dry white or red wine. PROCEDURE Coat sauce pan with 1/4” of olive oil and sauté grated garlic till golden or brown; add mushrooms, tomatoes, and chopped onion; stir; add wine, salt pepper and thyme and or basil;simmer on low heat uncovered till liquid evaporates. Stuff face, along with cevapcici. Chase with some red wine. So @dalmatiansoap what do you have with cevapcici?

Had a nice dinner under the Roystonea regia: grilled up some cevapcici, which are caseless Serbo-Croatian lamb and beef sausages with some mushrooms in wine and garlic sauce. And a politically incorrect beverage. .

I agree about the swollen base but the mystery palm does not appear to have a crownshaft. I will try to get leaves but they are 25 feet in the air. My friend (owner) commented that it may just be a volunteer!

Nearby Carpoxolon macrospermum for comparison:

Yeah that was my original guess before these latest photos. I’ve only ever seen a handful of Reinhardtia p in my life but I feel like the fronds don’t match and probably the trunk girth too. The leaflets on this palm look to be held at a strong V from the rachis which was one of the things that made me think Carpoxylon. Would be really interesting to see if the old leaf bases could be removed. It certainly is strange for Carpoxylon to hold on like this but in other palms this can be climate/environmental related.

Thanks @Merlyn I don’t think there is any boron in seaweed extract that’s for sure. I might find a foliar with trace elements, I will say fertilisation is not my strong point. With so many varieties of palms mixed together and some that like this and others that don’t like that, I just stick with seaweed and rely on my soil mix.

It’s always a learning curve, you work out one species of palm only find another challenge in another variety. By moving them around is a great way to learn sun, hot, dry, wet it’s all a fine balance. Ok so you’re just the cow that pulls the plow, and we can leave you and the penguins out of this I guess for now!

Found a photo of the Sydney BGs Cocos October 2018. Winter of 2018 finished it off.