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A stunner indeed! I bet it doesn't take frost, like all stunners.

The super rare draceana goldieana! Absolutely gorgeous plants to have in the garden. Slow growing though.

What is that leopard-like plant in the last photo?

@Brodogfish It's fairly difficult to read and requires me to use a magnifying glass. I'll see what I can do.

this is the downside of C. oliviformis, slow recovery from cold events. They are also slow when small. After trunking they pick up some speed.

Heat is on thing iam used to, although it may be subtropical my climate, it can be unbearable in summer with temperatures reaching 42 degrees celcius and the humidity we get can be like the tropical climate. As discussed before you can never really water enough with a hose, it just seems to keep everything alive in those conditions that you describe. Spend all day watering in the heat and then do it again the next day. I enjoy seeing the other gardens on palm talk, some real beautiful gardens out there in the world and some great gardeners as well. I learn a lot from seeing other gardens and talking with gardeners you learn even more about plants and gardening. Won’t be long you will be in winter and cursing the cold weather damaging your new palms , the palm growers enemy hot and cold too much of it either way and the plants suffer. Richard

Nice photos , I really enjoy your virtual garden tours . My reprieve from our current weather condition. I am hoping our weeks long heat wave softens a bit so I can do a bit more time in our garden . It seems , by the time I get the watering done , it is just too hot and muggy to work. Some of our palms are starting to show signs of heat stress . The humidity , which we are not used to , is exhausting. The lack of “cool down” at night is very unusual for us. Thank you for the visual break. Harry

Time to plant the daruma, a Japanese clivia variety that’s variegated. Like all clivia this one should be easy enough to grow.

About $1/lb for the thieves. They can do up to 1000 lbs/day per person.

Just one lone daffodil, that’s all I could get this winter. Just not that cold. But a pretty one at that.

Heterospathe barfordi, young new leaf showing a bit of colour.

Chucking a few more seeds in, this lot a gift from a palmtalk member, carpoxylon macrospermum. All were floaters so I decided to crack them open. With only one dead seed and the rest all good to go!

6 acres of land and about 2.5 acres is taken by the garden. The garden is about 30 years old. Iam currently expanding the garden and renovating it along with doing the understory.

That's crazy, there must be some real money in it to go to that effort?

Very envious of your gardens Richard. How big is your property if you don’t mind me asking?

Here's an updated pic! Also to the OP: I'm not the best with Attalea, but it looks more like A. butyracea to me.

I checked my photo archive and only have one photo of one! Here's a Chamaedorea hooperiana growing not too far from you at SFBG.

With winter practically over the garden faired well. A very mild winter to say the least.

You take on the responsibility of a pet, and it’s for that pets entire life. They’re family members alright!

The taitungensis putting out an end of winter flush.

The good old lepidozamia peroffskyana about to drop seeds.

Little licuala triphylla with a few seeds, iguanura wallachiana var major seedling. And a nice Sabal mauritiformis.

Spring has sprung and it’s time to start potting up what’s been germinating over winter. A lot of licuala in this batch . I do know when it comes to Licualas dont mix them up keep them tagged and separated. Because as seedlings and juvenile plants they are practically impossible to identify.

Pinanga declinata east of Kon Tum

Pinanga Kontumensis east of Kon Tum