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I often walk up the back part of the garden, it was one of the first places in the garden I started to plant out. A very special part of the garden for me. As it grows it always changes with the seasons.

I removed the winter protection from this Fayetteville NC Washingtonia today. It was growing during it's time while sheltered but without any direct sunlight, the new growth appears a bit yellow and weak ATM. One emerging spear I used a small bungee cord to stabilize it. Overall, the winter was fairly mild, no colder than 29°F overnight.

Palmetto’s have heat cables, the big Trachy at pigeon forge inn had a wire mesh over trunk from covering I assume . 1st 2 pics at the pigeon forge inn, rest at the sky pirates 2240 parkway

I am not a californian, so better information would come from DoomsDave or someone more familiar wiht that looks happiest and suits the traits you most desire. Looks like a real sunny spot in an inland desert area, the most survivable pinnate palms would be phoenix species, palmate palms that I like are bismarckia, brahea armata and brahea clara, sabal uresana (blue form). I am not confident I could pick the best pinnate palm for you there. I like a bismarckia for that spot myself or a double brahea clara(blue form), but they are both palmate palms of white, grey, powder blue color. bismarckia

Well, I've been under the weather for a hot minute now. I've got so much 💩 to do. I've got a bunch of bulbs to pot in 5gal which means I'm gonna need to mix a lot more soil. 2 Hawaiian Punch, a White Lava, 3 Thai Giants and preordered 2 Redemption. I also have a Wellspring order of another Red Ensete, a Black Ruffle colocasia, some dwarf yellow ginger that was their giveaway, and hopefully some freebies or 2. On top of that, I had an Etsy coupon expiring so I rolled the dice and found a new colocasia I've never seen before - Jurassic Jellyfish - and I just had to have this thing. I also ordered an Alocasia Bisma Platinum and Cuprea "Red Secret" and a black cherry pink princess philodendron. If I can grow that Black Cherry out as well as I have my Wal Mart recovery philos we'll be doing ok. One of those is throwing a pup now so that's one more to add to the pile. And the elephant ears are getting stupid. The larger ones are more pup factories than anything else now which is fine, but the Jacks Giants from the benevolent homey Nate are blowing up despite being cut down 3 times, the cannas are starting to take form, the bananas are just effing ridiculous, it's time to pot a few seedlings into 1g, and I think I'm gonna take lessons from @teddytn and @Sabal King - bags. I hate them I do not like them but if I can pack 30 bags into the space I can pack 15 pots why not? The ones I bought are also panda film so no worries about leaving them in the sun. I still need to build another rack. I still need to get more lights, but at this point that can wait a few months. I'm glad the propane is on a flat rate plan but as it sits I'm using about $30/month in lighting. Add some more efficient fans and that'll offset some of that. I just need to figure out how to establish this social media presence and get my name out there.

Encountered a bunch of big old-ish CIDP in Houston today that somehow have escaped lethal bronzing. MacGregor/Old Spanish Trail near UofH

I think we should allow massive profanity in a thread related to the United States Postal Service and I say this as a very dear longtime friend of mine is a union steward.

Never before have I felt affection for a fungus.

well not the same species but this might work???😝

Good to see someone knows the gift of giving, quality gifts in that lot, beats the heck out of toaster as wedding gift!

Hi I ordered some f2 unknown dypsis decipens hybrids from floribunda palm and one normal dypsis decipens any tips for my zone 9a Lancaster California climate already had success with king palm and kentia palm this year no protection also any tips for ceroxylon parvifrons and parajubea cocodies my seeds germinated from both of them

Do you think I can get away with planting a royal palm here? im removing the rose bushes and using the giant birds of paradise for screening.

What palm would you recommend for that spot?

