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Spring 2024: What did you plant this week?


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Put a decent sized mule in the ground today. Right in front of my queen as a replacement for the day that the cold inevitably kills it, be it next year or a decade from now. IMG_4033.thumb.jpeg.beaf55eebd0e454ca3307df437cfb20e.jpeg
 

And I did plant this W Robusta I got off the clearance rack a month or two ago so I’ll add that as well. Looks much better now than it did. IMG_4043.thumb.jpeg.6f4958d5df874c8deda38fc7365280fb.jpeg

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I have planted 3 Mexican fan palms, a canary island date palm, a pindo palm and two Sylvester date palms. A little palm spending spree to start the year. 

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1 hour ago, HiltonHead2004 said:

I have planted 3 Mexican fan palms, a canary island date palm, a pindo palm and two Sylvester date palms. A little palm spending spree to start the year. 

We are here to enable you! Pics when you get a chance.

Zone 6b maritime climate

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Sabal “Lisa”, my own seed grown Trachycarpus “Nainital” and a Serenoa repens “silver”. 

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Been a busy bee here... in the last week.  2 butia eriospatha , one yatay , 3 sabal causiarum, one JxByatay, one filibusta  , 2  c radicals, one princeps, one arenga ryukyuensis... a bunch of elephant ear bulbs. Still lots to go, not  to mention about 12,500 sqft of front yard to plant tomorrow.  Installed lawn irrigation, and manifold drip irrigation to all my beds.  

Forgot to mention one araucaria angustifolia, my third one, two in the back yard and one in the front.  

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28 minutes ago, RJ said:

Been a busy bee here... in the last week.  2 butia eriospatha , one yatay , 3 sabal causiarum, one JxByatay, one filibusta  , 2  c radicals, one princeps, one arenga ryukyuensis... a bunch of elephant ear bulbs. Still lots to go, not  to mention about 12,500 sqft of front yard to plant tomorrow.  Installed lawn irrigation, and manifold drip irrigation to all my beds.  

Forgot to mention one araucaria angustifolia, my third one, two in the back yard and one in the front.  

How about some pictures?

Zone 6b maritime climate

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37 minutes ago, Leelanau Palms said:

How about some pictures?

I’ll grab some  , forgot to mention a riverside went in as well. I’ve done a lot of beds along the front of the house, still have to mulch and add some more compost to them, so I’ve planted the palms “high” knowing that is some cases another three inches of compost is coming in, I spread 60 tons of topsoil and 15 tons of compost in the past week. Tomorrow is the last push to get the grass in, and finish up the irrigation. Still need to get the manifolds installed for the drip. I didn’t keep track of how much 1” and 3/4” PVC pipe I laid, but I’m guessing around 1000’ .  Everything has been wired for low voltage lighting but have yet to order the fixtures for them all.  Just not enough time in the day between, work, kids, sports , etc… 

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Sounds like a future IPS meeting site 😉

Zone 6b maritime climate

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On 4/16/2024 at 5:02 PM, Xenon said:

Livistona nitida from @palmsrgreat arrived today and freshly in the ground 🙌. Going away present for myself (I'm moving to MS in 2 weeks!). Can't wait to see it's growth on my visits home

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Excellent choice!  With lots of heat + lots of water it'll grow like a Washie!  :)

I haven't planted these yet but just got them today.  They'll get planted tomorrow.  3-gal Arenga engleri (I assume) and 3-gal Rhapis excelsa for $10 each!  Rhapis needs a little TLC but not too bad.  Poor thing has been irrigated with well water (alkaline/somewhat salty) but hopefully I can help it out.

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Jon Sunder

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34 minutes ago, Fusca said:

Excellent choice!  With lots of heat + lots of water it'll grow like a Washie!  :)

I haven't planted these yet but just got them today.  They'll get planted tomorrow.  3-gal Arenga engleri (I assume) and 3-gal Rhapis excelsa for $10 each!  Rhapis needs a little TLC but not too bad.  Poor thing has been irrigated with well water (alkaline/somewhat salty) but hopefully I can help it out.

