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Marojejya darinii and a nice little dypsis lantzeana seemed to have liked the summer we just had!

I got a 15 gallon coconut tree and it has 10 fronds and a base about 3 feet or so in diameter, one picture is a size 13 croc next to it, I also elevated the bed, planted away from the huge 30 foot sable, and got a much healthier tree in general. When I ripped out the old coconut the roots had barely grown and it looked pretty sad. And I won’t rip off and old boots this time. I’m only living here 4 more years so my goal is for it to live 4 years. It’s about 11 feet tall.

Good job @Phoenikakias Looks like glaucifolia!

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Alberto, I repost pictures

Just to clarify, the female is the rather commonly grown Ravenea glauca. The uncommon plants is the male, Ravenea julietiae. I have seedlings of Ravenea glauca from past years because I have both male and female of that species. Today I collected a little pollen from the Ravenea julietiae and tried dusting some flowers on the Ravenea glauca female. It won't develop full fruits with seeds unless the flowers are successfully pollinated in my experience. So I will collect more pollen and try dusting again over the next few days. We will see if the glauca develops fruit.

The most beautiful thing is that vision I had when I first started the garden is now visible. Time is an amazing gift. Richard

Encountered a bunch of big old-ish CIDP in Houston today that somehow have escaped lethal bronzing. MacGregor/Old Spanish Trail near UofH

Never before have I felt affection for a fungus.

After several revisions, I’m excited to share my ongoing PDF guide to cold hardy palms. This has been a long-term project and will continue to evolve as I learn more and gather new experiences. Feel free to share it anywhere by posting the link to the document — that will always point to the latest version for when I update. I am still working on some more pages in time. I truly appreciate all the support, knowledge, and friendships from this forum over the years. My goal has always been simple, help others enjoy and succeed in this hobby as much as I have. Hopefully this information will especially help others new to the hobby. While the design is AI assisted, all photos and text dictation are from my experiences. While I am aware there are a few errors still, let me know what you think TNTropics Cold Hardy Palm Guide https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w9-43MjGhgyQyqgVeQoWXU69GvRGLpdU/view?usp=sharing

As I sit on rock in the garden looking at what I have created iam amazed. The garden goes from a jungle canopy understory to a very dry hot intolerable in summer heat garden. Yet it all seems to work and grow in harmony with Mother Nature. You can create a garden of your taste to reflect your personality, it just takes time. All you see was basically carved out of the Australian bush, and we’re not talking about tropical cairns or Hawaii where you throw a plant over your shoulder and grows by just looking at them. Its hard country to garden in just add water! IMG_9785.mov

Josue first up is my younger Ravenea julietiae followed by 3 shots of the one in bloom right now. I have the potted Macrozamia on one side and Dioon mejiae on the other making it challenging to get the entire palm in one photo.

With the male Encephalartos cone, it will elongate before it begins shedding pollen. A light tap on the cone will show it shedding pollen. I did this with the Encephalartos horridus cone below and you can see pollen which dropped to the ground after tapping it lightly. It is an older cone so has already shed most of its pollen. Cycad pollen is not something safe to inhale or have on your hands so safety is always a priority. I use a kn95 mask and gloves. You can collect pollen by putting something below the cone and tapping it or by removing the cone. I have seen the cone removed and put on a glass table and tapped. The pollen collection off the table resembles a scene from Al Pachino in Scarface. Female cones crack open a little and the megasporaphll scales become a little loose. You can check them for looseness just by pinching a couple to see if they wiggle or remain tight.

Haven’t made a choice yet, but 95% the pindo it has the trunk size, the frond spread and is a nice specimen. But still getting photos of palms.

@kinzyjr after a couple of weeks it's clear that some palms just won't bounce back. Yesterday I cleaned up one section of the front yard. I'm calling this the "Corypha bed" because I planted a small Corypha Lecomtei in the middle. It was remarkably undamaged, but I also put a cardboard box over it on all the frosts and any night under ~35F. Here's the before: The bulk of the dead vegetation here are cycads. The bottom of the fronds were still green, so most likely they'll flush out this spring. There's Encephalartos Laurentianus, Bandula, Gratus, and Gratus x Laurentianus. Cycas Thouarsii and some Zamia Furfuracea were also torched. Cycas Debaoensis (hybrid) and several Zamia "Coonties" were fine, along with a hybrid Encephalartos Transvenosus x (Trans x Woodii). Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus Lanceolata and Pembana were killed, along with a Syagrus Schizophylla, Archontophoenix Purpurea, and Satakentia Liukiuensis double. Most likely D-E-D are a Syagrus Amara, Bottle, and Gaussia Princeps double. Even the two Allagoptera Arenaria were damaged, but surprisingly the Licuala Sumawongii looks nearly perfect! I'd had some Sumawongii die after upper 20s frosts, so this one (and a couple of others in the yard) are a surprising success! Here's the after: @TropicsEnjoyer you can see the above Angustifolia looks like nothing happened. But there are three others in the yard (all from the same original plant) that are melted to 95% mush. I can't explain it...so weird! This particular bed has an average of 64% leaf burn and 18% mortality, yikes! @kinzyjr I'll collect all the data in a sheet later this spring.

