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It’s great to see the palm society is alive and well in Australia and growing strong!

A true collectors paradise, even I got a stack of new varieties and some more of what I already had in my collection. You would need more than a truck, a cargo plane to get it back to WA!

So many varieties of palms available, in fact to many to choose from, and cycas species as well a true Mecca for palm enthusiasts!

I was thinking Bombax ceiba?

Hello everyone! I’m looking for any reasonably priced Welwitschia mirabilis plants or seeds. If anyone is growing them or knows where to get them, let me know. Thanks!!

These two caught my eye so much I had to buy them at the Annual PACSOA show, best bit is they are both flowering! Geonoma atrovirens licuala sallehana

You will be pleased to know I purchased the flowering Geonoma atrovirens, so you don’t have to be ashamed anymore!

This is for tomorrow. crazy weather already!

Here in Hudson Florida it went from a low of 33 fareinheight and frost in the last cold wave to highs of 90 and warmish nights (68) in a week. Straight from a winter pattern to a summer one, complete with a thunderstorm and surprise rain. Hopefully it keeps up good grow weather

They are pretty tough palms . It will hopefully grow out of it. Harry

Wow , quite the selection there. Harry

Thank you @tim_brissy_13 . If I ever stumble onto one I would give it a try . I think Licuala Ramsayi can grow here . @DoomsDave has a large one. Harry

don't think it was damp; we are in Houston, Tx so more like dry. But maybe too much watering. It started about 6 months ago. I have a similar one that I had planted last year and it did not develop this disease/fungus. Hopefully it will grow out of it once I plant it. Thanks for the input.

Yeah it was definitely early but not crazy early they were in a warmer microclimate by the house. Yes the weather has been good recently next week it will be in the 80s one day.

It was way early for crocuses. Has the weather gotten better across I80?

@WaianaeCrider maybe the beavers got all the trees in the PNW

Just a bit of fungal infection. Has it been pretty damp in your area this winter? Go ahead and plant it. It should grow out of that little infection.

Martin, My own experience is quite different up here. I don’t hesitate to plant nearly any palm in the winter despite our often copious amounts of rain except for very marginal species. I’ve planted A. purpurea, myolensis, and alexandrae as well as cunninghamiana in the coolest wettest part of winter and have never had a loss. Perhaps my amended soil drains a bit better than yours but this valley is almost all yellow or black sticky clay and my garden is no exception. I once had an A. Cunninghamiana “Illawara” completely bare rooted and sitting in a cold five gallon bucket of water for nearly a month in January ‘25. I finally got around to planting it in early February of that year. It opened a new leaf by the end of March and has done well since. You certainly are right about them needing lots of water after they establish too!

I"m reusing old shelves as well. I'm trying to learn how to make boxes. This use to be a shelf in an old rubber storage shed. BTW i made the cutting board as well. Back in January I built a bathroom cabinet to hang on an empty space on the wall. Made a LOT of mistakes and re-did some pieces a few time for the door. Now I'm gonna buitd 4 doors (two up and two down) to cover up the DVD's and CD's on the shelves. Had to figure what hinges I need so used this practice door I made before the bathroom cabinate to test the hinge. Yup, looks like what I need. Now to design and buil the doors. LLL Bought some Select Pine from Lowes. Was about $26 for a 1 x 3 x 8 footer. Funny the wood came from New Zealand. What happened to the American North West lumber industry?

Looks like you're dedicated to success. Can't wait to see it unwrapped.

Well I suppose it’s a good sign. Spear and new leaf appear to have moved about an inch

If I lived in that part of the world I would just go crazy buying stuff. Would need to park a semi next to the back door and just pile em in. Alas I’m in WA and can’t do anything like that.

Post a pic for the classsssss!

pretty things can start out ugly 😄. I think they will look quite ok in a few months if the rainy season cooperates. There's probably a lot of natural fertilizer aka industrial waste in the soil lol

Hi. We had purchased a Pindo Palm 2 years ago in a pot in the hopes to let it grow a little and eventually plant it once our pool was remodeled. I have noticed over the last 6 months that it starts to develop black/brown stains on the stems of the leaves. My intention was to plant it now since it is spring and we are re-doing our landscaping, but I am afraid that it may not be the right time since it has developed this disease. Any advise would be helpful : should we go ahead and plant it ? will it die anyway ? best course of action.