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Oh ok, makes sense.

The canes on the original clump started dying due to age, which is fine as they do that, then it just took of with runners!

The problem with most licuala out of the tropical climate is they need water and warm feet, I find the ones from the cooler winter areas like Thailand do best in the subtropical climate. But ramsayi is a die hard and very forgiving, and will tolerate a dry season and still not get setback too much. A great palm for that tropical look in any garden!

In a subtropical climate such as my climate winters slow them down. The big one in the picture is 27 years old and the other smaller one the garden has been there for about 4 years under neglect, it has picked up pace since I started ramping up on my irrigation schedule. So I would say a bit below medium paced not a rocket ship , up there with a kentia, you turn around in the years and hey you got a nice palm. Other licualas are quite paced in containers and around the same in the ground as ramsayi. Here’s a pic of a bracteata and it’s starting to get a move on after 3 years in the ground and at the rate it’s growing I would say a bit better than ramsayi. But all the other licuala love water in my garden. The lanonia (was licuala) dasyantha is the fastest of them all for me, you won’t stop them growing quite well paced!

I have a female plant coning now. Anyone in San Diego area have pollen available?

That's interesting I wonder why it just turned into a running bamboo? have any idea?

Great info and that makes perfect sense. What they did back in those days is just so sad. But then it still goes on now. I’m glad they are looking a rehabilitating certain areas.

It is possible, but it’s up to the seller to provide that service. And another variable is if your county allows you to import live plants. I can legally import plants but the cost and the headache of doing so I don’t need that in my life. As @Jonathan has provided a lead. I have sent germinated seeds to Germany via another source who then went through another route to provide the correct documentation. As it is now in Australia there are quarantine states you cannot send plants too unless you have the correct documentation and iam pretty sure that’s the concierge service Jonathan is talking about. It’s the same with imported seeds into Australia some sellers are just not interested in such a logistical nightmare to send seeds. Basically it’s taken the fun out of buying seeds and plant. And as it stands now with the CRB in Hawaii you can see why such measures are in place be it accidental or deliberate import of such a pest, the old saying no point in crying over spilt milk it has happened and there are fingers pointing blame at who done it. Now with that many plane flights around the world a pest or disease is only a plane flight away in a matter of hours. I wonder what they would say our past ancestors.

Fantastic work, Colin. Do you have to get the cooperation of private landholders, or is it taking place on public land?

Hi guys. Yes Carpentaria acuminata will grow well in Perth. I lived in Belmont and had a few in my garden that were doing well. The new owners cut them all down. Tragic. There was/is a large trunking and fruiting one near the airport in Belmont. Also I remember another one that was fruiting in Belmont that was cut down while I was still living there. They love a hot spot, but need some protection from the worst of Perth winters. If you grow them against an east or north facing wall that holds the heat at night and blocks cold southerly winds they should do well. Feed and water regularly during the growing season. Let them be a bit drier in winter but if you’re in Perth sand that won’t be an issue. I always planted in compost rich soil, but the sand will always win. If you know how to work with and create micro climates Perth can grow lots of stuff that normally wouldn’t grow. In South Perth I’ve seen a trunking and healthy Adonidia merrillii that was also flowering looking like a Townsville grown specimen. I loved growing Carpentaria acuminata. I wish I could grow them down here but it’s a stretch too far. They’re great to grow from seed too. They have a beautiful black seed that looks like a bit like a mini Wodyetia to me.

My Acrocomia is growing like that too but in a few years my neighbors definitely will hate the spiny fronds on their side.

I assume you want to import a plant from Australia to Poland? You could try a concierge service like this one https://rareplants.net.au/quarantine-concierge-service/ although I'm not sure if they provide international service.

Hi Jim, we might be able to manifest Tyrone by using the old @Tyrone trick! That way he'll get a notice that he's been mentioned in the thread.

The variety I was referring too is the thin black bamboo, toted by many a seller as non clumping. And that it was for many years, until it decided to take over and run throughout my garden. No more bamboo for me. I don’t trust them. Even a clumping variety over many years can take over a space in one huge clump. Bamboo and rhapis palms no more for me!

