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Great, Bruce.

Blockbuster, Richard 🤗 We’d spend the whole day in the jungle with you, marveling and asking, “When did you plant this and that?”And, of course, we’d roll up our sleeves and start planting, yep!

Impressive 🤗

Hugo, my friend 🤗

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The ultimate Hattrick! 3 out of 3 Caryota mitis are erupting! The second and the third are now pushing pushing strong, healthy new spears simultaneously. We are very very happy about that🤗

Thank you very much, Harry. Wow, amazing, Harry. What a beauty 🤗

wonderful, Richard🤗

Still have some of these nicer sized E. Lehmannii for $40 as well! Text or PM and thanks for looking🤙

It's a rare ability to be able to "listen" to your garden with more than ears and eyes. There is a feel to it that is its own thing, almost like you can feel the entire "wood wide web" and your place in it. And the more you do for the garden, the more integrated you are into the symbiosis of that garden; it comes to need and love you same as you it, just not in such a direct, aware way. I too am glad that others can feel that connection, it's powerful and gives perspective on our place in the world and our purpose. Even the native plants and animals here seem to know that they have their space that's just for them, and I have my spot that's mine, and they mostly behave lol. Nothing better in life than feeling that connection

These have been my best sellers so far and from the pic you can see why. These things are jumbos! I still have a good quantity of these 5 gal. Pure strain E. Arenarius for $40!

Developing nicely. This Kona low makes for some moody lighting!

I'm sure a few of us have been down that road. I know I have.😁

Tyrone you are my friend, but also Richard with his behavior (he has already sent me seeds 3 times) is my friend!

Richard first of all I don't want seeds (you know I'm looking for chamaedorea seeds) and it's a very kind gesture to offer six to my friend Tyrone

Here's cut with pruners. I think that's the embryo @Bigfish what do you think?

It’s interesting , we were just rewatching a program from years ago “ The Power of Myth” with Joseph Campbell. He was talking about levels of consciousness. He gave an example of a vine that was growing up a Cocconut Palm and how the vine would open these huge leaves only on the sun side of the trunk it was attached to. The plant had a level of consciousness to know where the sun is , not the level we know as humans , but still… I am that guy who feels a certain amount of energy from our garden and other gardens . Like meditation , it is deeply personal but it gives me a certain peace . I am convinced that you have that connection with your garden as well. Lovely pictures of your garden . As always , thank you for sharing with the rest of us. Not that I need validation or anything , but at least I’m not the only one who “ communicates “ with nature. Harry

Follow up: As much as I would have enjoyed watching the development of a hybrid, sparing the time to locate and retrieve one is probably unwise, living in a half-finished house restoration project. So off I went to Murray’s Nursery in Moss Point, MS, and picked up ($125/15 gallon) this “ordinary” Butia capitata, with a pretty girthy trunk beginning to form. It replaces the windmill that couldn’t handle last summer’s heat and drought (according to a landscaper’s diagnosis). Despite their ubiquity, I like the toughness, and in particular, the drought tolerance of the species. Wilburn Goff, at Murray’s, agreed with everyone here that you can’t tell the eventual color at this stage. This little beauty also followed me home: I don’t have a spot for it, but couldn’t resist. (Chionathus virginicus).

Keep an eye out when they are ready for you, all I know is Rich trapnell introduced them to start with in Australia, and we have all heard many tales as to what got collected and named just as something to send seeds out of Madagascar!

That’s very good of you Richard. I will love a few seeds. My two have flowered here but never fruited. Have they ever found these in the wild yet. I remember Bill Beatie saying they probably come from an area in NW Madagascar which is a military zone, but back then no one could go in and make a scientific assessment of them. They of course entered cultivation incorrectly as ambositrae but I still love em even if they aren’t ambositrae.

Do you want the seeds @Tyrone there free to a good home remember!

Be careful of those tabeuia, a curse of a weed in my climate.

At this point I shall grumble going into winter and all those new varieties iam zone pushing with, well we know what happens to some of those intolerant of cold palms, compost heap!

Rolled past these beauties again over the weekend

You learn to know you’re garden, and you’re garden knows who you are!