Coccothrinax miraguama ssp roseocarpa goes in.

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October 2021…..

Felt like digging some holes today, so Coccothrinax miriguama ssp roseocarpa went in too.  Had been in a pot for the past year, doing only ok.  Should be much happier in the ground.   Got a strip of sunny area and I’m going to pack in the small Cuban and native palms here….

January 2023…

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I’m cleaning up the beds and weeding, so updates are coming.   
Here is this guy a little under two years later in the ground.  I added two more shortly after planting, to make a triple.  All looking the similar at 3g, from the same batch at the nursery.  One turned out to be a borhidiana hybrid over time..lol.   

5 feet tall now, with big leaves.  3 years from the pot above.  

[Jonathan]

Looking great! I'd love to be able to grow this genus but a little too tropical for here I suspect.

Question: will your lawn mower squeeze through the strip between the two garden beds? Lol.

 

[D. Morrowii]

Looks really nice!

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3 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Looking great! I'd love to be able to grow this genus but a little too tropical for here I suspect.

Question: will your lawn mower squeeze through the strip between the two garden beds? Lol.

 

Behind it?… no sir, but the weed whacker fits.   I’ll be expanding the garden beds to the border and adding bromeliads and crotons soon, but the whacking is annoying, and stirs up a lot of weed seeds and fragments that take root.  Soon to be problem solved.  

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56 minutes ago, D. Morrowii said:

Looks really nice!

For now….  I bought flooring knee pads, and spent the last 2 days crawling around yanking and mulching.  

[RainforestCafe]

That little guy looks really happy there! I just planted one of these myself this past Spring. It's been interesting to watch it grow because I have it in a very unforgiving spot where it's brutally hot, and then gets dumped with rain during storms, and it has been growing really well. 

I really love the look of them, and yours looks great 👍 

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53 minutes ago, RainforestCafe said:

That little guy looks really happy there! I just planted one of these myself this past Spring. It's been interesting to watch it grow because I have it in a very unforgiving spot where it's brutally hot, and then gets dumped with rain during storms, and it has been growing really well. 

I really love the look of them, and yours looks great 👍 

That sounds like the ideal spot for it!   They seem to love brutally hot, brutally sunny, and water when they have the other two.   Mine is in all day E to W sun.