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Thank you both for information. Now i have to wait to see what is exactly. Anyway it looks nice.

Same here! When we moved up the hill from our old house , things changed . Micro climates are real and once we got an established garden , I was surprised at what I could grow . I have noticed the warming trend over the 30 years we’ve been here . Of course a freak cold snap can happen but we just don’t see below mid 40’s any more . The weather app will show 42 but our real time temp is 46+ . We are higher up , south facing , warming us in the morning hours. Lovely palms , those . I’ve never tried them . My main thing , now , is room. Harry

I can see why someone would like that privacy hedge . Not a fast way to get one but pretty cool . I am surprised you haven’t introduced yourself . Harry

They make a great hedge and those pictures show that!

Not sure how many are planted, I might knock on there door one day and ask what is the story behind the palms. There were only palms in the garden nothing else except for palms. There are some incredible properties with houses in my area!

That’s more knowledge than I have, I was never really interested in broms, yer sure I had them but they get given too me by many gardeners who renovate their own gardens and say I dont want them anymore, I have five acres so I say I’ll take them. And Australia has quarantine states that you cannot import live plants, fortunately iam not one of those states I can buy whatever I can find!

You’re climate sounds somewhat a little like my climate, Iam definitely subtropical but live in a sweet spot for a lot of varieties of palms, like you said the super tropicals we can rule out, but among that tropical stuff there is a lot of stuff you can grow. Availability is the thing stopping a lot more stuff being discovered!

That looks great!

It’s not to difficult in my zone 10a area, Richard. The real tropical stuff refuses to grow here of course though. Winters have been 10b for over ten years but they are cool nonetheless. Burretiokentia seem to like the cool wet season as much as the warm summertime.

Oh great, best of luck with it! I'm super interested how it goes for you. Hopefully I find one for sale here at some stage. I've seen them looking fantastic in Sydney, which isn't TOO much hotter than here (at least with some wishful thinking). Is it easy for you guys to order plants from out of state? Must be some great places in QLD to acquire tropicals to try. Definitely not, but maybe I'll get there one day ! I just happen to have a couple of those Billbergias. I don't even know the name of some of my own collection though to be honest!

Lucky Hawaii growers!

Dankjewel, Richard! Dit is er inderdaad èèn met die roodbruine tint in het nieuwe blad. Hoe meer licht hij krijgt, hoe intenser de kleur. Hier in Nederland zit er vaak wel eentje met die tint in een pot met meerdere planten!

I was lucky enough to see a flowering one. And it was rather large, but with no telegraph pole insight thankfully. I have another on in my garden and it will e nice to see how it grows with a bit of attention and water. Richard

As a young fern they like dappled light and water, but as soon as they get a metre or two sized leaves they take a lot of sun. I use them as canopy trees in harsh areas around my garden. Great pioneer plants for establishing a garden. And once they get a couple of metres of trunk full sun not a problem. They do like a drink but once established they are tough plants. Just plant as many as you can anywhere you will be surprised how many live, you may lose one or two out of 20 or so, once they get growing they are rocket ships.

But how many are there! We can only dream of a house like this here, almost all the families live in apartments in a condominium, I am one of the lucky few to have a garden here

Someone certainly loved palms and went all out with a hedge of engleri. A local suburban house in my hometown, they went for privacy and certainly got it with this lot of palms. So engleri will make a great hedge over time. They even threw in a Bismarckia for good measure.

That’s the go Jim, zone push away. I have discovered so many palms from zone pushing. You gotta try and go against what you’re told won’t grow, yes some obvious things wont grow, but you never know until you try!

That’s the one EE, I have CLBS and it’s not that one. NM could mean anything, even the initials of the seed supplier. That’s dypsis for you, we all know how it happens. I have 3 unknown dypsis sp in my garden I got from Rosebud many years ago as ambositrae wild collected. And we all know the ambositrae, plumosa debacle. All I know is the 3 I have are neither of those two.

More Sunrise _ esque rays of hope as we wrap up the month.. Not there YET, ....but it may not be long before were off to the races.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbcTIUi738U 50 Minute mark into Mark's discussion ( ...20- ish mins if starting at the 30 min mark / just the ENSO discussion portion of this weeks video update ) , = In all the years i have tracked X and Y EL Nino - related things, this is something i haven't ever seen. Check it out.. ....Borrowing one of Mark's favorite 2 word phrases = ...Very Interesting. ...Fingers crossed...

Very very nice Jim! Such a beautiful genus. Kogihensis & dumasii were always indistinguishable to me, with the exception of me killing every labeled one of former and having no trouble with the latter. If I had space I’d try veilardii again; always loved the crown on that one. They tick right along in a temperate garden; no surprise they look great in yours, given your touch.

I’ve seen that on really old ones or in very windy areas. I have also seen that around here on a few. I can only speculate why. Local bird species stripping the trunks for nesting material Humidity having some sort of effect. Heat in our climate resulting in less fiber. Small diameter trunks so there is less fiber and it’s wears off prematurely Trachycarpus in Texas are so vastly different than what I am accustomed to. They definitely don’t like the climate and it shows. They’re less than half the size they should be, with the pencil thin trunks and narrow canopies.

Looks great, Tim.

Whoever trimmed that one wanted it dead. I see that it’s overhanging the street, blocking the sidewalk, and blocking the view pulling out of that driveway, and a few inches from an in ground utility valve access box. It was going to spread out much more in time. Lots of potential suspects in this case would benefit from its demise. Someone wanted it gone. Sorry for your potential loss. I’d plant the next one with 20 feet of clearance, well away from any right-of-ways.

If we don’t get some rain in the next few days, this will be the 2ND DRIEST JUNE EVER RECORDED here. If we do get some rain, it will probably be the 3rd. We are shy about 8 inches so far, from the average June. Every year this seems to get worse. I kind of wish I had done the front yard in all Cuban and Native palms that would be happy with just a little help, in this crapulance.

Getting a bit of trunk these days, looking good today. Tim