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A few more gardening years and she will be a focal point in the garden, plant it in the ground!

Might as well plant a few palms again for something to do in the garden, winter or no winter! Jubea chiliensis Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana dypsis NM

At it again with a nice little rps order that will Keep me out of trouble. Bottom heating 30 degrees celcius, coco coir perlite mix. Pretty basic but it works!

My Chambeyronia macrocarpa is putting out a new red frond. Pic taken July 27, 2026.

How close to trunk's base is the dripper?

Carpentaria acuminata with citrus medica fruits around

WOW awesome, thank you for the photos and this tour

Great looking plants. Are you located in California?

I do love them

Mulch done by nature in my garden

Update: I found a photo from 4 years ago of the C monostachya in my post above. Was generously given to me by @palmtreesforpleasure . Photo taken after I received it, and it has been in ground since. Overall not fast, but I’m satisfied with its development. My new wave of seedlings are now at this size.

This genus is terribly difficult for me to differentiate between them. Even more than young Pritchardia, and that’s saying something. Nonetheless, here are two that were purchased either as argentea or maybe argentata..they’re similar in speed of growth and having silver backed leaves. Here you go!

To add to the bump: This species is relatively trouble free in Melbourne. My one in ground is in deep shade, south facing, cool position. Has coped with up to 44C/111F and down to -1.4C/29C without damage. Slow but robust; each new frond significantly larger than the past and now it is bipinnate. Growing from seed, seedlings have been mostly trouble free but I did randomly lose a couple to some kind of rot. I assumed at the time drainage was the problem. Remaining seedlings are at 3-4 frond stage after 2-3 years with strong root systems in 70mm and 90mm pots. Agree with Colin’s assessment above. Great species for cooler climates. Caryota mitis is marginal at best here, and C monostachya is a much better choice for smaller gardens anyway.

-3.4 is harsh. I also see Chch had -4.5 or something the other night. I'd have quite a bit of solid damage here on various things like puka, and palms if that happended here in Dunedin, but most are in protected positions. We got down to +0.8 27 june, and again to 1.2 26 July which was bad enough. Appreciate you sharing your experience on here as I have found it very helpful. Hope any damage at your end can grow out quickly!

@NC Palm I agree, it looks like it had a crown infection coming out of winter. Common recommendations here are hydrogen peroxide, Daconil, Mancozeb, and any copper-based fungicide. If the new growth looks clean then the infection is probably gone. A squirt of regular household hydrogen peroxide will tell you. If it bubbles up, fungus is present and may still need some treatment. If there's no bubbling, then no fungus is present. H202 works well on plants, just like on humans!

Thank you!!! Appreciate the response/insight and love to hear that! Looks super happy right from the beginning! Hope mine follows suit

Good growing , @JohnAndSancho ! The baggie method works. Harry

And I thought the drought here was bad...

30.3C / 86F max here on Tuesday. Expecting 35C / 95C tomorrow. I am now up to 44 days since it last rained here on 16th June. The latest GFS cycle takes me to day 60 without any rain here…

No rain today as this location ended up in the donut hole that formed in the storm. For the month, the various gauges have recorded between 6in and 7.25in of rain at various point in the yard. We've got 3 days to get 2in-3in of rain to have an average month. We'll see how it goes, but there are locations that are a lot worse off.

Yep, ready for separation. By the way, I checked the "Cool Kids Club" and your name was still on the roster. 😁

It looks great @bronxboynyc71 !

A few additional pictures of the handful left.

I probably have 15 or more bizzies and this is the only problem one

I don’t think it’s beetles it’s been going on for years! If it was beetles I would think it would be dead by now!! I’m just stumped!!