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  1. @Foxpalms For update on the rainfall this water year and since Jan.1, Brookings has had 81 inches since Oct 1., and 53 inches since Jan. 1. Not much snow and no freezing since last October. Ocean Temperatures during last 6 months has been in low 50's and is 53 right now. Because of the prevalent wind direction this las winter being from the West or Southwest, very little upwelling of cold water has occured. When Spring and Summer arrive the wind will switch around and blow from the North and in Brookings area from the NorthNortheast, which will start upwelling of cold deep water and ocean temps near shore will drop into the 40's. When the strong summer like North winds along the coast stop for any length of time the ocean Temps will rise significantly and in August we can have ocean temps of 60 or more, but only for short period until the north winds pick up again.
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  2. This spring I added another sabal minor to the four others that was already planted. Also this week was the 5 year anniversary for planting the trachy in the ground. They say Maine was updated to zone 7 and this winter did remain above zero here at my property.
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  3. a couple years ago @Tracy asked me about plants from boliva, and it's a good question that's been on my mind. here's a list of interesting plants from bolivia, more or less... Achacha (garcinia sp) Anthurium besseae Billbergia kuhlmannii Cleistocactus winteri subsp. colademono Fosterella spectabilis Fuchsia boliviana Kielmeyera rubriflora Peperomia kimnachii Peperomia vestita Pleurothalis tricarinata Tillandsia boliviensis Tillandsia edithae Tillandsia mollis Tipuana tipu caudex Amphipetalum paraguayense Anredera cordifolia Aristolochia fimbriata Begonia boliviensis Begonia cinnabarina Carica quercifolia Cayaponia tayuya Ceratosanthes palmata Cissus sicyoides Cissus tweedieana Dioscorea discolor Dioscorea glauca Jacaratia corumbensis Macleania rupestris Mandevilla suaveolens Mandevilla velutina Mirabilis expansa Pachira aquatica Pachyrhizus ahipa Pereskia diaz-romeroana Ruehssia hilariana Sinningia sellovii Sinningia warmingii Smallanthus sonchifolius "Our first few days in Bolivia were spent tracking down epiphytic cacti in the cloud- and rain-forests of the lowlands, a period that tested John's patience, for he was anxious to get to the "real cacti" in the drier uplands. " - Myron Kimnach, Collections of Rebutia, Sulcorebutia and Weingartia on the 1984 Huntington expedition pic i took in 2011 when i visited kimnach (left) with my mentor elmer lorenz. here are a few of the other pics i took while there... nice monkey tail cactus. hanging peperomia in the greenhouse. the huntington had this labled as "urocarpa" but not sure about this id. a few years back a nearly identical peperomia was mass produced with the name "hope". at kimnach's place he also had a different but similar variety... what did the label say? i didn't look. i wouldn't be surprised if it's a hybrid between "urocarpa" and peperomia kimnachii... pic taken in the huntington desert conservatory. here's one that i attached to a client's avocado tree... growing with columnea crassifolia, and below you can see hoya polyneura with its roots relishing platycerium horn's surprise (alcicorne x madagascariense). when i get a chance i'll post more pics. feel free to share your favorite bolivian plants. the most important question is, who should we send to bolivia?
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  4. If you can get a Phoenix rupicola, they have a more tropical look than most of the other Phoenix species. They aren't quite as hardy as Phoenix sylvestris, but they are good to mid-20s. There are a bunch here that have been around for ages. Another option is getting something crossed with Phoenix reclinata. The two hybrids I see often are with Phoenix roebelenii and Phoenix canariensis. I haven't seen these hybrids catch Lethal Bronzing, but no guarantees. You'll get a clumping palm that is either thinner and more graceful (crossed with roebelenii) or fewer stems with more bulk (crossed with canariensis).
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  5. Water warm soil and love of palms but that all depends on what variety of palm you have
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  6. Getting another fix of some exotics for the garden starting with a Areca songthanhensis arenga hookeriana anthurium Rupicola riparian sp ex J Vannini draceana goldieana and a carludovica palmata not to sure how the carludovica will go in the cold weather but as for the others they shall have to tough it out in the hothouse for a couple of seasons to see who is going to survive the winter seasons
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  7. It depends on the type of palm and the location. No real “one size fits all” answer. Palms vary quite a bit. Harry
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  8. There's some good advice in here, going for a few "reliably hardy" palms like Livistona Chinensis is a good choice. "Zone pushing" is great if you have the time and effort to spend protecting them. Coconuts are okay for a patio palm, especially if you can take them inside when it's going to be in the low 30s. But they'll be an annual up in Jax if you try them in the ground. Alternately, Beccariophoenix Alfredii is getting to be more available, and they'll take mid 20s with frost at my house and only take a bit of burn. So if you want the coconut look, there is nothing closer to it, imo. As an example, here's my Alfredii looking pristine after ~26F and frost. Around it are a Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens (Areca palm) on the left, a Caryota Mitis (Fishtail) behind it, and a Hyophorbe Lagenicaulis (Bottle palm) in the front right. Those three are utterly torched and the Alfredii just laughed at it. This Alfredii is in the ground ~3.5 years from a ~4' tall 3 gallon palm, so they are fairly quick growers. The only downside is they are not too sturdy in hurricanes, and tend to try and fall over. In Orlando I had to stake up my 5 big Alfredii after hurricanes, but they've all grown just fine afterwards. The grower I bought them from (MB Palms - S side of Orlando) planted his really deep, and his looked great during last year's open house sale. He said he hadn't had any problems with crown or stem rot even though they were planted a lot deeper than the "normal" recommendations.
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  9. sabal minor came today! bigger than i expected lol
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