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It will be a fantastic game to watch tomorrow afternoon. Most teams in this world cup show up a completely different football each time they play...who would expect Germany to perform so horribly against Spain for the semi-final? I guess I'll cook octopus and rice for dinner tomorrow, just in case...

Royal planted in my median.

Well octopus Paul has de European cup final wrong 2 years ago and a bird from singapore says the Netherlands will win... Crazy world I don't care what the animals says, only a bit more then a day to go for the big moment. Going to watch in Rotterdam om a very big screen with many more people. The last game has been watched trough more then 75% of the people that living in the Netherlands. If the win the world cup, then there would be a homage in Amsterdam on Tuesday when that's happening they do expect more then a million people going to Amsterdam. First, play the game please... can't wait any longer anymore!

Since we are on the subject of phoenix, there are some nice 'pure' specimens that have a lot of screen time in the movie 'Kingdom of Heaven'.

sarabus have a heavy root ball from the 10-16' trees I've moved. I've planted singles and doubles but never triples. The doubles are massive. Triples would take a lot of space eventually. Let me know how the volunteer seedlings transplant.

I say go for it! If it fails, you still have 100s of volunteers to experiment with . Jonathan

I know, this aint "banana talk", it's palm talk. Areca vestiaria. Newer, greener, post winter leaf on left. The other leaves are a little beaten up looking due to this past winter.

Licuala peltata var. sumawongii

Licuala grandis.

Hyophorbe verschaffeltii.

Ruby Siam bananananaannas. I really dig the red leaves. They look cool when mixed with the green ones too. Ice cream banana on the left, little purple king palm hidden underneath. This area gets morning sun, hoping the little king doesn't fry. Archontophoenix alexandrae on the right.

The worst photo of a Chambeyronia hookeri ever taken. I'll take a better one once the leaf opens.

euterpe edulis (orange crownshaft).

A little Areca vestiaria chugging along.

Clinostigma samoense opening up a new leaf. You cant really see from the pic but it's got a new spear pushing up right behind this leaf. Another one that made it in the ground through this brutal winter.

Archontophoenix purpurea, surrounded by misc Calathea and Bromeliads.

Pelagodoxa Henryana. Made it through this winter in the ground with very little damage, more than I can say about my Christmas Palms.

Bottle.

Another Kentiopsis in the backyard. Branches got beaten up during a storm last week.

Chambeyronia macrocarpa growing in half day sun.

Kentiopsis oliviformis.