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It's been a bit since I posted any photos, figured I'd share a few today since I spent some time cleaning up the yard. Our city's trash service does a once-a-year trash haul where you can dispose of as much green waste as you can pile out in front of your house along the street. It's the perfect opportunity to tidy things up, and convenient in that it's also when sunlight becomes a rare commodity with the low angle of the sun, so pruning (sorry, overpruning) overhead palms like my phoenix and syagrus is permissable 😆 Cycas revoluta x deboaensis up front. Ravenea glauca in the tall pot, sabal mauritiformis in the center back, and beccariophoenix alfredii to its left. Ravenea glauca is in the tall pot here Sabal mauritiformis, and the culprit that is causing those chunks of leaves to be missing. This week I also swung by Dave's fantastic garden in La Habra. A few shots from that visit. Thanks for the good time Dave! An oddball Chrysalidocarpus lutescens A big-o seed off of syagrus oleracea, if i recall A forest of Chambeyronia Of course, I couldn't leave without a few goodies. Here's the lineup: Archontophoenix maxima with the copper leaf genes From left to right: an oddball Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, wallichia disticha (in the tall liner), a syagrus (either oleracea or picrophylla), bismarckia nobilis & Gaussia gomez-pompae. A better look at the gaussia, and roystonea. The smaller palm is a chambeyronia. Of course, I picked up a few mangoes, which have become my most recent addiction lol they are Sugar Loaf, Harvest Moon and Sweet Tart. Finally, what seems like the last plumeria of the season at my place: Kaneohe Sunburst

I've been away for a couple of weeks to a place with lots of palms and a lot of desert but uneven internet connections.

@kinzyjr sure, I was just making a suggestion. It doesn't help grow PalmTalk when a new member joins and post a desperate request for help...and then that post is immediately buried several pages deep by a single PT member. I've seen it happen several times recently. Of course, there's a fine line between "stifling discussion" and "preventing spam." But when people start posting threads about "where's the regulars?" then maybe it's time to address the root cause with a simple fix?

Interesting information . Good to see the younger crowd . I was living on a sailboat through my 20’s and into my late 30’s . Grew up on the beach in Southern California . I still have always been into nature but palms were just telephone poles with hair . I was too busy sailing , surfing , anything to do with the ocean . I used my racing bicycle for transportation , pedaling all around the beach and beyond. Now , it is gardening and cycling . Ocean is too cold for me now and my memory banks are full of my ocean loving days , afternoon breezes filling our sails and early morning swells. Now I patiently await the next new frond or a new addition sprouting up! Harry

Add my voice to those supporting a limit on number of new threads a single poster can make in a day. 🌱🌱🌱 I consider many of you to be great friends and have hesitated saying anything since I don’t want to hurt feelings, but it really is excessive! I do enjoy the photos, but I also enjoy seeing what’s going on in EVERYONE’s gardens (not just one person’s nursery). Seeing how fast new posts get buried is discouraging and makes me less likely to post than in the past. 😶 To be clear, I’m not saying anyone should stop posting! But do we really want one person to be the author of half of the posts on here? Especially when the posts are so similar. For example, can we perhaps have a single “my Joey palm collection” post and add to it (rather than a daily Joey palm update post)?

In my own case, still pushing down on the grass instead of up. Between work, my own garden, the gym, CFPACS, and once in a while, sleep, time is at a premium nowadays. Some of the folks on here that were frequent fliers went to other platforms like Facebook, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, etc., with several citing the reasons similar to @Merlyn's.

I’ve been on Palmtalk for 23 years and according to the poll results so far there are no members in a younger group. Need the next generation coming through to pass on the passion.

"If you are into gardening in your 20s you have issues. If you are not into gardening in your 50s, you have issues" - W. Churchill No offense to the younger members. I was into plants in my teens!

I'm just tired 🥱

I recently turned 71 , about 2 weeks after getting my new hip. I started palm collecting in the early 1990’s . Harry

It has been 30 days and finally I counted 5 flowers have opened. No bees active right now but I hope if we get warmer temperatures more flowers will open and pollinators will do their work.

So glad we are all still around . I guess this forum is , for me , my only social outlet online. Here , I can go on about palms without eyes rolling ! I can brag about success’s and complain about losses ….” Gopher ate my palm”. Harry

I am 81- 1/2 year old. Joined this Forum in 2013 . Grew up in Daytona Beach , but only discovered the Palm Society in about 1964 , while spending time in one of the local Libraries looking for palm info , and in one of the books , it slowly dawned on me that many of the pictures looked like my town !! Further searching revealed the Palm Society , and the Dent Smith connection etc . Been hanging in there for all of this time . Still active , and occasionally adding a new palm , but my yard is limited in size , so.....

