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Harry, all but one are planted as of today. One more to go into the ground. I rarely keep any palms potted for long. I don’t like to wait until summer. I did put the Pinanga coronata palms into a big decorative pot however.

I have several Yapa and in shade also which is healthy the one you are showing is definitely a Yapa

Hey Mike, looking great...everything has grown so well! Congratulations. Time to get the walnut tree festooned with bromeliads and orchids to complete rainforest transition. Did that Butia odorata that we dug up from down here survive?

The only coconuts I have found that are still alive in my Orlando stomping grounds are the coconuts adjacent to the Sapphire Falls hotel by the man-made lagoon. Basically every other zone 10b palms are dead. Most foxtails are dead, kings all dead.

I have 5 acres but that’s on hillside so more land really, as they measure land flat and with a hillside you get that extra land due to the slope. So about 7 acres give or take, but plenty of room to garden in which is about 2.5 acres of garden!

Greetings from the happypalms garden centre where we aim to please, I look on palmtalk and every now and then even I need a fix of some tropical bling! Richard

I am curious if other SoCal gardens have had their KO’s bloom and/or set viable seed? This is by far the biggest and best flower mine has set.

How much land do you have btw @happypalms?

Yes that winter that hit the US made the news here in Australia. Very rarely we get a black frost hits our area, two in 27 years. But that’s the one that goes the damage. So I feel for the gardeners who have lost advanced palms and plants in the Florida area and the rest of the US due that harsh weather that hit the US. Iam sure I will lose a few varieties from zone pushing but that’s growing palms. But iam also sure I will have some good unknown winners as well that will live. And that’s what it’s about expanding the collection and the growing range of palms once unheard of in cultivation, and that’s a great thing for the introduction of whew varieties of palms, you have to try. Hopefully healthy seedlings gives them an advantage in the cold.

I’m sure they mean to help but as you have correctly judged this is exactly what you should not do. The notion that yellow leaves are “stressful” to a plant is a common misconception spread among the houseplant community. But in reality cutting firmly attached yellowing leaves is doing more harm than good, you’re taking away leaves that may still have stored nutrients and may have some photosynthetic ability left. When you do this repeatedly without fertilizer it creates a constant cycle of yellowing. Now of course you will be fertilizing it but still it’s better to let the plant consume the leaves energy naturally and cut it off when it’s brown.

Hi Harry yes the dreaded old man winter is coming, autumn for my garden I get a lot of good growth from coming out of summer and all the high root activity from the heat, then when autumn hits the new spears are starting to crack open. But iam sure winter will take its toll on the new seedlings. Richard

Hey Meg. Would love to have seeds or seedlings if ever available.

I think you're probably correct. Hillebrandii, based on leaf shape, green back of leaves & being the most common cultivated species. Could possibly be one of the less common ones like forbesiana, but hard to know for sure until it's bigger & flowers.

I agree with Sabal yapa

Unwrapped her/him April 1.

Thank you for the response! will be getting this in the ground this weekend. Thank you for the advise. BTW nice looking palm how old is yours?

Mex. Fans, CA. Fans, CIDP and the far and few between Brahea = about as common in San Jose as they are down south and among the 1st palms i also noticed growing up.. That said, it was the ..much rarer ..up there, at the time at least, King Palms that really caught my eye. Somewhere, i have sketches i'd done while in middle school of imagined neighborhoods full of King and other skinnier, feather -type palms.. ..With maybe a few Fan-ys scattered in the backgrounds. On trips to / thru S. Cal / San Diego, Kentia drew my eyes to them like a moth to a flame, every time ..rather than the well known " CA. " palms. After many years of seeing lots of other options that are out there since that time, it is still Kings and specific palms seen with that kind of profile that get a bigger 's up compared to others. Rest? they get a general " that's interesting " nod, ..but aren't anything i'd plant in my own yard. Only thing time has done is confirmed my experiences with Canaries when younger.. Decent option for parks / large estates ..Not a chance in ..anywhere.. i'd ever plant one ..or 99% of the other Phoenix sps.. in my own yard, ever. lol. ...That said, fruits made excellent artillery as a kid.. Queens? Never all that impressed with them. ..even the nicest looking in my own neighborhood back in San Jose got a 🤷🏽‍♂️ when seen. Foxtails? ..I'll take a Royal instead. Better yet? ..A Foxy Lady ...or 5, ha ha.

Your palm is not a Pritchardia. I’ll leave it to others to determine if it’s a Sabal or not. Tim

Leaves once damaged never improve. Just wait for the summer heat.

Growing in full sunlight, Santa Barbara CA. I'm guessing Pritchardia based on the leaf shape. Fronds are about 3' wide, the whole tree is under 5' tall. It's on a hillside, so it's difficult to photograph. Could it possibly be P. hillebrandii?

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Ack! May your winter be kinder to you than to us here in FL. The damage is well on its way and will continue for months. I lost my favorite palm: Areca catechu Dwarf planted in my yard for years. Im heartbroken but palm life goes on. A 7-10 stretch of nights in the mid- upper-30s did it in and almost killed my Tahina (unless it did but neither Tahina nor I know it yet). A lot of people in FL will see damage and death over the coming weeks & months but don't know it yet. We have been working for weeks to rehab shabby gardens barely maintained over the past 2-3 years before the heat/swelter of summer backs us off. Your seedlings look great.