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A couple of great rare ones today in the palm department, along with an anthurium. Loxococcus rupicola dypsis pinnatafrons anthurium bakeri

That one my dear good friend is a hibiscus plant variety swan lake.

well done Richard, keep it up 🇮🇹

A couple of chamaedoreas anyone!

A few more classics for the garden! Getting into stock plants now. Zamia standelyi anthurium claudiae Lanonia hainensis Geonoma pychnostachyszinginer black sp Rothmania longifolia Areca Warburgiana aka macrocalyx licuala triphylla var stenophylla

I last applied humic and fulvic acids 29 days ago; I will apply again today.

Worth a try . Harry

I fear it would make things only worse. I ask again, have you applied humic acids? Perhaps a picture of the new leaves and spear could turn out elucidating.

Any updates yet?

Pretty old palm . Mine is over 20 years old and barely chest high! Harry They don’t grow very fast here at all. It was very small when I planted it .

This coconut palm from my collection caught my eye

I should mention that the red jaboticaba is a plinia hybrid that matures very early and is common for container growing. If I lived in an area that stays above 25F, I would be growing many of these fruit trees.

One of my three Cymbidium wadae produced a flower bud this year. I thought none of them were going to since it is so much later than the hybrid cultivars. I forgot the C wadae is a later bloomer.

I got you Johnny, I've got plenty

I think these are gonna be gone by the weekend. I made a post on the local chamber of commerce Facebook page asking about dates for the farmers markets. People asked me what I had. Well there ain't no point in me going now cuz everybody's coming out here. As Martha Stewart used to say, "It's a good thing." @N8ALLRIGHT I might have to break down and buy some more of these colocasia bulbs in the fall.

Anyone, please? Fungi on roots?

That’s great news! At the last CFPACS meeting I was impressed by the potted Fallaensis at Chip Jones nursery nearly undamaged at 24f. The Bismarckias had significant burn in contrast. The Baileyana’s looked to have taken it on the chin. If I had more room in the yard I would certainly try a Fallaensis and Hospita. Lost Prunifera to fungus this winter, which had no other observable damage from the cold. Will replace it with an Alba here soon.

I have read it is possible to remove a sucker from a Areca vestria. Well here’s to trying it out. It’s just a bit gardening fun to see if it works. Any thoughts out there on the subject?

That’s a shame! I did have a 10’ tall Pembana tip over during Milton, but we only had cat 1 winds here, and it never skipped a beat once I stood it back up. I have so many Lanceolata and Pembana in the greenhouse that I’m just treating them as semi-annuals. I do like clumping palms, and always liked the appearance of Onilahensis compared to the other clumping Dypsis, but all the robust specimens are in milder climates. The centerpieces of my landscape are fan palms, Coccothrinax Macroglossa ‘Azul’, Leucothrinax Morissi, Sabal Mauritiformis and Causiarum, which all took Hurricane Milton, and this freeze in stride. Also several lesser common Coccothrinax recently added. Just lost a Copernicia Prunifera to fungus, but have an Alba ready to take its place. I try to keep a good balance of pinnate, palmate, and tropical hardwoods.

Visited the motherland this week. The smaller fruiting coconut is from a ditch that was collected by a lady in homestead Fl 5 years ago . receives no love from the owner . second the largest coconut that has managed to evade the 2021 Texas palm massacre lol over on port Isabel if anyone wants the exact address message me . across the same street I found a yard with 3-4 young cocos that looked really great the lady who lives there mentioned her husband collected all the cocos that washed ashore and they sprouted! other pics are of various parts of the valley for whatever reason palm talk won’t let me insert individual Info per pick so if yall have questions I’ll answer what I can haha . #Zone10A-BTexas IMG_9409.mov

Been 10 years since I’ve been to Cali, but remember being in awe of the Howeas and giant Archontophoenix in Coronado. Wasn’t well versed in palms at the time, but am now jealous in a lot of ways of the climate.

That is a bummer man. I feel you. Lost a trunking Lanceolata and 1/2 Pembanas. The last survivor is defoliated but the main trunk is pushing what is left of a spear. Lost a 15’ Arch. Cunninghamiana var Illawara, as well as a small Myolensis and Tuckeri. My 25’+ tall Cunninghamiana survived, but will take all year to look decent again, hopefully not to be hit with another freeze. The grumpiness is real here too

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26° is pretty warm for so early in the season.