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A few pics from a foggy morning. I love all plants. But at some point, the silhouette of a Sabal palm hooked me for life. It was the first plant I added to the garden, and hands down my favorite.

Thanks Michael, that's good to know. The only Pritchardia to grow for me in my always cold, humid microclimate is P. minor.

Making up for lost time. Caladiums, bananas, and an Aegelsomething "Really Red"..

Let's see if these pics post. Size 11 for scale. Well, no, it won't. If you're interested shoot me a message. Or look at my marketplace posts on the evil site (Sancho B Plants is my username) or @sanchosgreenpaws on the slightly less evil site with videos.

I would like to see Richard’s house if he brings all of his 100,000 palms inside for the winter 🤣

I'll add that P. pacifica and P. thurstonii do grow fine out here in the desert around Palm Springs. I have a couple of P. pacifica (purchased from a nursery in Florida) in the ground and a P. thurstonii that I sprouted from seed I collected from the tree at our former house on Big Pine Key, and after four years it's still strap-leaf and still in a container. Both grow fine here, though I purposely keep P. pacifica under canopy to avoid the leaf-damage that occurs under open sky on cold nights. It has been documented both in Florida and SoCal to be relatively bud-hardy but leaf-damage occurs under open sky somewhere in the low 40s. Out here in the desert it throws new leaves so fast in spring and summer that by June-July it has a nice head of new leaves, although I haven't seen any real damage growing mine under canopy despite temps into the low 30s F. Also Matt Bradford I believe did grow one at his house in San Diego but winter damage to the leaves and slow recovery in the cool spring and summer meant a result of diminishing returns for him, so he removed it, and documented this in a post on the forum here. While I haven't seen any results about P. thurstonii in the coastal plain or fogbelt (zone 24), it is definitely a slower grower than P. pacifica for me here. I noticed this in the Florida Keys as well. It is certainly correct that at least P. pacifica is not recommended for the coast and coastal/interior valley areas. The great thing about the Hawai'ian Pritchardia species is that there are so many of them and they occupy such different niches, elevations and windward/leeward locations, sun, cloud, rain, dry, etc., that there are species for many different climate zones in California. When I lived in Los Feliz (eastern Hollywood, Los Angeles), I grew a Pritchardia beccariana that thrived, and it got quite tall after we moved across town, though it is gone today. I'm sure this was due to purposeful removal and not cold damage. It went through the 1990 freeze with no real problem at all, while young Royal palms and other plants around it were killed.

Some type of Nolina or Dasylirion perhaps.

Some colours from the garden, wish the bottle and triangles retained that red as they mature. Also bronze new leaf on the Archontophoenix sp.

Good job, that Pseudophoenix is the bomb. Tim

Listen, my friend Richard: buy more seeds from RPS in Germany. Buy the seeds and germinate them yourself. Once they sprout, keep them in your house during the winter—don't keep them in the greenhouse; you need to acclimate them indoors. I keep mine inside the house, and not a single one has died. My area is colder than yours, yet none of my tropical palms have died; they just stop growing in the winter. Hugo

0.1C and light frost this morning. Barely any frost settled on grass, none on fronds, but car roof and windscreen fairly well covered. Overall not too bad considering how I thought this week might be. Minimums now forecast between 5-9C with daytimes 14-16C for the next week so only a slight chance of light frost on a couple of mornings.

Yes! This is the first time I ever had to use a self watering container. Lol. I also have the Hawaiian tree fern (Cibotium menziesii, the hāpuʻu ʻiʻi ) in my sunroom, and that is the 2nd self watering container I had to buy.

Is there still a house on the property?

I remember my first trip to Kuaii, the coconuts stacked up around mail boxes in residential neighborhoods with a “free” sign . How much coconut can a family eat? I will say , like most fruits and veggies, home grown / fresh coconut is awesome! Harry

Joeys I don’t mind and if they ever get to be weed even better, but the cursed tree fern is a problem in my container plants, such a problem, I guess the old saying one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. I reckon you water your one a lot especially in your sunroom?

Gimme ideas if not sure!

Can anyone ID this? The owner was ok with me digging it up, the fire ants were not, so I only got about half of it. Looks pretty ragged at the moment so the "before" pics are all I have to offer. Stands about 6' tall with no old or cut stalks wider than the ones that are currently growing so I think this is the max size. Was growing in part/mostly shade in Houston. Super dense leaves similar to a witches broom you might find on a tree.

I got this problem with a 40' tall coconut palm leaning into a pool. A standard bucket truck will not reach it from outside the fence. So it has to be climbed with a ladder while it sways in the wind. Here is a bit of splash into the pool, and I collected 45 coconuts.

I can only grow my anthuriums indoors. I know they would be happier in the summer weather outdoors, but I just can’t bear to see them getting bruised and battered with the wind and insects and all. Here are some , with a few other aroids and houseplants as well.

Nice. What's wild is I think me and you both jumped in here around the same time so I've been able to watch in real time. Looks great dude.

Here they are thatch palm and Lisa

Even after cropping. File sizes are around 2mb each so it's nothing unreasonable.

That would be such an exotic and desirable weed for me in my sunroom! I have a potted one in the sunroom that I just pamper. I’m envious that you can grow these outdoors…and along with a Joey palm outdoors too??

I went to the nearest shelter today to drop off a case of prescription food that Sancho won't eat anymore. She said the small dogs go as soon as they come in. I've got a customer who had a stray dumped in her yard and that might work if it's not too big. I wanted a puppy from the shelter so bad but I'm in no shape for puppy and potty training and I don't want to have to feed a giant beast either. I think 20 pounds is about my weight limit. And it's gotta get along with Sancho and the 2 million cats.

Perreiraara (Prra.) Tony Tan Keng Yam. One of my home depot baggy babies i purchased years ago.