I'd been wondering how stuff had fared thru the winter back there.. Esp. this plant. Only thing i can think of is some of the roots got under the concrete, which helped keep the soil near it warmer / from freezing ..deep enough that it would kill the roots. in that area. Ilex ( Holly bush ) could have done the same thing ( Helping to keep the soil near them warmer, thus, keeping Passiflora roots from being killed ) Pretty neat, regardless. You'll have to share an update when it starts flowering / fruiting again

Very interesting Colin, particularly the hardness of the wood...a lucky survival mechanism for the palms. I've found that young Livistona's dont get eaten much by wallabies, down here at least, but get absolutely smashed by rabbits.

I see. Well hopefully at some point they find a way to deal with it, particularly worrying for the native Pritchardias. Good luck.

From the looks of that building, it’s WAY WAY older than the Queen palm that is about twenty years old. That building certainly wasn’t built in 2006 or later. I’ve seen many cases of palms “hugging” the walls they are right next to.

Someone on Facebook said the palm must be older than the building, or the palm would have grown away from it.

NoMa/Capitol Hill (Downtownish, Washington, DC—Zone 8a This winter was absolutely brutal and relentless. It had been unusually cold during the day for many weeks (high30’s-low 40’s), and unlike most winters, there were virtually no mild breaks in the cold. My wife and I returned from 3 weeks in London, mid to late January, and returned to an ice ramp over top of the stairs leading to our front down. We’ve lived here, in different neighborhoods in DC proper, for a total of near 25 years between us. The year of “Snowmaggedon” was not one of those years. I had never seen anything like it here—6 inches of thick ass ice. Driving was a nightmare for two weeks. Oh, and there was that 2 week stretch of low temperatures that ranged from about 2F through the teens, depending on whether you lived in the burbs or the city. I’ve know for sometime that our neighborhood was likely one of, if not THE warmest location anywhere in the area. It’s consistently warmer than many places far south of here(particularly our minimum temps), like Richmond, Norfolk, Raleigh, Atlanta. Especially during severe cold snaps that affect the whole eastern seaboard.. Our winter minimum temp was 17.6F (2 nights), with many (about 6-7 others) in the 21-24 range during that same awful stretch. When normally we’d have some of our days “warm up” to 50 or so, this past winter it was few and far between. I had long since resigned myself to the fact that a lot of palms and plants were likely cooked-Butia, pineapple guava, maybe even a couple Sago. I never even questioned the Brazilian Passiflora Edulis vine that grew so vigorously, and yelled many lbs of delicious fruit from September to December—I knew that plant had ZERO shot. Until today… Out on the edge of our grass, next to our holly tree, 3 or 4 small, but thick shoots, about 3 feet high, as of April 18, with undeniable Passiflora Edulis leaves. I could not believe what I saw. I have no idea how the root system could’ve made it through the horrible winter—or that it could make it through any marginally cold winter in Washington, DC, heat island or otherwise. This plant is NOT hardy. Can anyone explain this to me? I’m completely at a loss for how this was even possible.

Yes the rhizomes of Strelitzia are very hardy, even when you don't want them to be. Over the years I have helped my neighbor trim and ultimately remove some rhizomes of one that was planted too close to our shared fence. It is once again pushing against the fence and making it lean over to my side. I put a root barrier down over a decade ago, before this plant was the problem and I was dealing with roots from a Brazilian Pepper tree that was out of control. (photos of the fence leaning below). In the right place, they are an appropriate plant, but near a fence, wall or overhanging pavement, they are a nuisance. My neighbor on the other side planted one near their pool and was over asking about what to plant when they remove it. We walked the garden and I think they will go with a clumping Chrysalidocarpus, like rufescens or onilahensis. A small solitary palm like a Ravenea glauca might also work for them.. All that said, it is quite a feat to grow one there on the Bodensee (Lake Constance).