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Thank you to everyone that purchased these, they are now sold out.

The bunya nut tree, a tree that’s been around for a long time. Once a staple food for indigenous tribes. With huge gatherings of tribes meeting up at certain time of season for a big feast of roasted nuts. Knowing exactly where each tree was and what time it was in seed. Slow growing as you would expect for such a large tree that will live for a long time, but give them ideal conditions and you will have a nice tree in 40 years or so, my one is basically a seedling at around 26 years old. So plant them as soon as you get that block of land. Well worth growing in any garden with a bit of space, well away from any structures, they get big, a tree for future generations to enjoy!

Be careful if you’re making up your own trace element mix. If using a specific brand trace element use it at or under the manufacturer’s recommendations, a little goes a long way. A lot of palms from different places around the globe have very different soils. So just foliar feeding everything may not work out well. Chose wisely, myself I would just foliar feed with a seaweed extract or something else that is organic. Spraying a heap of trace elements around can be a bit dangerous for some palms, it would be best to spray on cool day or a rainy day to avoid such leaf burn issues. The biggest issue is incorrect diagnosis and locking up your soil causing more damage than good. Choose carefully for each specific varietie. I don’t use trace elements I prefer a good healthy soil mix that helps prevent such deficiencies, I do get deficiencies in my palms but iam not too worried about such an issue, next time I repot it’s a new healthy soil mix that will help with any deficiency at hand. A regular organic fertiliser is my favourite for fertiliser applied through foliar feeding techniques, a Venturi on the end of a hose with a container full of high strength organic fertiliser, the Venturi does the dilution for me. Every spring and summer watering is fine this way. No fertiliser in autumn or winter! This winter I only watered my whole nursery twice and let Mother Nature do the rest, winter is a tricky time to water and a no no for fertiliser. Every grower is different in there approach to fertilising, I prefer not to blast away with a heap of stuff and just go organic.

Another winter bloomer!

Almost a day later and out in full bloom.

Yes - they look good - thanks

A few more winter winners. If you try you win a few now and then. Pushing the boundaries on new palm varieties in the cool winter in a subtropical climate. All for the love of palms! Adonidia merriillii variegated Areca mandacanii Geonoma longivaginata Ponapea hentyiiGeonoma pachystachys roscheria melanochaetes Geonoma mooreana

A lot of zone push winners this winter. And a few proven winners! Lanonia dasyantha Johannesteijsmannia perakensis dypsis rivularis Pinanga sarawakensis dypsis mirabilis dypsis heterophylla Arenga nana lanonia dasyantha

Calyptrocalyx flabellatum faired ok for winter, but clinostigma samoense was not to happy about the situation this winter. The Calyptrocalyx was pacsoa purchase grown in the tropics not to bad for its first winter in the subtropical climate.

A nice female chamaedorea Ernest augustii inflorescence and a baby foxtail ready to plant!

Why get one get three, and while you’re at it here’s four other chamaedoreas worth tracking down as well! Chamaedorea metallicachamaedorea Ernest augustii @Harry’s Palms favourite! Chamaedorea adscendens chamaedorea radicalis

Thank you , I’ll see if I can get one on the web

A couple of anthuriums and philodendron go in the ground at the end of winter, they have survived winter so far, time to plant them! Anthurium hookerii pink ruffles Philodendron davidsonii anthurium effusilobum

A nice gifted anthurium in the garden!

Dypsis lantzeana, showing off the new leaf!

Calyptrocalyx yummutumune! Faired well in winter for a tropical grown palm and planted late summer, no acclimatisation for this one, straight in the ground from the pacsoa showroom! Dont be fooled by this Calyptrocalyx it’s cool tolerant!

The only rhapis I want that’s out of control is a variegated one! ☝️ Richard

That’s where it all starts, plants everywhere and in 20 years time……

Female chamaedorea elegans!

Reviving this: where in the world is Patrick Schaffer with the hybrid palms? Hope he’s still with us. I remember hearing that he was up there in age and that was around 10 years ago. Thanks guys and gals!

I guess it’s like living in Asia and seeing all these exotic tropicals from their region all around and thinking they are common, while a rare Madagascar palm such as marojejya darinii would be prized. Also if I find a nice exotic looking palm that grows well in my climate I plant as many as I can for those reasons mentioned in favour of the foxtails. If you find a palm that suits your climate well fair enough grow them, and lots of them for that tropical look so desired.

You have answered your own question. For those of us who live in marginal climates (zone 9b-10a) it is one of the few palms that can give an exotic vibe to our garden. I also find them very beautiful. I guess for you they may be a bit too common; our eyes always find beauty in rarity. I remember as a kid I used to find Washingtonias marvelous and so exotic cos I'd only see them on holidays in Crete where my grandparents live. Now, I don't give them a second glance, they are like weeds where I live.

Il est magnifique ! Je n'ai pas encore d'Encephalartos, le climat n'est pas top chez moi pour eux. Je cherche des graines Encephalartos friderici-guilielmi, mais je n'en trouve pas. C'est peut-être le seul qui tiendrais vraiment chez moi.

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