Anyways, decided to plant these silver saws that i specifically told myself i would not plant until march. but i had absolutely no room in the greenhouse lolllll 

 

also planted some minors but these are native plants so i’m really not worried about the cold getting to them 

Plant more muahahahahaha 😈

Palms ?   Too much is just enough !

58 minutes ago, teddytn said:

Plant more muahahahahaha 😈

i have TONS in my greenhouse just waiting to be planted lol. I wish I could just plant them all but i don’t wanna kill them either 😂 

 

When we bought our new house and sold our old house in 1997 it was a challenge to find places to put all my palms. The old house had a greenhouse that I built from some plans that I got . It was 12' x 14' x 12' high in the center with a gambrel roof. The floor was about 8"deep of pea gravel so ANYTHING would grow in there . It was in the middle of my huge back yard and I filled it with anything that would not grow in the yard. I had some Chamedorea, Vietchia , Woodyetia , Licuala , etc. They did very well with sharing space with the Tilandsia's , Spanish Moss , and Orchids. The new house had no room for a greenhouse so I proceeded to plant everything in the ground and down the hill which is south facing and sloped. The Orchids did not like being in the house ( they don't get along with the dry environment ) and over half of the palms died within 2-3 years. I had the Licuala's in the house but they hated life and gave up. The Chamedoreas and Kentia's mostly survived and the palms I had outdoors that I moved survived but it was hard to watch my collection dwindle down. I am in a pretty good environment for palms but it does get below 40f in the winter so I am selective about what I plant.....and when.   

1 hour ago, teddytn said:

Plant more muahahahahaha 😈

Take your credit card, strike more palm orders down, and your journey towards the dark side will be complete! 🤣

Edited January 4, 20242 yr by Leelanau Palms

Good luck. Serenoa hates wet clay soils so hopefully you planted in sand.

We where warned about this gardening rule breaking non-sense back in 1965.

 

Sunset - Landscaping for Western Living.

2 hours ago, SeanK said:

Good luck. Serenoa hates wet clay soils so hopefully you planted in sand.

The soil is pretty sandy here 

@NC_Palms whatever for? 

Wow maybe I should get some saws, It's sandy here too 🤠

5 hours ago, ZPalms said:

Wow maybe I should get some saws, It's sandy here too 🤠

imo theyre pretty hardy for our location. I wish more people planted them here because even in the event of a hard freeze theyll come back, but I guess you can say that about a lot of species lol 

I wish the warm weather would just start already, I'm growing anxious and I'm ready to plant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂

3 hours ago, ZPalms said:

I wish the warm weather would just start already, I'm growing anxious and I'm ready to plant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂

Where I live, January is the coldest month of the year. That's going to play out with forecasted low of 28°F / -2°C & a 40% chance of snow next Wednesday night. At least the daytime temps are expected to be above freezing. I just roll with what comes because there's no other options.

You already know the response here will be to plant MORE Palms not less!

What is next on your schedule, going to a bar to get advice from the patrons there on how to stop drinking? 
🤣

 

If you're looking for reasons not to plant; gardening is an exercise in futility.  Everything you plant will die.  If you don't kill it, and pests don't eat it, and rot doesn't take it, and it doesn't freeze to death, and a dump truck doesn't run over it, and climate change doesn't render the atmosphere inhospitable, then it will very best case scenario, die in a ball of fire.  Nothing is eternal, here today, gone tomorrow, insignificant like the innumerable plants and people and civilizations that have succumbed the laws of physics and are now, as though they never existed (well, people continue to exist just not on this earth).  

Do you still want to continue to plant things?  For me the answer is, for some stupid reason, yes. 

11 hours ago, Dwarf Fan said:

You already know the response here will be to plant MORE Palms not less!

What is next on your schedule, going to a bar to get advice from the patrons there on how to stop drinking? 
🤣

 

I constantly surround myself with bad influences 😅

On 1/4/2024 at 10:58 PM, ZPalms said:

Wow maybe I should get some saws, It's sandy here too 🤠

If you're in zone 8 and have sandy soil, I would say go for it.

1 hour ago, redbeard917 said:

If you're in zone 8 and have sandy soil, I would say go for it.

I’ve been thinking about it, I planted a washie last February and It did fine and it’s still alive and looks great 😍

Serenoa (saw palmetto) is MUCH hardier than Washingtonia, so you'll be fine there. It's a different sort of palm, though. Each one is kind of unique and grows in unexpected directions. This picture isn't so helpful, but I've started removing every leaf from mine once a year or once every 2 years. I don't think it hurts the palm because they withstand fire in habitat and it gets rid of all the old worn out leaves and the ones filled with leaf miners.