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I also have some real special palms at home, that where given to me as seedlings that need to grown before they can go in, plus theres the rare stuff I have in my collection give it another 5 years and then the garden will really be underway. They also want to go around the whole garden and identify all the palms they have just as a revised checklist. As things die or get misidentified. Even yesterday there was two palms with lost tags, I had some sort of an idea but when it comes to a botanical garden it’s a lot more important than just guessing. I was with Colin Wilson in Sydney botanical gardens and even there palms were mislabeled it mostly happens when staff are cleaning up or renovating around the palms the label gets moved and just put back on any palm in the case of found signs accidentally moved during gardening activities. Richard

Mid winter in Melbourne and it’s the Ceroxylon sp. opening new fronds catching my eye. C echinulatum C alpinum C quindiuense C amazonicum C vogelianum

I have a seedling, but it's not in a hurry...

A toasty, ..but not awful ( ..except when breeziness stops, lol ) 103 -108F around town at 2:51PM under passing, but slowly increasing high clouds.. Clouds, courtesy of ..what is left of Douglas.. will continue to increase thru the rest of the afternoon / evening, and stick around thru the day tomorrow, helping to limit what could've been another open oven door kinda 4th, to something a bit more manageable. While it isn't listed in the current forecasts, keep a close eye on the UA WRF HRRR runs tomorrow.. While it may not add up to more than a few sprinkles, locally at least, reasonably consistent thinking from the HRRR runs over the last few days suggest " spit ", ...here or there tonight thru Sunday morning.... can't be totally ruled out as thicker moisture ( still confined to the mid high levels ) passes through town. 2 fer 1 special Sat imagery today lays out why.... What is left of Douglas, sending a decent plume of high and mid level moisture our way.. Low level circulation entertains fish out over the Pacific. At the same time, bit more of an increase in activity / N.W.-ward flow down across Sonora today that might trigger gravity wave - induced disturbances that could provide enough lift in the mid levels to spark another round of widely isolated late night / morning sprinkles / bolt or two as such a disturbance gets caught up in some weak " out of the south " flow and pushes through Cen. AZ. if that even occurs at all.. If some of the more aggressive HRRR runs pan out, might even be a chance for a little more activity tomorrow evening.. We'll see... As decent of a job as the HRRR can do picking up on near -term precip chances, it can also overhype it's thinking/ a given outcome, just like any other WX model ...so, I'll be watching, regardless.. Never pass on even remote opportunities for surprise bolts " Better " chances for storms < mainly dry, even up there, however > up in the mountains, esp. east and south of town thru the weekend. Oven Door opens again down here, starting on Monday, while Dew Points start a slow climb back to where they should be atm thru the week. Hot in T- Town too, but with more clouds ( and a storm or two perhaps??? ) around As the 4C High starts building back over the area, first ...good... signs of an uptick in Monsoonal activity return to the mountains, and S. AZ starting sometime next week, ..Slowly < ...ever so slowly... > inching their way closer to the valley as we head toward next weekend.. ..Per the current thinking ..which of course, is subject to change. As usual, this idea shows up best the closer you get to the border... Today's 14 day and 3 week thoughts..... Fingers crossed......

It appears I have a lot more leaves to grow before my ones look like that beauty in sunny Hawaii!

half inch last night and just a little spray today. The clouds are appreciated, there was no bright sun for the garden to deal with.

Thanks Guys. I will discard it.

Looks very tropical, I don't think it would grow well.

Can't remember how closely related Hura is to Manchaneel but like it, ..green fruits / seeds, and milky sap produces toxic compounds that can burn skin. Could be one reason why you don't see them sold in nurseries there. Folks growing them may have obtained them by passing seed around / collecting off wild trees. Wonder how Sterculia apetala ( Panama Tree ) would do there..

Have always liked these medium sized palms and fast growers in my location. Produce seed regularly, providing offspring for other locations in the garden. The pair of taller palms in the one photo are the mother plants for the smaller plants. Tim

This Thai palm has been in the ground awhile now and the large, attractive,segmented leaves are pliable and relaxed rather than stiff and thick. Well behaved and good scale. Me likes this one. Tim

It spouts here in South Florida every day. I just reached down in my yard and pulled out a dozen in one hand and I don't even have a royal palm on my property.

Anybody having issues uploading pics? I keep getting error 200. I remember way back in the day I had to text photos to myself to reduce the file size but it works with some big files and doesn't work with some smaller files.

Ehhhhhh like 5 of the grocery store seeds made it. None of the cool stuff @WaianaeCrider sent me survived. They're such divas and not easy at all to balance moisture and airflow. I did buy a couple Red Ladies and a Hovey from Wellspring. They're all in 5g now, the Red Ladies are in full sun and the Hovey is still on the carport. The Red Ladies are really taking off but it's probably too hot for them and time to feed them. I'm trying to upload pics of the elephant ear bulbs @N8ALLRIGHT sent me but I'm not getting cooperation. I finally sold the last 2 and I have a volunteer from my soil dump pile. At some point some Pink Dragon alocasias will pop up from there. Anyway, as always, more stuff on the evil sites.

Beautiful Jim! Tim

@STEMI That's awesome. Congrats! What's the plan for winter? I have the first couple of H. latispatha starting to flower here, a little earlier than I expected for some given they all froze to the ground in January. I need to get my H. rostrata rhizome I started in the ground.

I am also worried I planted them too deep. I was rushing planting them because I was on a time crunch. They are planted lower than the traditional soil level that surrounds them. I may have planted the root ball too deep that could cause suffocation. (It’s probably about 1-2 inches too deep) How major are these problems? There doesn’t seem to be a good way to fix it other than pulling them up and re planting.

I remember collecting seed of one of these in the Yucatan peninsula back when I thought that this was a Ceiba or something from Bombacoideae, the pod that looks like a pumpkin didn't explode but it had been eaten and was non viable.

Drove by the filifera in Clayton, NC today. It’s looking really good

H. polyandra or crepitans would be the only two choices in the Genus, w/ poly having the wider distribution across Mex. between the two. ( H. crepitans = Caribbean Basin / southern Cen AM / Northern S. AM. ) Interesting tree regardless though i might be mindful of where they are planted ( Seeds are released quite violently, hence one of it's other names being " Dynamite Tree " ) YT short vid discussing it. Seed can be flung at a rate up to 160mph/ 240km/h https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZWGFQ-K67jc Have seen specimens of these growing in Baja when street view touring ...and in Sonora, so i'd imagine surviving in S. TX. should be pretty easy.

I thought I had killed this clump of rostrata by putting it into the ground too early. It got absolutely pummeled by the cold and wind and all of the stalks started snapping and dying. Look out pitiful the clump looks as a Look out pitiful the clump looks as a whole 😂 After all of that, I’m proud to say that I finally have a a rostrata putting out an inflorescence!

Thank you all! As one who enjoys botanical gardens , even when on holiday , I often try to picture the volunteers responsible for the enjoyment of others. A day spent touring one of these treasures is a day well spent. Harry

My Cyphophoenix Nucele has been slow to start but plugging along , as they say. I have a similar climate to Jim and I anticipate a nice growth rate once the C. Nucele and Chambeyronia Pyroformis get established . The New Caledonia palms give a tropical feel to a temperate garden. Harry

The beauty of the pinkish inflorescence on a King palm . The first time I’ve seen the flower open before the leaf base falls . The color was lost a bit when I zoomed in to capture the image , but it sure is colorful to the eye. . It looks like I will be germinating more Archontophoenix . Harry I have quite a few babies from this palm . The Cunninghamiana has a pinkish inflorescence , unlike the white color of the Alexandrae in our courtyard.

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