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Some blueberries on the dreadlocks. Also my breakfast raspberry substitute off the guava tree. Yellow.

50/50 on that one @Jonathan you could grow kiwi fruit, but as for coconuts. I think you should try at least just to show us your refrigerator grow skills!

Here’s the duo of both varieties, slow in my climate, water lovers and Iam surprised they have taken temperatures as low as 2 degrees celcius. Both varieties planted in the ground and rostrata seems to be wining the race in growing the best.

Clearly an AI image...a slice of kiwifruit on top of a coconut!

Great song, great album!

I didn't have any stormy weather at my house yesterday but it did start to rain around 4:30 and continued for at least 2 hours. It was light steady rain, the kind that really soaks in. The closest county rain gauge read 0.5". This is my 3rd summer here and the first that I'm getting rain, its really awesome.

Hydriastele splendida living up to its name. Tim

Hey Brad, you might give it another go. Mine burned literally for years before acclimating to its full sun location. I should have took the hint that in habit it lives its young life on the forest floor in considerable shade. Well, now it’s a neck breaker. I need to post an updated photo, it will give me something to do. Tim

Calyptrocalyx albertisianus popped a new leaf. Blue sky……a rarity lately. Tim

Brassia Edvah Loo 'Nishida’. These take up so much room in the house. I have three of them. In the winter, I always want to throw them out. But when they bloom, I love them all over again.

I figured they were probably doomed but I'll hang on to them for now. I've seen other types of plants that start white and green up over time so I was wondering if anyone had seen it happen with these.

This is exactly why i kinda veered away from palms. There's not a huge demand here, and what will live here takes forever to grow. I figured I'd sell banana pups and colocssias etc locally and keep some stuff for mail order. And i also make sure i have stuff nobody else has. Lol my banana pups seem to grow too big to ahip@happypalms. The fun part is when i buy bulbs, i usually dont know what I've got until they sprout. I've had the worst luck with caladiums.

They're such drama queens. I haven't touched them in months, that seems to be the key. Calatheas are righr behind them.

All did not go well, mine didn’t get much bigger before death.

Was checking on the progress of some Iriartea seed and noticed they were beginning to germinate. The embryonic leaf, cotyledon, is cute as a ‘button.’ The one seed in the group already has a ‘radicle’, the embryonic root. Just some FYI. This palm is a beast. Tim

I had one spot in my last yard where it seemed a dead zone for planting a smallish palm both the palm and its replacement died. When I dug to plant a big palm at the same site, I found construction debris, all kinds of stuff cauking acartridges etc,. I have spots in my yard now that don't drain particularly well along a designed drainage path. A few years back(4-5) we had 23 inches of rain in august, raining 22 days in a row and a 25 foot bismarck got sick and it was attacked by weevils, dead in less than a month. The phoenix rupicola next to it was fine with the soggy soil, didnt miss a beat. Different species will often have different susceptibilities. The fungus spores are all around your yard, they have impacted just a few palms at most. A soil chemistry/composition test might tell you something, but I would also take a sample or two from near healthy washies to compare. If I was going to take a test I would dig down at least one foot for the soil, dont take surface soil.

With a bit of nagging and only to the mainland.

Does babypalms send again to Greece?

Update: Been busy this past week and haven’t had chance to check on the spores. So I have some good and bad news, some has continued growing are getting bigger and some are brown. Now I could be wrong, but I think the ones that are brown have already been fertilized and are beginning to grow their first true frond. Coincidentally, the browning ones are the oldest ones of the batch, so hopefully I’m right.

If you are after young seedlings, I have bought several times from palms.de and also babypalms.eu and I am very happy with the plants that I received.

Probably doomed. There is some indication that a mycorrhizal drench can help plants better uptake nutrients to create chlorophyll. Kind of an indirect way to see if you can swing the scales toward life. Still questionable, but not a bad experiment if you want to try.

My experiment in using the Ravenea julietiae pollen on my Ravenea glauca female flowers failed to produce any seed. I will have to wait for one of my other Ravenea julietiae to hopefully turn out to be a female or for a friend nearby to have a female. Here is the Ravenea glauca female inflorescence I tried pollinating.

Mike, I posted some photos of my male Ravenea julietiae and male Ravenea glauca inflorescence and flowers. I have both male and female Ravenea glauca and have had success pollinating the female resulting in many seedlings in the past. Hopefully these visuals will assist you in determining if yours match the male or females of these fellow Ravenea species. The Ravenea julietiae photo actually shows both an actively flowering infloresence and a spent one in the process of dessicating. From March 2025: I assumed that my Ravenea julietiae is male due to similarities between its flowers and those of my male Ravenea glauca. Glauca flowers and inflorescence are much whiter. Both are blooming now.

Also, yucca-palm in Spain ships all over the EU, as does coldpalm.nl. There is also a site called garden palms or something similar. Sometimes the box stores ie B&Q in Ireland ship canaries to Irish addresses.

@DrZnaturallyhopefully you get a nicer specimen with a long, warm late/summer autumn growth period before the protection goes up again. Maybe El Niño winter will help 2026-27? Best of luck and keep us all updated on its progress