It’s amazing to have a plant for 25 years and you finally find that right spot in the garden for it. I still have empty places in my garden that I landscaped 30 years ago knowing I will have the right plant one day for that special spot. Slowly iam filling those gaps it seems iam in no hurry that’s for sure!

Coriacea needs a 10 cm deeper pot than thebaica.

On the potting bench today with some of the personal palms for the garden. calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana cocothrinax argentatadypsis rivularis kentiopsis pyriformis dypsis faneva roscheria melonochaetes Nicely done with the Geonoma Panama at the back! A few more for the garden later on.

For me basically anytime is a good time, with the exception of mid summer, unless iam planting in raised beds with irrigation all summer, otherwise summer can get unpredictable in my climate and you can go 6 weeks or more without any rainfall, and when the temperatures are above 35 degrees Celsius for most of that 6 weeks it spells disaster for water loving palms. Ernies are top little palms, just check and make sure you don’t have earthworms in the container that can be problematic, underneath my benches in the nursery there is always soil there from the container plants either from plants falling over, the hose washing soil out or just bits that’s fall out of the bottom of the container. And iam pretty sure you have a male Ernie there. Richard

Here's the Coconut Palms and Royals on Jasmine Blvd, Port Richey, Florida taken March 1st 2026

For an indoor plant it looks way to wet and boggy looking, but it definitely has problems.

Another Cymbidium hybrid in bloom. I don't recall the name of this one.

Great job! I learned a lot about the more heroic techniques people use with winter heat sources.

Possibly buried to deep and overwatered or he has fertilised it way to much.

The camera does not do justice of how huge the trunk is. But here is a big ol shovel

well not the same species but this might work???😝

Couple more photos from my garden. This one is taken the day before the catastrophe. Similar photo below taken today, 3-2-26 The brown tree in the background is a Mango. I am increasingly optimistic that the Wodyetias will pull through. As an aside, all of the Earleaf Acacias around here (they are everywhere) are defoliated and/or burned. Not sure if they will recover, but most likely will. I was going to post more photos but my camera skills pale in comparison to my wife's abilities. She took photo #1 on her phone, I took #2 this morning on my kindle so you can see why I choose to regroup. She has graciously agreed to document the carnage with me tomorrow morning. Once they are downloaded, I will continue the documentation.

There are private growers that can help you . I have met them here on Palm Talk. You may have to drive an hour or so but the experience is priceless. I met @DoomsDave here a couple years ago ( has it really been that long?) and made a couple trips to his jungle . He has very good knowledge and experience to share , not to mention some very friendly kitty cats that patrol his garden. Not like going to a nursery , or buying on line( not for me) . He has introduced me to some palms that I would not have thought about on my own . All of them are growing very well . The bonus is spending time with Dave , never disappointing. A few “gems” that came home with me. Harry Cyphophoenix Nucele ‘Dypsis Lanceolata ( now Chrysalidiocarpus) Rohpalostylus Bauri Cheesemania I have 5 or so Chamaedorea Ernesti Augusti that came home Dypsis Basilonga on the left and Chamaedorea Plumosa on the right.

Two lots over caught my eye today.

I need a bit of guidance from the cycas gurus in plant land. I know I have a female Ferox the larger plant in the first picture, and from a bit of horticulture knowledge I think I have a male plant. What iam asking is what are the signs iam looking for so I know when to collect the male pollen and how. Also what are the signs to look for with the female cone as to when to pollinate. Or can I just get a paint brush and go to town when it looks good, without any specific technique. The plants are both 30 years old and where supplied by Rolf kyburz of kyburz palms back in the day.

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I have ( had) three different pots with Chamaedorea sp growing in them for many years. I planted some in the ground last year and now I am planting the others also in the ground, were they grew and will grow a lot better. Unfortunately I lost the tags ( bad plastic, they aren' t readable anymore) I slightly remember Chamaedorea glaucifolia, but I am not sure if all them were the same. 1)First this one that I planted in the ground a year ago: 20260228_111412.heic 20260228_111753.heic 20260228_111751.heic 20260228_111837.heic 20260228_111924.heic 20260228_111925.heic 20260228_112006.heic 20260228_112025.heic 20260228_112058.heic

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@happypalms great post ! I am just curious how old that Kentiopsis ( Chambeyronia) Pyroformis is . Mine takes a full year to get a new frond , only once in the year and half I have had it. Harry edit: it actually shrunk a bit after I planted it in the ground!

6 nights of Fire ..Pt #2: 2/ 28: 3 / 1: 3 / 2: ...........