 

$10????!!!!!!! We need photo update of your collection soon 🤨

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Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

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Put in a few for palms, couple more causiarum strap leaf sized guys, some strap leaf t. ukhrulensis, couple radicals, sabal tamaulipas and did a little direct seeding to see how that pans out 🤷‍♂️

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Sabal Urusana (green form). Thanks for the great specimen @teddytn!!

It has a nice, prominent spot at the edge of the property. Full sun and close to a creek with lots of room to spread out. 

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Planted a Parajubaea, but I dog managed to sneak trough my fence and kill it. 
I recently repotted a Kentia though: 

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I finally got this one in the ground. I guess I’m committed to protect it if we get any real cold. 

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Chester, we need a better image of your dog !  :winkie:

My yard no longer has frost,  ( did suffer frost in the 1980s and 1990s.)  Good luck to you growers with more frosty locations.  :greenthumb:

I have installed this calendar year Brahea edulis, Chambeyronia hookeri, Cordyline indivisa,  Pritchardia minor, and Chamaedorea schippii.  

PS  I wish I had the space, and warmth for a Bismarkia !

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San Francisco, California

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4 hours ago, Chester B said:

I finally got this one in the ground. I guess I’m committed to protect it if we get any real cold. 

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Your yard is coming along beautifully! 

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Zone 6b maritime climate

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7 hours ago, Darold Petty said:

Chester, we need a better image of your dog !  :winkie:

My yard no longer has frost,  ( did suffer frost in the 1980s and 1990s.)  Good luck to you growers with more frosty locations.  :greenthumb:

I have installed this calendar year Brahea edulis, Chambeyronia hookeri, Cordyline indivisa,  Pritchardia minor, and Chamaedorea schippii.  

PS  I wish I had the space, and warmth for a Bismarkia !

That's the meaty one.  The old guy is inside snoozing.

It is possible to go without frost here in a winter, so fingers crossed.  I do have lots of room left fortunately, which is where I'll be planting the jumbo Sabals - causiarum, domingensis and uresana.

I do have a Brahea edulis like you, so hope to plant that one next year.  

Codyline indivisa was one that eluded me for years, and now I don't think I would be able to grow it here.

2 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

Your yard is coming along beautifully! 

Thanks - slow and difficult progress.  Two more areas left to do and that will be it for this year.

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2 hours ago, Chester B said:

 

Codyline indivisa was one that eluded me for years, and now I don't think I would be able to grow it here.

 

Now you can just plant all of the C. fruticosa varieties 😆. Good to mid 20s, easy to prop before a freeze, and even if you're lazy and do nothing...comes back from the ground if it gets real cold

Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

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What's the potted palm way back in the background on the right in the middle picture?

Zone 6b maritime climate

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3 hours ago, Xenon said:

Now you can just plant all of the C. fruticosa varieties 😆. Good to mid 20s, easy to prop before a freeze, and even if you're lazy and do nothing...comes back from the ground if it gets real cold

It's going to be a few years before I can plant some,  I only have full sun right now.  I like them, but I have to be patient.  This is the only place I've ever lived where you can't buy the green "spikes" that they sell everywhere for planters.  I broke down and bought the only Cordyline australis I could find "Red Star" which is my least favorite of all the varieties.  I want to see how it does with the heat.  If it does well then I will have to have some of the better varieties shipped.

3 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

What's the potted palm way back in the background on the right in the middle picture?

It's a Butia.  That is the last large palm I have left to plant.  I still have about 50 or 60 smaller palms that I'm trying to find spots for.  My issue is that because there were no gardens put it in at this house. every time I want to plant something I have to put in a new garden.  Its backbreaking work and pretty costly due to all the soil amendments I have to add to help with the clay I have and its lack of drainage.

