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It's going to be a hot day today! Right now it's 75 and the humidity is 82

I have miracle Gro shake and feed. Would that work?

I have found archies to be very good for making multiples and I use a more dense planting than my other crownshafts. They love water so planting in multiples can make it easier to keep them moist. We have a dry spring here and they will get pale if I dont add consistent irrigation for them to look good. Other than that they are easy to keep happy in my yard. My archi8es are currently kind of tall(25-30') cant get em in a pic unobstructed so pictures are. I looked back to 2011 a year after I planted my alexandre triple and then a pic from 2019 where they grew in a bit. Here is the pic a little over a year after planting from 3 gallons, they were quite fast. Note the whitish undersi8des of the leaves in morning sun, hard to see the whitish undersides today as little sun hits them at 30' tall with everything grown in.. second pic 2019 shows how they grew in in 8 years(in 2019) since planting. today they are much larger of course, trunks are over 20' clear and bases are swollen to 17-18" thick.

Perhaps you have just eaten an Alien!😂

I have texted my buddy. That will be the next project.

Looking great in their new spots

Coccothrinax miraguama. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Just had a lunch with my work mates. Very similar like this recipe just without carrots 😊🥂 White wine with sparkling water 50:50 as a beverage

I don’t mind protecting our environment, but $950 for 40 seeds that are sort of common and obtainable. For that sort of money I could have purchased a few good sabinara seeds. Yes plant as many rare palms as I can for future seeds.

Too look at both varieties as seedlings you would be hard pressed to tell the difference. Both easy growing palms just add water. The hainensis are from rps and the nana are from my garden. Both beautiful palms when mature. Chuniophoenix hainensis Chuniophoenix nana

950 Australian dollars. That's a lot of money. I understand it's important not to introduce invasive species. Richard, the only thing you can do is sow as many species as possible so that you can have seeds in Australia in the future.

A somewhat bit of a rare Howea species, there about the place if you look hard enough. But not that common, the fosteriana got all attention and the bell was left second place. A nice palm with that punk look about it!

A somewhat bit of a rare Howea species, there about the place if you look hard enough. But not that common, the fosteriana got all attention and the bell was left second place. A nice palm with that punk look about it!

A hot dry spot is just what these cycas species will be living in. A 28 year old Ferox that has lived its whole life in the container finally got freedom today. And a nice cycas media just for good measure. And dioon spinolosum just for some fun.

This is there way of explaining the costs!

Yep that’s the way it is, our bio security is for good reason, and I respect that reason!

Don’t muck with customs in Australia, and the whole stuff up wasn’t even my fault!

Gotta get them to germinate yet!

Anchovies in the oven with olive oil , lemon juice, oreganum, salt n pepper, plus a layer on top of pomodorini slices.

I’ll wear the cost. We have a pretty good track record with very rare introductions of catastrophic insects of recently times. What’s happening to Pritchardia sp in Hawaii for example is pretty sad (not saying there aren’t measures in place there, but Aus is as strict as anywhere).

@DoomsDave and @gyuseppe I fear Italians prefer in the garden only salumi and other antipasti.

at Coffs Harbour. Spoiler alert: these specimens are in a glasshouse but nice nevertheless.

Wow, glad I don't live "down" there. To much government intervention in life.

Atleast they're nice fast growers🙃 you can self supply in the future

I finally got my seeds, ordered on the 26-1-26, so I finally get them into my grubby little cultivation fingers today 15-4-26, not to bad considering customs and a lovely delay that they provided me with. But wait theres more to this story of 50 seeds, total cost of this project was wait for it $950 Australian dollars. The delay and the lovely bill from customs was $620 dollars. Three varieties of seeds where ordered and one lot of ten seeds was seized. It’s fun importing seeds and even more fun knowing how many will germinate from the 40 seeds I have left, if they do germinate they will be very exspensive little seedlings. That’s growing palms could have been worse I germinate all of the seeds and the rats get them. Luck of the Irish on this one!