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My contribution from windward Hawaii Island. Hilo rainfall so far this year is about 80 inches, there's been more at my upland location. Seeds from Ortanique in May 2007, this one was planted out (full sun) in Sept. 2014. I had a problem keeping seedlings alive, this one has been doing well as far as I can tell.

Red latania

Hybrid latania new frond with (V) shape

I got this as a small 2g plant in 2003 or 2004. Has about 3 feet of clear trunk now.

Even goes ok down here in the fridge 🙂. This one is going in the ground in October I’ve decided. Got an ideal spot for it. I feel like it’s worth noting that this is now Chambeyronia piersoniorum. I grew up with Kentiopsis and Actinokentia, but they’ve been out for years now.

If I grew a fast growing tree, Id feel bad to remove them later LOL. Maybe I can get a thin amount of pine straw from the woods.

This was supposed to be with my R hildebrandtii post but I forgot it and I can’t figure out how to edit a post.

The cardboard is a great idea, many a gardener uses it as a no dig garden method. It’s cheap and usually free as well and eco friendly. Another way is just use a line trimmer but that’s ongoing work which we are all trying to avoid, cardboard mulch has another benefit as well retaining moisture and in winter a nice blanket for the palms. Sounds like you solved your problem. You could also plant some fast growing trees and remove them later on utilising them as a canopy.

Glad it helps! I like this hybrid a lot hi Josue, same question as the RxD, how is this one handle full sun and cold? Thanks

Looking nice! How much water you give them Josue? Are they still in full sun after some growing palms around?

Took these pictures Sunday, thought now would be a good time to show update photos. Bragg Blvd Washie Seed Grown from Texas

Just about the whole complete genus are fantastic palms, and once you get into collecting them it never ends!

I use palmgain! I'm still in the early days of my palms creating a canopy, that's my goal when they are grown up but what I think what I'm gonna do since I don't have mulch is fertilize then lay the cardboard and weigh it down with bricks around the palms. Which I hope should work and the grass should die under and also provide something. I do think about when my palms are taller and I can finally walk under them and be able to try some part sun plants since everything I plant now needs to be full sun south facing plantings. excuse how wild it is, I can only do so much

Chamaedoreas once the bite you you’re hooked on them, even the good old elegans has a place. Frondosa a real classic chamaedorea, if Colin has his way and he will with palm nuts like us, Australia will soon be the chamaedorea paradise we dream about. I hear your after a rhizomatosa a little birdie told me. 🐥 Beautiful with an almost iguanura look. Nice to see a mature specimen!

Chamaedoreas once the bite you you’re hooked on them, even the good old elegans has a place. Frondosa a real classic chamaedorea, if Colin has his way and he will with palm nuts like us, Australia will soon be the chamaedorea paradise we dream about. I hear your after a rhizomatosa a little birdie told me. 🐥

Bifid like your favourite Ernie does of course. One for you to try and get. Richard

I got nothing. Huge storm last night with copper colored skies and thunder and lightning everywhere. It was up in Kingwood, maybe Atascocita and on the East side of Lake Houston. I got the big push of air preceding a front and then zip. The video I have from last night of it was crazy but nothing for me. Today a healthy storm rolled just to the west of me, I had thunder for hours. I've been watering a lot this last week. I sure hope next week produces something as it is looking promising. I see and hear the storms and I'm watching them on radar but they seem to get within a couple miles of me and veer in one direction or the other or split around me. I planted a Chamaerops the other day and the garden bed was dry sand, I was actually shocked. I did get a ton of rain in May and the first half of June but those are distant memories at this point. According to the rain gauge at the Lake Houston spillway which is about 2 miles from me it picked up nothing yesterday or today but got 0.4" in the last week. All I've seen is near 100F temps this week. Definitely overperforming versus the forecasts by about 4-5 degrees.

It's nice that they are leaving the volunteers in place. Landa is a great park. The robustas will only add to its beauty.

Small but cute: Aechmea recurvata pink form.

The kitty Kat was 19 and had a life of a princess, pets give so much love and ask for nothing in return only our companionship. Good stuff you got a few sales going it helps pay gor the collection and is a great hobby that’s good for the mind. Palmtalk is my only social media I use, theres still the ovals on here, plus now I see a lot of newcomers or old timers coming back for a look. And why does a certain site need my drivers license to join them, it’s not like iam driving around the corner to use that site, to me they are just data collection sites to sell your information and make money from your information. Keep the faith and look after sancho!

