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I even had a variegated foxy lady, that is until a great big cane beetle got in and ate it from the inside. Foxy lady about the only hybrid I do like the look of. I admire the work involved in creating such hybrids!

Wowo such a beautiful palm

This reverse cross was done by Seabreeze Nursery in Fort Meyers, Florida. I’m eager to see how well it grows here. 🙂

Bit of an update, it’s still alive and the little spear on the side shoot has jut ever do slightly grown a little bit. See what happens in summer now with this little experiment. The most encouraging sign is it’s not dead yet and that’s a good place to start with!

A very interesting and somewhat rare piece plant that has blue flowers.

Beautiful flowers and highly sought after in the floral trade. I purchased a white and the red one hot larvae about 6 months ago, and so far it’s looking good for winter.

Looks like a bit of palm love was (literally) in the air. The original foxy lady was developed by the Australian grower Rich Trapnell of rosebud farm I do believe!

A nice young Joey palm and a socratea rostrata, they only need another ten years of growing and a lot of water to be the main conversation focal point in the garden!

Wondering what you been up to, well now I know. You got a challenge on that bottle palm, now we will see you’re growing skills at work! And look after mr sancho he’s your best buddy in life, I just lost my 19 year old kitty Kat, the one who designed my garden, for her I was just the gardener!

Dypsis rosea coming along nicely for winter.

Three great dypsis varieties, dyp faneva, dyp remotifolia and dyp lantzeana. It may be mid winter but that doesn’t matter, the palms have been acclimated to my winter in the greenhouse and I don’t get frosts so plant away I say. And a nice handful of chamaedorea adscendens went in for a bit of extra fun along with a nice trio of Cham genoformis. Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t plant your garden. I find the winter plantings get a good tuck in gor summer and are established a lot stronger for the hot brutal days of summer when you miss the odd water or two! Dypsis faneva Dypsis remotifolia Dypsis lantzeana chamaedorea adscendens chamaedorea genoformis

Very cool, I’ve been trying to find a panzhihuaensis for awhile because it’s reasonably tested in the PNW, how much cold hardiness do you think it loses from the other parent? Online says multifrondis is a 9a reliable

They stay bifid. I have a few near maturity about 5-6' and they stay that way.

The same thing happened to one of my chamaedorea Radicalis, a big branch came down it give it a fair old snapping, it sat there for a year sulking then it started to get on with growing again. Mother Nature has her way of dealing with things in a certain manner!

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Currently 103F in the east valley with a high of 119F and low of 82F. It was definitely a toasty one today. I don't remember the exact date when we previously had any meaningful rain but it's probably been over three months. We need rain!

Hey all. Hoping to take action before its too late, if there is such a thing. Google and AI are useless. Don't know which path to take and fear making it worse. Please help me move to the right topic if I have this miscategorized.

Some unexpectedly healthy rain activity this evening. Still raining atm where I'm at (610 W/Memorial). I work close to 610 E and got soaked trying to leave at 3pm, the area saw more showers throughout the evening and picked up ~2-3" of rain total! Looks like Memorial City/Bunker Hill picked up about 1". Good rain totals (>0.5") in North Katy/Cypress and North Houston too. The garden in E Katy missed out, only 0.10"...hopefully better luck tomorrow or else I'll need to water the sensitive rainforest stuff. I see a dry side and wet side for Lake Houston. @Chester B did you get any rain ?😝 Here's a GIF from 9 PM...thought the storms were dying out after sunset but these beautiful showers popped up all along the I-10 corridor.

I cleared a patch of asiatic jasmine near my Chamaedorea radicalis a couple of weeks back and found these self-sown seedlings today. They definitely weren't there at the time and look freshly germinated. The seeds must have been sitting there all through the winter. I have plans for this area but I'll try to leave them in place.

Using your pictures, shot #1 specifically.. Obviously, orange dashed line represents where the stem has died back.. Cecropia tend to have hollow stems, so some deg. of die back is expected when a stem is cut. Question now is: how far down does the die back go? ..is it like Bamboo ....in the sense that any die back from a cut stem is restricted to the stem section above a node ( At the top where the first potential bud might emerge from = dark blue line ) ..Or will die back extend further down before currently dormant nodes located along the stem ( light blue lines ) start throwing new growth ( Circled Yellow Orange area ) Green circled area of the stem / node along the stem = what i'd imagine is older wood that should be old enough to resist any die back creeping toward it ....better than the tender -est newer growth toward the top. Might be where new growth emerges, if it doesn't further up. Shot 2: Is the line i see on the far left side of the stem a wrinkle, or just a shadow? Can see what likes a new bud starting to swell along the node in the center of the shot. Wrinkle could mean that part of the stem is damaged.. You'll know for sure if it starts turning brown / wrinkles even more. In that case, < Hopefully not > new growth may end up emerging from the base..

Some classic winners in there , Chambeyronias I just plant them like Bangalows so easy. It’s only been in the last 6 years since i turned my attention towards my garden again, I never really even watered much in the past. It’s strange how an injury changes the mind set after a certain age, men was a hernia and a divorce that sat me flat, only now iam getting back into life to its fullest. And a good lady makes all the difference!

There will be no shortage of them @happypalms in the future!

Hot, breezy, ...and a bit gross out there at 5:16PM. 111F right now, after hitting 115F, with a few 117 -120F neighborhood level readings around 3PM.. With that said, ..what is this i see lurking above the horizon to my east and south? ..Could it be the season's first storms? Afternoon T.C. Satellite view confirms it.. Yes, indeed, weak as they might be, Eastern and southern AZ is lighting up today, with storms knocking on Tucson's doorstep, and some sort of outflow - looking feature trying to set up in the mountains just east of Superior.. Storms nearby = storms for the valley tonight? ..Probably not.. 112+ heat + current position of the 4C High = lots of CIN ( Convective INhibition over the valley atm ) Essentially, when it is this hot, it takes big storms to break through any cap that keeps outflow generated clouds from forming into storms as the outflow moves through. While Dew Points have been rising over the last couple days, they're still below 50 ..Right now at least. That will change shortly. While it isn't in any of the current forecasts, ..and is quite remote, there have been some HRRR runs that have suggested the possibility of isolated brief and weak activity being generated close to the valley / near Casa Grande as outflows from storms to our south ..and/or east.. roll west out of the mountains. At best? ..maybe someone, somewhere on this side of town ...or in C.G. sees a sprinkle / bolt or two. For most? = probably just some breeziness out of the east /south, with maybe some dust and debris clouds in the mix.. As mentioned, it's already been an interesting start to the season ..so.... we'll see whether or not the next couple days yields a couple late night surprises. Similar story for both tomorrow and Thursday ..Gross 112+ heat, some breezes, ..and rising Dew Points ..making gross feel gross -err ..With mainly dry storms roaming the mountains /deserts to our east and south. Headed forward? ..current forecast thoughts offer more optimism ..and actually may be a bit conservative as we reach the start of next week. One thing is for sure. While the 110+ heat should moderate by the weekend as the 4C high starts shifting to our north and east, Dew points will be heading for ...the 60s, if not a bit higher. ..That should help get the ball rolling, storm / rain -wise.

@Silas_Sancona since the main branch is dead, are these stipules eventually going to become new branches?