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Come home today after a week away for work to find one of my Adonidia merrillii snapped, inside was all gooey. It’s never looked any good but not exactly sure what happened to it or whether it just had enough of the cold and wet nights. Then also lost a Caryota albertii, it’s been dwindling for a while now, lost two fronds first and now has given up completely. Was in a dappled shade spot with no wind.. Thankfully winter is coming to an end, it’s been a drawn out cold one with wet and windy nights, looking forward to our spring and the start of growth season.

You pretty well much grow any palm for most of its life in a container, it will stay alive if given the right cultivation techniques. You will basically bonsai it if you leave in the container forever. Choose the right size containers as pot up and in 4 to 5 years you will have a great specimen to plant out. They all start out in containers before planting some containers are bigger than others!

A few of the new plantings have survived winter well, I may have winter loses but I also get some fantastic winter winners. And this little batch is doing just fine. Nenga banaensis Dypsis prestonia Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana dypsis rosea gausia maya ptychosperma schefferi

Ravenea glauca in bloom.

There are palms and then there are some real good palms. The Howea fosteriana stands that test of time in the palm world. You think of an indoor palm and this one sells itself to you. As a landscaping specimen it has graced many a garden!

No question it will naturalize in TN

In another decade it won't matter between me and one other guy we're basically introducing them in large quantities to the point that in another 10 to 20 years there will be an extensive population of them in the wild in my area. They clearly have the ability to reproduce on their own to produce stable expanding populations so just imagine what my work will turn into.

@Husain Those have gorgeous color!

A very unusual plant from northern Australia that only occurs in the mangroves and lowland areas near Cairns and up into Cspe York. Having a symbiotic relationship with ants. It has survived in a container in the subtropics taking temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius. It has a tiny white flower and a very strange looking appearance. An unusual plant for any collection if you like strange and mysterious plants!

A nice royal flush of taitungensis.

Zone 6A that’s cold, you are a true gardener!

Does anyone have experience keeping this species in pots long-term? I live in Los Angeles and am looking to get one for my collection but don't at the moment have space to put it in the ground. Is it possible with the right care and pot size to keep C. alba alive for years in a pot or will they not survive unless in ground?

All my areca’s killed to the ground. My huge Christmas palms gone, now officially 3 of the royals are gone. So sad. I want to start over as it may be 20yrs before an event like it again. Almost all of the understory’s have grown back.

Brahea armata

Oh wow we don’t get that here thankfully, we got very hot but not as hot as that to cause damage like that, it must be the UV that cooks them like that.

Looking for any cycad seeds, can be crossed with revoluta, just not pure revoluta. Let me know I’ll pay per seed

My area is between 9 and 13 inches for the month. My weather station recorded a little over 9 inches.

Nice information Thank you Is anyone trialing these stateside? I would be interested in people's stories.

@FallbrookPlantGuy Wishing you the best of luck with them! They're gorgeous when well grown.

Throughout the yard, rain totals ranged from 3.0in-3.5in this month. The average is 9.08in of rain for this month. Not exactly a stellar month for rainfall, but onward to September we go.

It will be interesting to see how they hold up to the non-stop heat and humidity here. Cold shouldn't be that much a concern.

@Teddys Nursery + @Sabal King Nice work on the lineup. Got a lot of heavy hitters there! I need to get caught up watching!

Thank you kinzyjr!

@Palmerr Thank you for the short tour of the area. The CFPACS Fall 2026 Meeting will be in the neighborhood and a few of us are going to walk down to Leu afterwards. Enjoy your time in the Azores if you go. @Shoowow 's posts might be of interest before you go.

Thank you happypalms!