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A great little licuala this one,sitting in a tray of shallow water all winter. Down to 2 degrees celcius you just never know until you try!

And you can have them along with the stinging tree!

Frustrating for sure but luckily they didn’t cost me anything. I got them for $10 each as 3 gallons. They sat in pots for a couple years before I finally figured out what to do with them. Unfortunately, after all that time and care…the super mega freeze hits. I had Canaries before but I’m not a big fan of thorny, spiny palms anymore. I have Roebeleniis and I love the look but the clean up is always painful. Another one is my Copernicia Hospita. It’s growing again and looking like a survivor but it’s covered with thorns similar to a rose but with a hook.

Like the Bismarckia palm a victim of its own success, the resorts love them and the big grand Gold Coast high rise buildings they suit them perfectly in that landscape. Very formal palm. No wonder there in the background of everything in those holiday snaps on the Goldie. Let them line up by the thousands at the chain stores for the foxys, because iam not going to grow them and take up my space for them when I can have a thousand marojejya darinii palms!

It is one of the keys to growing foxtails is drainage, heavy clay soil is not going to grow a good foxtail. Iam quite lucky to have the foxtail native to our country, after all it gave Australia a name in the palm world just like Madagascar is to palms. A well grown one is a beautiful site to behold and only a true palm nut can see that beauty, the rest just see as you say that formal look of a set standard accent setting and the diversity of a shade tree in comparison to a palmtree. The average home owner just wants an easy to care for setting with plants. Maybe mow the lawn and sit back and admire the garden. It’s only the true gardener who knows what they want in palms and it takes many years to learn such things to look for and if the foxtail fits into that category then it’s a winner and this is what they are so popular.

Well no wonder you never saw a can of fosters, who the heck drinks that dishwater. And don’t worry we Ozzie’s keep the best best stuff for ourselves! And come on down under and collect a few snakes, some of the most deadliest snakes in the world mind you, oh and I’ll put another shrimp on the barbi for you!🤣

Is that Sandy Olsson (Olivia newton-John)

And a nice little dypsis lantzeana.

Here we go again at the end of winter and its planting time, and there’s a few to go in this season! Chamaedorea deckeriana pandanus Madagascar dwarfchamaedorea Ernest augustii Pinanga coronata var kuhliiphoenix dactylifera

I agree with @Harry’s Palms however it looks like underwatering and a little lacking in humidity. Try every now and then placing it in the shower giving it a good drink and this will also wash the dust away on the leaves, plants have what is called a stomata which is how they breath through their leaves, tiny microscopic holes, if the stomata are blocked with dust they can’t breathe correctly. Let the top two inchs of soil dry out before the next watering. Ifpossible every ow and then as well place your palm outside in a shaded area for a week or so to give it a spell from being indoors. Good luck.

The yellow tabuia I take it you have there. They go deciduous in my cool winter. Actually they are super cold tolerant. Fast growing and very pretty in flower. I had to eliminate my ones in the garden, one big mess of seeds by the thousands that germinated every where, and once they get that tap root in they are pretty hard to kill by pulling them out. In the end I had to use a herbicide, with a tap root that’s at least 2 feet long on small seedlings. Very pretty tree but not for my garden anymore.

That’s the one they fit into the tropical look category well. Super tough fast growing and easy to propagate. The one I have I just weeded them out from under the parent tree. A great easy tree and the fruit is quite tasty as well.

With winter almost over it’s time for the germinated seedlings to be potted up. I potted up two mid winter and they are doing well so they are showing signs of cool tolerance, being from Papua New Guinea it’s showing good signs for a subtropical climate. Time will tell how good a grower it is!

It will most likely live, trim of all the leaves and start to dig a trench around it, you don’t really need a great big root ball. But the odds of it surviving are pretty good.

They do have a cold tolerance, the one in Sydney is testament to that, i wouldn’t say blazing white frost but definitely cool tolerant. Indoors is an interesting way to grow one!

From seeds?

I haven’t got the memory space to remember the names of orchids, got to many palm names to remember! But shes a real beautiful flower.

I think for the PNW trachy hybrids really are the only option for bulletproof interesting palms. Who is Vic and how do I contact him to buy seeds?

Dypsis sp black stem got a little eye attention today.

Thursday update from the Hurricane center: Hernan = Fish storm. Won't effect anyone, other than some of it's mid / high level clouds being pulled east / northeast toward Mexico / Baja, CA. and the southwestern U.S. at times over the next few days. Thursday evening advisory summary / forecast cone for Lala: ** Will reach Hurricane strength by the time it reaches the big island ..Which is now under a Hurricane Warning. ** Note the potential for the south / east facing side of the island may see 15 -20+ inches of rainfall as Lala arrives. Better look at rainfall potential:

I guess in the right setting they are pretty good. The only other palm that has the same look is the Normanbya, given a choice between the two the Normanbya is the winner. A healthy black palm is a real tropical winner of the two.

I have two of these and they're great, pretty carefree. I've been growing mine inside thus far but it seems they have decent cold tolerance as well.

They were so popular once, now just as common as syagrus romanzifollia, at the start of the foxtail boom it big money and poaching seeds from national parks, in the end they couldn’t control the whole debacle of the seeds and who had foxtails for sale. Now they have become boring in a sense!

I guess Sandy likes the new “digs” eh? Harry