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Not sure if this counts, but I've thrown some Sabal Mexicana seeds and some Washingtonia Filifera seeds around the western part of New Braunfels. I want to increase the palminess of this place as a whole. I'll throw some Robusta ones too (since it hasn't dropped below 15F here since 2021 and Robustas planted after 2021 are still healthy today) if I manage to get my hands on some seeds.

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1 hour ago, Chester B said:

It's going to be a few years before I can plant some,  I only have full sun right now.  I like them, but I have to be patient.  This is the only place I've ever lived where you can't buy the green "spikes" that they sell everywhere for planters.  I broke down and bought the only Cordyline australis I could find "Red Star" which is my least favorite of all the varieties.  I want to see how it does with the heat.  If it does well then I will have to have some of the better varieties shipped.

 

Most of them are pretty tolerant of full sun, half-day sun is ideal though. Too much shade and the colors fade. 

C. australis will not do well been there done that. The big boxes here really tried to push them over a decade ago along with other things that won't grow here like Phormium. You'd see them for a few months and they'd magically disappear 😄. Ensete seems to finally be slowly disappearing from the big boxes too thankfully. I would forget the cool temperate stuff....but eager to see your experiments...

You've mentioned the overabundance of tropicals at the big box stores, but the reality is those are things (mostly) that do well here beyond natives and near-natives lol (it IS tropical for 9-10 months of the year). Things that froze to the ground after the past cold winter are already several feet above the ground i.e classsic tropical Hibiscus, Ficus, etc. Ability to grow in heat and humidity + quick rate of growth/outgrow cold damage is more important than straight "cold hardiness" imo. You can get a pretty tropical look here with zone 8/9 subtropical foundation plants and zone 10 dieback perennials. 

 

Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

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13 hours ago, PA-TX2024 said:

Not sure if this counts, but I've thrown some Sabal Mexicana seeds and some Washingtonia Filifera seeds around the western part of New Braunfels. I want to increase the palminess of this place as a whole. I'll throw some Robusta ones too (since it hasn't dropped below 15F here since 2021 and Robustas planted after 2021 are still healthy today) if I manage to get my hands on some seeds.

Hey man , don't throw any Robusta seeds we would really appreciate that. We aren't fortunate tellers when it comes to cold fronts but the last thing I want to see in San Antonio metro are more dead Robustas that nobody is going to remove. Spread seeds from cold hardy palms Filifera,  sabals etc but we are done with Robustas.  

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This lovely 15 gallon Sabal PXL_20240521_233636376.thumb.jpg.cb7cc26fd51fcf79aacc585babf001d6.jpg

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15 minutes ago, Alex Zone 5 said:

This lovely 15 gallon Sabal PXL_20240521_233636376.thumb.jpg.cb7cc26fd51fcf79aacc585babf001d6.jpg

Whoa! Boom! Gorgeous.

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Zone 6b maritime climate

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22 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

Whoa! Boom! Gorgeous.

Thanks buddy@Leelanau Palms

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Not quite planted, but I just received a couple of small Sabal causiarum. I am excited to see if they will grow more quickly than any other sabals I have had in the past. I am also interested to see how they handle the San Antonio suburbs. 

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And one more post of palms that I "planted" today. I started some seeds in baggies tonight. First were some W. filifera, P. dactylifera, and C. humilis that I collected on a work trip in Phoenix AZ almost three years ago.

The other two were some L. decora seeds that I collected from the San Antonio Riverwalk, and some Chamaedorea radicalis seeds that I bought on eBay. 

Which ones do you think will sprout first? I am guessing the dactylifera, but maybe I will be wrong.

 

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Here are the parent tree(s) of what I believe to be filifera (or as close as can be) near 16th and Highland in Phoenix. I believe the one on the left was the only one dropping seed when I collected them, but my memory may not be perfect that far back.

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Tomorrow I'm going to plant another Filifera that I grew from seeds . That would be Filifera number 5 . 

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16 minutes ago, MarcusH said:

Tomorrow I'm going to plant another Filifera that I grew from seeds . That would be Filifera number 5 . 

