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A bit of winter colour in the garden today.A couple of Chambeyronia hookeri and a nice Japanese variegated rhapis kannonchikushima

Iguanura sanderianumAreca rabaul Dypsis orange crushAreca mandacanii Licuala polyschitsia All are doing well considering the low temperatures around 5 degrees celcius.

A couple nice ones enjoying the cool temperatures. Dypsis saintlucei Crysophilla warscewizianus

A neat little shrub the crispa, having bright red fruits that hang in clusters. A tough plant that offers that bright red colour in the middle of winter.

Nice to see your attempts are still going on strong and thriving, im about to restart my own attempts soon. going to get some coconuts from the store and grow them in coco coir outside, last year my attempts failed because store coconuts have no husk to protect them. so my idea is since coco coir is made of husk it would make the most natural medium to sprout them in. i had so much success with coconuts from the bella company many of them sprouted.

If you want a palm that’s easy to grow and fit into any reasonable small space, the feather palm, wedding palm or the lytocarum weddlianum is the one. Easy to grow and germinate, single plants will set viable seeds. Quite cool and dry tolerant. Perfect understory or bright light palm. An absolute beauty of a great palm that’s gives a lot of effect for little work!

Just having a little wander around after a bit of a holiday. And things are just fine, and dandy for the garden in mid winter! Licuala bracteata licuala triphylla var stenophylla lanonia centralis Areca warhbosabal mauritiformis

Hi there, I would love to help you out here but I unfortunately can't. The reason I place this comment is that I have exactly the same problem with my Dictyosperma album var. aureum. It constantly grows new spathes but I always have to step in and 'help it out' as you do. Maybe the problem is not Beccario -related, probably more in a general way... However, wishing you luck - Lars

Thank you! I hope it will do well with our alkaline soil, the typhoons and the long tropical summers and our short subtropical winters. I could be wrong but until now it seems that it grew the best always between December and April. However, it is just a feeling but it gained size already like it was desperately waiting for this moment to be set "free". First indicator that something doesn't fit are the leaf tips, but it still looks extremely healthy. Let's hope for the best. It looks nice! I might say you have better growing conditions than me but let's see what we can achieve here. All the best with yours! Thank you, Master Tim! With advice from Hawaii, the Force is already strong with this palm. 🌴🫴😉 I'll keep you posted - Lars

Nice size one Bob they are very slow from seed but very robust

Hello, selling king palm seeds again, I have a million. $5 per 50, you pay shipping anywhere in US.

I’ve been observing this palm for probably 50 years now. It was planted at Two Harbors Catalina island around 1920-28. Its looking better now than a few years ago due to the drought ending. It gets only rain, no irrigation.

Royal Palm first ring almost there

Lako again

Freshly drizzled Pinanga & K elegans.

7/20 /26 Check: Up up and up we go.... ENSO 1.2 and 3.4 region readings ** raw / un adjusted data ** Bottom graph above = Adjusted data ...removes the " Warmer Oceans " contribution to raw SST data. Where this El Nino sits at the present time compared to the biggest since 1982. Current 30 day SOI Average ..Further into the Red = El Nino, Blue? = La Nina.. -30 = WELL into El Nino territory, and we aren't even into when El Nino peaks ( After September ).. How low could it go? CFS MJO / Equatorial 850mb zonal wind forecast: .....How to read what you see..... Dashed contour lines = High Pressure Bias Solid contour lines = Low Pressure Bias Blue shades = Easterly winds ( Associated with the inactive MJO Phase ..and La Nina ) Orange / Red shades = Westerly winds ..associated with El Nino and the active MJO phase.. As if the potential for seeing the 6th L.P. contour line appearing on this chart wasn't enough proof at just how strong this El Nino could end up being, as you can see, the index was adding a 7th low pressure contour line on Saturday.. Backed off since then but, as strong as the westerly wind bias is looking over the coming months, highly likely it will reappear soon. Yes, it's impossible to know how things may look in October from this far out but, forecast thoughts here have been holding -solidly- since the start of June.. Currently within the 3rd, and about to cross the 4th Low Pressure bias contour line soon.. which signals increasing influence from El Nino for the remainder of the summer, and beyond.

In my experience with mushroom compost , it is a very nitrogen rich or “hot” mix . I used it to seed a lawn once and it worked great but palms , not so sure. Harry

Do you mean its being overwatered? Or that its simply washed away nutrients because of the aforementioned irrigation? St George is Vegas minus a few degrees. Excessively hot and dry. Edge of Mojave Desert, where it contacts Colorado Plateau. Great Basin is our north border. Unique banana belt in Utah (I've seen a few members post from here). If I didn't do supplemental watering, they likely wouldn't make it. Even my yuccas are on 1gph drips. I run the filiferas on 15gph drips, for an hour, twice a week. Seems like a reasonable amount of water for our area. Am I mistaken?

I have a heated greenhouse for my palms that can’t tolerate the cold (seeing as how I’m in North Alabama 7B-8A.) The temperature never falls below 70 degrees in there This is my 3rd C. renda (it was too cheap to pass up for its size lol) Just concerned about the drooping. They are really fussy in my experience with any kinda change. Just not sure if it’s the mushroom compost doing it, in that case; repotting will fix it, Or is it just the journey and the initial transplant in which repotting will make it worse

Keep us updated if you get viable seeds!!

Thanks for looking!

So when we do that, the flowers open within about 48 hours and then begin getting some pollination for seeds. Crazy, this is the only species that this is a problem with. Weird. First picture is today’s surgery. The second & third has some surgery that we did about six weeks ago.

I know the seeds came from a botanical garden just can't remember which one. It grows extremely tall doesn't branch much until it gets very tall. Leaves are very fuzzy new ones are coming in that are very red I might add another picture

Hey all, here’s something I can’t quite figure out. My neighbor and I have a couple of this species and they throw out flower spathes regularly. But they simply never open on their own. So… We’ve taken to performing surgery to free up the flowers.. The thickness of the spathe is just crazy thick. We have found that if we simply allow them to sit, eventually the contents of the spathe will just get moldy-and yet never open. We are generally perplexed at why this is happening, but it is what it is. It actually requires a combination of a sawzall, a vibrating saw, and some clippers deftly used to remove the woody section without damaging the flowers excessively. The walls are thicker than my thumb is wide.