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Looks like everything is hanging in there. I think with the protection you have , losses will be minimal if at all. There truly is safety in numbers. I will say that , as my garden filled in and the canopy grew , plants go through winter better . Harry

The title I have chosen is self-explanatory I guess... As we all know selling/sending plants from the US to other countries is highly restricted while on the other hand it is totally free and unregulated among the countries of the European Union. It would help us members from European countries if we had our own thread for swapping and selling seeds and plants. The UK should not be in btw since sending plants to and from the UK is also subject to strict regulations after Brexit.

Looks like umbellata to me (sorry for the spelling). If it is a dammaropsis you are so lucky. I've also been searching for ages!

That area is semi protected but in a real cold year it may get a mild frost. I haven’t seen below zero since the winter of 2023 thankfully. In open exposed areas I’ve definitely seen below minus 2C. Not good. These guys yellow a little in that situation and sail through. By summer they’re crankin. The sun came out today after a bit of drizzly rain. I thought I’d take a picture of the water flowing through the area. BTW further back in the thread Tim said I’m closer to Sydney weather than Melbourne which is true. I wish I had Sydney winters though. They’re glorious and sunny. Anyway to give my climate an eastern states perspective the closest I can find to my winter temps is Nowra. I may be a tad cooler at night in winter but definitely wetter by about a factor of 50% to 100% more than Nowra. My garden has already seen a min of 0.5C with no damage this year. There’s a lot of winter to go though. Generally though if my lakes fill up, the risk of a hard frost disappears. There could be an exception though but if the rains are late, beware. My lakes filled up on June 15 but it can take until early August to do that in a dry year. The earliest I’ve seen was May 3rd. That was the year the place flooded. No frost that year. I think once the atmosphere gets more moisture in it, the chance of cloud cover increases and the risk of frost decreases.

I stand corrected by @Silas_Sancona and other sages of the desert.

A bit of colour with a Chambeyronia and a couple of chamaedorea flowers!

It’s a boy, observe daily they are tricky!

A nice old Livistona Australis flowering.

So far no damage that has been detrimental for a palm grower. With temperatures dropping to 5 degrees Celsius, cold and wet, everything seems to be doing well. A few winter cold spots on some brassiophoenix schumanii, but I had them written off last winter and was wanting to just throw them out. But apart from that the rest seem to be fine, even some good growth on a few things. But the real winter is only just around the corner, let’s just say it’s not over yet!

They most likely used the elaitor as nesting material, if your after any more metallica let me know I got a few floating around.

You can see why they are not a popular little animal in many ways. They get stuck into there fair share of things in my garden, not to mention the seedlings. It’s a continuous process of trapping them. No baits iam to green for that, I even let them go after trapping them. Heaven forbid as to why I do that!

Rats and mice have a lot to answer for with damage in many ways.

Looking great Tyrone...that's going to be super nice when they all start trunking. Do you get frost in that area?

And a Nypa!!

I had a pretty bad event recently. They got in my greenhouse and destroyed a bit of valuable stuff, but I only discovered later that they got to my south facing garden on the blind side of my house which I don’t check often. My female Chamaedorea Metallica is likely done for; a chewed hole through to the growth point and spear has pulled. And check out the pruning job they did on my Cham elatior pair - like a bad haircut! Luckily they left the growth point of the C elatiors though.

I’ll take 5 if some are available, shipped to 90712

That palm is living life on edge, and to its fullest potential!

Nice plant, a great score. You can take cuttings from the young growth before they start to get hollow, but they are tricky to strike!

I wish I had wet soil like that, prime Johannesteijsmannia real estate. Raised beds would be a game changer for you. And as far the weeds go it depends on what type they are, but some weeds give a ground cover and that green look.

Evening everyone, just wanted to chip in about cocos if I may, I was stationed at NSC Oakland in the Bay Area, and in San Francisco, I did notice some palms (looking like cocos) but wasn't, it almost looked identical to cocos, but it was a Coquito palm) nuts the size of an acorn, if I remember correctly, or slightly larger, I don't remember the taxa exactly, something like Torry palm, or something like that. And I remembered after accidentally coming across this palm on a web page a few short years ago. They're supposed to be native to the Andes mountains, I believe a couple thousand feet up or so, but not too cold for growing other palms and the like as well. In fact, San Franciscos climate is very close to certain parts of the Andes, without having the altitude like some of the Andean cities with a Mediterranean climate like San Francisco, and these palms can handle cool periods in the winter, (I've heard some of these palms have survived lows in the Andean regions of 25°F for short periods without any damage) when I was in the Bay Area, it was generally in the upper 30s to low to mid 40s on some winter mornings, but usually mid to upper 40s, and during the days of winter, it was generally in the low 60s (61°-63° to be precise of my memory in the late 1980s to early 1990s. As for the Torry or (Torrey palm, this might be the correct spelling for the taxa) if you're patient enough to cracking open the small nuts, it's been said to have the same (if not very close taste) of coconut, and in Puerto Rico, the coquito nuts are used in drinks they make there. If anybody has anymore info on these very attractive palms, please let me know; in San Francisco nurseries throughout the bay area, they are available. Please keep me informed of any info on these palms, and take care, and Happy growing.

Stick with the hose Harry, a moat might attract sir Lancelot from Monty python, something about a holy grail and a bunch of nuns, and a rescue mission gone horribly wrong for sir Lancelot. Zoot I think her name was.🤣 Richard

If the question you are asking is, you want to remove the palms in your picture? Yes quite easily depending on a couple of things, how much labour you want to put into removing them, or can the palms be accessed by machinery. Looking at the photo you could cut them down and let them rot at ground level, job done and time is your helper. Or you could cut them down and manually dig the remaining trunk and root ball out with a lot of muscle involved. Last effort cut them down, get a machine in remove all the brick walls that are the large container they are sitting in, dig the root ball out, replace the whole site with a bit of flash landscaping and perhaps a better choice of palm or plants. Or just level the lot and a nice clivia border to match the garden behind the palms.

Pretty well much anything from Australia has to good, and the good old Bangalow is one example of such greatness Australia has to offer, that and vegimite!

They already have about 35 years ago when I got into palms. 🤣

Hooked is not the word completely obsessed with palms and anything related to palms more like it! Richard