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11 hours ago, KrisKupsch said:

I have all but the Calyptro inground and they grow well here except Satakentia but we both know it grows fine for others and I’ve more in pots…here in the moderately wet subtropics of far nensw au 

Iam not to sure on the brassiophoenix going in the ground I got one alive still surviving after two winters in a hothouse and as for moderate rainfall not a lot in sunny hot halfway creek but good hot grow conditions for tropical varieties just add water 

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At it again buying plants their time a nice sommieria I might get away with it in winter indoors for a couple of seasons then I will try the protection of the hothouse in winter the odds of it going into the ground are against it but can only try 

[John hovancsek]

Wow that is a good size plant. I was able to source a seeding one and only have a one leafer

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7 hours ago, John hovancsek said:

Wow that is a good size plant. I was able to source a seeding one and only have a one leafer

Yer not a bad one some good growing has gone on to get to that size in perfect condition 

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At it again can’t help myself a anthurium warocqueanum x panamense and a socratea rostrata the hybrid anthuriums a bit better in the cold weather a lot tougher the hybrids but a good fix for the season 

[johnnymak]

Equatorial Exotics?

[peachy]

Anthuriums seem to thrive at my place but they get huge in no time flat and I have to move them on to new homes. I have noticed that the hybrids are cheaper as a rule but I have always tended to go for the 'pure' varieties. Probably a throw back from my years of showing and breeding dogs !  I am interested to find out how the Socratea goes over winter. I always liked them but was never game enough to try one. So far none of the Lanonia/Licuala species I grow have shown any signs of winter stress and are thriving in the current high humidity. You do better than me with online purchases. I need a microscope to see anything I buy.

Peachy

[Harry’s Palms]

Yay ! New plant(s) day. Enjoy them . Years (at least 20)ago I had a couple of seedling shipped FedEx to my house from Maui . I had no idea they could ship live plants . I visited a Palm and botanical garden and he had some pretty good prices on seedlings . I told him that I would scoop them up but I live in California , he said “no problem”. Back then , even with shipping , it was a great deal. I don’t know what it is like over there in Australia or now a days , but a nice way to get plants. Both palms are still alive and thriving!  Harry

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At it again getting another fix of plants this time a Zamia standleyi dypsis poiveana calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana and anthurium magnifica should do for this weeks fix of plant shopping 

[peachy]

I am envious of the Zamia standleyi.  I had to leave mine behind in the old garden and the only one seen since was very over priced. Because I mainly stuck with my list at the show (or with some of Colin's suggestions) I actually came home with some money in my pocket !  My best bargain was a Alexandrae maxima (yes I know ...no space and screaming neighbours when it grows) but it was well over a metre high, in a 30 cm pot for $10 !  It's really  root bound and I will have to cut it out of the pot to plant it.  I had a peek at palms on ebay today and they have hiked up the prices a lot from late last year.

Peachy

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice!! New plant day , yay. Harry

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13 hours ago, peachy said:

I am envious of the Zamia standleyi.  I had to leave mine behind in the old garden and the only one seen since was very over priced. Because I mainly stuck with my list at the show (or with some of Colin's suggestions) I actually came home with some money in my pocket !  My best bargain was a Alexandrae maxima (yes I know ...no space and screaming neighbours when it grows) but it was well over a metre high, in a 30 cm pot for $10 !  It's really  root bound and I will have to cut it out of the pot to plant it.  I had a peek at palms on ebay today and they have hiked up the prices a lot from late last year.

Peachy

Yes the Zamia standleyi is a good score did you plant yours in the shade or dappled light or full sun I have about 8 mature maxima but they never sets seeds don’t worry about the neighbours yes the prices have gone up for rare plants due to custom’s making it harder to import seeds well not really harder just the correct paperwork and even then your not guaranteed to get your seeds they just want there cut otherwise they are out of a job typicall government Colin was very helpful 

[peachy]

8 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Yes the Zamia standleyi is a good score did you plant yours in the shade or dappled light or full sun I have about 8 mature maxima but they never sets seeds don’t worry about the neighbours yes the prices have gone up for rare plants due to custom’s making it harder to import seeds well not really harder just the correct paperwork and even then your not guaranteed to get your seeds they just want there cut otherwise they are out of a job typicall government Colin was very helpful  M

9 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Yes the Zamia standleyi is a good score did you plant yours in the shade or dappled light or full sun I have about 8 mature maxima but they never sets seeds don’t worry about the neighbours yes the prices have gone up for rare plants due to custom’s making it harder to import seeds well not really harder just the correct paperwork and even then your not guaranteed to get your seeds they just want there cut otherwise they are out of a job typicall government Colin was very helpful 

