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Here is a link with discussion of my bailey and others And here it is this morning still filling out the crown after hurricane milton in oct 2024. This year has been a 30(?) drought so recovery to a full crown has been a little slow. The weather appears to be changing now as we are getting some rain, so I can expect perhaps 4-5 more leaves by fall. Its not fast as a grower but baileys are very nice looking palms that throw some decent shade, IMO.

Some nurseries in California carry them. Probably not seedlings and may only be wholesale. Palm Island Nurseries. Listed some 5 gal. size. May be worth a look/inquiry??? 😉

People flying into England will be caught off guard by just how dry it is here right now. Latest images… London only had 63 wildfires yesterday. Videos should play if you click the blue ‘play’ button in middle of post… 45 days since it last rained here now…

Still deep in it.

Latania opening a new frond

Apical. Once the root tip is damaged or snapped off, you're done.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Shouldn't the people who planted it for you have known the site wouldn't drain properly? With the lack of drainage you have seen, I dare say most palms would not have succeeded... With the proper soil amendments and drainage, I still think Becarriophoenix alfredi is your best choice. I'm really sorry you went through this bad experience. You certainly deserved better... I still think the people you had install this palm should have known better than to just stick it in the ground and leave you like that.

Just one question: does the radicle grow deeper from apical point or from the cotyledonary petiole?

A nice young chamaedorea graminifolia juvenile, and one heck of a palm collection!

The good old Ferox cone is getting more mature deeper into winter!

In a country such as Australia with some of the deadliest snakes in the world, and with 4 of the deadliest snakes in the world in my area I fully understand the snake thing well, and having great big piles of palm mulch lying around is not a good practice for sure. Another danger factor for me is the fire threat from such a pile of palm leaves, a mound 8 feet tall of palm leaves waiting to explode in flames in bushfire conditions in my area is a serious threat so I have to burn those leaves in winter as part of a fire management protection in summer. Which is an interesting issue who would have thought about a palm garden creating a fire danger threat! I also live in a very large area of national parks and state. Have a google for Yuragir national park NSW Australia, with my property at Halfway creek Grays road and there’s no shortage of eucalyptus trees that’s for sure, and you will see how large of an area, and when it comes to the critters I live in their habitat so all creatures great and small are welcome @happypalms And I got some more mulch, and iam in mulch heaven, loving life in the bush with my garden, where the world alone doesn’t bother me!

That’s exactly what they can become, monsters out of control going on a rampage in the garden. And they are definitely best kept away from none gardening people who just want a palm by the pool or in that tiny courtyard. With no real knowledge of palms they can be a disaster in the wrong hands!

There best kept in check that’s for sure. Richard

Will look into it for you, the seed was supplied by our dear friend @palmtreesforpleasure so he has the actual answer to what the true variety is in question!

Some magical little Australian native flowers adding that winter warmth in the heart!

Got a photo of the C elatior stem Richard? Very young to have fully pinnate fronds like that. Might be C tacanensis.

It seems impossible in the US to find a straight Cycas panzhihuaensis

Other seasons it has looked decent again by Christmas. Other years it has looked fine by Christmas. Once at least two new healthy fronds open, it distracts the eye from any remaining damaged ones. I tend to think that it would be hard for an overnight radiation freeze, sandwiched by double digit (C) temperatures the day before and after to completely kill an otherwise healthy and established bungalow. No hurry to see that theory tested however. It's hard to see in the early morning light in the rush to get to work, but it looks like it still has some green remaining, which will help. Good news is that from what I can see, a near neighbour's ones look fine. They (house and palms) are on isolated small rise in an otherwise flat area - they sit about 6-8m higher. Glad for that, as for some angles from home, their now sizable and flourising bangalows form a nice background/horizon that complements the view of my own palms. I know that place has sold since the people that planted those palms were there. New owners could be forgiven for not taking into account that this was the worst feeze in 10 years and not wanting to look at damaged palms for a few months. So far, my two other bungalows and everything else looks untouched but won't really know till the weekend to see in broad daylight. I still have pepper plants that look just the same as they did in mid summer (they are against a north facing wall of house and were covered as well).

This can happen following heavy rainfall events and very wet soils. It is usually not serious unless it is followed by a second or third malformed leaf.

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That’s pretty good growth for three years . Juvenile palms grow slow but speed up (usually) when they get about that size . Harry

No, I live in Ocean Springs Ms

The Allagoptera is a wimp in the ultimate sense. It outlived the Chambeyronia only because it is so close to the ground. Once it gets larger, it will be subject to the real cold. Is there a Pseudophoenix in there anywhere? The Thrinax also surprises me. I lost a larger one in 2010 at 25F. Show me a living Kentiopsis, please!! If not, their so-called hardiness is mythical.

Surely 🤪😶