Mid Month Sky - Lights ..Pt #2: 2/ 20: 2 / 21:

In an effort to see how much cold these spawns of satan can handle I devised a very scientific experiment to preform in them. I caught 3 South American palm weevils put them each in a tube and placed one in my freezer at 0f, one in my refrigerator at 35f and one in a cooler with ice and salt and was able to hold the temperature between 26-28f. Here are the results… freezer at 0f for 1 hour (dead) refrigerator at 35f for 12 hours (alive) 40 hours (alive) salt / ice at 26-28f for 12 hours (alive) 40 hours (still alive) not a great outcome being that those temps would do a bunch of damage on its own.

Since every living thing has something that might parasitize it, there are likely a few out there. Issue is, it takes time conducting enough research to be sure any such organism released to target them only targets SAPW and not other beetles ..or other insects in general. Worst outcome in such situations is releasing something into a new environment that ends up causing bigger issues later.

Today was the start of removing plants that were dead or so close they had little chance of recovering. Thus far, the attached sheet is where things stand. The plants marked in Dark Blue were removed today. The plants marked in light blue are others I anticipate removing at some point. There are enough plants in the garage to fill empty spaces (and then some), but I do plan on keeping a lot of the space open. My intent is to hold off until at least fall to start treating these as actual observations for the Cold Hardiness Observation Master Data because things will inevitably change. The Atlantic Tall is recovering about as quick as @pj_orlando_z9b's coconut. The Maypan is a little slower. The photo is of the Atlantic Tall from the ladder today. 20260302_TentativeGardenDamageReport.xlsx

I often walk up the back part of the garden, it was one of the first places in the garden I started to plant out. A very special part of the garden for me. As it grows it always changes with the seasons.

Do you think I can get away with planting a royal palm here? im removing the rose bushes and using the giant birds of paradise for screening.

Here in downtown Sav most of the queens have visible damage, but are already showing green new growth. The two planted right downtown on river street don't seem phased at all, neither do any of them that I've seen so far on Tybee island. So I'd imagine the Jax queens are doing even better

25 degrees with 20mm of rain today, a nice start to autumn after a dry February.

I would cut the dead material off the small BA, limits the spread of mold on a small palm that will see lots of dew in the near future. Mine had more dead material in 2010. I cut off the dead material and gave it a peroxide/fungicide treatment and it popped right back that summer.

Hi guys! It's been many years since I last posted on this forum. Sorry! Just thought I'd mention my upcoming Taiwan expedition (Fri 26 Apr - Wed 08 May 2019) (13 days) https://www.nature-expeditions.co.uk/tours/taiwan-birds-botany-expedition.php I know it says "Birds & Botany" and we will be going to good birding places and seeing birds, but everyone who has already signed up so far are coming for the botany, so the whole expedition will be focused on the botany. I still have a couple of places left so if any of you are interested in joining me you'd be most welcome. I've been visiting Taiwan for about 24 years, I know the islands exceptionally well, I will be taking you to all the native palms in their natural environments, and I obviously speak Chinese. Like I said, you'll get a unique opportunity to see the 9 (5 endemic) native palms of Taiwan and Lanyu in their natural environments. But you'll also see many (100s) of other palm species in cultivation, many of which were planted long ago by the Japanese during their occupation of Taiwan. I also specialize in Cycads, bananas and ferns, plus others so if you're also interested in those you're in for a treat! So the native palms of Taiwan are: Pinanga tashiroi - Few people ever get to see this gorgeous tall Pinanga. It is endemic to the highest forests of Lanyu island. Areca catechu Taiwan has two forms of Areca catechu - the common tall form that was introduced to the main island by the Dutch, and this form (pictured) which is a small or dwarf form, formally called Areca catechu var. batanensis, which is actually native to Lanyu island of Taiwan and the Batanes islands of the Philippines. Arenga engleri - We'll see these all over Taiwan. There are some varying forms. Calamus formosanus - These are quite common all over Taiwan. Calamus beccarii - This is rare and only found in one small, remote location. Calamus siphonospathus var. sublaevis - occurs only on Lanyu island. Phoenix loureiroi var. loureiroi - This small date occurs in several isolated populations in Taiwan. It used to be called Phoenix hanceana. Livistona chinensis - This is the form with more round-shaped seeds (Livistona chinensis var. subglobosa). There is a population on one of the Taiwan islands that is considered native, but on the whole most of the many groves of this palm on Taiwan are not original. The last Taiwan palm on this list is the Coconut Cocos nucifera. I'll not bother posting a picture of that! Like I said, there are many many other palms cultivated in Taiwan, and on this tour you'll get special access to some important collections. I welcome any questions, you can ask them here or contact me directly via the website, which I'll post again here: https://www.nature-expeditions.co.uk/tours/taiwan-birds-botany-expedition.php Do hope you can join us! Should be great fun! Cheers! Phil

New Years Day 2009.....

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