Mine used to get early morning sun but from about 10 am it was in heavy dappled light.  I picked up a Macrozamia longispina at the show also. Don't know how it will go here but for $5 I was willing to take the risk ! Thanks for info on the maxima too. I know they are big but I am so desperate for canopy and they are said to grow really quickly. Love your new anthurium too. I have a few different ones but they are so slow growing here and yet the bird nest type get huge in 12 months and the common flowering ones (with the flowers that look like plastic arum lilllies) grow almost overnight. Yes Colin knows all the loop holes in dealing with quarantine and happily shares his knowledge too. He's a lovely bloke and a good friend to have.

Peachy

[Brad52]

I covet your new anthurium…nice buy!

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2 hours ago, Brad52 said:

I covet your new anthurium…nice buy!

Love them I got hooked on anthuriums a couple of years ago I thought how come I didn’t know of these plants 25 years ago for my garden 

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Did a bit of mail order shopping for plants this time a lanonia magaloni and a philodendron billietiae not sure how the philodendron will go in the cold time will tell 

[Brad52]

I can offer to store the philodendron in my yard while you wait for future climate moderation though it might be several years before you are warmed up enough 😊

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7 hours ago, Brad52 said:

I can offer to store the philodendron in my yard while you wait for future climate moderation though it might be several years before you are warmed up enough 😊

One of those varieties hey not to fond of the cold I will post it on Monday it might arrive dead by the time it’s gets through customs but it was doomed anyway in my 2 degrees Celsius weather obviously money well spent $40 at least I can keep the container as consolation prize 🤣

[Brad52]

1 hour ago, happypalms said:

One of those varieties hey not to fond of the cold I will post it on Monday it might arrive dead by the time it’s gets through customs but it was doomed anyway in my 2 degrees Celsius weather obviously money well spent $40 at least I can keep the container as consolation prize 🤣

I’ve recently become quite fond of philodendron (aroids in general) I had several types do well with no supplemental water during a few weeks of dry so I added several more that I intend to nurture likely to ill health.  I’m quite pleased that the variegated aroids don’t appeal much to me freeing up funds for more varieties of less flashy ones.

[peachy]

I bought a nice Philodendron billetiea in Bunnings. Roughly 30cm high for $15 !  I see so many aroids that I love on line for huge prices and huge postage, then a week later Bunnings will have the bloody things in the truckloads.  My Licuala grandis and the L elegans both came from there as well as many of my alocasias.  Last week I nearly paid $30 plus postage for an alocasia jacqueline, so rare and hard to find. Went to Bunnings for something or other and here were big A. Jacqulines $18.00.  I leave almost everything in the shadehouse over winter and only bring them inside if they start looking off. Last winter only the caladiums came inside but this winter I have baby palms and aroids that will come indoors until they are bigger.

Peachy

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9 minutes ago, peachy said:

I bought a nice Philodendron billetiea in Bunnings. Roughly 30cm high for $15 !  I see so many aroids that I love on line for huge prices and huge postage, then a week later Bunnings will have the bloody things in the truckloads.  My Licuala grandis and the L elegans both came from there as well as many of my alocasias.  Last week I nearly paid $30 plus postage for an alocasia jacqueline, so rare and hard to find. Went to Bunnings for something or other and here were big A. Jacqulines $18.00.  I leave almost everything in the shadehouse over winter and only bring them inside if they start looking off. Last winter only the caladiums came inside but this winter I have baby palms and aroids that will come indoors until they are bigger.

Peachy

Hi peachy yes the online postage cost is a joke a ten dollar plant costs $20 to post I often find myself buying at the chain stores just for the fact no postage alocasias don’t like the cold in my area philodendrons are ok but I got to choose what anthuriums will live at my cost of losing them  my gardening method is if they live in the greenhouse or hothouse for a couple of years out they go to the garden with some protection and a nice amended soil if Mother Nature wants them to go to the great garden in the sky then that’s the way it is but some of my rare plants get super attention in the ground when I should just plant them and not Molly coddle them it seems the more you pay the more you stress over them which is quite a silly thing to do just because you paid big bucks and they are rare now my advanced garden just eats up new plants with the competition fo4 light and moisture so I grow my new plants on as big as I can just to give them a better chance 

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2 hours ago, Brad52 said:

I’ve recently become quite fond of philodendron (aroids in general) I had several types do well with no supplemental water during a few weeks of dry so I added several more that I intend to nurture likely to ill health.  I’m quite pleased that the variegated aroids don’t appeal much to me freeing up funds for more varieties of less flashy ones.

