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Two royals in habitat showing damage https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/339113012

Yah, what Chester said. They are thought to be extremely intolerant to root disturbance. Here in SF a tree crew hired by the city "maintained" my Howea in the same way. It died.

From what I've been told Bismarckia are extremely intolerant to having their roots disturbed in anyway. I think this might be one of those palms that can't be moved, unless you can get ALL of the roots.

To be honest your wife may not have a choice about the lawn if things keep playing out like they have been and follow the path that is predicted. I'm actually kind of shocked that the city hasn't imposed a no lawn watering ban. A bit of advice to fellow Texans, don't eat any fish you catch, especially out of Trinity and Galveston Bay. Same goes for down near Corpus. I did see next week is looking to be pretty warm, possible 90s in San Antonio and 100 in deep south Texas.

wtf is wrong with them miserable ah people

By May unless we get rain soon, this will be the worst drought in Florida's recorded history. Records date back to the late 1800's.

The first four Sabal lougheediana are GONE! Stay tuned as we hope to get more in the coming weeks, but as was said, it's not a guarentee as to when we get them and how many.

I love those kind of surprises. Harry

Most of the ones I cut down are a little shorter than that . I cut one or two stalks every year or so. I have four clumps around the house , so there seems to be a flowering trunk or two every year. I like the look of them and it isn’t too hard to cut them . I do have one clump out front that gets large , probably over 15’ . I cut two trunks a couple of years ago and they had to be cut in sections. I can understand , they certainly are not self cleaning . It is more than just a trimming to have to cut trunks down . The one I tell people never to plant in their yard is Caryota Urens , they have a really bad habit of falling over! Mine fell and it never flowered. Harry ‘The C. Urens towers above the C. Obtusa . It fell over . Luckily the neighbor had left for work so no damage . It had just opened a beautiful dark green frond , no inflorescence ever appeared.

When iam finished, or at least I think I have with my old propagation medium, I usually tip it out on the potting bench and just use it as any other additive for my soil mix. And usually there are old or what I think are dead seeds in that mix. They say never give up on old seeds but sometimes you just have to move on to new seed. So it’s a wonderful surprise when they start popping up in the potted palms. Especially licualas, not sure what these varieties are it iam sure something good, and another physokentia is most welcome in the collection. The seed is one way of getting an identification. I just tip the pot upside down and simply remove the seedling!

Chambeyronia hookeri, variegated rhapis ayanishiki.

Another dypsis it’s labeled as Faneva, but iam quite certain it’s not, it does have a small dypsis look about it, and the only place I can sort of remember where it came from was Merc spillakis (rip). So another mystery dypsis, it looks nothing like the ones on palmpedia. The dypsis mystery strikes again!

Hobart just doing its thing - consistently inconsistent! We never have time to get bored with the weather down here...

Oh, Joy! Mid-80s Sunday. Mid-30s Monday. Rinse. Repeat. I was just noticing some of the burnt Royals were already putting out new fronds, as was expected and hoped for. This will be a fine, "howdya do"?

All seeds are spoken for thank you regards Richard

Yes I can do that for you 20 seeds not a problem address and name please.

Would also be interested. If you can ship to Spain I will cover the costs

I might cull it rather than cut an 18’ tree down every five years.

Dm sent.

That was easy. Tomorrow I'll dig into my shipping department (repurposed Amazon boxes) and see what I can do. What's your zip? And obvs gonna ship them in their pots. I potted them up 12/31 in coco coir, perlite and a sprinkle of Dr Earth if it matters.

Install heat lamps. Use plenty to protect it from the cold. And frost protection netting. Try mounting them on four wooden posts in the ground, about an elbow's length from the palm. The heat from these lamps will be a great help. Install the lights along the entire length of the palm, from the trunk to the leaves. Spray all the leaves and part of the trunk with neem oil mixed with potassium soap. Apply a little to the bud. The low temperatures have affected your palm, making it more prone to fungal attacks and infections, which have also damaged its leaves. It was left weak after being transplanted to its new location.

Happy early birthday 🥳🎈

Install heat lamps. Use plenty for the cold. And frost protection netting. Try mounting them on four wooden posts in the ground, about an elbow's length from the palm tree. The heat from these lamps will be a great help. Install the lights along the entire length of the palm tree, from the trunk to the fronds.

Yes , the flowering stalk will die . It will start pushing out smaller fronds and inevitably start looking bad. If it is near anything that can be harmed if blown over by strong winds , I would cut it down soon. The “pups” will continue to grow and eventually replace the flowering stem as the cycle continues. I have Caryota Mitis clumps that are almost thirty years old . I have cut many stalks down , some very tall. Harry

Today it caught my eye that I could take a photograph of my palms when it’s raining and see the raindrops in the photograph.