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Nice size at a great price $175

Enc Trunking male Pterogonus $750 (vary rare size) Enc Msinganus 13" Cau $450 Enc Manikensis multi caudex $350 Enc Lehmanii 4.5" 4" caudex $135 & $150 Cycas Thouarsii 5ft of trunk $450 Horridus/Arenarius cross 5"&3"caudex $450 Dioon Edule Palmasol 10 plus caudex $140 Dioon Edule multi caudex $100 Dioon Spinulosum 20"Trunk $75 Macrozamias $150,$135,$125 and $125

1st off congratulations on the windmills They look great. 2nd, welcome to the smarter than mother nature club. You're in the right place. Most everyone in here is zone pushing. All the advice given is true, location and microclimates are key to success. And that being said I have all of my palms planted on the north side of my yard around my pool, you know going for the tropical feel. I'm in zone 6 b so it's half labor of love and the other half idiocy. To be truly successful, which you can do, you are going to have to protect. I mulch,wind a pipe heating cable around the base,then tie up the fronds with jute. Wrap with frost cloth. Next is 200 incandescent mini Xmas lights on a thermocube. Next a cage is built of woven wire and I wrap with several layers of frost cloth. Then I will put some fallen oak leaves into the cylinder and finally put an upside down plastic saucer over the top to keep it dry. It sounds like a lot but I feel it's worth it to have an interesting yard. I'm going on the 3rdsummer for my trachy,and the needle is on year 5. I also have some sabal minor as well. So long story short plant them where they make you happy just know you're going to have to work a little more for it. Good luck N8

Not only was it cold we had extremely high winds which I think made the damage so much more than prior freezes. Fortunately, I have a large collection of palms and most made it through. Even some that looked bad at first. My Chamaedorea cataractarum clump has come back very well and it looked terrible after the cold and my two Beccariophoenix alfredii had severe frond burn on the outside fronds but stayed green in the center. First time ever they have had any damage as well.

Looks like the heat might return here with a vengeance again soon. NAVGEM disgustingly hot for 7 days time with 41C / 106F in London area. Ridiculous numbers in France (major heat dome is definitely coming)... ECM (Euro) is much more reliable, so we'll go with that. Just the 37C / 100F showing for Monday next week in 5/6 days time. \ The models may just be overdoing it. We will know in another 24-48 hours.

Thank you for the info. I had researched and found that out. I know it’s a gamble, but I’m never on that side of the house. I know the wind blows in from the north here generally. But hopefully they live. I may see them off my front porch deck, for how long I don’t know. I was hoping someone had some insight on how to accelerate root growth. I was told not to give them any nutrients for 4-6 weeks. I know there’s rooting hormone, don’t know if they make any that’s water soluble. I know they use hormone to accelerate growth of Atlantic Giant pumpkins, but a palm I’ve never grown.

Hi, just wanted to come on here and say I've had the same experience with the same user. I've been looking to acquire some seeds of Meryta balansae for a while and user @mattllags838 messaged me telling me that jdapalms had some available. The email I was provided with was lgrinningsidice@gmail.com. We talked for a bit and I was told to make a Zelle payment. Thankfully I did not end up sending any money as it began to feel fishy after exchanging a couple of emails. I was also provided with several photos of plants that were clearly taken from various users on this forum. To all other forum members, avoid this user!

Interesting do you still keep in contact with that nursery? Or is it long gone

So Trachycarpus was your first palm? It’s the number 1 cold climate palm. You can grow some nice palms in a Mediterranean climate, except the illusive cocos nucifera.

For the first time my Sabal minor has produced two distinctly different blooming spikes this year. Not sure if this is based on male vs. female flowers?

Welcome to PalmTalk! Generally speaking, it is best to plant palms and other marginal plants along the south-facing side of a house. This allows for maximum warmth for the palm in the winter. North-facing is typically the coldest side of a house due to minimal winter sunshine. If you decide to reposition your palms, do so ASAP. I wish you the best of luck.

Absolutely believe you are right. C Ernesti Augustii was outright killed next to it, and C Cataractarum was 90% defoliated. Must be the added organic material in the Florida sugar sand keeping the nematodes at bay.

The nursery I bought it from probably has 15 chamaedorea species growing in one shade house. A lot of hybridization, and the employees aren’t all knowledgeable. Cool place, but you do get some mystery palms

Glad to learn you've had success. I had sunk in the ground a small C. amazonicum a few years ago in its pot and it steadily declined under the same damp and shady conditions as my current one. I may see how well this one grows over the summer and then make a decision in the fall when the rains resume.

Here’s an update on my Cycas megacarpa flush that is starting to open. Too many leaves to count.

My current favorite cycad is this small Central African Encephalartos. About a year ago I removed it from the screen house and planted it in the ground in a pretty exposed area. Since then, newer leaf flushes have a much better look and show more V in the leaflets and recurve on the leaves. Can’t wait to see how it looks in a few more years.

Are some of these T.wagnerianus?

For me it started when I set up a landscape design and construction business nearly 30 years ago. Never got to deal with palms or many tropical looking plants at horticultural college, but Tracycarpus started to be a popular plant for gardens we built, and from there I started using a local nursery selling more unusual plants that were suitable for a south east England climate. Got more interested in palms from there, growing my own collection and experimenting with growing from seed. But didnt really have the time and dedication needed. Fast forward to 2019 and the decision to move to the Mediterranean, and now had the time and climate to grow and care for the paims I could never have living in northern Europe. Trying not to make it an obsession, but certainly loving learning new ideas and practises living in a different climate. Has been like going back to college.

Yes, I would also be interested in this in the future.

Is there a market for Raffia palm seeds?? Anyone looking to buy? I have many

No, there are not fused segments to groups, which in turn are deeply separated down to the costa.

Damage observations at the Polynesian. May 3rd. Satakentia at the new DVC hotel building The garden below used to have more lush plantings and a large Plumeria tree (now a stump). Definitely a lot cut back here. Slight browning of Phoenix hybrids Another Plumeria that bit the dust Golden shower Cassia fistula tree recently cut down, with some root suckers sprouting. I forget the ID of this large tropical tree (Some Brachychiton species maybe?) but it didn’t look good. Philodendron Xanadu took a hit While the garden by the front entrance looked good, I could tell there was a lot of foliage missing that had been there the previous year. That was even with large blower heaters they had pointing on this area during the Feb 1st freeze.

Some damage observations at Epcot. This was on May 2nd. The Foxtails farther from Spaceship earth were much more brown than some that were closer. The latter were comfortably recovering while a few of these looked questionable whether they would rebound well or at all. Big ficus at Moana Journey of water didn’t look good.

Back on May 1st. Coming into Orlando on I-75 from the north. Interstate Bismarckia plantings quite brown, some worse than others. Ones closer to Ocala were about 100% brown. Causarina Australian pines mostly dead. Also in this same area there is a large clump of Melaleuca that looked 100% brown. Enterolobium cyclocarpum ear tree with tip damage

Had nearly three inches of rain here yesterday (over about 2 hours) and yet had to water twice a day over the past weekend because of how dry and hot it was. A few potted Sabals were even drying out, twisting and shriveling due to the heat. Ryan