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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.

The work you’ve done looks amazing . It must be hard to see the damage but encouraging to see new growth . Harry

Afternoon Sat Check: ....Getting ..closer??? *** ..Will be shocked if we don't see quite a duster approaching from the south and east in the next couple hours. Tucson, via the UA cams: -Getting -hammered... Catalinas View: ..Wait for the Rain Bomb.. http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/wximagery/movies/last_90_minutes.mp4 Rincons: http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/wximagery/movies/rincon_last_90_minutes.mp4 106F w/ a 56 deg. Dew Point, and increasing clouds out the window at 6:35PM. *** Speak of the Devil ..It Begins.....

This Gaussia Gomez Pompae caught my eye. So much so , I had to adopt it from @DoomsDave jungle . I really like the shape of this guy! Looking forward to watching it grow. Harry

The attack kitties were taking a nap so no cats were encountered. Harry

Kurt and I made a clean getaway with a great heist! A few new ones for the collection . A couple of Gaussia Gomez Pompae , a nice Ptychosperma Sanderianum , Dypsis Cabadae , a few more Ernie’s , and a cute little Arenga Engleri . Kurt was able to grab a few others as well! A great day , as always , at @DoomsDave jungle . Wonderful company , a beautiful day , and luvin all the palms. Harry A few of our “ pix of the crop” This Gaussia has an interesting base. Kinda reminds me of a certain Hyophorbe.

Thermometer is currently at 110F in the east valley after posting the first low of 90F this morning. You can feel the higher humidity, even if it's not the same as the eastern US but it doesn't take much to make things that much worse when it's this hot.

Nothing a little cat nip wont fix, drug em up to the eyeballs on that stuff and all they will do is sleep and dream of saucer’s of milk, mice and more cat nip, makes all that cat training look like a pre school lunch nap instead of a masters degree in cat psychology training to be ninja attack cats! 🤣 Richard

Only liquid seaweed at the same rate as every other palm in the greenhouse has been used, plus I have hundreds of nana seedlings that receive the same amount. It beats me what killed them, in this situation it helps if the grower was keeping records of what they do for back reference to diagnose with, instead of relying on memory, so definitely grower mistake for not keeping records. No records I can’t cross reference to find out my mistakes so I can’t learn from my mistake in this case!

Pretty sure theres 4 in the greenhouse somewhere, I shall put there Tasmanian visa application in with the correct authorities for you!

Leaves coming from the top and bottom I thnk it will end up having multiple arms and looking like this

And the last big bamboo project was rearranging the SW pathway that goes to the side yard. After taking down the Foxtail triple and big single, I could directly see from my backyard straight into my neighbor's backyard. And on top of that, it was the only semi-open spot with LOTS of highway noise coming through. Initially I expected to only be able to split my three Bambusa Textilis "Ladyfinger" aka "Richard Waldron" into a few clumps, but I managed to split them into a whopping 33 plantings! I did a complete row on each side of the pathway, with 11 on the SW (left) side and 12 on the NW (right) side: And with spacing of only about 1 foot between clumps, hopefully by the end of the summer it'll start filling in pretty solid: From the other end of the pathway:

On my property they are sparsely located, yet in other locations in the area quite gathered groups. Not sure what does seed dispersal either perhaps possums, could even be lace monitor lizards they eat anything they can find and have a stomach that’s like a garbage tip!

Like most palms as seedlings once you overwater them it’s difficult to bring them back, taking that extra few years off there growing cycle in recovery time. And the seedling stage is so critical for such a long lived plant. Now you have your little setup for seedlings it will surprise you how efficient it will be in development of your seedlings. Richard

Hopefully you can collect some seeds...I hear they travel well!

I replaced the Gigantochloa with an Encephalartos Whitelockii from the NW bed, and subsequently replaced THAT with some Zebrina bananas from the SE corner: My next big project was even MORE bamboo rearrangement. In the South center bamboo hedgeline I'd planted a Bambusa Boniopsis. This lost the tops of all culms in the 22.5F freeze, had tiny leaves, and the clump was getting a lot bigger for this area with limited access. It was already about 3' diameter with 20-25' culms 1.5" diameter. So I chopped the tops and dug this one out too.: I had an open spot in my SW bamboo hedge. So I moved a Bambusa Glaucophylla/Heterostachya non-variegated from the middle of the fenceline to the empty spot. It's the clump to the upper right in the above Boniopsis photo. I just chopped all the culms at ~4' tall and dug out the whole clump at once: In the same row I'd originally planted a bunch of Bambusa Textilis "Albostriata" in 4 spots. Albo is bigger than Gracilis and has a broader footprint and spread, so I decided to trash these before they became unmanageable. Here it is partway through the 3rd clump. These only took about a half hour each because they hadn't completely filled in yet: I still have one big clump of Albo, but it's in a spot with easier access.

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And I posted some more bamboo destruction over in the Bamboo Thread. I took out my big clump of Bambusa "Nana" aka xThrysocalamus Liang aka Quail large leaf clone near the garage. It was another "too big too fast" type that was also not too cold hardy. 100% of the culms died at 22.5F and left me with HEAVY solid culms to clean up. I planted it in April 2023 and it had grown to a 5' diameter clump over 2' deep with huge underground culms starting. The existing dead ones were 2-3" diameter and 28-35' tall, so it was likely going to get even bigger this summer. At that height it was too close to the house. I had a clump of Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii flop over in a hurricane in the same spot, so I was not about to repeat it! In the same spot I planted a Schizostachyum "Murray Island." This was a suggestion from @Brad52 and is supposed to be around 15' tall and 0.75" diameter. Hardiness reports vary, but it might be ok to either 28F or 35F...we'll see! On the other side of the van I had a Gigantochloa "Malaysian Black" that I took out in mid-June. I originally planted it in July 2022 next to my East pathway, and then discovered it had a very spreading top. I moved it in 2024 to a spot that I hoped would work, but all the new culms just started growing out at a 45 degree angle. It was a continuous hassle to cut back, and then all the culms died in the February freeze. The leaves are huge and have a neat ripply look: But the culms start shooting out at about a 30 degree angle, and then bend further. The clump ended up being (almost) wider than it was tall. In some yards that might work great, but not for me! They also never really turned black like Lako, and just stayed kind of a dark brown.