An easy way to get a few more rhapis for  the garden is by taking a clone or two. Nothing special is involved in taking the clone just select the pup your after and simply cut it off from the parent plant, all you have to do is make sure there is a few roots on the pup you select and cut away until your heart is content, then just simply tear the pup away and bingo new plants. A great way to multiply rare rhapis or variegated ones. Then it’s simply pot the little tacker up and place in the greenhouse and forget about. Then the next time you stubble upon it Bobs  your uncle and you have a new palm!

I don’t have any rare ones but my Excelsia has produced many little gems for gifts . I recently planted one down the hill in the shade of my Butia . It seems always damp there so it should be fine. Harry

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I don’t have any rare ones but my Excelsia has produced many little gems for gifts . I recently planted one down the hill in the shade of my Butia . It seems always damp there so it should be fine. Harry

Iam opting for the more variegated ones and the other varieties now for my garden now. The larger excelsia variety just gets to big and takes over the garden in time! But I do think you should track down a variegated one, I would send you one but I don’t think customs would like it. 
Richard

Thank you Richard , you are so kind . There is one out there for me and our paths will cross. I do believe in that . The palms I have been fortunate to find , happened when least expected! When I go palm hunting , I always come home with something unexpected. Harry

3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you Richard , you are so kind . There is one out there for me and our paths will cross. I do believe in that . The palms I have been fortunate to find , happened when least expected! When I go palm hunting , I always come home with something unexpected. Harry

You’re welcome, you can at least let me buy you a beer then and if you dont drink. The apple juice is on me! 
Richard

Well , you motivated me to dig a few more up that had pushed their way next to our walkway . I was in the “free palm” mood anyway so now they are potted  in the area beside the house where all the new comers ( potted stuff) reside. I celebrated with a Coke , no I don’t do alchohol , so apple juice is great! 
          Now for those Howea seedlings that popped up last year…. Harry

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Well , you motivated me to dig a few more up that had pushed their way next to our walkway . I was in the “free palm” mood anyway so now they are potted  in the area beside the house where all the new comers ( potted stuff) reside. I celebrated with a Coke , no I don’t do alchohol , so apple juice is great! 
          Now for those Howea seedlings that popped up last year…. Harry

I don’t drink either a good sign of a good man who doesn’t drink! Rhapis are such good selling palms as well and a great gift. Unfortunately there that common the excelsia they don’t even get a second look in a collectors garden, much better palms available now for valuable palm real estate! 
Richard