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Well done Jayce, you’ve invested a lot into your garden, collected a wide range of species ( and that is hard to do in Perth, Western Australia) and now have the ground work established. With lots of water and some protection during the fierce Perth summers you’ll start to create a microclimate that will protect the more delicate species. It all takes time but will be worth it. In Perth there is a lot of trial and error finding the right location for each species of palm. You have some more tropical palms on your list that will require a warm, well drained position during our wet cold winters and others will need some shade over our hot dry summers which I’m sure you already know. I’ve been growing palms for over thirty years and creating a microclimate is the secret to success in Perth so bangalow, Alexander, Kentia, Caryota and foxtails grow well here to provide overhead protection. My experience with foxtails is that they grow fairly quickly but take a long time to throw flowers in Perth and seed setting is very irregular so probably not as big a problem here than in the tropics. Chambeyronia are a fantastic show stopping palm but they need overhead shade here as the intense summer sun cooks the leaves so difficult to use as a canopy palm. It is great you have a record of your garden and you can watch it evolve over the years. Regards Russell

A slightly different look but very similar to C. Ernesti Augusti . Thank you @miamicuse , lovely examples. Harry

Hi Lars, Also amongst my first purchases. I have probably 20 but here is their leader, about six years old. This first batch from RPS, then I got some more to grow from Josue.

@SubTropicRay I'm surprised the Lakeland airport was that dry. We had a decent month closer to town. How did your total match up with KTPA or the WFO in Ruskin?

Great job on the landscaping and selection, @quaman58 !

If they start eating metal and concrete, look out UHI. 😅

Hope it grows well for you. A healthy Jubaea is a great statement palm.

Here is another Delonix regia in the area that is the largest one that I know of in California growing in Cathedral City, CA. It is surrounded by lawn and is more sparsely blooming, however based off of your observations, this doesn't always line up! I want to figure it out too because I just bought a house in El Centro, CA, and will be starting my garden this fall.

I even had a variegated foxy lady, that is until a great big cane beetle got in and ate it from the inside. Foxy lady about the only hybrid I do like the look of. I admire the work involved in creating such hybrids!

Wowo such a beautiful palm

This reverse cross was done by Seabreeze Nursery in Fort Meyers, Florida. I’m eager to see how well it grows here. 🙂

Bit of an update, it’s still alive and the little spear on the side shoot has jut ever do slightly grown a little bit. See what happens in summer now with this little experiment. The most encouraging sign is it’s not dead yet and that’s a good place to start with!

A very interesting and somewhat rare piece plant that has blue flowers.

Beautiful flowers and highly sought after in the floral trade. I purchased a white and the red one hot larvae about 6 months ago, and so far it’s looking good for winter.

Looks like a bit of palm love was (literally) in the air. The original foxy lady was developed by the Australian grower Rich Trapnell of rosebud farm I do believe!

A nice young Joey palm and a socratea rostrata, they only need another ten years of growing and a lot of water to be the main conversation focal point in the garden!

Wondering what you been up to, well now I know. You got a challenge on that bottle palm, now we will see you’re growing skills at work! And look after mr sancho he’s your best buddy in life, I just lost my 19 year old kitty Kat, the one who designed my garden, for her I was just the gardener!

Dypsis rosea coming along nicely for winter.

Three great dypsis varieties, dyp faneva, dyp remotifolia and dyp lantzeana. It may be mid winter but that doesn’t matter, the palms have been acclimated to my winter in the greenhouse and I don’t get frosts so plant away I say. And a nice handful of chamaedorea adscendens went in for a bit of extra fun along with a nice trio of Cham genoformis. Just because it’s winter doesn’t mean you can’t plant your garden. I find the winter plantings get a good tuck in gor summer and are established a lot stronger for the hot brutal days of summer when you miss the odd water or two! Dypsis faneva Dypsis remotifolia Dypsis lantzeana chamaedorea adscendens chamaedorea genoformis

Very cool, I’ve been trying to find a panzhihuaensis for awhile because it’s reasonably tested in the PNW, how much cold hardiness do you think it loses from the other parent? Online says multifrondis is a 9a reliable

They stay bifid. I have a few near maturity about 5-6' and they stay that way.

The same thing happened to one of my chamaedorea Radicalis, a big branch came down it give it a fair old snapping, it sat there for a year sulking then it started to get on with growing again. Mother Nature has her way of dealing with things in a certain manner!

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