Still managing to dodge it. Min of 2.4C last night then fog and drizzle rolled in again pushing temperatures to 4-5C before sunrise. Just checked and we’re actually back down to 3.5C at 8:30am. A bit unusual for here when clear skies were initially forecasted to have these temperatures rises throughout the night. Still haven’t had a single frost settle on grass or leaves which is a pretty good result for this time of year. Looks like tonight is our last immediate risk of frost. If we get light frost and temps stay above freezing I’d be pretty happy, I thought for sure this stretch would give us multiple frosts and a night or 2 below freezing. Day time temps warming slightly too now.

That's a great specimen... Thought there were some chunkers on the west side of the mountains out there too ( L.A. / O.C. area / San Diego.. ) Anyway.. Yea, " What gets these to bloom ..prolifically... each and every year, " is one of those tougher to solve questions, IMO at least.. A " dry rest during the cooler months / it's typical dormant season " is the supposed rule, but i've seen at least a couple locally that will retain some of their foliage and still bloom well, later. Streetlight proximity .supposedly effecting how they flower / don't flower.. " is another assumption, yet my neighbor's ..and the specimen located near the Police Station in Scottsdale will bloom each year, regardless of how much artificial light they recieve.. Size matters... Well...... Here's our monster. Easy to tell it is huge, at least by Phoenix -area standards.. Flowers?, yes yet to see it fully lit up though. Compare it to my neighbors.. Much smaller. Been tracking it since we moved here 10 years ago and ..while it has grown, it's total size has been pretty steady. Others in the neighborhood are about the same size, yet no flowers on them, yet.. Year to year degree of flowering may vary a bit, but, My neighbors flowers every year ..and sets viable seed. Wide and closer - up shots of a " short and fatty " R.P., found in Todo Santos.. Seen numerous examples of others from Baja that are even shorter / look more like tall bushes rather than trees, yet most noted were full of pods. ** Note the street light nearby in the wide shot ** ...So, what gives? ..what is it that sets these off / hold them back?? Others might have their thoughts but, to me, that answer remains elusive, for now anyway.. Regardless, I will add that if adding one is part of your garden goals, < Have noted a couple small ones in yards there in El Centro btw >, start small... DON'T waste money on starting off with anything bigger than say a 15 gal.. 5 or 7gal, ..depending on how challenging it might be to find one at that size out there, is even better. This is one i stuck in the ground last year, after starting from seed a year earlier.. Everything above the blue line = this years' growth since it woke up from a brief winter nap ( late March ) Everything below the blue line = how much it grew between planting last May ..if my memory is correct... and New Years Eve. Stick to it's right is approx 5' ( = the remains of a Tipuana i'd tried in this spot, lol ) Keep in mind, ..i also have Gophers and buried chunks of old concrete pavers / bricks below it to stop them from eating it when i'd planted it.. Only thing i've done so far this year is provide a deep soak when the Marigolds that came up around it look half dead ( roughly once every 6 days right now here ) ..to get it through the driest part of it's first, full summer, ...and dump 2 gals of " Sweet Water " ( 1 tsp of Molasses to 1 gal of water ) on it back in April ..to give it a " wake up " boost. ( Will be doing another dump shortly, since we're supposed to start getting rain soon. ) Don't use chemical ferts in this yard, -at -all. Because i want the bottom of the canopy to be high enough to walk under right from the start, i've also pinched out any / all side branching attempts until the top has reached about 7ft.. As much growth as it put on ..last year.. ..and has so far this year, it will be interesting to see what is added between now and the end of Dec., esp. if the rest of the summer / fall is wet, Let alone where it may be after adding on similar amounts of growth in another 2 or 3 years.

It looks like you dodged a bullet. I think you got what we got in mid June. Single digits for most of the day that might have popped up to around 12C briefly. We had small hail on and off during the cold times. Around 5pm it’s back down to 8C and dropping. We are in a warmish spot for July now. We just made 20C yesterday and not really cold at night. They’re forecasting 22C for town next wed which might mean a 23 or even more for my place. That will feel like spring is here. The afternoons are getting a tiny bit longer now as we leave winter solstice behind. Soon I’ll be able to do a little after work.

Not much to look at but I think this is the first movement since planting out last year+. Got it as a two leafer from Jeff @ Aloes and it was unmarked. I don’t honestly know what it is but I’ve done a little research and my best guess is Arewood. New leaf petiole is way larger than the last so that kinda indicates it has some “large” genes in the mix. Who knows -dale