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Possibly, , I'll keep an eye on it. I'm going to post more photos in 2 weeks to see if it is thriving or not.

No I think it will be ok if you just used mainly native soil, check whether it is staying too dry

IMO, appears to be some random, errant growth ...Something i've seen pop out from otherwise healthy plants occasionally. Looking at the last shot, you can see how it is already starting down the path to it's own demise, ...Most likely outcome at least... via older leaves at about the 3 o' clock position in the picture starting to brown out.. That will continue until whatever amount of energy it has left in that growth is exhausted.

Dig down in the soil six inches deep or so, about 12 inches away from the trunk and see if the soil is chronically wet or dry. Observe whether the roots look a healthy, white solid color or if they’re mushy and darker black or dark gray, which is bad. Also check and make sure you didn’t create a bathtub effect by putting in potting soil or some sort of loose soil when you dug the hole initially. Trachycarpus fortunei Windmill Palm Tree MEGA Guide! https://youtu.be/cOOhgmWnqRA

The reason it’s attempted is due to the numerous microclimates in California. If you live 10-15 miles or more inland and you see limited or no frosts then it might be worth a try because you get more consistent heat and this especially true in winter often 80s in the day mid winter. Last year mid March I hit 96 with weeks of 80+ after that. Along the immediate coast is too consistently cold in the winter because of California’s famously cool water bringing day time temps near the immediate coast often in the low 60s in the day and cloudy often. The lack of heat. I’m trying it because I live inland in Fallbrook with enough heat to try it even if winter nights are cool. In Fallbrook we can grow coffee & dwarf cavendish especially dwarf cavendish which requires a lot of heat and plantains persisting for years without freezing.

End of August Check In: 1.2 and 3.4 region Raw / Uncorrected data... Been a bit of a drop off in the overall, steadily upward trend recently due to a stubborn fetch of easterlies hanging tough near Ecuador and Columbia. That may change shortly.. Relative SST Index, and how we're tracking compared to '97 atm. Sub-Surface SST anomalies.. Now reaching / exceeding +10C ..Very impressive, and a lot of hot water just waiting to get pushed to the surface.. PENTAD Sea Surface height Anom. data: Reaching / Exceeding +35cm west of the Galapagos / patches of +5cm off CA / Reaching / Exceeding +10cm off Mexico / Cen. AM. 30- Day R.A. SOI values... Been a few discussions regarding why there has been a rising trend lately vs. continuing the " diving off a cliff / deep -er into El Nino " trajectory seen since ..Mid - March /Early April.. atm.. Inactive burst of the MJO passing over the region could be part of the reason, but, ..we'll have to wait ad see.. Curious what Mark's take on it will be tomorrow. CFS MJO oscillation / 850mb wind forecast plot, now extending out to well within when this El Nino should peak.. Impossible to ignore the westerly - dominant look ...STILL.. holding strong on the chart. Now within the 5th Low Pressure contour line, headed for crossing the 6th, soon.. No reappearance of an 8th L.P. contour line ..for now..

i’ve had this palm in the ground for around a year. it’s been fine up until last night when noticed the top 5 fronds were folded. i tested the ph and it read 7, the spear is intact fully, and the trunk is solid all around. we’ve had quite a bit of rain here but nothing we haven’t seen before. it’s still quite warm so it’s not like it’s staying wet (to my knowledge). i planted it on a mound too because this area has issues with drainage sometimes. it’s on a southeast facing wall. i just want to know what the problem could be and what i can do to fix it.

Saturday morning thoughts: Looks like Lowell could be a bigger threat for Hawaii than thought yesterday.. Still considerable uncertainty regarding Karina and where it may head / whether or not CA ends up in the cross hairs at some point next week.

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Florida's next big crop? Sales pitch writes itself: " Protecting your Prostate, ...in the Sunshine state " 🙃🤣 ....In all seriousness though.. After ..years.. of seeing it marketed, on store shelves, etc, intrigued that there is still a demand for it since many legit studies into Saw Palmetto's effectiveness are highly questionable / uncertain. ..At least with other herbal things, like Ginsing, and / or Senna ( Usually Senna alata ..or Cassia fistula extracts ) there is ..pretty certain.. ( ...I'll leave some room for reasonable questioning of either plant's " benefits" ) evidence of each supplement's positive effectiveness.

SOLD, Thanks

I've grown them from seed sourced from someone in California.

After back to back cones on my female Encephalartos whitlockii x sclavoi, I wasn't expecting a flush this late in the season. I was walking past it this morning and was pleasantly surprised though.

Agreed. Here, they are as fast as Archontophoenix cunninghamiana if the starting line is from the beginning of trunking. My tallest was planting either at the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011 from a 7 gallon pot. I didn't find planting photos, but I did find a photo from about 3 years after planting it as we began demolition for a remodel and addition to the house. The updated photos are best taken from the street outside our yard, since I can't get good photos of it now without other palms in the foreground blocking a significant portion of it. The only thing faster to get tall in my yard has been the Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos and pembanus. I found one more photo of the Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) oliviformis from the outside of the garden in late 2014, with the tips of the leaves just barely visible from the street from a similar perspective to one of my current photos of it.

Good day all, has anyone in this forum seen anything like this. This is a spathodea campanulata with new growth on a cut limb that is growing back with completely white leaves. They're healthy, not fried out , not mildew and able to endure full sun with no burning. Leaf shape and size appars stunted, mutated growing directly out of the trunk where a new shoot was cut off. This is not a different plant growing from the earth or between roots, it is growing straight out of solid wood that has green growth 3 feet away. It's very unusual and I'm curious if anyone has seen anything like this. Zone 10 a , Iona, Florida. Thanks for your time.

Thanks! Admittedly they're not easy to photograph, due to the fact that they're usually mixed into densely planted areas. I've been curious to see how their growth habit will be. I got one and planted it in I think will be a good spot.

Brassia Edvah Loo 'Nishida' HCC/AM/AOS. And I thought this wasn’t going to bloom this year because it was so late. The July heat and humidity must have sparked it. Continuing all the way into Aug Sept. Such a nice vanilla-like fragrance too.

A stunner indeed! I bet it doesn't take frost, like all stunners.

The super rare draceana goldieana! Absolutely gorgeous plants to have in the garden. Slow growing though.

What is that leopard-like plant in the last photo?

@Brodogfish It's fairly difficult to read and requires me to use a magnifying glass. I'll see what I can do.

this is the downside of C. oliviformis, slow recovery from cold events. They are also slow when small. After trunking they pick up some speed.

Heat is on thing iam used to, although it may be subtropical my climate, it can be unbearable in summer with temperatures reaching 42 degrees celcius and the humidity we get can be like the tropical climate. As discussed before you can never really water enough with a hose, it just seems to keep everything alive in those conditions that you describe. Spend all day watering in the heat and then do it again the next day. I enjoy seeing the other gardens on palm talk, some real beautiful gardens out there in the world and some great gardeners as well. I learn a lot from seeing other gardens and talking with gardeners you learn even more about plants and gardening. Won’t be long you will be in winter and cursing the cold weather damaging your new palms , the palm growers enemy hot and cold too much of it either way and the plants suffer. Richard

Nice photos , I really enjoy your virtual garden tours . My reprieve from our current weather condition. I am hoping our weeks long heat wave softens a bit so I can do a bit more time in our garden . It seems , by the time I get the watering done , it is just too hot and muggy to work. Some of our palms are starting to show signs of heat stress . The humidity , which we are not used to , is exhausting. The lack of “cool down” at night is very unusual for us. Thank you for the visual break. Harry