Planting a few palms winter or no winter in they go

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A few proven winners going in the ground, even though winter is here they will be fine, they might sit still for a month or two but come spring and summer they will get a move on. Hopefully they tick themselves in for winter and hold until it warms up, either way they would be in the greenhouse and going through winter regardless. So first up a Pinanga coronata , ptychosperma elegans 2 of them, cocothrinax dussinia, carpoxylon macrospermum the one I repurchased, Crysophilla warscewizianus an unknown rainforest tree, pandanus variegated sanderi, and a satakentia liukiuensis. That should do for today and give the garden something to talk about with the new residents moving in! 

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Forgot the beccariophoenix Madagascariensis tough old things they are. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Some palms don’t mind a new home in winter . As you say , they are proven winners! Harry

[Mr. Clark]

Trees we put in the ground last winter are so happy, nice growth as it warmed up, especially compared to what we put in late spring.  We are in a drought right now, and even with irrigation the new plantings are less happy, and that extra time to settle over the cooler months seems to have helped those trees a lot.

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9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Some palms don’t mind a new home in winter . As you say , they are proven winners! Harry

They can tough it out, it’s surprising what actually grows in winter, it’s not all sleeping for plants just because it’s winter. We can get lii on e temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius and 23 degrees Celsius during the day so that’s almost a 20 degree Celsius difference in high and low temps so things will still grow and having moisture in the soil during winter they don’t mind it.

Richard 

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9 hours ago, Mr. Clark said:

Trees we put in the ground last winter are so happy, nice growth as it warmed up, especially compared to what we put in late spring.  We are in a drought right now, and even with irrigation the new plantings are less happy, and that extra time to settle over the cooler months seems to have helped those trees a lot.

That’s what iam going for that tucked in before hot summer. You learn your climate after a while with what it is going to do in regards to temperatures. Our February summer temperatures can be a scorching hot dry time and plants put in around December can struggle and trying to keep the irrigation up to them is difficult. Your observation of late plantings to early ones is a good indication of how it works. 

[Tyrone]

52 minutes ago, happypalms said:

They can tough it out, it’s surprising what actually grows in winter, it’s not all sleeping for plants just because it’s winter. We can get lii on e temperatures of 2 degrees Celsius and 23 degrees Celsius during the day so that’s almost a 20 degree Celsius difference in high and low temps so things will still grow and having moisture in the soil during winter they don’t mind it.

Richard 

Well the suns out in winter which is a good thing so go for it. 
Most of my landscape is still pushing spears well into this winter and we are cooler on average than your part of the world. Cooler tolerant palms are ok to plant in winter even here. Marginal stuff I will wait for though. 

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43 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

Well the suns out in winter which is a good thing so go for it. 
Most of my landscape is still pushing spears well into this winter and we are cooler on average than your part of the world. Cooler tolerant palms are ok to plant in winter even here. Marginal stuff I will wait for though. 

Iam not planting any sabinara that’s for sure. But the die hard stuff and if I got a lot of them they can go in. I don’t get frost so that’s another bonus. It felt like spring over the last few days up to 25 degrees and down to 15 degrees so quite lucky for us. 

[Tyrone]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

Iam not planting any sabinara that’s for sure. But the die hard stuff and if I got a lot of them they can go in. I don’t get frost so that’s another bonus. It felt like spring over the last few days up to 25 degrees and down to 15 degrees so quite lucky for us. 

That’s definitely subtropical for June.
No frost here……yet. There’s still plenty of winter to go but normally once the rains start the ground is saturated and the water course is flowing the risk of frost falls right off.  some nights I’ve expected 2 or 3 and the lowest we go is 8C or even 10C. I like the error of the forecast models being in that direction. We’ve had some days around 21C but mostly it’s been mid to high teens. The high sea surface temps are making a mild winter over here and it’s not dry either. 

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3 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

That’s definitely subtropical for June.
No frost here……yet. There’s still plenty of winter to go but normally once the rains start the ground is saturated and the water course is flowing the risk of frost falls right off.  some nights I’ve expected 2 or 3 and the lowest we go is 8C or even 10C. I like the error of the forecast models being in that direction. We’ve had some days around 21C but mostly it’s been mid to high teens. The high sea surface temps are making a mild winter over here and it’s not dry either. 

Yes quite warm for June in my area, even though it’s a subtropical zone the further you go inland 20 to 30 kms or more from the coast the difference in temperatures is incredible in comparison to the coast region. You will get temperatures in the minus 2 to 3 degrees. Yet  daytime temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius. A huge hi low temperature fluctuations, and the  dryer it gets the colder it get, the leading up to the full moon either side  is the danger time for those killer frosts. Knowing your climate is a good thing to understand, a bit like me moving to WA and not knowing the climate would make gardening difficult for a few years until I learnt the weather! But iam not moving to WA where yo can’t Import live plants no way!

[Tyrone]

12 hours ago, happypalms said:

Yes quite warm for June in my area, even though it’s a subtropical zone the further you go inland 20 to 30 kms or more from the coast the difference in temperatures is incredible in comparison to the coast region. You will get temperatures in the minus 2 to 3 degrees. Yet  daytime temperatures around 22 degrees Celsius. A huge hi low temperature fluctuations, and the  dryer it gets the colder it get, the leading up to the full moon either side  is the danger time for those killer frosts. Knowing your climate is a good thing to understand, a bit like me moving to WA and not knowing the climate would make gardening difficult for a few years until I learnt the weather! But iam not moving to WA where yo can’t Import live plants no way!

Do any bangalows naturally grow inland from you in the colder zone or has all the forest been cleared for farming? 

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3 minutes ago, Tyrone said:

Do any bangalows naturally grow inland from you in the colder zone or has all the forest been cleared for farming? 

They do grow inland but only in frost free sites . Also some places I call the dead zone there are no palms if any varieties growing. But I will say ever since all the blueberry farms have been established in my area there are more Bangalow palms popping up in different places that palms dont grow now due to the bird migration following the farms for fruit in areas that are quite of limits for palms. But I think fires have a role in stopping that palm populations won’t establish. But now the farms are in they won’t burn as much in those areas so it may be possible that some gullies get a few where they never where growing before.