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Yes, hopefully, Kalimantan soon for me.

Yes, just about the entire island is covered in Fertile, red, volcanic soil...even in the dry season everything is lush (alythough it still rains in the dry season there LOL)

The big orange ball poking its head over the horizon...

Was down the beach this morning and there was a flock of around 90 Red Tailed Black Cockatoos hanging around...

The pair growing near me are boy and girl so seeds one day!

That's mighty kind of you, but I'd be more than happy with some seeds one day in the future. You should plant the four you have in the bush at your place, to help bolster the native population.

mine produces lots of fertile seeds

We have some pritchardia napaliensis seeds, 100 in total, postage international is $35 aus dollars, $1 per seed Aus dollars. No floaters in this batch.

The final touches has been completed for the new palm garden, now the big decision what gets planted, I have a nice big itaya amoricorum that will go in there. But after that small dypsis varieties perhaps, I really don’t know I have that many varieties all wanting that special place, whatever goes in they will the top of the collection range. But it’s amazing what you can do with the right machine!

Thank you so much!

Nice one, just make a the video on your phone, and post it just like a picture!

A red spear just formed on my palm. Is there a way to show a short video of it?

Livistona decora

Dug put some more horrible grass and made another garden bed, planted two multi Archontophoenix “albang” hybrids and a foxtail. As a few have suggested, these will make the canopy one day, also block out my ugly workshop. Unfortunately they were only from 300mm pots so not yet trunking.

Trithrinax brasilensis growing in my Jax FL garden

Dioon mejaie flushing in Jax FL

Perfectly normal...

I did a prune a few years ago of a branch that's about six inches in diameter. The wound healed and the green streaks appeared over the wound.

Blc. Terri Henderson 'Barbara' blooming right alongside strap leaf Anthurium wendlingeri, putting out some spiral inflorescences.

Needs a name. I told him (and the handful of others that live inside) they can live if they eat some bugs. No eat bugs you get La Chancla.

Really nice Sabal mexicana and a survivor Bismarckia at Enchanted Forest Garden Center today.

I recently visited South Padre Island and the RGV, and as a former Floridian I thought I’d share a few impressions. Driving south on US-59 through the brush country, I was greeted in Harlingen by a mature queen palm. Living in Houston, where there are virtually none, and having not seen any on the drive down, it immediately caught my attention. About a mile later I spotted a royal poinciana, and another mile after that a mature royal palm. I was surprised by how abruptly the landscape transitioned into something that felt tropical. Along the east coast, that change is much more gradual. Before long I was seeing Australian pines, ficus, and many of the plants I regularly saw in Central Florida that are absent around Houston. Overall, South Padre Island and the RGV really impressed me. South Padre, in particular, felt genuinely tropical, with a warm, humid sea breeze very reminiscent of South Florida. In terms of vegetation, I’d say it felt slightly more tropical than coastal Volusia County but a bit less so than Brevard County. On Florida’s Gulf Coast, the closest comparison that came to mind was Dunedin, Tarpon Springs, or perhaps South Tampa—if you mentally removed the coconuts, Veitchia, and other tropicals that were largely wiped out in Texas by the 2021 freeze. The palm scene was better than I expected. I would’ve loved to see a few coconut palms, but I didn’t come across any. Hopefully they’ll make a comeback as the climate allows. More generally, we really enjoyed the area and will definitely be back. It was a pleasant surprise to find a corner of Texas that, in many ways, felt so much like Florida.

Does anybody know what this is? It comes from hawaii, as I recall the seeds are poisonous. Gross to a very tall tree. As you can see the leaves emerge a reddish color very furry and then it all becomes a greenish color with not quite as much fuzz. The trees seem to grow very straight with no branches until the tree gets quite tall. Any help would be appreciated

I find am sun to be best, plants look better in shade to half day sun. The plants with double split leaves are really nice.