Gin and Tonic bitte. The things we do for our plants. Neighbours in this city would cause so much trouble if you tried it here. Peachy

I’m 35 (and a half). Got into palms and plants in highschool, but never had any. Just liked them. That’s what pushed me towards picking Biology as a major in college (when I had no idea what to do). And choosing Plant Bio classes as electives Fast forward - we moved out of our first home in 2022 to a place with more room. My toddlers were now more independent, and gave me more time for hobbies. Gardening, Birds, Lawncare, ect. My wife and I both.

Let me put it like this. It's time for me to get my prostate checked, but I don't get discounts at Denny's yet.

I’ve tried the “ignored user” function, but it’s frankly useless. All it does is hide the content of the individuals post, not remove it from your feed altogether, so the same issue remains with threads being smothered into oblivion before anyone gets a chance to see them. The beauty of Facebook groups is one can block an individual if required, which ensures you don’t see their posts nor visa versa. Wonder if something similar could be implemented on PalmTalk?

Yeah, I regret wasting so much time endlessly scrolling the Book of Face. I have a friend who I swear spends 3/4 of his waking hours on some antisocial media site. I told him I'd rather spend my spare time tweezing nose hairs with a pair of rusty sporks.

It just started to thrive much more. That's why the trunk is thicker. The crown looks healthy so it's most likely a very healthy palm.

@Jonathan Haycock + @iDesign + @palmfriend Thank you for weighing in. Please keep in mind that I can't control this aspect of the forum software. That decision and implementation are outside of my rights and responsibilities. I'd be fine with limiting the number of threads and agree that a lot of the content mentioned could be consolidated as many posts in fewer threads. The link to @palmfriend's original thread on this matter is provided at the end. A lot of the folks in CFPACS are in a WhatsApp group, some citing this as a reason. A few have jumped almost exclusively to Facebook because of the reason Jonathan mentioned - blocking someone's content works much better there than here. It was discussed once in a more cursory manner, but it looks to be revisited because the numbers seems to be tilting a bit since the original 50/50 split referenced by palmfriend. Thank you all for providing your input in a respectful manner. Original Link for Reference

When I sensed this kind of development a couple months ago I brought it up and it was well discussed. I would say half of the members were pro and the other half contra regarding a limitation of new threads. Therefore this forum lost its value for me when finally turning into the predicted diary-like medium, I have drawn my consequences.

My first Chambeyronia Watermelon! Several germinated, but this is the first to open its first leaf, and I believe it's the first Chambeyronia in Chile. Even this little specimen fills me with immense joy. The slightly dark red hue in the center of the leaves is striking. Thank you for appreciating this beauty, which you undoubtedly also possess.

I'm not as familiar with forum software as I am with enterprise systems, but regardless, @PALM MOD would likely have to make that change. As far as a decision, I think that is a decision for folks at the @IPS President and director levels. If memory serves correct, @Cindy Adair handles PalmTalk. As for me, I'm mostly Bot/SPAM/Inflammatory Post Police.

I have not long come out of jail, hence my lack of posting. I occasionally managed to post via a 'burner' phone from the inside. Anyway, it is important that I do not criticise the UK government anymore. 👍

With a lot of hard work, fleece, cable ties, Styrofoam, and wooden posts, we got to work and the result is very good. We now have a winter bar with palm trees and exotic plants. Who wants an ice coffee, green tea, coffee, or would you prefer a beer, amaretto...?

Great thread …. Inspired me to write AVerse I am nearly 70 And some call me a grumpy old man I see I see I and Us and them I see politics and war and religion and war I see humanity I see a planet overwhelmed I wonder Am I fatalist or nihilist Its not my job to have hope I grow palm trees

I think we need a qualitative study on WHO responded vs who didn't lol. If you attend any of the society meetings, you'll see the average age is much higher - and wealthier. And they do participate here, but perhaps not as often as the younger folks. Same typically goes for other societies too. In my area at least, the orchid societies, cacti & succulent society, etc. I mean, it does take time and money to accumulate a big collection. I was collecting palms as young as 15 or 16, but as you might imagine, I had no property of my own, and very little money of my own. fast forward 20 years and I've got better means and better conditions for collecting palms. My only regret is not buying a specimen Pseudophoenix sargentii when I was 15! It would be so big and grown by now lol

Currently 19, joined in 2019. Do the math haha Been interested in palms since 2014 but didn't start growing until 2019 (right before I found and joined the forum).

