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If you want a good canopy , Syagrus R. is a great option . They are messy when they flower but the bees love them and bees are great environmental friends. @gyuseppe , beautiful palms! I bet they provide a nice bit of shade for that part of your garden. All but one of my Queen palms are prolific seed producers . Most of the time I have the spathes cut as soon as they show up , but with all of the palms it’s hard to keep up so I get volunteers in the garden. Fortunately the seedlings are very slow growers. Once the plumose fronds emerge ….look out! Rocket ships. Harry

The amount of things I have learned on palmtalk has been amazing, some very good growers out there, palmtalk is such a large t as lent pool. I had my ones originally on heat mats and read what you said about just normal room temperature is fine, so we learnt of each other, in this case! I find treat them like a Howea species a bit like masoala madascariensis, that is what I have learnt about them! Richard

We got a nice wet down yesterday at 7pm, about half an inch. Hoping this continues into a real wet season. Ive been waiting to plant a few palms, but I wont do it until the rains ar more consistent. Its much easier to keep palms in pots at this time.

We had 23f this past winter for a few hours and my multifrondis male had zero damage. These plants were out in the open on my benches and had zero damage as well. I know panzhihuaensis is touted as the most cold hardy, and being it's the mother plant in the mix I would be confident saying it didn't lose much.

I think I'm on a watch list... seriously. My last three shipments all were flagged and confiscated. I paid to have one returned due to the amount of plants in the order. So until I get my nursery license it's a no go. Still working on other projects but hoping to complete this process later in the year.

You need a few Arenga engleri for your garden!

A nice set of pewter beer mugs in the opportunity shop caught my eye today, no i didnt buy them should have though now I think about it!

Well , this sounds like an international ring! I’m in , we have to be careful though , Dave has watch kitties . Yes , more than one . They have secret weapons …..purring! @DoomsDave has them trained . Harry

I got 1 inch from that yesterday.

Just a splash of red in the garden!

They are tough as nails, so I can’t figure out why they died, unless humilis is a different form, which apparently it’s not, so something went wrong, but all three dead I just put it down to cold weather. Knowing they are tough to cool cold conditions I obviously did something wrong to kill them all!

Good lord @tim_brissy_13 glad you have been keeping stocktake on my palm inventory, cause i wouldnt have a clue as to how many palms 🤣I have, let alone guess how many varieties there is @happypalms! 🤣 And iam saying that cause it’s true☝️ Iam sure there is no better test than a refrigerator for the suoiteniensis, there still here, and the best part is no crow bar will be needed to get my hands of one them for you, do drop in! 😜🤪

Pelago’s are scheduled to arrive today. I hope to be shipping Monday. Also getting some Chambey macrocarpa seeds.

many seeds are produced and they grow everywhere

Maybe we could together organise a hit on @DoomsDave collection, after all the gang was going to hit @happypalms and if I do remember @peachy was the driver and California Harry was the mastermind behind it all, you keep him busy Harry and the rest of us will sneak around the back and run with the goodies! 🤣 Richard

-1.9 this morning, it was a sleeper with forecast only for 0, and the temp was holding up well at bedtime. It actually didnt even go below 2 until 2am and freezing at 4:30am. For that reason doesn't seem to have any damage beyond what occured two weeks ago. Two more cold nights to follow in this sequence.

Here is my (underpotted) C nana. Roots are ready to burst out of the pot.

Beautiful plants Giuseppe 😍 Are they seeding? My biggest one is about 10 years from seed and just started to make trunk.

Fantastic color!!!

Or you could keep the more delicate palms indoors—limiting yourself to just ten of each variety—so you can also build a serious collection. I’m running out of indoor space myself, but I’ll come up with something. I’m currently trying to propagate palm seeds *in vitro* with the help of a friendly lab; I hope to clone them and establish a germplasm bank. I hope it works out and that you can offer some advice. I’m sure there are others who know what I’m talking about—extracting embryos from the seeds and producing multiple clones from them.

No Dictyocaryums, but I do have several Ceroxylons, Hedyscepes, Lepidorrhachis, and Geonoma palms. Also, about 15 Chamaedorea species. Thanks for the compliments.

This is one of those palms that keeps on giving. Tim

Pritchardia minor is no slouch! It's certainly one of my favorite Hawai'ian Pritchardias. That must look lovely alongside your various Ceroxylons, Dictyocaryum, et al... How many of us are insanely jealous of those wondrous things only you can cultivate, Darold!

I have also a triple and quadruple :) Yes, sometimes the trunk is solitair but most of my C. decipens produced two trunks, one produced three and one even 4 trunks.

Caryota obtusa opening up a frond mid winter. Almost looks variegated.