happypalms More palms in pots

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On 1/9/2026 at 11:10 PM, gyuseppe said:

Well yes, while we talk we make hand gestures! You should see my wife making hand gestures while she talks, it would make your head spin! I'm used to it.

If your wife can talk as much as my wife gysuppe, I could only imagine that she would look like an air traffic controller. Waving hand’s around constantly, my wife can talk underwater with a mouthful of marbles!

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On 1/10/2026 at 5:43 AM, Mazat said:

🤗👍

They are a little rare Metallica seeds, available in certain places but somewhat rare. 
Next season i will see how I go if I can get some for you!🌱

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9 hours ago, happypalms said:

I made the mistake of getting more pots, I planted most of what I had in the ground, then I had brainstorm why not grow palms. 
Now I don’t know how many pots I have, at least I can I leave them out in winter is one bonus I guess!

I've accumulated so many pots that I hardly know what to do with them since I normally try and get anything I have get in the ground as soon as possible but then again you never know when you will need a specific pot 😂

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2 hours ago, ZPalms said:

I've accumulated so many pots that I hardly know what to do with them since I normally try and get anything I have get in the ground as soon as possible but then again you never know when you will need a specific pot 😂

About the same here having so many I can only plant so many of them, but I will certainly try and plant them all. One problem I have is having so many varieties I want to plant them all in the good spots and I keep saving those spots every time I go plant something good there thinking I have a better plant for that spot! 🤣

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On 1/10/2026 at 10:08 PM, Mazat said:

Wow, here 2.5 C 🤔

Oh yes it was a hot few days! 

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On 1/11/2026 at 1:08 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

OK , Richard , I’ll be right over to pick some up!😂 Those look nice , I could possibly plant them by Spring. It’s a good thing we are an ocean apart , you would never be rid of me and my wallet would be empty . At least my garden would be full. Harry

I thought you dropped in while I was at work, catch up with you next time you’re in the neighbourhood! The wife said Harry dropped in and he will catch up later! 
I put your palms in the back part of the greenhouse you can pick them up anytime! 
Richard 🤣

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At it again with a few seedlings that need to be lifted and potted up. The usual method, standard approach that is a bit of afternoon fun. A few rps dypsis confusa, along with more rps Calyptrocalyx forbesii, some local are a vestria red form, and a gift of 3 Chambeyronia seeds that have a close resemblance to cyphophoenix elegans apparently, some imported licuala punctulata, they all should keep me out of trouble for a day or two over the next t few years. 

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With the annual pacsoa plant sshow coming, it’s time to give some of my stock a bit of a review and pick out a good ones to take to the show. You just never know what will make the grade, some might go some might stay, but I certainly know that there will some good ones going from happypalms! 

kerriodoxa elegans Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons Trachycarpus princepslytocarum weddlianum Dypsis lutescens Hypohorbe verschaffeltia Bismarckia nobilis 

[gyuseppe]

Richard, great work as always!
(Please check your private messages!)

[Harry’s Palms]

Well , some very nice ones there. I’m not sure about the cold hardiness of Cyphophoenix yet but the one I planted ( Nucele ) is hanging in there . We have seen upper 40’s Fahrenheit so far and howling , dry winds . So far so good!🤞. I have it in a sheltered position where it only gets a bit of direct sun in the morning , bright shade the rest of the day. My juvenile palm is very graceful looking , leaves are thinner than Chambeyronia . It has opened only one frond since planting with another spear on the way . According to Palmpedia it is the faster growing species of Cyphophoenix , TBD . Harry

[Harry’s Palms]

Some popular , well known palms . Most folks would not be afraid of putting in the landscape in a tropical or sub tropical garden , a few like the Bismarkia or C. Lutescens in even temperate regions. I am one that still appreciates the wonderful “ Golden Cane Palm” . It thrives here in a 10a climate. The very reason I dipped my toe into the Dypsis/ Chrysalidocarpus pond of palms , plenty to choose from! Harry

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A few chamaedorea alternans that are a wonderful addition to the collection, a few more dypsis minuta are always welcome anytime, the Pinanga sylvestris should be a nice one for the garden, with a rare licuala micholitzii. All welcome additions for the collection and the garden.

[Harry’s Palms]

Busy bee! Great work there , Richard. It’s great to see the collection is still “growing”.😄Harry

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9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Busy bee! Great work there , Richard. It’s great to see the collection is still “growing”.😄Harry

You need new stock coming behind the old stock. 
I have a few varieties of palms from when I started the nursery that are not to my liking anymore with the new rarer varieties pushing out some old stock, these ones will be the pioneer plants, getting planted for canopy and microclimate, giving the more rarer exotics a happy place to go! 
Richard 

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The usual goodies in the baby palm department. It’s fun waiting and watching for who’s going to germinate, it’s always a lovely surprise, and a good sign you got viable seeds! Money well spent you think. 

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A few nice looking rare palm seedlings. They are always a welcome sight little palms, knowing one day they will be part of the garden. They have to start out somewhere, so pots it is! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Pots allow the palms to be protected while young . A few years from seed , they are more vulnerable to. That’s a lovely bunch. Harry

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37 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Pots allow the palms to be protected while young . A few years from seed , they are more vulnerable to. That’s a lovely bunch. Harry

One advantage to pots is you can garden anywhere, and for those that are renting they can simply pack up there collection and take there garden with them. 
Richard 

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7 hours ago, happypalms said:

One advantage to pots is you can garden anywhere, and for those that are renting they can simply pack up there collection and take there garden with them. 
Richard 

I can concur with that. We are in rented accommodation since we left the motherland for Spain. Trouble is I am not sure I would be able to transport some of them if we had to move to a different house!

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1 hour ago, RichardHemsley said:

I can concur with that. We are in rented accommodation since we left the motherland for Spain. Trouble is I am not sure I would be able to transport some of them if we had to move to a different house!

I was in the same situation many years ago before I got my property. I had to move basically two Ute loads of plants every time I moved. In the end I had more plants than furniture. But I knew the reason why I collected so many plants, for my new house garden! 

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A couple of palms to repot, good things come in threes they say, so three of each to pot up! Acanthophoenix rubra Dypsis confusa Pinanga rumphiana 

[Harry’s Palms]

This young Howea is not quite ready for planting yet. It grew from a seed off one of my large Kentia palms . It could survive here but better to keep it potted for now. Harry

If you look closely the seed is still attached! 

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On 2/7/2026 at 10:32 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

This young Howea is not quite ready for planting yet. It grew from a seed off one of my large Kentia palms . It could survive here but better to keep it potted for now. Harry

If you look closely the seed is still attached! 

Beautiful healthy looking kentia if I do say so myself, they are quite tough the old kentia, you got them down pat as they say good growing! 
Richard 

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Butia purperesisSometimes you get a a hundred seeds and for some reason or other you only get one seedling, and then that one becomes pretty special. Here’s a couple of one offs that I may never get a chance to get seeds again of that variety! Geonoma bondariasyagrus duartedypsis heterophylla