Some nice little palm seedlings

[happypalms]

A few nice baby palms looking good for the future garden projects. Some dictyosperma album conjugatum, Joey perakensis you can’t tell the difference between them and Altifrons as juvenile palms. A nice batch brassiophoenix schumanii, hypohorbe langenicaulis and some licuala ramsayi, a nice palm the ramsayi for such a tropical looking plant there quite tough taking a lot of hard conditions bouncing back well if given a hard time climate wise just add water to grow them at there best. Some nice palms for the future garden projects. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Some very nice ones there! Harry

[peachy]

A nice little horde for post apocalyptic planting. Yes I am feeling fatalistic after watching the evening news.  My Joey on a stick is still going strong. I think I should have given him a slightly bigger pot but too late now until the warmth comes back. Licuala ramsayii are such a magnificent palm and quite easy to grow but you never seem to see any in private gardens.  There is one planted in a raised display in an office building in town. It's been there about 20 years and doesn't appear to have grown at all but has survived some terrible winters and summers. My pampered pet was sold in a supermarket as 'Fan Palm' and that's it. $14 well spent though as just over 4 years later it 1.4 metres with huge leaves.  I have successfully killed 2 Brassiophoenix however (eeek)

Peachy

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3 hours ago, peachy said:

A nice little horde for post apocalyptic planting. Yes I am feeling fatalistic after watching the evening news.  My Joey on a stick is still going strong. I think I should have given him a slightly bigger pot but too late now until the warmth comes back. Licuala ramsayii are such a magnificent palm and quite easy to grow but you never seem to see any in private gardens.  There is one planted in a raised display in an office building in town. It's been there about 20 years and doesn't appear to have grown at all but has survived some terrible winters and summers. My pampered pet was sold in a supermarket as 'Fan Palm' and that's it. $14 well spent though as just over 4 years later it 1.4 metres with huge leaves.  I have successfully killed 2 Brassiophoenix however (eeek)

Peachy

Palmagedon planting fever has got me good. Glad you’re Joey is doing well one rare palm you have there miss peachy you have done well to acquire such a palm. The Ramsay might get a bit big for a little backyard but given enough space it looks fantastic. I have one fantastic Ramsayi specimen in my garden. 
Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

5 hours ago, peachy said:

A nice little horde for post apocalyptic planting. Yes I am feeling fatalistic after watching the evening news.  My Joey on a stick is still going strong. I think I should have given him a slightly bigger pot but too late now until the warmth comes back. Licuala ramsayii are such a magnificent palm and quite easy to grow but you never seem to see any in private gardens.  There is one planted in a raised display in an office building in town. It's been there about 20 years and doesn't appear to have grown at all but has survived some terrible winters and summers. My pampered pet was sold in a supermarket as 'Fan Palm' and that's it. $14 well spent though as just over 4 years later it 1.4 metres with huge leaves.  I have successfully killed 2 Brassiophoenix however (eeek)

Peachy

Now Peachy , evening news is not a happy place for those of us that care. Getting out in the garden , even if it is just to be in the space is a much better way to spend time . Between time in the garden , my cycling , and time on PT , the world appears better to me . Looking at @happypalms photos and gardening reports , as well as yours , helps me feel just a bit more “normal”. I look forward to getting off work and , after a brief walk through my garden , sitting back and visiting PT on my iPad. Harry

I feel blessed to have the friends I have met here , my wee garden , and pedaling my bike. After breaking  my hip a year and a half ago and not being able to even pull weeds , much less think about riding a bike for a couple of months. I can overlook any residual pain to be able to do these things. I admire you Peachy for overcoming adverse situations with tenacity. This pic was one of my first rides after surgery , my garden needed some attention but decided to go out on the bike first , for a cold morning ride! Harry

[happypalms]

19 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Now Peachy , evening news is not a happy place for those of us that care. Getting out in the garden , even if it is just to be in the space is a much better way to spend time . Between time in the garden , my cycling , and time on PT , the world appears better to me . Looking at @happypalms photos and gardening reports , as well as yours , helps me feel just a bit more “normal”. I look forward to getting off work and , after a brief walk through my garden , sitting back and visiting PT on my iPad. Harry

I feel blessed to have the friends I have met here , my wee garden , and pedaling my bike. After breaking  my hip a year and a half ago and not being able to even pull weeds , much less think about riding a bike for a couple of months. I can overlook any residual pain to be able to do these things. I admire you Peachy for overcoming adverse situations with tenacity. This pic was one of my first rides after surgery , my garden needed some attention but decided to go out on the bike first , for a cold morning ride! Harry

All right Harry is of to do the tour D France. I had a mountain bike and no license when I left home and got around just fine on my pushie or treddly is what we called them back then. Went to work every day rain hail or shine on my bike. Head winds to dodging trunks and cars I even hit a parked car once. Had a trailer for my bike  to do my shopping with it and fishing gear to whatever I was up too back then. I loved it up until I was 25 years old then met my first wife and that was the end of the pushie. The best part is I still have that same mountain bike in the shed and look at it thinking about that time in my life. The body is a wonderful thing until we break something on it, then it takes time to recover, and get back on the horse so to speak and get on with life. 
Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Richard , wonderful story. “A pushie” , I love it ! Yes , our bodies are marvels in that they can heal , even at 68 years old ( when I broke my hip ) . That and 7mm x 95mm bone screws!😂 I am 70 now and still ride my old racing bike that I restored . I have several that I built , even my first racer I bought new in 1976. My wife and I lived on a sailboat for 12 years and no car for 2-3 years . We both worked and like you , rode our bikes everywhere. We would put our foul weather gear on and ride to work in the rain. Good for the body , I say. That and time in the garden ! Get that bike out of the shed , Harry♣️

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On 4/19/2025 at 11:33 PM, Harry’s Palms said:

Richard , wonderful story. “A pushie” , I love it ! Yes , our bodies are marvels in that they can heal , even at 68 years old ( when I broke my hip ) . That and 7mm x 95mm bone screws!😂 I am 70 now and still ride my old racing bike that I restored . I have several that I built , even my first racer I bought new in 1976. My wife and I lived on a sailboat for 12 years and no car for 2-3 years . We both worked and like you , rode our bikes everywhere. We would put our foul weather gear on and ride to work in the rain. Good for the body , I say. That and time in the garden ! Get that bike out of the shed , Harry♣️

We called them pushie because we always had to push them up hills and whenever we had a flat tyre. Yes the body can heal itself it takes time and the older we get the more time it takes. You can beat pain in your mind but it’s always there just forgotten by the mind. Oh the good old racing bike fun u til I hit the parked car and bent the frame in half. I did restore the my mountain bike after my double hernia surgery. Part of the recovery process. And as for living on a yacht I have seen those fold up bikes that they use, port and starboard hey I remember them the easy way, there is always a little port left in the bottle. And I’ve heard a few good stories from the merchant seamen in the navy. 
Richard