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Well, my last video is Sancho pooping to Salt N Pepa's Push It which probably isn't a good fit for this audience here. Or any audience really. It'd just be nice for continuity. The links, not the pooping. It was dark so it wasn't terribly gross but you could tell.

Screenshots this morning around 7:10am EST Boy Gainesville has sure been through the wringer : 3rd night in a row of mid to low 20’s.

Since posting this, I have moved to a locale with heavy clay soil and high humidity. I have changed my mind and this is no longer the worst palm in my book. It's just only nice in certain areas. When I posted this, I lived in Arizona. That is absolutely the worst palm in Arizona.

That's a good question. I'm not as familiar with the weather patterns or cold snaps in TX as here. @Xenon would probably have a better answer. The best analog for most of the peninsula is the January and December 2010 freezes. This one was unique in a way. If you were outside of the main wind field, you probably got a little salvation. At the outset of this appearing in the forecast, my location would have been effectively exempt from this cold snap with a low of 28F. After the storm track changed, the forecast changed to 24F. We got that. @Looking Glass is correct about the record low for Brownsville.

Sabal minor? And is the spikey guy some sort of yucca?? Not a family associated with the US east coast in my mind for some reason, more the south west...very interesting!

Finally hit settled summer weather here after what felt like a seemingly endless spring. The strange thing is that despite seeming cool, the mean temps in Hobart have consistently been around 0.5C above average all summer... I suspect that we're experiencing shifting baseline syndrome, where what we perceive as 'normal' is actually based on already changed conditions. In other words, summers have been getting marginally warmer each year for X number of years without us particularly noticing, so unless it's a super warm summer it seems cool, even though it isn't in a long term context...if that makes sense? The classic example of shifting baseline syndrome is degraded fisheries, where each generation of fishers think they've had a big catch when they've actually caught far less and smaller fish than the previous generation would have considered successful. Enough philosophy...here's the forecast!

Alfredii looks like a winner here! Those coconuts in Satellite Beach…. Ouch.

For the overnight of Feb 1st: South Florida is protected by a lot of nearby water and the Gulf Stream. The all time record low for Brownsville TX is 12F and for Miami and Fort Lauderdale is 28F, both records in the distant past. We bottomed out at 35F, or so, for maybe an hour in the AM here this time. The predominant plants are quite tropical here, and at those temps, some did take damage, though not severe. (Jensen Beach, FL hit 29F for this event)

A few more germinated seeds that need to be potted up. Lucked up with a few more dypsis minuta popping up. A good germination rate on the large form dasyantha and a few Pinanga spiralis. I used a fork to tease the seedlings out and will repot the rest the next chance I get, I hope this helps @Than it’s an easy process just don’t fuss over them.

Pictures from yesterday of nearby damage. Next-door Across the street looking south Across the street looking north Driving around the neighborhood, there are several dozen scenes like these.

Pleased to report that some of the seed has started to pop. Vast majority floated when soaked in water for a week. Worth picking up the old seed if you’re ever passing this palm.

Throwing em in the ground while the summer heat and rain is about. With so many good plants to choose from and only wanting the best ones for the driveway garden! And i finally got a spot the newly acquired Zamia skinneri. 5 years time should see all the new plants fitting into the garden well. carlucdova palmatadypsis pinnatafrons ficus damearopsis draceana goldieana sabinara magnifica chamaedorea deckeriana

Snow totals from the weekend winter storm... From the NWS office in Newport... From Eric Webb (Webber Weather)

Photos from January 2026 along the Elliott Coues Nature Trail at Fort Macon State Park (Atlantic Beach, North Carolina)

👍Agreed.

They’ll usually be setting flower buds in February but the flowers open sometime in March: depending on the year anywhere from early to late March. Very rarely in early April.

@JohnAndSancho Instagram links are a bit strange. They will embed perfectly fine on some apps but not others. There are 3rd party sites to work around this, but they get shut down pretty quick due to Meta rules.

Mu Butia X B llementia x queen was moved last year, so It’s been settling into its new spot. Temperatures this past weekend were 21°f, it appears to be ok. I’ll post some pictures when it pushes new leaves.

I have. They just show up as text links.

It's slowly pushing a new crown. I probably need to repot it but I'm kinda scared to add any more stress to it. It kinda looks like a sago 😂 I'll take a pic when I go back out there again.

Yeah tell me about it! Down here, the snow bands set up a little earlier than expected and were more intense than expected. At times on Saturday night into Sunday morning, snow rates were between 1" and 2" inches an hour. HUGE flakes might I add. Lived in northwestern NC (the tundra of North Carolina lol) for 18 years and have never seen anything quite like this.