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That’s one problem you won’t have, not getting drunk, but growing coconuts in Tasmania.

Beautiful I like them, unfortunately I failed in woodwork, I can still hear my woodwork teacher now, Moy how many times do I have to tell you, you can cut off but you can’t add. Poor old Mr Friar our teacher! I will stick with my welder just cut and grind for me is easier!

Worst night of the year so far temp wise and its still got an hour or so to drop. Insane the worst nights are always the last night of the event

this park is very incredible, you have a lot of Corypha lecomtei IN SITU, there very impressive

I am obviously a bit of an anomaly. I have all the music I have ever bought from school days onwards. I see live music regularly but don't chase bands live from my youth unless they are releasing new music. I saw Nick Cave and the bad seeds Tuesday night but I more normally see alternative new music. I enjoy Nice Biscuit, Yirinda, Buoys, Burnt Trash, Full Flower Moon Band, Being Jane Lane and many more Australian bands that would not be known by those from America. Definately in the older demographic at gigs to the point of being called pops but always welcomed. I did see Flaming Lips last year for an American twist and an amazing spectacle.

Don't pass out drunk on a pile of coconuts! You've been warned.

For some reason or other it split in two and is loving the situation it’s in. Constantly getting water from the laundry room, all the grey water it can drink and it loves every last drop. It’s the only one around that loves washing day!

😅 yes, it´s a lake with borders to different countries like at Prespes, but the situation here at Lake Constance is completely different. Germany, Switzerland and Austria are friendly neighbours, grown together in friendship. Often you don´t even notice, that you crossed a border. No fences, no Border Police. Just check out this scenery here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/33kAMmngTXTYGHLx8 you cannot tell, what is the German or the Swiss side... Of course there are some big border crossings with police, customs control and everything. Btw: many regions and Cities in these three Countries often share the same names and no one ever cares about it but I don´t want to dive into political discussions. Let´s enjoy the developing palm diversity in crete. The nursery, that brought me in the first place to look at Hotels in Malia is Φυτώρια Κρήτης and after that I found Φυτώρια Κουκουτσάκης near Chania. Both have a relatively large diversity of palms in their stocks. I suppose many of the smaller nurseries jumped on that trend and are now also selling those palms in different sizes. The first imported plants must have come either from Egypt or Spain.

Cant help myself, I gotta get that plant fix in for some more tropical goodies. First up a couple off wettinia quinaria Reinhardtia latisecta Calyptrocalyx flabellataDypsis poiveana Anthurium effusilobumPhilodendron Bob see This lot should see a bit more of the tropical look getting around the garden!

I keep saying no more plants that need pampering cos I don't wanna spend hours covering them and filling hot water bottles, but then I cannot resist...

Talk about a beautiful plant, a real zone push winner iam glad a have a go. Living through winter in the greenhouse not a problem not too bad for a plant from Borneo. Not in the ground yet but iam confident it will make it one more winter in the greenhouse then in the ground in a deep shaded spot.

Survival of the fittest!

I don’t know what this small tree is or shrub or whatever it is, all I know is it’s tougher than nails. Extremely dry conditions through to soaking wet conditions extremes of heat and cool weather. Thanks in advance.

Cocothrinax eckmanii one tough palm!

Why not give em a go if that’s all you have, yes yellow seeds are best you should be able to squeeze them and the seed pops out, sort of like a grape when you squeeze it you get the skin left in your hand. Sometimes a palm will abort a few seeds from overbearing or other reasons drop a few immature seeds, perhaps wind or falling branch or palm leaf falling knocks them off. But if that’s all you have go for it.

Yes it's definitely on borrowed time. Dactyliferas are rare in San Antonio, most of them where replanted after 2021. I'm not sure how many survived but I know for sure some did. Overall with our cold winters they struggle to look good. Houston on the other hand has way more Dactyliferas and they do look nice from what I've seen so far. I planted mine as a seedling last year. I would assume it was too young to battle the cold weather. It got down to 22/21 . No Dactylifera should be killed by that temperature , at least not a mature one.

In different countries though, it is a situation similar to Prespes.

Follow your heart lol

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In my experience, I agree that the lagenicaulis is slightly more resistant than the verschaffeltii (spindle palm), while the two Latania are decidedly less resistant than the two Hyophorbe, several attempts have failed.

@Janni and @Mazat you guys both live on lake Constance, right? You need to meet up! 😁

I found a cheap seedling... should I try..? 🙈

I just received my seeds. Extremely fast shipping this time around. Gary has been on the forum for many years and all my interactions with him has been very professional.

Can these seeds still germinate? They look green in the photos but irl they're more yellowish, do I still have to ripen them? These are the most mature seeds I could find from the hundreds of trees in our school and the fruits in the inflorescence were sparse so I figured some have been dropping and are ready to pick.

Only 2 ( or 3.. Hard to tell, but looks like 50F ) deg. cooler than here ( 52 at 11:34PM local time )