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I just harvested seed on this complex hybrid of C. Debaoensis (not true) x (C. tropophylla x C. mitcholitzii). As expected this hybrid can be extremely variable so it will be interesting to watch the seedlings grow. I’m hoping a few will carry the mothers trait, shiny metallic leaf that glows a bluish hue when the sun hits the leaf.

I have a few left. Check your messages.

I put about 100 of them with no shell removed in a community pot, never watered them, and got about 100 percent germination. I always thought you had to remove the shell but got lazy. Seeds from a palm from my yard. East central Florida.

Well, it's too early to say about yesterday's frost. They may show the damage in weeks from now. However, they did not show any signs of damage from the frost last week, when it was -0.5C. Howea looks fine for instance. Even those that are still very young. I am posting my Dypsis and my Ptychosperma, photos taken today. They are both tiny as you can see, I am not sure they will make it through the winter. Many other 10A plants below the canopy look fine: monstera, cordyline fruticosa.. as for the Arch. cunninghamiana, they keep pushing a new leaf! Another plant that surprised me is the mango. It is in a pot (it's a dwarf variety), and it is in front of the house's wall but otherwise unprotected. It is not showing any signs of damage.

A tad chilly. Maybe I need to rethink the shorts and sandals bit. Nah.

I see at NOAA that Sunday night along I4 is forecast to see mid-30s F.

My first ever tissue culture purchase. A friend gave me an invite link to PalmStreet which came with a few coupons so all in I think I'm out $19, it's supposed to be a golden variegated banana. The fun part! USPS normally sends packages to Memphis then Jackson then my local PO. This time it spent a few days in New Jersey for reasons I'll never understand. I'm glad I bought the insulation and heat pack, but the heat pack was burned out long before it came back into the central time zone. I'm super super super sick so I haven't even opened it up yet, it was super cold when it got here.

My first attempt rotted, my 2nd attempt rooted, my 3rd attempt I cut off too much, and we'll see how #4 goes (just potted up)

27 this morning with heavy frost. About 10-13 degrees warmer across the bay to the south in the warmest microclimates of Destin and Santa Rosa Beach though! Classic radiational freeze temperature distribution here.

here and full of blackbirds

The head gardener at the winter greenhouse gave us two more Yucca aliofolia, which I picked up yesterday with a handcart... We are very, very grateful 🤗

The first two pictures were taken three days ago. This is today, and of course there is no more snow on the ground.

Sometimes I can see slime, so slugs I suppose

It almost seems that way, after what felt like the coldest January in many years and that freezing -10.3°C on January 7. The Yucca gigantea is still alive, even without active protection... Maybe it is magic after all 🤔🤗

I made a picture of this palm. I love palms!

So what about the rest palms among the orangerie, how did they fare? It is supposed that basjoo has a very cold hardy rhizome. But plant under this name carked it in my garden after the 2008 cold spell, while Arenga westerhoutii pulled through! So there are sometimes, when you buy something different from what it had been offered officially. Canopy temperature-wise does not help considerably during an advection cold spell. I rember I had lost l a red Kentia between two gigantic pine trees in the 2004 cold spell.

Half the state will be on fire in April-May.

The two I got from you a couple of years ago are doing well, although very slow. Probably not photo worthy yet but they’re attractive even as seedlings.

I do, Howea, Dypsis leptocheilos, Ptychosperma elegans, Roystonea. I only protected Roystonea because it is not under canopy. The rest I did not protect but they are under orange trees. Not sure what you mean. I have several heliconias but they are all offshoots of one original plant.. I got it from a French nursery. They did not drop the leaves 10 days ago when they saw -0.5 C but let's see what happens now. I only have one Musa basjoo. The temperature under canopy eventually became same as elsewhere even though it started slightly warmer (one degree warmer) in the first hours of the night. So I believe it's the drier conditions that prevented frost. On both frost occasions this month there was no frost under the canopy.

Interested as well…

As is for me triangle palm still Neodypsis decaryi!

You have any 10A palm in the ground? I do not care about outdoor pots, because root system can be exposed to air temperature. Besides you believe having a basjoo and schiedeana, but do you really have one of each? Tags do not suffice for a real identity. Also in what respect has already existing canopy helped, did it prevent warmth radiation during clear night, of had it kept actually soil around tender plants relatively dry?

Yup. I guess some will survive losing their leaves or the aerial part (heliconia). But honestly this garden is colder than I thought.. I need to expand the canopy. Nothing below the canopy shows any damage (so far).

Nice, Richard, but let's make this a Chameadorea topic. I show you all one of my only two split-leaved metallica's. Anyone views on why these split-leaved metallica's are so scarce? Even in the trade overhere in Holland where they sometimes have hundreds of metallica's, you'll find only a few split-leaved plants! And I like them a lot!😎🌴