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Fusca you definitely got your price of admission repaid with that visit! Some very incredible palms. 🤩 jimmyt

I think some plants are happy with this weather for the first time my Spathodea is blooming!!!

@happypalms Ive never seen a baby staghorn until now, how cute!

You guys have some beautiful trees. I wish I had the time to grow one out or would have pulled the trigger 8yrs ago. My time is short now. One of life’s regrets I suppose. The few around me faired well in the freeze. Some burn but overall look good. Hope you guys did well.

Put it in the ground and you can remove cuttings. These produce offsets prolificly like bromeliads and they are equally easy to divide and transplant.

@PalmatierMeg I was pretty shocked at how well Copernicia did after 22.5F this February. My Fallaensis had near complete burn, but just opened a nearly pristine new frond. Baileyana and Gigas took around 50% burn and also seem ok. I've lost a few Macroglossa to bud rot over the years, but all were small. I have twoo more large seedling sized Baileys and a Fallaensisin the ground now too, and zero damage from the cold.

Glad to see kitty is alright! That’s BIG Chambeyronia!

It’s worth the risks!

I see Conan missed severe injury from that frond . That is a gorgeous palm , Dave . Thank you for sharing! Harry

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.

Ours just bloomed! I had to move it under the Chrysalidiocarpus Decaryi , it started to get sun burned . The courtyard is now getting a lot more after noon sun. Harry I love the blooms of these . We will probably get more at some point.

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

Obscenities screamed.

I had a small area of trunk rot on a young KO at one point. I scraped some of the outer soft portion off, then painted it directly with undiluted daconil a couple of times. It fixed the issue, but it wasn’t a crazy bad case. It was revealed by a shed leaf base, and dried out once exposed which probably helped a lot, also. I can say that there is little downside to this approach. Never had an adverse reaction to any amount of daconil put directly on a palm.

I figure I better start up one of these threads as I have a feeling it may be a dramatic year. Anyway, it has been pretty warm here. Wales had 25-26C today and I had 22C here. Tomorrow it will be 26C / 79F in London… The fires are already back with a vengeance, despite many places having the wettest winter on record. The past few weeks have been pretty dry and warm however. 5 active fires at the time of writing this, but it is the Marsden wildfire has been wrecking havoc. All the roads in the area shut off. Helicopters coming in tomorrow. We will see what the maximum is tomorrow in London. I would say 25-26C but it may reach 27C. I have a feeling the fires will be out of control the next few days…

Has anybody treated a rot spot on their coconut palm trunk? Feels like a soft spot forming. Can that outer part of the trunk be chiseled away, treated, and sealed? Freeze damage is the cause. I've already applied banrot a month ago. Crown is doing fine but now concerned about the inside.

Right now its 31f Today was a pretty cool day it was around 48-50 almost all day, tonight there's a low of 26-27 I've been seeing on Facebook a lot of the orchards are worried about their trees all the Peachtree's and apple trees are in full bloom I know our Peach trees will be fried I really hope There will be a miracle and they will be OK, thankfully I protected our small pear tree With a tarp and put a 5 gallon bucket of hot water we'll see how it does. This is how I protected my pear tree I put a bucket of hot water in there also so that should help, a low in the mid 20s in April is not normal for us I hope it does not get that cold

Thanks, Tim!

Yeah dude, it's finally starting to push multiple fronds at a time but they're all crazy and viney. But I absolutely love it, I love weird bendy stuff that does whatever it wants to. And this definitely fits that mold. Maybe I'll try to get it something to climb the next time I'm in the lumber store.

I believe everyone here has faced the same dilemma at one time or another. I recommend joining your local IPS affiliate. Attend a couple meetings. Ask the question from people with your same interest.

Somehow, the queen looks as ratty as the rest of the property

The yard was FULL of Clivia flowers but due to the unprecedented heat in March, I didn’t have much time to snap photos before the flowers began falling off.