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You realize your summer high temps are warmer than quite a number of areas in the Los Angeles metro! And your winter temps don't seem that far off from Santa Monica. Another place that is so unexpectedly hot in my own experience is Big Sur...how many times setting out from the consistently refrigerated air of Carmel...driving that amazing coast, and suddenly you arrive at Nepenthe, get out of the car, and you're absolutely roasting. Bizarre!

Neat plant ..if you can keep it alive.. Picky about what it likes / hates.. Mild and moist < but not wet > ? = likes ..Heat and too dry ..and temps below the lower 30s? = hates.. Beautiful, when happy. Genus, ..of neotropical origin, was recently chopped up and served into separate resurrected / new genus. What once was listed as T. unvilleanum, is now in the genus Pleroma, ...as are a couple of other sps. grown in the U.S.

Most palm’s new leaves will open and be somewhat pale before they’ve had a chance to absorb some UV light. Since the leaves on yours are greening up after a short time, that’s likely what’s happening so no worries.

Yes Michael, I purchased five Pinanga ‘Maroon Crown shaft,’ one Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii, three Chamaedorea arenbergiana, and three Chrysalidocarpus ‘Baby Red Stems.’ The P. coronata are my first attempts. The climate here is warmer in all twelve months than in Carmel as can be seen by the two average temperature charts below. A full 20° summer to early autumn.

Yes the ornamental lantana is a delight, but the one that is a weed in Australia has taken over thousands of hectares of Australian forests and private property. It forms dense thickets covering acres upon acres, a big environmental weed, the sand mining company’s introduced it to help with revegtation a big failure. This is why Australia has such strict bio security!

Tibouchina another native Australian tree. A fantastic tree.

Nice one, you need to try and get the finger lime a very tough citrus from Australia, with its caviar like citrus bombs. Look that tree up absolutely beautiful fruit.

The pemba islands with the witch doctors, now they could put a spell on anyone!

If only you lived in the subtropical climate, you would have one heck of a collection!

For a minute there I thought you were serious about the warmth, but then I realised that you live in a refrigerator!🤣I will say that’s one rescue mission with a success. Well done sick palms are tricky to bring back.

Unless intentionally kept clear, Stuff grows under 'em fine here... No issue with being crowded, either, ..or so it seems.. Squeezed from both sides a bit? = Might be how this one attained the " largest sized specimen observed locally to date " status. Go ahead, find me one that is ..taller / wider, locally..

Still doing better than me, my girl dug up my Canary and it eventually spear pulled.

Delonix regia is one of those trees that would seem to be a great nurse-tree...however I think the roots are so greedy, or perhaps there is a little bit of allelopathy going on...I always noticed in the Florida Keys that pretty much nothing would ever be growing underneath the Royal Poincianas in people's yards (including mine) except for one plant...Pothos! For some reason almost every Poinciana you will see there has a happy, huge-leafed Pothos (Epipremnum aureum) climbing up into its boughs. I always wondered if this was just a cultural "thing" for people to companion-plant, but I never really explored why. But otherwise the ground will likely be perfectly empty from the trunk out to a certain point. I think I have noticed the same in Miami but can't swear to it...all of this I've noticed is just casual observation and I may be proven wrong, or there may be exceptions for one reason or another...also my own impressions could be tied to the highly basic substrate (pure calcium carbonate) in the Keys. But it's something that always stood out to me. Have you successfully grown anything under your trees in Arizona?

In My large one only ever holds 4 leaves and a spear,. A few more years and will get there!

I have a feeling the Pinanga 'Maroon Crownshaft' may do well for you. I ordered one from Jeff last year and it sailed through winter looking perfect (yes, I know, it was not much of a winter!) and so it might do well in favored spots like yours in Central California. A few others that have surprised me with their winter hardiness here in Palm Springs are Areca laosensis (much easier for me than A. triandra) and Areca vidaliana (which was a suggestion from "Happy Palms" Richard). For some reason Pinanga coronata has always crapped out on me eventually...maybe because I'm hung up on the 'kuhlii' form, which may just be difficult compared to the other forms of this species. Jeff used to sell his "blunt leaf" form and I used to grow it in the Keys, it grew quite fast and made almost a barrier hedge for me there and then Irma's seawater-sweep killed them all. Like you I ordered a P. coronata from Jeff a couple of months ago and this one he's selling seems more like the old-fashioned 'Pauleen's Ventura' type. Maybe it is hardier. I'm surprised you haven't grown it in the past, or have you? I always think you must be in a very cool spot (I think I'm too used to the climate of Carmel, which is one of my favorite air-conditioned spots on the planet)...obviously you get some decent heat. You must, because I can't stop ogling that xWodveitchia you have. That is truly a spectacle and you need to pat yourself on the back for that one!

That's too bad about your plumbagos. I really like them, and they are pretty common all around San Antonio. I was considering removing some nice (but bland) dwarf yaupon holly and replacing them with plumbago. Perhaps I should reconsider though. I could always use some salvia for a nice long blue/purple bloom season.

Yes. They make a great dappled sunlight underneath that could be a beneficial spot for some shade loving plants. 👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Mine will probably never bloom it’s on drip and gets the same water as everything else!!’ Still a pretty tree!!’

Too lush and green! I think this species needs to experience some winter drought to put on a good flower show. I only water mine once a month December through March, plus whatever may fall from the sky. 🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Mine never lost any leafs I thought that was weird!! But no blooms maybe I over water my jacaranda doesn’t bloom and neither does my delonix!!! Beautiful tree anyway!!

Hey PalmTalkers! So last June I planted a 15g Coccothrinax miraguama. Over the last month or so I’ve noticed that new leaves emerge green only on the edges and a paler green maybe even a pale yellow if my eyes serve me right. Sorry I wish I had taken a photo but I didnt. But as the palm fully emerges it eventually becomes full green. Is this normal or indicative of any bad cultural practices? I have been fertlizing it lightly. And I did ammend the soil before planting using half miracle gro palm soil and perlite since I didnt know better. Thanks!

6 years between the before and after shots of my larger C oliviformis.

Looking good Richard. They’re pretty fast down here. Maybe there’s not enough warmth for them up there 🤣 Here’s 8 years of growth from a very nearly dead seedling I managed to transplant from a garden before it died. Glad I did.

Unlikely C blackii is/was native to Madagascar. Its closest relatives C lanceolatus, C cabadae and C pembanus aren’t Madagascan species. But yes your point stands. Many mysteries in the Dypsis, Chrysalidocarpus and Vonitra family.

The “drizzle” came to nothing down here. No measurable rainfall today. Chance gone. Some places will finish April on 0.2mm / 0.007 inches. A few areas probably have had no measurable rainfall this April. They are getting absolutely hammered in Northern Ireland and Wales… Helicopters have been dropping water non-stop on the fire at Loch Lomond in Scotland…