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Oh well, maybe that suckering trait won't carry forward! 😄 Regardless I'm looking forward to seeing this one grow, thanks again Konstantinos!

I fell in love with this palm with my first visit to the gardens and through the years I always look forward to seeing it there. This is a highlight reel of pics since 2018. It doesn’t seem to change much. I’m grateful it has never been given an unnecessary pruning. Second to last pic is a month after Hurricanes Helene and Milton. To the right you can see the heavily wind damaged Corypha (which HAS recovered). The last picture is from earlier this month I do have one of my own growing in a container for now. It’s good to have some things to look forward to down the road

I took some pictures today of what I purchased as sabal rosei many years ago. I started some uresana same time and they both have similar trunk size. Both are in sugar sand and we get 48-52” rainfall. I also irrigated these during the dry several months.`The rosei i planted as a triple and had a storm blow one stem downward. I left it cause it adds history. I do have a few 15g plants that have rooted into the ground, but could be cut/transplanted pretty successfully. Let me know if you’re in need and willing to drive to pickup in SE Hillsborough county. I have 3 and will give a good deal to whomever want one this badly

How's it looking this year ?

Formerly the largest mass planting of ribbon palms in Texas...ribbon palms for miles and miles along the Gulf Freeway in Houston 🌴 It's amazing how quickly people forget what the city looked like 5 years ago. So much doom and gloom and people not wanting to grow anything 🤷‍♂️. Glad to see a glimpse of a brighter future!

Mine is also slow in Florida heat,humidity, and occasional freezes. I’m so glad younger i started some for future i to enjoy 😊 Planted in sugar sand and full sun from a 3gal

That’s a good amount. It is just starting to rain here . A couple of hours ahead of schedule. Harry

Depth can vary with the type of soil you have and how long it has been in the ground. Harry

@MASOALA JASON how did the golden barrels do in the 2021 event? I’ve lost those here in west Texas from cold already and will keep in a pot in the future.

Same here in terms of humidity and minimum temperatures so far, maybe 5⁰C. If you have it in a pot, you can always carry it to a sheltered place in cold nights, or else, to cover it with a blanket or thermal cloth. That's what I do with other delicate plants, not with avocados. Bigger ones, do withstand that temperature without any issues. Will you plant it in the ground in a near future, when it is bigger?

Thank you. How deep will I have to go? Id rather have the destination hole already dug, or at least mostly dug before pulling it so as to minimize the time the roots are exposed, so I need to anticipate the depth too.

Consider building a conservatory.

Nice color on the first new leaf from our little C. ambositrae, purchased from @Darold Petty a couple of months ago

I have been asking myself about that, why so fast? I do remember and its worth mentioning that that hospita was my first experiment using turface MVP instead of organics in the site soil mix. I used a little bit of organics but I used a lot of turface, perhaps 15 lbs of the ammended soil and also another 10-15lbs of dolomite gravel, 1/4" mesh used in fish tanks, not the dolomite from the home and garden large 3/4 to 1" size. This was mixed with the soil already dug from the the planting hole with mulch on top. The smaller gravel size and its much greater surface area will add more calcium and Mg(by dissolving it) as compared with the dolomite 3/4"-1" rock landscapers use. The site drains faster than it would with coarse rock. but stays more moist due to turface and its getting 3x a week from a sprinkler head 6-8 away, maybe a near optimal soil/sun sun site for the hospita. The other two hospitas 1 had been traumatized by root damage due to sloppy handling, and it was very slow recovering while the second was in a smaller pot (7g vs 15g for the big one) so I used less turface and dolomite gravel(~1/2) when ammending. When I dig a hole. I dig it to at least 3x the volume of the pot, then backfill with ammended soil by habit. I have two other palms that got heavy turface ammendment(but no dolomite), two 5 gallon teddy bears and they are like rockets grew 6-7' in height this year. They are also right near a couple sprinkler heads 7-10 feet on each site of the two. This of course leads me to think about the hospita speed with the same treatment though it also had dolomite gravel. My mature bailey and fallaensis got lots of dolomite too so I was previously convinced it was a good thing, verifying what the "copernicia man" Ken Johnson told me" : "tom put down dolomite if you want them to be happy". I have learned to listen very carefully to Kens advice as my treatment of palms these days is just about exactly what he recommended. Many of you may not know Ken, but if you are lucky enough to get advice from him, listen very carefully. I killed a palm (a hospita hybrid, imagine that) by not listening closely enough, not so smart. It was a 90(?) gallon palm and I was not gentle enough putting it in the planting hole. A palm with a heavy rootball is much easier to damage the roots, it just physics. You could say I learned by experience(failure is a great teacher to humble you). His advice I have passed on to others as much as I can and I attribute 90% of my success with copernicias (and several other palms I have bought from him) to his advice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kqdoh1SLWs

