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Perhaps someone knows how quickly a crown collapse occurs.

Very nice. Good looking garden

The gouges look suspiciously the same size. Perhaps someone took out some anger on it with a golf club or machete???

I am ready to try Licuala again. I just love the look of them . I think there are a couple that would work now that I have a canopy and great protection in certain areas of my garden . I am thinking , maybe , start with L. Ramsayi. @DoomsDave has a beauty and we have very similar climates. Floribunda has some and when my buddy gets back from Japan in June we are going in on an order of palms. Harry

I would plant Sabal minor (or both species?). I've often said you can landscape a whole yard with S. minor cultivars so your choices are many. Needle palms are relict palms from the Pleistocene that some palm experts claim were aided reproductively by now extinct giant sloths - bears are thought to do that chore now. Whether they are on the way to extinction themselves I don't know but they are what they are - no cultivars or varieties unlike Sabal minors. While they are beautiful and tough in their own right I have discovered that they don't thrive in my SWFL sweltering, ferocious sun climate. I believe my winters are not cold enough for them. I have been unable to keep a needle alive long term even in shade and given up on them - 3 strikes put this species out of my lineup. If I were you I would experiment with both species and report the results to PT. If more people did that we'd learn a lot more faster.

Dypsis can take months to germinate here . I understand , especially if it is something you’re not that interested in . Me ? I would probably scoop a few up and plant around the garden . That’s just me . I still scatter C. Radicalis seeds around! Harry Near the Chamaedorea Plumosa to the right and Dypsis Basilonga on the left are a few C. Radicalis in a community pot and in the garden behind in the Plumosa . I have more C. Radicalis seeds that I will be planting soon. Never a dull moment at Harry’s Palms!

Looking great Bob.

San Diego is the best but Southern California is very friendly to a lot of palms . I have been at this house in Santa Paula , on the south facing hill for about 30 years . Our climate zone has officially changed from 9b to 10a . I have never had frost in my garden , only on the car , in the north side a couple of times . What makes San Diego so much better is a bit more humidity than I get , and a bit more warmth. Harry

It must prefer the Cali mediterranean climate to FL swelter. I will take photos soon. I didn't know they split. Is it male or female?

Nice way to start the middle of the week ….a walk around @happypalms jungle ! Thank you Richard . I see so many lovely things . Now , off to work at my secret underground grind shop where I make cool little cutting tools and listen to music all day long . Life is good. Plant more palms , watch them grow , ride my bike , work , repeat . Harry

I would freeze to death down there, so I can’t see why a grub wouldn’t. Organic xtra the pelletised chicken poo is a no no in my garden it has all that extra potash and stuff. I have burned palms before with it. So now it’s just dynamic lifter for me it is only sawdust and chicken poo. The organic xtra not for me and my garden. This is where a garden diary is handy to have, what did I do and when certainly helps.

Probably not fertilizer...I only use organics but just thinking about this, I did put a decent heap of dynamic lifter or some similar chook poop fertilizer on them a while back. Maybe phosphorus burn? Can't imagine it was enough to cause that amount of damage though?? Cane grubs would freeze to death down here, wouldn't they Richard!?!

Agreed, I reckon it's a goner, just wondering why, and like you mentioned, it would be good to prevent any further infections. I'll look into Rhizoctonia and Thielaviopsis, thanks for the heads up.

I can’t see any harm in feeding your cycas a slow release fertiliser. Like us humans we need a supplemental diet now and then!

The climate you have is wonderful for flowers.

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thanks my friend !

Absolutely beautiful!

Nice flowers gyuseppe!

Up the back yard near the propagating hothouse is the sancona, it endures many a tough time and is in need of a good feed. But finally after 26 years we have a trunk forming. Some palms in my climate just want water, this one is in a dry spot without irrigation donuts done quite well considering the circumstances it grows under, basically in the bush!

Hmm no fertiliser I take it. Phytophera I suspect! Patch of dead grass African black beetle grub may have had a go at the roots or even eaten up the middle to the heart, that cane grub is a pain.

Check for Rhizoctonia or Thielaviopsis. Imo this plant is already a goner, at least take advantage of its demise and bring the whole plant to an expert for autopsy and biopsy. Sorry to say it, but it is is possible that fungus will spread out in the future to the rest of your palms through mycelia unless you resort to biological or chemical prevention. But first you have to make sure of the culprit. Btw my first fulva in the ground had the same death symptoms. I did not verify the actual death cause, of which omission am still very sorry, but this particular part of the garden was heavily infested by Rhizoctonia.

Pinanga sarawakensis.

One tough plant, as me very easy to grow just add drainage and sunshine. These ones are 25 years old that just sat around in containers for years, then finally planted in the ground.