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Ok then, thanks!

Ghe xe un mucio de altre palme ca podarìa sopraviver li, butia, phoenix theofrastii etc. La dactylifera xe una dele me palme favorite ma intel me zardín a ne go mucio de spassio, sfortunatamente. El xe sojo 450 metri quadrati e la xe na palma enorme. Un di a vegnerò a Venessia par praticar el véneto e forse anca vedar el to zardín!

Update #2: Several more Serenoa repens seeds from @Boca Palms germinated. They’re in their own cups now. Update #3: Currently soaking the Buccaneer Palm seeds that @Johnny Palmseed sent my way. Thank you again for the seeds! I need springtime to hurry up. 😂

Christmas Palm seeds update. Received these seeds in late November & nearly every seed germinated by the middle of December, so these seedlings are around 3 weeks old now. Thank you again! @kinzyjr

Latania new spear

or rupicola It doesn't look like my hybrids roebelenii x reclinata,roebelenii x dactylifera

The one in the photo grew on its own. The ones I made, the ones that had suckers and looked more like Microspadix and were in pots, died because I couldn't water them. The ones that looked more like Radicalis were in the garden and survived. Your next question will be why the potted ones that looked more like Microspadix died. Here's the answer:

It’s not cunninghamiana or purpurea. On the basis of probability I’d go with alexandrae but that’s a pure guess. To rule out tuckeri, myolensis, or maxima you’d need to see it in flower and up close, to start narrowing it down properly.

I feel you.. if it wasn't for my plants I'd go live in the coldest part of my country. Summer heat makes me miserable. Winters on the other hand are when I feel my best and most energetic. I also miss snow.

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Next stop was a new access point to Almaden Quicksilver County Park i'd wanted to get eyes on that opened to the public a few years ago located on the west side of where i'd been earlier. Here, vegetation is much lusher / more typical of what one sees along either side of the Santa Cruz Mountains.. While not quite as moist once air from the coast gets over the mountains, this side of the mountains can still squeeze out enough that you'll see a very different palate of plants covering more area across the hills.. During wetter winters, can't count how often you could see heavy rain pouring over the slopes here while far less of it would make it to the area where Santa Teressa Park is located, let alone the east side of the Santa Clara Valley / overall San Jose, despite the short distance between each area. Very dramatic example / science lesson of the " rain shadowing " effect of the coast hugging mountains out here / in most of the coastward side of the state? ..definitely. To some degree, the rain shadowing effect can easily confuse folks whenever a flash flood warning had been issued for the county ..I mean, if you're hanging out / your home is located somewhere where it isn't raining much, you might assume there was nothing to be concerned with ..until the runoff from the 4 - 8" of rain falling in under a few hours up here starts working it's way to where you're located.. As for the new access point into the park? is located toward the top of a well known hill in the neighborhood ( Mockingbird Hill ) While i never did ( my HS years trouble making spot was a different, neighborhood " hill " ) plenty of people i knew would tell late night / weekend stories of racing up / down this hill in their cars, on bikes / skateboards / Go -karts ...Or rolling bowling balls / dragging other stuff down it ...Don't ask, ha ha.. Compared to my spot, Mockingbird Hill area was far less developed until ~roughly~ the mid -90s, when overall development in Almaden exploded. No way someone is going to try much of anything up there now, lol. Assuming the property the county purchased was part of a ranch / larger privately owned land parcel since it would've been added when the county created Quicksilver Park itself. As the name suggests, the park preserves where the greatest Quicksilver / Mercury mining occurred in " New " Almaden.. ..And yes, if you venture deeper into the park, you can still observe plenty of artifacts from the area's mining days, ..as well as raw Cinnabar Ore, ...if you know where to look. New Almaden Mining Museum is a couple miles further south down the road out here, near where the main entrance to the park is located. While the views were nice enough, would like to see this area in the spring, when everything is flowering, and the sun angle / deg. of haze in the air is less of an issue.. On a side note, this side of the valley is prime Mtn. Lion country ..so it's wise to always have your head on a swivel when venturing into the hills out here, esp. in the mornings/ late afternoon, ...even if most of those big kitties will run when they see any 2 - leggeds on a trail. Believe Black Bears once roamed these hills also, before being driven out of the area sometime in the late 1800s / early 1900s. Wouldn't be shocked to hear of one or two wandering into the area from where they are seen further south in recent decades. As crazy, loud, and hectic as life can be down in the valley, a trip up into the hills here might mirror a walk in the Appalachian mountains back east.. Very quiet, for the most part, out here. Head west or southwest of the ridge where this access point is located and it's quite remote ..and a bit intimidating, if out there late at night. Some reminders.... Parking lot area shots from various angles.. Looking North.. West.. South.. PLENTY of " Great Oaks " out here.. In this case, some impressive Coast Live Oak ( Quercus agrifolia ) Wandering down the trail, plenty of great examples of Valley ( Quercus lobata ) and Blue Oak ( Q. douglasii ) dominant woodland. Pretty sure specimens of Q. kelloggii, CA Black Oak, can be found out here too. Can see a stand of em' atop a low hill from my grandparent's house nearby. Q. douglasii Q. lobata... With Phoradendron sp. ( Leafy Mistletoes ) hanging from the branches. While most were on the smaller side, plenty of CA. Bay Laurel ( Umbellularia californica ) dotting shadier slopes / finger creeks / canyon heads here. While related to the" traditional " Bay tree ( Mediterranean region origin ) leaves of our native Bay are a bit stronger so, while they can be used to flavor food, in place of the usual species, you'd use less ..unless you want a good headache or stomach trouble, lol. Avocado - like seeds can be roasted / consumed ..and are considered quite flavorful. Again though, use / consume sparingly and only after proper ID / preparation.. A couple early native wildflowers.. First thought is that the first is something in the Rose Family ... Geum macrophyllum or similar sp. perhaps, but, that may be far from accurate.. Second i'm pretty sure is closely related to / in the genus Heuchera, Alum Roots.. Both are quite common in the hills on this side of the valley. Nice specimens of Pentagramma triangularis ( probably var. triangularis ) < CA. > Goldback Fern. The other sub species, ssp. semipallida, also occurs in the area so, some of the specimens i encountered here and elsewhere may be that sp. First of two locally native Fern sps. encountered here.. >>>>>>>>>>>>

