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Nothing, 90% of my collection are seedlings and young palms 🥲

Konstantinos, it's still too early to know if my female roebelenii will produce hybrid seeds with rupicola, but there's good news: the flowers haven't fallen yet.

Survivor stories: IT'S ALIVE! I was able to cover up my pandanus utilis pretty good during the hard freeze. All the leafs got fried but the center held a green hue giving me hope it would live. I pampered it and over time noticed the crown had green, but no growth for months. One day i took the top between my finger and thumb, gave a gentle tug and the whole top pulled out with a mushy rotten bottom. I thought "well, that's dead and i just didn't know it yet." So i stopped watering/fert, let the weeds grow around. And had been planning to dig it out and put something else there. But through the combined powers of indecision and procrastination that never happened. Months later i spotted a little green shooting out of the middle and was surprised to find the crown growing back. Now it's getting pampered again and looks like recovery is possible, which is a big chance from a few weeks ago when i considered it a dead body in the front yard i needed to get rid of.

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Thanks for the pictures. never been to animal kingdom before. Really liked the strangler figs on the trees, looks awesome. I have a few smaller ones growing out of cabbage palm boots in the backyard and always wanted to ask if that kind of braided encasing is a "man made" guidance of how the roots come down or just happens naturally and they sell the best looking ones? I always figured as the root come down i could shape and twist them to my liking.

I have such a hybrid, home made, and your description is pretty spot on, except perhaps the solitary habit. Mine has a moderately suckering habit and offshoots do not grow fast like in reclinata. Is the specimen at your place male? Perhaps this the decisive factor of the solitary habit. Mine is female. Perhaps, as an alternative explanation, with age suckering habit fades away.

That’s a beauty! Can’t beat the price. Harry

My Butia has a few plants that grow on the trunk and I try to remove them but they are difficult to deal with . Yours looks great and as long as no harm comes to the host , let it be. Interesting that the Butia does this but my large Sabal doesn’t have a single plant growing in the leaf bases. It seems way more common with Butia . Harry

That is very unique. I have never seen one.Harry

No personal experience , but I’ve seen a Phoenix Reclinata/ Roebelini cross . It was a single stem , 15’ tall beauty with a more relaxed leaf than the Reclinata but larger frond than Roebelini. Harry

Not working when it’s for palms! Richard

I have been given plenty of Phoenix rupicola pollen by @gilles06 and used it to pollinate female Phoenix roebelenii and female f1 Phoenix loureiroi x Phoenix roebelenii Unfortunately I had overseen that my Phoenix loureiroi was also blooming and missed the opportunity to create an f1 hybrid of loureiroi x rupicola. I have also used pollen from my male Phoenix roebelenii to back-cross my female f1 Phoenix roebelenii x Phoenix dactylifera. Latter, although it blooms regularly end of winter to start of spring, occasionally produces one or two odd inflorescences also during summer, like this year! @gyuseppe it seems, that your wishes will be fulfilled this year! And finally I have used pollen from the same male roebelenii to pollinate an inflorescence of a Phoenix reclinata You may disclose here your own plans for hybrids creation.

Sabal Yapa

Chamaerops cerifera

A native 'weed' down here too Richard, two metres high in 6 months! Short lived, but good quick cover, I like 'em.

Here are two that I have been growing (or allowing to grow). Seeds from RPS in December 2006, two planted out on a hillside in April 2016. Here they are from above: And from below: The backstory is that both were seriously damaged a year or so ago by the collapse in a windstorm of a large "albizia" tree in my neighbor's yard. They were covered by tree branches and most of the leaves were stripped off. But the stems were undamaged and the palms have grown back almost to their state before the event. (The "albizias" have since been removed.)

Agree with the above, everything looks great! That Thaumatophyllum in particular looks pretty nice growing up it like that.

I'd leave it too Alberto, looks great to me!

Glad your robustas are recovering well. I am also crossing my fingers for now snow or ice this coming winter. 🤞

A nice Chambeyronia and the good old dypsis onilihanses stems doing what they do best!

Marojejya darinii pushing a strong spear for winter!

A very unusual way of clumping the rhizomatosa. They just start a vegative shoot and head for the ground and pop up further away from the parent plant. It’s still a rare palm, I have removed small plants and they are quite easy to keep alive. A very unique palm, with its rhizomes.

It was time for an AC unit 5 years ago. Generally speaking, London is warmer than Los Angeles by day and night in summer nowadays. Temperatures actually underperformed here during the last heatwave in June. We just about scraped 100 degrees F on 29th June. How long until the next 40C / 104F arrives though...? It is just relentless in the models nowadays. I have even seen 45C / 115F appear on modelling recently, for southwestern England, which is just unprecedented. And it suggests under an optimum setup these temperatures may be possible today... El Nino summers are typically supposed to be cool, wet and cloudy looking at the analogs in previous decades. But it looks like that signal has been completely eroded away nowadays by the aggressive warm-summer Med (Csb) climate transition. Basically parts out southern England will be going a month plus without any rainfall if this comes to fruition. And I wouldn't bet on August having much, if any, rainfall either. Surprisingly the fires haven't been too bad here, so far...

Thanks Mike. Yes, these are Obi Island form or are supposed to be. You know, I don’t ever remember seeing any other form from all of our garden tour travels. Tim