I'm 28 now and started posting when I was 13 (lurked for a bit before). Surprised (but glad) this forum is still around! I think palmtalk has really started to skew younger overall (as in 30s and 40s) compared to when I first joined (55+). Not sure what all the negativity about sharing age is about, feel free to steal my age info 😆

You are quite right. None of them has seen freezing temperatures, and if so, for a short time. The first Howea in this thread, the one 7/8 mts tall, is planted in loamy soil. And the two first palms which were chopped down, were also planted in loamy soil. All the others are or were in sandy soil. These following ones are the only ones left still alive and with seeds, of which I have picked seeds and have sprouted (very randomly) The last two pics are of those in La Coruña, and they are the tallest I have seen in northern Spain. About 10/12 mts tall. Look at the base of one of them. My shoe for comparison. Last time I was there, I picked 400 seeds.

Hah! It's definitely a jungle already

I have visited Josue's garden, it is both a jungle and very artistic !

Been at it a while now; started paying more attention to palms in the mid-nineties. Funny story: my wife's family was all from Germany, having left after WW-2. Her uncle Ernie was droning on to me in the early nineties that he belonged to an organization called the International Palm Society. I remember thinking to myself at the time, "What a nerd".. Only to catch the bug myself a couple years later. Life's funny that way. Before he passed (by which time he'd observed my newfound obsession), he gave me his old copy of the original "Cultivated Palm Encyclopedia" by Robert Lee Riffle & Paul Craft, which I still have. As to the younger guys, I have a nephew that is crazy (& knowledgeable) about palms and Cycads, as well as 2 sons who have the gardening bug. So, I think we'll be in good hands for the future.

Experience has shown that some plants take that type of thing better than others.

With fleece, cable ties, Styrofoam, and wooden posts, we had good results and only very little damage. Images in full daylight.

I'd wager your social media obsessed friend probably calls all the random people they might interact with ..but not know ..at all.. " friends" ...Don't get me started on that pile of bull - Lol

@kinzyjr it seems like a forum could have a convenient "max new topics per 24 hours" setting...

this picture was taken here in Maine, May 2024, the recent northern lights here we covered by clouds.

Make mine a double shot Americano while I gaze at your garden! Harry☕️

get well soon, Cindy.

Was looking at these two Marojejya yesterday, the ones growing mostly on solid rock. I mentioned earlier that it looks as though the roots have tapped into the fractures in the blue rock. They were looking pretty good for 20 plus years in the ground. Tim

some more palms A mystery Chamaedorea Ceroxylon quindiuense, not really happy there, I have another one in pot that grows much better Some plants in full shade, Archontophoenix alexandrae, a Tachycarpus, Livistona australis Chamaedorea cataractarum Trithrinax acanthocoma Rhopalostylis sapida, getting too much sun Pritchardia hillebrandii, the smaller one, but more photogenic Jubaeopsis affra Chamaedorea ernesti augusti Another Bismarckia Chamaedorea microspadic with nice velvety leaves Another mystery Chamaedorea, probably a hybrid It has not been freezing for 7 years, so I am flying higher 🙂 Roystonea regia Ravenea rivularis

I think the problem of the original topic is spot on in @Merlyn’s first post. And a likely solution in his fourth post. I have also noticed the palmtalk in Reddit being more active in the last weeks which I would have never thought to happen!

This won't let the air pass though; no ventilation > increased risk for fungi.

Prob you have an experienced 'Ratgeber'.

Is that legal 'in der Schweiz'?

I doubt

Okay, Than🤗 Already done. I'll take one too 😁. That's a good question. The green ones should also be well light-permeable. I'll ask again. We got it from the garden center.

Okay, Will. Already done. Hope you like it 🤗

Sooooo I started Bokashi composting. I'll let y'all know how that goes in a few weeks. If I could get the rest of the house on board I think we'd do well. I kinda cheaped out and got the 8 dollar lids instead of the 20 dollar lids and they're kind of a pain to open and shit but I guess that's a good thing if you want it airtight, right? Blatant attempt at subject change on a convo I started 😬 Anyway I'm glad to hear folks checking in. Please take some Sabal seeds from me.