It's pretty much 55/45, this is just the very bottom of the tote.

Thank you. They are globular. I should take pictures of the fruits from my specimen for comparison.

This was our weekend total...lots more to come beginning tonight.

Mother loureiroi is a very weakly suckering specimen.

I really want to experiment with some tropicals here in zone 6 in NE Ohio but I need some more ideas on want to plant. But first, a little description of my climate: winters here are cold but below zero only happens every other year and if it does get below zero, it only happens for around a day or two, we also have tons of snow (and I mean a ton) which I think is good for insulation. Winter sunburn isn’t really an issue since sunlight is limited in the winter (thanks Lake Erie), it can stay consistently below freezing but only usually in the teens, 20s, and 30s. I’d say we’re a cold 7a and a warm zone 6. Summers here can also get pretty dry at times so drought tolerant options are appreciated. I also live in the woods where there’s tons of leaf litter and wind protection due to lots of trees. Shade tolerant options would also be appreciated. Anyways, here’s my current list of bucket list plants: Sabal minor since they can handle wet soil and shade which happens in the more forested areas of the yard, some sort of illicium species since they can also handle wet soil and shade, Aspidistra elatior since they are shade tolerant and easier to find, Cinnamomum checkiangensis since they are the most cold hardy camphor tree and I absolutely love the leaves and the smell of camphor trees, Yucca rostrata since they basically need zero cold protection here and I can plant them in a pure river rock bed I have. I am open to more suggestions as long as a mini care guide is given alongside it. Thank you for responding.

Sunrise in my garden right now is at 8.45am and sunset at 4.20pm. My day is too short while the wet night is long.. dunno. My climate is very humid; humidity at night is 90% and dew forms everywhere. In the morning everything is wet. Do you reckon I don't need to cover it if it goes down to -1 C ? I put it in a black pot so the plastic absorbs some heat from the sun during the day. Otherwise I haven't protected yet because it hasn't been too cold. The coldest so far was 3,5 C one night.

Pinkerton was the only one to die without any reason. I'll buy another one next Spring, and plant it in a big pot. You shouldn't have any issue in growing them in a 9B zone. I know some in the surroundings, alive and kicking and setting fruit like mad. I forgot to mention that I am also growing in the ground a Pura Vida variety. I was sent a seed from Nicaragua 2 years ago, and it is growing happily outdoors. I will have to wait some years to see if it sets fruit, which are huge, about 1 kilogram or more, and long shaped.

Here is my Phoenix loureiroi x roebelenii grown from seed provided by @Phoenikakias. I'm wondering if it will eventually sucker since I don't know if the loureiroi is solitary but I hope that it remains solitary! 😊

Maybe it was my fault not to water the ones in the greenhouse well enough. You are right about the minimum temperatures being higher because of cloudy skies at night. And I would also say, because of higher temperatures in the Cantabrian Sea all year round. 13⁰C in winter and 21/22⁰C in Summer. Foehn effect also plays a role on that , specially in winter.

And you added some additional color to your garden at the same time! 😆 Hope you get a decent amount of rain for the plants but no mudslides.