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Hi my good friend, that’s best idea Ive ever heard, good thinking 99. Only I have a better idea I move into the greenhouse and all the winter pslms get the house. Now here’s the problem, I would need a house the size of the grandest presidential building bribes could buy! And that depends on what country you’re president off! Too many plants Hu and not enough space!

great job Richard

Let’s see what’s cooking in the greenhouse!

Time for a few of the best, or at least some eye candy time!

Iguanura wallachiana and a nice little licuala triphylla, not to bad for the near the middle of winter!

The good old triangle palm in flower!

You’re a right old Robinson Cruseo in the making!

They are a nice palm, I have seen a few in a couple of gardens, one garden they were in a creek bed and had access to unlimited water and would have been submerged in floods for sure. The other garden they were in a gully and they were impressive in size, a group planting of 3 monsters. Either way they are beautiful palms. Still somewhat rare, and the ones I have offered for sale went quite fast. As palm conservationist or palm nuts we should prioritise getting them into as many botanical gardens we can, asap for preservation of the genus!

I didn’t realise how much water palms like, my Oraniopsis I once thought was dry tolerant, believing that they are slow growing I assumed my one that was small was doing well, but it was lack of water that caused the small palm after 25 years in the ground, I soon realised how wrong I was. I get mulch each year about 40 cubic meters and buy topsoil at least 20 cubic meters a year and you would think where does it go, my wife says that the sand monster eats it up and she very much dislikes gum trees that drink any water that is available and they store it for dry times . I know how you feel, but in the end you look at your garden and then you say oh I see we’re all that soil, mulch and water goes., into your garden!

Here you go @Jonathan another for you to scrutinise and give us the thumbs up. At least this one has a name and apparently it’s rare!

Looking awesome. I love this species. They can handle cool to cold conditions. Not sure how much heat they can take. However they love water. The ones I’ve seen in habitat are never far from the banks of a creek or river and in flood they must be sitting in water.

A few pics from a foggy morning. I love all plants. But at some point, the silhouette of a Sabal palm hooked me for life. It was the first plant I added to the garden, and hands down my favorite.

Thanks Michael, that's good to know. The only Pritchardia to grow for me in my always cold, humid microclimate is P. minor.

Making up for lost time. Caladiums, bananas, and an Aegelsomething "Really Red"..

Let's see if these pics post. Size 11 for scale. Well, no, it won't. If you're interested shoot me a message. Or look at my marketplace posts on the evil site (Sancho B Plants is my username) or @sanchosgreenpaws on the slightly less evil site with videos.

I would like to see Richard’s house if he brings all of his 100,000 palms inside for the winter 🤣

I'll add that P. pacifica and P. thurstonii do grow fine out here in the desert around Palm Springs. I have a couple of P. pacifica (purchased from a nursery in Florida) in the ground and a P. thurstonii that I sprouted from seed I collected from the tree at our former house on Big Pine Key, and after four years it's still strap-leaf and still in a container. Both grow fine here, though I purposely keep P. pacifica under canopy to avoid the leaf-damage that occurs under open sky on cold nights. It has been documented both in Florida and SoCal to be relatively bud-hardy but leaf-damage occurs under open sky somewhere in the low 40s. Out here in the desert it throws new leaves so fast in spring and summer that by June-July it has a nice head of new leaves, although I haven't seen any real damage growing mine under canopy despite temps into the low 30s F. Also Matt Bradford I believe did grow one at his house in San Diego but winter damage to the leaves and slow recovery in the cool spring and summer meant a result of diminishing returns for him, so he removed it, and documented this in a post on the forum here. While I haven't seen any results about P. thurstonii in the coastal plain or fogbelt (zone 24), it is definitely a slower grower than P. pacifica for me here. I noticed this in the Florida Keys as well. It is certainly correct that at least P. pacifica is not recommended for the coast and coastal/interior valley areas. The great thing about the Hawai'ian Pritchardia species is that there are so many of them and they occupy such different niches, elevations and windward/leeward locations, sun, cloud, rain, dry, etc., that there are species for many different climate zones in California. When I lived in Los Feliz (eastern Hollywood, Los Angeles), I grew a Pritchardia beccariana that thrived, and it got quite tall after we moved across town, though it is gone today. I'm sure this was due to purposeful removal and not cold damage. It went through the 1990 freeze with no real problem at all, while young Royal palms and other plants around it were killed.

Some type of Nolina or Dasylirion perhaps.

Some colours from the garden, wish the bottle and triangles retained that red as they mature. Also bronze new leaf on the Archontophoenix sp.

Good job, that Pseudophoenix is the bomb. Tim

Listen, my friend Richard: buy more seeds from RPS in Germany. Buy the seeds and germinate them yourself. Once they sprout, keep them in your house during the winter—don't keep them in the greenhouse; you need to acclimate them indoors. I keep mine inside the house, and not a single one has died. My area is colder than yours, yet none of my tropical palms have died; they just stop growing in the winter. Hugo

0.1C and light frost this morning. Barely any frost settled on grass, none on fronds, but car roof and windscreen fairly well covered. Overall not too bad considering how I thought this week might be. Minimums now forecast between 5-9C with daytimes 14-16C for the next week so only a slight chance of light frost on a couple of mornings.

Yes! This is the first time I ever had to use a self watering container. Lol. I also have the Hawaiian tree fern (Cibotium menziesii, the hāpuʻu ʻiʻi ) in my sunroom, and that is the 2nd self watering container I had to buy.

Is there still a house on the property?

I remember my first trip to Kuaii, the coconuts stacked up around mail boxes in residential neighborhoods with a “free” sign . How much coconut can a family eat? I will say , like most fruits and veggies, home grown / fresh coconut is awesome! Harry