A couple a nice collectors palms to go in the garden. The Chambeyronia certainly has a long way to go before it matches the one in Sydney botanical gardens, but it certainly gave me the incentive to plant the one I have, what’s the best way to grow a palm plant it in the ground. The Areca is going to be an interesting palm in the years to come. 

After the hail storm, the cyclone and a few losses for no obvious reasons,  I am planting everything here of a remotely survivable size. As for the truckload of baby palms here they will have to take their chances from now on. This fatigue has really set in and looks like it is here to stay so my hours of hand watering potted things have to be cut back.  The 24 hour care home is looking better every day.

Peachy

1 hour ago, peachy said:

After the hail storm, the cyclone and a few losses for no obvious reasons,  I am planting everything here of a remotely survivable size. As for the truckload of baby palms here they will have to take their chances from now on. This fatigue has really set in and looks like it is here to stay so my hours of hand watering potted things have to be cut back.  The 24 hour care home is looking better every day.

Peachy

Keep on planting your palms, what ever happed to that gardener you wanted. The joys of growing palms the older we get the better our palms look.

Richard

Those are really nice , even if a bit young , your climate should take good care of them . I plant most of mine young and sometimes they stall a bit , but most of the time they take off right away. 
       @peachy , Potted palms are definitely a bit more work in the summer to Fall seasons , so I hope planting in the ground will ease your burden a bit. I spend a few hours a week just on watering . We go about 9 months of the year with little to no rain . I manually water everything up here , down the hill has sprinklers . Harry

I have 4 Chambeyronia houailouensis, 2 of them open up red. Very dramatic palm, one to make a statement.