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Snow occasionally but rarer now a days, frozen rain though for sure more often than snow! 🥶

Do strap leaf seedlings of this sp have more succulent leaves than say seedlings of Brahea?

you’re telling me that grows in europe where 79 degrees is hot but that don’t grow here in Jersey 🫩

When patience pays off: 75F + a 75 Deg Dew Point and 90% Humidity at 9:27PM under lingering showers and light breezes ..after about 2 hours of steady rain ..After more dust.. ....We'll se what it all added up to, ....and whether or not we might add to today's totals, tomorrow..

thank ye

Robert, they all look fantastic! Thanks for posting.

It is odd. It was my largest plumeria with a trunk diameter about 6". Funny thing is it is the one I did what was recommended. Cut it back before rot worked down. My other i keft alone until May before cutting and it came back from the base. Go figure.

I completely understand and find myself wanting to make the palm look better. Dead brown hanging leaves are ugly.

I wish I didn’t plant the Grandiflora under the royal. It gets blasted by dropping leaves

Kogi, hapala, dumasii, grandiflora growing great here in Vista/Bonsall.

Likely Bambusa multiplex "fernleaf" just because its so readily available here through Houston Garden Center. They have a ton of locations, plus people sell this variety on Marketplace regularly.

Potting up a few Ceroxylon parvifrons. The root systems on these things are impressive already. Skipping my standard 50mm tubes and 70mm pots for these ones, they are going straight into 90mm containers.

Yeah I’d say that’s right. That Burringbar grove is on a slope which aids drainage. I’ve found it’s often the cold and wet combination that’s the issue. When I started growing palms, many species were thought not to cope with Melbourne winters, even things like Chambeyronia macrocarpa which is now known to be pretty much bulletproof in a variety of planting positions. Species like Bismarckia nobilis and Chrysalidocarpus decaryi languish in boggy soils here especially if not in full sun, but give them a sunny, well drained position and they don’t even flinch in winter.

Yes that looks fine . That pic was very tricky. Dig down and check soil moisture and see if roots look healthy otherwise give it time

@Banana Belt I see this a lot with local Sabals. The ones in natural forests here are usually full crown but all the fronds below about halfway down are dead and crispy brown. But they fall off complete with the boot in time and leave a completely smooth trunk. Only the Sabals in people's yards still have boots, for the most part. It's probably because people cut off the frond and then gravity doesn't pull the boot off, like you said. I routinely cut off brown or cold-damaged fronds for cosmetic or clearance issues. But I try to not tear off boots until they are ready to fall off. If I'm pruning stuff and the boots just peel off easy then I'll peel them off until I find one with some resistance, and stop there. The only exception is stuff like a Bottle palm, where I use a razor knife and super sharp shears to carefully snip off the old boots. I might clean up old boots on a Bismarck or Alfredii for similar cosmetic reasons...and because the giant flying cockroaches ("palmetto bugs") love to live in the rotting old boots...

I've had a sago for about 15 years. It seemed okay, with a new flush about once per year. Although the fronds often seemed to dry, turning brown at the tips of the pinnules, and the vibrant green turned more of a yellow-green. I was told it needed more shade (which it finally now has from an adjacent mule palm). A few years ago, my wife hired someone to prune our trees, and they only left two layers of fronds, which I thought was too little. It stopped flushing for a few years, along with the pups. No new growth at all. Someone told me he thought it was dying. Last year, I tried to nurse it back to health with more water and high-nitrogen water-soluble fertilizer, not that I know what I'm doing, but it worked. The pups started to flush first, and after years of no new growth, it started to flush two months ago. Questions: 1) For the fronds drying and turning brown at the tips, could that be due to under watering, as opposed to not enough shade? 2) Someone told me that sagos need very little water, and he turns off irrigation to his sagos for 6 months of the year. How do I know if I am over or under watering my sago? 3) The pups have been thriving, and now even my pups have pups. Do people usually let the pups grow, or do they "de-pup" their sagos?

Worth a shot but you get snow don’t you! 🥶

Encephalartos Kisambo flush progressing nicely

A good indicator with a lot palms, in this case pinanga genus, coronata no worries so a lot of other pinanga varieties are going to do well which I have found out in my climate. Calyptrocalyx the same you just have to find which varieties will tolerate the cool some do some dont. But through zone pushing you find them , pick a genus that has survived in your climate and in some cases there are a lot other varieties in that genus that will live. Oh a heated hothouse, let me dream, dreams can come true. But so far there nightmares of dead palms.🤣

Encephalartos “true blue” Arenarius pup throwing a 5 leafer. I have only tried to propagate 3 Encephalartos pups and I’m batting 1000 so it seems pretty foolproof. I started this one about a year ago from a softball sized pup so patience is the name of the game.

I probably would if it didn't require protection, I have such a handful of palms that I already have to maintain through the winter and my acoelorraphe is as much as I could possibly handle as of now when it comes to marginal clumping palm. 😂

Here’s a tray in the hothouse doing well, I think it’s the cold and wet combination doing them in @tim_brissy_13 , I have seen temperatures drop to 2 degrees celcius in burringbar, my temperature at the bottom of my property this morning was 2 degrees celcius this morning. It’s the cold wet conditions that do them in not air temperature.

Most of us grow palms for their aesthetic value and for me and many of us, dried up brown persistent fronds are a detriment to that. A lush green garden versus one that has lots of dead hanging foliage, hmm, which one do I want to look at and be in? Fortunately most of my palms are self cleaning but many, such as Parajubaea, Livistona, Syagrus, Trachycarpus, Phoenix, and others are not so I trim off yellowed leaves. Rhopalostylis, on the other hand, often shed their oldest frond while still green and quite heavy. The stems and old boots of virtually all the palms that are trimmed here, fall off readily, many right up near the palm’s canopies with just a few exceptions. I don’t think leaving the dead fronds hastens trunk “cleaning” appreciably.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawFBSXtAqw/?igsh=MXdqZjNrcTBzNzVhdA== I have failed you, Palm Gods. But I am appeasing the Aroid gods. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawFzYjtIlU/?igsh=ZWkzdHRmNDQ3ZzB0 Oh and y'all saw I bought a bottle palm right?

I’ve seen a grove of Vershaffeltia doing well in Burringbar which isn’t too far from @happypalms . Think damage wouldn’t occur until much below 7C. Richard - do you get significantly colder than Burringbar? I’d have expected Vershaffeltia should do ok in your greenhouse at the very least.