Yeh not close to the drive, too many people too much to damage. The rupicolas are much more beautiful than roebelinii to my eye, the pics dont do them justice. I planted them to have something cold hardy on the property edge, but these days they are one of my most beautiful palms, and they are easy care. They seemingly get more beautiful with age, glad I went with them cold hardy or not.

lol tall butia are common around here . At least to me . I’ve passed these often the huge Spanish dagger next to them Is awesome.

The planting site is close to my driveway. Sounds like thats not the best choice. Those rupicolas are beautiful like a more elegant fatter roebellini

If you want a fast growing large palm and the planting site is at least 12- 15' from where you park your car I could see a nice royal there. Royals are tougher than butias in hot direct sun, but they need plenty of water in the heat. A falling royal palm leaf is no joke, they are big enough to really damage your car, and to hurt you. I have two, and plant nothing underneath for about 12-15 feet from the trunk. I expect a royal will do very well there as riverside is far cooler than arizona and they can take arizona heat/sun. I love royals, but my (2) are placed knowing big leaves weighing up to 60+ lbs with the crownshaft may fall. Here is my 100 lb labrador retriever tearing on a royal crownshaft that fell. He shredded it in one day. I use these for chew toys for him. these can be 6 1/2 foot long in the crownshaft with a 20' leaf. The crownshaft is about 3/4 the weight before drying out so the damage will be from that crownshaft mostly and mine never fall that far from the trunk(12 feet). They don't always fall wet so the drier ones are less weight, but you don't want your car or any person under that. Here is a pic of the rupicola triple just after the hurricane damage was removed. It grew back to the 1st rupicola pic above in one year. These have about 1/2 of a full crown of ~30 leaves.

@Robert Cade Ross how come you haven't posted photos of that tall Butia at SCV Valve on FM646?

That looks amazing 🤩 my yard is large and I have a two story, im replacing a 25 ft tree that’s wide as well. I talked to a palm grower from Riverside, similar climate and even further inland. He says he grows Royals from seed. What do you think? Should I gamble, is it a gamble? He’s adamant that its not. They grow well.

Seeds are here, my friend also included what looks to be about 200 Seeds of Cryosophila sp. @ .25 each.

I bought (3) P. rupicola palms and planted it as a triple about 3-4' apart. The rupicola is about 10-12' wide in crown, a bigger palm than roebelinii. As a triple its kind of big(20'+ wide) THey appear more lush than roebeliniis as well, and the thorns are bendy at the base so stabbing injury can be easily avoided when trimming. My (9) roebeliniis(in AZ) stabbed me just about every time I trimmed them, and they put out 2-3 x more leaves a year than rupicola, so trimming is much more work. The palm behind them is an adult beccariophoenix alfredii, about 30' tall, 15 years in the ground from a 3 gallon. That BA was hit by a hurricane milton -up to 110 mph winds- 18 months ago and hasn't recovered to full crown. B. Affredii is a large palm, not for small yard spaces. Here is that BA before the hurricane.

Out and about Brazoria county last two weeks . I noticed east Pearland was a cold spot this freeze and nuked the queens / cidps . Down in Manvel / Alvin they all look great.Queen palmy yard Manvel freshly planted palmetpigmy’s Alvin HW6 new palms two big queens planted last summer here in Manvel both have 90% green fronds Fresno / Arcola HW6

1-2 stations in Corinth for a 2-3 years period which was the hottest in Greece's history. It's not that indicative. The real scorcher is the Evrotas Valley and the Messenia Plain.

Hi I’m a Hong Konger born and raised there. We see banyan trees like how Americans and Europeans view oaks. I loved plucking the tree “beard” when I was a kid but I think everyone in Hong Kong have tripped over those pavement roots atleast once in their life😂. They’re so iconic tho idk what they were thinking when planting them in tiny roadside holes. Almost all of them are Chinese banyans (ficus microcarpa) but we also have many other native fig species. Too bad I can’t grow them in my current climate, thinking about it Hong Kong was really a tropical plant heaven…

Are they planted in groups like roebellinis? Is that a majesty behind?