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Hey Nathan, here's my Chilopsis 'Sweet Bubba' blooms yesterday. It's still small and the blooms have been sparse so far. How does Sweet Bubba do over there? Is it floriferous?

The Howea belmoreana presents well from the street outside my garden now too. It is above the wall with its foliage, visible in the center behind the two trunks of Chrysalidocarpus pembanus in this photo. The 5 gallon bucket from the big orange box provides perspective. I need to borrow Tim's shovel for future garden shoots.

My garden tends to be a little delayed on flushing compared to many in Southern California, especially gardens set back even a little from the marine layer that often huge the coastline. The Ceratozamia genus seems to ignore the seasons though and can initiate a flush almost anytime except the shortest days of winter. Right now a single new leaf is emerging on my otherwise barren appearing Ceratozamia hildae. A potted Ceratozamia latifolia female has finally focused on a flush after coning sequentially, which will finally provide a better foliage cover.

Hi ! I have 3 palms that I alternate between being outdoor in the summer and indoor in winter. Bottle Palm, Queen and trachycarpus fortunei. I’ve read that the ideal pot material is terracota as it breathe well and it prevent root rot specially during winter. I’ve lost 2 palms this winter due to root rot. Overwatering and the soil never dried as my house is 50% humidity. As those palms are new, I want to pot them once for a while in a ideal material for both outside and inside without having to repot them. Im in Canada (Montréal zone 5)

sounds like you know what you’re doing then. should be interesting to see how it develops. it’ll be a slow process. i have a serenoa that i keep watch of in my yard and every new leaf takes like a month

Garret, yours an excellent looking example of copernicia baileyana! Mine started growing faster once it trunked. They are not fast for sure but the slower growth at that height is desirable, its a better view than looking up there. These are great palms for florida, but as they get tall, the hurricane damage is greater. Milton hit my yard at 100-110mph, the damage increased with height seemingly regardless of species. My bailey was spared some as it was about 15-16 feet tall, as tall as the house. My C. Fallaense was not so lucky at 25' overall, about 70% damage to the crown. Palms taller than the house saw the worst winds. My neighbor said my 40' royal was bent horizontal in the wind and it lost all 18-20 leaves, just a spear left. My bailey is still in recovery mode, it lost half the leaves to wind damage, lowest first. At this time 3/4ths of the crown is back, though it still holds 6-8 leaves that saw some damage in Milton. Milton seems to have stimulated trunk growth some as it has for several other palms of mine. This palm was planted in this time of year in 2011 about so 5 years older from a 3 gallon. The trunk, from ground to the last dead leafbase is 10' first, 6months in the ground sept 2011. New growth had smaller leaves since it was grown in shade and I put it in full sun. Next 15 months later Dec 2012 it was pumping out leaves at a good rate. Then it started to go vertical and carry more leaves by june 2015. Then it was hit by a hurricane IRMA in 2017 and suffered a spear bundle infection (caused by spear fracture) that persisted for two growing seasons till I managed to kill off the fungus with repeat treatments of daconil. Just when I was wondering if it the fungus was still present, it started to grow faster. This was a period of slow growth for 2 seasons as the infected spears grew out. In sept 2020 about 10 years in the ground, it was trunking and looking fully recovered with a good growth rate. Here it is with a full crown sept 2020, pictured with my larger Fallaensis. Frankly, I wish they both stopped growing at that size as the colors are best when you can see into the crown. Then it was hit by two hurricanes the next 4 years. The sharp thorns on petioles of the newer leaves shred the leaflets on the older ones in the hurricanes. Now here it is 20 months after Milton damage, still recovering. It is 16 years in the ground. I am hoping for a full crown late this summer. Trunk is about 6 1/2-7' clear and 10' including the dead leafbases waiting to fall off in the wet season. Let it rain please!

These require some patience in my part of the world, but this one is cool. At least 6-7 years old from a store bought pineapple top that my wife planted, which then split into two growing sections. It’s always looked great though, being a really large robust plant and never having any brown tip issues. One side began fruiting in late August of last year and is still developing. The other side is just getting going as well. How common is it for these to bifurcate?

Indeed evaporation lowers the surrounding air temperature but you have to spray every couple minutes and keep at same time Ceroxyla dry. Besides dunno how big is going to be the difference in temperature, just it is going to be lower inside, provided you have abundant and cheap water supply. Imho you will have to erect a tall shade house with opposite facing windows wide open (meaning potential entrance for various critters) and surface gaps of about 1/3 to ceiling gaps.

Hey JD, they normally don't transplant well. What I've found with the repens is that if you can remove it from the earth and not disturb the micro roots and keep the entire root structure intact and not disturb the soil, they tend to do ok. Generally can't be done with anything larger than what's in the photos. . I live in Alva , I was clearing a common area in an Iona community and spotted this under a cocoplum . Luckily it was easily accesible. As it gets larger I'll post more photos. I'm very curious to see if this isn't a one off or if the new shoots will show the same markings . Have a great day.

Yes but it has yet to grow larger than 1 strap leaf. So far it seems hardy ish but it’s also hard to tell when it’s close to the ground. I’m not holding my breath on any phoenixes here.

@SailorBold summer protection. Hence the term I use sometimes, " water pumpers". But yes, winter protection when larger, almost like a wall of water. Actually thermal mass in the spear of mostly water. The palm groves themselves provide their own, cooler microclimate on hot days, noticed by many people who enter these groves. You can feel it with your hand near the spear on a hot dry summer day. This palm is so misunderstood. So many mistruths! Number one being they dislike humidity/wet .....

Here we call it an over 55 retirement village, only problem is is iam over 55 so I now qualify to buy one, what a terrible experience that would be leaving my garden behind for a snooker night and friendly game of bingo with the rest of us geriatrics Iam confident in the cool tolence

In the greenhouse that’s the only place I have that wine cool enough, by keeping it wet in summer. But iam not that confident from what iam hearing about them. It’s the complete opposite to winter killing many of my tropical palms, only it’s the heat this time killing my cool temperate palms.

Yeah a water issue in the arizona desert will take down all but 2-3 palms I know of. W Filifera and P dactylifera can exist without regular irrigation. Bismarckia cannot deal with a water shortage in the desert. In florida they do fine without irrigation, though this years drought is testing them good, I see bronzing and shrinkage of crowns in some along the highways.

Looks varuegated. They don't transplant well tho like he said.. Do you live near Iona? I owned the nursery at Old McGregor and John Morris for a couple years. New owner there now. I'm in estero now m JD

Best wishes nonetheless. How do you plan to protect potted seedlings from 40 C (in shade?) and high air humidity?

They won’t be going in the ground anytime soon. With temperatures up to 40 degrees at times in summer, it’s going to be interesting this challenge.

Well I can only try, iam sort of hoping in the greenhouse they stand a better chance than out in the garden!

Evolution at its best!

Yes gyuseppe just the other day I was in touch with the friend who gives me the rare rainforest seeds and he has one alive that has two metres of trunk. The climate he has is temperate that is south of Sydney, just to give you a location of the palm. In an area where Colin Wilson lives.

Ravenea rivularis put them in a tropical garden and they are next level.

iguanura GFAreca rheopytica Cham adscendens kerriodoxa elegans dypsis louvelli Geonoma atrovirens Pinanga disticha

Cerotazamia subrosephylla

Couple of Chambeyronia hookeri looking quite happy!