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Go snip a bit of his hair off Richard, he might get the idea. Or maybe a finger...make it harder to use the secateurs!

Not as scary as @peachy rampaging down your driveway with a shovel to dig them out! Lucky escape I say!

Lucky Hawaii growers! It can rain as much as it wants in my garden!

Oh, I survived ok... But I did have to get a new dog to guard my Hedy and Lepidorrachis. This breed is probably not as scary as a Pekinese though!

Gibraltar range one trust me!

The Illawarra one may be a good one but you want the one from the Gibraltar range west of Grafton in New South Wales Australia. That’s the toughest cold climate one around and quite a spectacular one at that, place it in a warm spot and they grow quite fast!

Whack it in the ground, they take all sorts of conditions just add water. I just planted a group of three in very harsh conditions, I didn’t even water them no soil amendment just heeled them in. Give them 3 years and they’ll be looking good. But I assume you will tending your newly acquired Chambeyronia, so give it all the love it will take, amend the soil, water it in and locate it in 50/50 sun shade. There easy to grow up there with Bangalow palms but most of all dont fuss over it treat it like any other palm you have.

What is exactly the regimen you use for this sp?

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants!

An afternoon potting up a few germinated seeds. Along with a couple tubes of chamaedorea adscendens, syagrus picrophylla. And one lone pholidiocarpus.

I will happily take them if you can ship to Europe? Will cover postage costs Thanks Richard

A nice Joey, followed by a iguanura sanderianum, and a iguanura broad leaf. All three got my attention in the greenhouse.

Paul I see what appears to be a giant bird of paradise in the background. They provide shade but can get messy. Instead, I used banana plants for quick growing shade west of my juvenile palms when planting my garden. They can be removed easier than the bird of paradise when the time comes but still provides some shade and wind break. I don't know how they will perform up there but thought it worthwhile for you to evaluate. Good luck with the Chambeyronia.

Yeah, it definitely got out of PGS.

Up for grabs are 24 onilihanses seeds. Free to a good home. The first enquirer who wants them will get them. One lot of 24 seeds only.

Anudder day = Coast 2 Coast records ..galore.. 75F and a touch sultry as some thick Cirrus move overhead, after reaching 103 ..even with the clouds around earlier this afternoon.. A stranger things twist to today here in the desert? ..running errands only to find the store i went to bare of milk < ..weird enough.. > High cloudiness passing thru the desert today had a distinctly summery look.. ..If these two shots were snapped in July or August, a similar looking afternoon skyline might be the first hint of a big storm working it's way off the rim, towards the valley ...and me rushing home to get set up for an evening of chasing bolts. In this case, convection responsible for producing this blob of thick and crispy outlined, Thunderstorm Anvil - type Cirrus that passed through town was confined to a layer of the atmosphere an altitude somewhere above 15-18K+ ft. ..A hint of what might lie ahead in a couple months? perhaps???.. 🤔 ..We're getting closer to some thoughts on that. ..Anyway.. Record breaking heat will continue ..here at least.. as we start the final week of the month.. Looking at both of these graphs, it's pretty clear we're going to break a record, every day, most ..if not all.. of next week.. Crazy we may exceed the SINGLE 100 deg March day recorded here by 1 -3 degs on the 26th, ..At least if the current forecast thinking holds.... ..After next Saturday? ..I'll defer to a before mentioned thought.. That said, ...for now... it seems most of the model runs today are seeing ...something.. as we reach and enter April.. What could that result in? ..You already know what i'm going to say. An ." .that's interesting ".. twist to the forecast at that time? A brief break in the heat as April arrives may actually result in the first whiff of something sorta monsoon-y in the air since the atmospheric set up at that time could arrange itself in a way that manages to grab onto and pull some moisture north out of Mexico, into parts of AZ, esp. the eastern side of the state.. Will that result in any rain?.. We'll see what things look like by next weekend.. That said, April showers can happen, even here.. This same set up, should it occur, could also offer up the season's first " keep an eye on this " kind of outcome from a wildfire start scenario too ..so.. Regardless, Dew Points may get lifted just enough to add a little muggy-ness to the air for a day or two if that scenario plays out.. Heat will also pull back to a more reasonable ..if not still still above average for the start of April level. Regardless.. any break we might see at the start of next month probably won't hang around long.. Daniel Swain will be back tomorrow for more thoughts on that ..and everything else.. As if the weather end of the month has been ..weird.. I have no doubt many paying attention to their college basketball brackets ..or just the games themselves.. have been pulling hair this weekend.. Quite surprised to see KU axed ...already.. ..Can we go back to the late 90s again please.. ..That said, ..I know another team that brought their " A " game ..in spades.. this year.. Will it last??? ..We'll see. ...At least they'll be roaring into the homeland, ..well, 15mins. up the road in Downtown San Jose.. Too bad i can't be there to represent ..both ( ..and maybe plant the idea of Los Gatos adopting the best of UofA 's logo in someone's mind ). ..Fingers crossed the road doesn't end there... Bear Down, ..and stay hydrated out there this week..

And all along you thought the wife had instructed you to clean up that part of the garden, not so it was the garden itself saying you need to clean up this mess I can’t grow like this with all this untidy clutter! But all in all a dam pretty good job done, very rewarding when you walk back through there now I bet! But I do see room for a row of chamaedorea adscendens in there alongside that pebble river ? Richard

Sorry. After watching this I realized I walked past over a dozen palms and didn't get them in the video. I was to concentrated on the water. Maybe when I get rid of the mud I'll do "it". LOL

As you may have heard the islands have been pounded by one tropical low after another for about a week now. Seems to be finally over today. Here at the house we got about 20" in the past 10 days. That's a record. I've been tracking rain at the house for a long time and have records going back to 2004. Highest MONTHLY total before this month was 18" in March of '06. The average for March the past 21 years has been 3.33". Here is a long video of a walk I took between down pours. My usually DRY stream was flowing for days. Not to bad during the video but you can see from the silitng it was a LOT STRONGER during the down pours. Palms seem to be VERY HAPPY and so am I as I'm saving over $150 this month on my water bill. 20260320_084819.mp4

That brown at the very end of the broken off spear is indeed rot. Get a bottle of 3% hydro peroxide and a straw. Get the strawberry an inch into the peroxide bottle and cover the top of the straw with your thumb to create a suction. Aim the bottom of the straw directly over the hole of the seedling and release the thumb. The peroxide will instantly pour into the hole and foam it up, killing the germs instantly. After that let it dry. If the heart is fine, you will see the rest of that spear begin to push out and you'll know it's alive and well.

Sad, that you guys had such a bad winter over there. Some of our Coastal South Texas Coconut Palms look better. We got down to 28 at my place in Flour Bluff (east side of Corpus Christi), and mine are Fried, but alive and growing again (I protected them with incandescent Christmas lights and towels wrapped around the trunks). The ones on Padre Island here, hardly even look freeze injured at all, and the biggest one on the island my actually flower and fruit late this year.

Unfortunately graduation weekend at FSU for my youngest....

Thanks Dale, Yeah they are turning into one of my favorite Encephalartos right there with Horridus! Iv’e sold a few but the pure strain green Arenarius are selling really good for me! I sold a couple more today. Steve

yeah that was a tree fern Cyathea medullaris ----I had reset it there after the freeze --- it is doing pretty good tho

That is a beauty Matty! I hope you have success with the cutting.