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My Butia has a few plants that grow on the trunk and I try to remove them but they are difficult to deal with . Yours looks great and as long as no harm comes to the host , let it be. Interesting that the Butia does this but my large Sabal doesn’t have a single plant growing in the leaf bases. It seems way more common with Butia . Harry

That is very unique. I have never seen one.Harry

No personal experience , but I’ve seen a Phoenix Reclinata/ Roebelini cross . It was a single stem , 15’ tall beauty with a more relaxed leaf than the Reclinata but larger frond than Roebelini. Harry

Not working when it’s for palms! Richard

I have been given plenty of Phoenix rupicola pollen by @gilles06 and used it to pollinate female Phoenix roebelenii and female f1 Phoenix loureiroi x Phoenix roebelenii Unfortunately I had overseen that my Phoenix loureiroi was also blooming and missed the opportunity to create an f1 hybrid of loureiroi x rupicola. I have also used pollen from my male Phoenix roebelenii to back-cross my female f1 Phoenix roebelenii x Phoenix dactylifera. Latter, although it blooms regularly end of winter to start of spring, occasionally produces one or two odd inflorescences also during summer, like this year! @gyuseppe it seems, that your wishes will be fulfilled this year! And finally I have used pollen from the same male roebelenii to pollinate an inflorescence of a Phoenix reclinata You may disclose here your own plans for hybrids creation.

Sabal Yapa

Chamaerops cerifera

A native 'weed' down here too Richard, two metres high in 6 months! Short lived, but good quick cover, I like 'em.

Here are two that I have been growing (or allowing to grow). Seeds from RPS in December 2006, two planted out on a hillside in April 2016. Here they are from above: And from below: The backstory is that both were seriously damaged a year or so ago by the collapse in a windstorm of a large "albizia" tree in my neighbor's yard. They were covered by tree branches and most of the leaves were stripped off. But the stems were undamaged and the palms have grown back almost to their state before the event. (The "albizias" have since been removed.)

Agree with the above, everything looks great! That Thaumatophyllum in particular looks pretty nice growing up it like that.

I'd leave it too Alberto, looks great to me!

Glad your robustas are recovering well. I am also crossing my fingers for now snow or ice this coming winter. 🤞

A nice Chambeyronia and the good old dypsis onilihanses stems doing what they do best!

Marojejya darinii pushing a strong spear for winter!

A very unusual way of clumping the rhizomatosa. They just start a vegative shoot and head for the ground and pop up further away from the parent plant. It’s still a rare palm, I have removed small plants and they are quite easy to keep alive. A very unique palm, with its rhizomes.

It was time for an AC unit 5 years ago. Generally speaking, London is warmer than Los Angeles by day and night in summer nowadays. Temperatures actually underperformed here during the last heatwave in June. We just about scraped 100 degrees F on 29th June. How long until the next 40C / 104F arrives though...? It is just relentless in the models nowadays. I have even seen 45C / 115F appear on modelling recently, for southwestern England, which is just unprecedented. And it suggests under an optimum setup these temperatures may be possible today... El Nino summers are typically supposed to be cool, wet and cloudy looking at the analogs in previous decades. But it looks like that signal has been completely eroded away nowadays by the aggressive warm-summer Med (Csb) climate transition. Basically parts out southern England will be going a month plus without any rainfall if this comes to fruition. And I wouldn't bet on August having much, if any, rainfall either. Surprisingly the fires haven't been too bad here, so far...

Thanks Mike. Yes, these are Obi Island form or are supposed to be. You know, I don’t ever remember seeing any other form from all of our garden tour travels. Tim

Thanks chill! Good luck. Tim

I think that is a good idea too

And perhaps a few tough cycas species for a bit of ground eye candy. More orchids as well. A

Just leave it for mother nature to sort, it looks fine the ecosystem you create will balance it all out. And I would also plant more palms of course, a few smaller lytocarum palms some chamaedoreas put a few Platycerium around on a few of the trunks. And a few bromeliads for a bit of humidity and colour.

Loosely stack it back, place some type posts either side in line with the position you want. Then tie it in place loosely with a little movement this will help it anchor itself better with a little movement.

I can move it back a few inches without too much effort, so relatively firm but I’m not sure I’d say super firm.

I’m curious to get to know the "spirit" of this palmtalk group—made up of palm enthusiasts, people who love Nature, gardeners, botanists, ecologists, landscape designers maybe and so on. I am cleaning the trunks of various palms, including these Butia odorata x Parajubaea cocoides hybrids. I am removing and sawing off old leaf bases, fibers and the accumulated organic matter ("soil"), as well as ferns and young strangler fig seedlings, while leaving behind any orchids that were planted there or grew there naturally. There is another Butia odorata x P. cocoides hybrid, standing well apart from those three, where a guaimbé—or banana-de-macaco—has been growing for quite some time; it is a native plant here (*Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum*, formerly known as Philodendron selloum) that was planted by birds. I’ve often thought about cleaning up the palm’s trunk to improve its appearance, but then I think: "_No, just leave it natural." At other times, I think: "_Do something about that—tidy it up!" If I do clean it, I’ll have to cut through many of the adventitious roots anchoring the guaimbé to the palm... ***What would you do? 1- Clean the whole palm, remove the " guaimbé" and replant it to another site. 2- Clean the whole palm and try to replant it on the same spot. 3- Let it like it is, make some superficial cleanings on the trunk.what would you do?