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@SubTropicRay I'm surprised the Lakeland airport was that dry. We had a decent month closer to town. How did your total match up with KTPA or the WFO in Ruskin?

Great job on the landscaping and selection, @quaman58 !

If they start eating metal and concrete, look out UHI. 😅

Hope it grows well for you. A healthy Jubaea is a great statement palm.

Here is another Delonix regia in the area that is the largest one that I know of in California growing in Cathedral City, CA. It is surrounded by lawn and is more sparsely blooming, however based off of your observations, this doesn't always line up! I want to figure it out too because I just bought a house in El Centro, CA, and will be starting my garden this fall.

I even had a variegated foxy lady, that is until a great big cane beetle got in and ate it from the inside. Foxy lady about the only hybrid I do like the look of. I admire the work involved in creating such hybrids!

Wowo such a beautiful palm

This reverse cross was done by Seabreeze Nursery in Fort Meyers, Florida. I’m eager to see how well it grows here. 🙂

Bit of an update, it’s still alive and the little spear on the side shoot has jut ever do slightly grown a little bit. See what happens in summer now with this little experiment. The most encouraging sign is it’s not dead yet and that’s a good place to start with!

A very interesting and somewhat rare piece plant that has blue flowers.

Beautiful flowers and highly sought after in the floral trade. I purchased a white and the red one hot larvae about 6 months ago, and so far it’s looking good for winter.

Looks like a bit of palm love was (literally) in the air. The original foxy lady was developed by the Australian grower Rich Trapnell of rosebud farm I do believe!

A nice young Joey palm and a socratea rostrata, they only need another ten years of growing and a lot of water to be the main conversation focal point in the garden!

Wondering what you been up to, well now I know. You got a challenge on that bottle palm, now we will see you’re growing skills at work! And look after mr sancho he’s your best buddy in life, I just lost my 19 year old kitty Kat, the one who designed my garden, for her I was just the gardener!

Dypsis rosea coming along nicely for winter.

Three great dypsis varieties, dyp faneva, dyp remotifolia and dyp lantzeana. It may be mid winter but that doesn’t matter, the palms have been acclimated to my winter in the greenhouse and I don’t get frosts so plant away I say. And a nice handful of chamaedorea adscendens went in for a bit of extra fun along with a nice trio of Cham genoformis. Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t plant your garden. I find the winter plantings get a good tuck in gor summer and are established a lot stronger for the hot brutal days of summer when you miss the odd water or two! Dypsis faneva Dypsis remotifolia Dypsis lantzeana chamaedorea adscendens chamaedorea genoformis

Very cool, I’ve been trying to find a panzhihuaensis for awhile because it’s reasonably tested in the PNW, how much cold hardiness do you think it loses from the other parent? Online says multifrondis is a 9a reliable

They stay bifid. I have a few near maturity about 5-6' and they stay that way.

The same thing happened to one of my chamaedorea Radicalis, a big branch came down it give it a fair old snapping, it sat there for a year sulking then it started to get on with growing again. Mother Nature has her way of dealing with things in a certain manner!

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Currently 103F in the east valley with a high of 119F and low of 82F. It was definitely a toasty one today. I don't remember the exact date when we previously had any meaningful rain but it's probably been over three months. We need rain!

Hey all. Hoping to take action before its too late, if there is such a thing. Google and AI are useless. Don't know which path to take and fear making it worse. Please help me move to the right topic if I have this miscategorized.

Some unexpectedly healthy rain activity this evening. Still raining atm where I'm at (610 W/Memorial). I work close to 610 E and got soaked trying to leave at 3pm, the area saw more showers throughout the evening and picked up ~2-3" of rain total! Looks like Memorial City/Bunker Hill picked up about 1". Good rain totals (>0.5") in North Katy/Cypress and North Houston too. The garden in E Katy missed out, only 0.10"...hopefully better luck tomorrow or else I'll need to water the sensitive rainforest stuff. I see a dry side and wet side for Lake Houston. @Chester B did you get any rain ?😝 Here's a GIF from 9 PM...thought the storms were dying out after sunset but these beautiful showers popped up all along the I-10 corridor.

I cleared a patch of asiatic jasmine near my Chamaedorea radicalis a couple of weeks back and found these self-sown seedlings today. They definitely weren't there at the time and look freshly germinated. The seeds must have been sitting there all through the winter. I have plans for this area but I'll try to leave them in place.