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Five of them will make a nice collection. I was out on some rural roads in Guadalupe county this week where there were farm houses with four or five filiferas lining a fence. They look awesome, and they are only few miles from some dead robustas

The difference is stark. There are still plenty of robusta looking hybrids around, but there's plenty of dead ones too.

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8 hours ago, Ben G. said:

Five of them will make a nice collection. I was out on some rural roads in Guadalupe county this week where there were farm houses with four or five filiferas lining a fence. They look awesome, and they are only few miles from some dead robustas

The difference is stark. There are still plenty of robusta looking hybrids around, but there's plenty of dead ones too.

Unfortunately when I moved to San Antonio I didn't know anything about palm trees so I was the one who walked out of Home Depot with a Robusta under my arm .  That's not even the tip of the iceberg yet. Few months later I walked out with Queen palms.  The last few winters were a reality check for me.  My Robusta is still surviving it got heavily damaged this winter unprotected.  Let's see how long it will make it.  NBTX11 gave me some seeds from his Filifera , few years later I planted 2 and 1 more today.  They're still very small but growing much faster once planted from my observation.  I like to play safe that's why I only choose cold hardy palms that will survive SA winters.  Robusta fatalities can be seen as far as Piedras Negras MX . Not the greatest palm tree for most parts of Texas .

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Needed to whittle down the container ranch so a bunch of plants went on the ground a year earlier than I would have liked.  These are obviously all zone pushes.  Wish me luck.

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Licuala Fordiana

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Chuniophoenix Nana

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Front row:

Lanonia Calciphila, Lanonia Magalonii

Back row:

Licuala Ramsayii, Chamaedorea Woodsonii, Chamaedorea Frondosa, Chamaedorea Hooperiana

 

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On 6/2/2024 at 2:43 PM, Keys6505 said:

Needed to whittle down the container ranch so a bunch of plants went on the ground a year earlier than I would have liked.  These are obviously all zone pushes.  Wish me luck.

 

Licuala Fordiana

 

Chuniophoenix Nana

 

Front row:

Lanonia Calciphila, Lanonia Magalonii

Back row:

Licuala Ramsayii, Chamaedorea Woodsonii, Chamaedorea Frondosa, Chamaedorea Hooperiana

 

Awesome awesome stuff. Now you probably have the most extensive collection of Lanonia in TX 🤣

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Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

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Got my Chamaedorea radicalis in the ground after work today:

 

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Nothing special by any means, but this Windmill that I grew from seed. These may be wagnerianus judging by the appearance. The fronds are very rigid. I have a number of 'em and I may have to plant a couple more. I have a big pot of Musa sikkemensis I should plant real soon too.

 

 

 

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Nice little palm! If wagnerianus seems confirmed, I'd like to buy one from you.

Zone 6b maritime climate

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22 hours ago, Leelanau Palms said:

Nice little palm! If wagnerianus seems confirmed, I'd like to buy one from you.

It may be some years before any confirmation takes place, and you can have a free-bee next time you are in town.

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On 5/23/2024 at 8:17 PM, Ben G. said:

And one more post of palms that I "planted" today. I started some seeds in baggies tonight. First were some W. filifera, P. dactylifera, and C. humilis that I collected on a work trip in Phoenix AZ almost three years ago.

The other two were some L. decora seeds that I collected from the San Antonio Riverwalk, and some Chamaedorea radicalis seeds that I bought on eBay. 

Which ones do you think will sprout first? I am guessing the dactylifera, but maybe I will be wrong.

 

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The Washingtonia filifera were the winners, but the Phoenix dactylifera weren't far behind. The dates had about a 75% germination rate after a couple of weeks, the washies were close to 100%. The dates did a weird thing though where their long tap roots raised all of the soil up off the the bottom of the bag:

 

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A few more that have grown large enough to plant out. Sabal “Riverside”, Sabal “Birmingham” and Trachycarpus fortunei. 

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