Yes there an addictive plant the aroids iam recently new to growing them so still learning palms are easy aroids a bit more different for me but a good grower will overcome any obstacles and learn usually at a cost 💲 advice is free mistakes are costly 

[Brad52]

I think my inaccurate initial thoughts about aroids were they need lots of water and avoid direct sun but both assumptions not proving out.

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1 hour ago, Brad52 said:

I think my inaccurate initial thoughts about aroids were they need lots of water and avoid direct sun but both assumptions not proving out.

I soon learnt not lots of water (after overwatering them and killing them) and surprisingly they take good morning sun 

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At it again getting another fix of more plants for the garden this time a socratea rostrata Areca songthanhensis Garcinia brasilliensis and a anthurium freidrichstahlii all will be grown in the greenhouse for a couple of winters to acclimatise (or not live through the winter and go to the great garden in the sky) time will tell who lives and who doesn’t the socratea was potted up straight away into a 170mm container 

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As usual a fix of some palms this time 100 satakentia liukiuensis 100 chamaedorea elegans and 100 polyathia longifofilia trees just another day in the life of growing palms 

[Harry’s Palms]

I am curious if any of the plants show signs of shock or set back from the shipping process. Being in the box for a few days or bouncing around during shipment , does this bother them? The only time I ever had live plants shipped was quite some time ago when I was in Maui and bought a few seedlings at a certified nursery that could ship them to California for me. It seemed ok and the palms are still going strong to this day . I think I waited a few weeks though before planting them in the ground. Harry

[amazonman]

Nice!  😍

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8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I am curious if any of the plants show signs of shock or set back from the shipping process. Being in the box for a few days or bouncing around during shipment , does this bother them? The only time I ever had live plants shipped was quite some time ago when I was in Maui and bought a few seedlings at a certified nursery that could ship them to California for me. It seemed ok and the palms are still going strong to this day . I think I waited a few weeks though before planting them in the ground. Harry

There is possibly some signs of stress the odd lower leaf desiccating but overall healthy it’s the only way it can be done with large numbers bare rotted I would prefer them being left in the container the polyathia looked a bit stressed from the transplant shock and a bit dry but seem pretty good so far i get live plants posted weekly but most of them in the container I have never had a problem with bare rooted plants you do lose the odd tiny small palm sprouts that just don’t make the journey water them in with a vitamin B Solution that’s all you can do and rest them in the greenhouse 

[peachy]

You just got an order for 2 Satakentias. I loved them at the old place and somehow will find space here too.

Peachy

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2 hours ago, peachy said:

You just got an order for 2 Satakentias. I loved them at the old place and somehow will find space here too.

Peachy

Sold to the lady with the pooches and kitty kats I shall put them in reserve for you 

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Getting another fix of some exotics for the garden starting with a Areca songthanhensis arenga hookeriana anthurium Rupicola riparian sp ex J Vannini draceana goldieana and a carludovica palmata not to sure how the carludovica will go in the cold weather but as for the others they shall have to tough it out in the hothouse for a couple of seasons to see who is going to survive the winter seasons 

[Frond-friend42]

Carludovica: the palm impostor.

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2 minutes ago, Frond-friend42 said:

Carludovica: the palm impostor.

That’s the one up there with the molinera one way for plant to ensure it’s survival using humankind to travel around the planet as an imposter clever plant 🌱 

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Correction not Areca songthanhensis it should be Areca species dwarf from loas 

[Tyrone]

Do you get winter there?  😜

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4 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Do you get winter there?  😜

I think I do only because I wish I was in Hawaii growing my dream palms but that feeling only comes around mid July when some of my new palms die lucky Hawaii growers 🌴🤣

[peachy]

I love the anthurium.  I had a panama hat 'palm' but always brought it inside  over winter until it got too big.

Peachy

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6 minutes ago, peachy said:

I love the anthurium.  I had a panama hat 'palm' but always brought it inside  over winter until it got too big.

Peachy

Iam hooked on anthuriums yes I suspected the the hat palm a problem child 

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Another fix of buying more plants this time a Areca Wahbo anthurium veitchii dypsis scottiana a couple of more palms for the collection not sure about the Areca in winter will go it hurts the grower to kill a rare palm but you have to push the cold limit boundaries of new palms