Hey Tom, thank you for the kind message. Let me give you my honest opinion about warm winters. The only thing why I pray for a mild winter is because of my plants , that's the only reason. I can't stand long periods of hot weather and I really hoped for a cooler winter to get a break from the never-ending summer lol. We have 2 more months of zick zack weather then the weather patterns become more stable and warmer. I miss the snow that's why I'm going to spend 5 days in Colorado next week.

@PalmBossTampa It does look like you might have gotten the link for the poster rather than the thread. I took the liberty to correct it in your post. All: For the podcasts mentioned, we've linked them on the CFPACS site on our Publications page: https://cfpacs.com/org/palmateer/ The Webinar I did back in February 2021 is the third link down IPS Webinar - A Blank Slate to Flourishing Palm Garden. All of them were great from my point of view, but some of them are not searchable. In addition to webinars, all of the CFPACS publications back to 1990 are posted for everyone to enjoy. Hope this helps.

@Mishaq Loureiroi has a fairly thin trunk, as does Reclinata. I could see those as a Reclinata pruned to just one trunk, maybe?

Naive me didn’t initially think of intellectual property legalities, by-laws of the orginization etc. Just would be great for the expansion of palm knowledge to better release whats been learned into modern media world IPS site on YouTube doesn’t include many of the webinars that CFPACS has linked so they are hard to find. This may end up being a good source of revenue for preservation ?

I need a good tutorial from @kinzyjr here’s which post

Hello Pete -- Could you check the link you included at the top of your message? I tried it a few times and it leads to the profile page for Phoenikakias, not a discussion. If you could link the actual discussion it would help in understanding the main focus of your message. As for podcasts -- it's not quite that, but look up the International Palm Society on YouTube where you will find several excellent recordings of webcasts.

Yep, it's not cheap. That said, you have some time to decide what you want to do and maybe you'll get a scholarship or some grants to offset the cost. I didn't start growing palms until after I graduated, so you have a leg up there. My choices when I graduated were moving here or moving to SoCal. The primary drivers for coming here were that it was cheaper for housing and I already knew a few people in the area. If you're open to other options as far as majors, USF and UCF have some really good programs and are public. They also have decent botanical areas on campus. FIT in Melbourne has the Dent Smith Trail and is very close to a lot of other botanical gardens and CFPACS members. If you and the family happen to be in the neighborhood down here, go ahead and holler and I can show you all around. My garden is always open to you all for a tour as well: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/52296-palms-and-others-of-interest/ Good luck with whatever you decide to do with the college/university.

Nothing special nor rare just some common forms set free from the pot.

Thanks for the reply Jason. Yeah I was thinking they would grow similar to Bo's old garden where he had a huge plantings of decipiens and of course I was astonished that they would grow in just damp climates. Regardless, if we are taking score, that would be one for us for socal and 500+ for you in Hilo. LoL. Could you post pics of your blue decipiens when it's convenient. I love seeing that species. Cheers

I agree, especially the lowest photo. That looks like it had the trunk recently cleaned up of a bunch of old frond boots. And the oldest leaves are pretty ragged too, like it has been "eating" them for nutrients. With 2 fairly big cold fronts in 2025 and another coming next week, it'll be interesting to see what happens. If they were transplanted over the summer, they are doing really well so far!

i just did some research and florida southern is a private college that 46,000 dollars a year, plus you have to live in dorms all 4 years my only other option is Florida university for horticulture. Gainesville is definitely not better than jacksonville for palms.

Agreed. And wow!!

I think you’re right.