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I planted a good size windmill in my front yard this summer, and after crawling all the way up till the beginning of December, it has opened one spear and working on opening another with a spear cranking out behind that one right now. All because i cut off half its crown to reduce water loss (this should have been done months ago). Curious to see what kind of growth i can get this next summer. Thats some serious growth though, and a wonderful looking palm! Great work man!

Shorter than that. Did you get a waggy cross or the rocket fortunei?

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At Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach. They have both next to each other in one part of the garden.

Magnifico!!!

Greetings to you Both. The yucca resembles aloifolia. However, at that size they're difficult to distinguish.

Nice addition to that corner . No shortage of unique species to view. Harry

How are they looking now? What’s been your coldest low? I have some pure filiferas that look almost completely fried after 15F. They weren’t this bad this early, last year.

Ok. This is Florida I'm talking about here. You're not gonna get real temperatures in the negatives, and especially that negative. A google search would go a long way. Maybe I'll use a plus sign next time just for you 😉

So the 1g I planted in the yard from @teddytn that has Rocket DNA should get there in what, 10 or 12 years?

At first glance, I thought you were predicting negative temperatures. Maybe a colon or comma would be better than a dash/minus sign.

Beautiful! Thank you very much for all the help and input you have provided me.

My neighbor has a couple of these that he left in big tree pots for way too long. He’s in the San Diego area, and it appears they’re both nearly head high. But he’d like to see them go to a good home.

Clearly growing palms isn’t your thing nephew. Ha! Sure, I’ll give it a go..

First up $97 bucks is it gold leafed, it was a huge industry the Howea back in the day, iam sure the European market must be just as strong still. The company I worked for sold there palms to the indoor plant hire businesses, shopping centres and office buildings as well as high end hotels. Unfortunatly now that all remains of the growers of the past is a name of said growers, and if that name is Richard it can’t be that bad of a name 🤣 Richard

They are fantastic little palms, I will go out on a limb and say a little cool tolerance as well. The minuta I did purchase and in flower, that was two years ago and i managed to germinate all 16 seeds, this is the second lot of flowers, I will be expecting a few more seeds if iam lucky. But iam lucky as I two now that are flowering that produce viable seeds, a good investment. It’s one rare palm that’s wanted and I for one will be selling seedlings soon, and on another limb I will say they too have some cool tolerance.

Don't worry about it . I have the same palm. Every winter , since I planted it in early 2022, the fronds just burn in the low 20s. 2 to 3 months after the last big freeze , this palm is going to look great like nothing happened. You should be able to grow at least 4 fronds per month back if you water and fertilize it regularly. My Robusta to the left. The crown already looked like this one in the picture in August. Ive cut off some half brown fronds at the bottom because it was hard for me to cut the grass around the trunk. Very fast growing palm.

Not sure how alfredii fares in the salt air close to the sea. I haven't seen any reports of alfredii that close to salt water and natural habitat is far from the sea. Many palms do not like salt air. Perhaps you will be the first to try. I would pm @kinzyjr to see if he has any data on salt air compatibility. Living that close to the sea I would want to check that for your planned plantings.

Sold, Thanks

They look familiar, there super tough just add water, and if your lucky from seed I did manage to get a variegated one. They love shade and don’t mind a little morning sun. I have about 500 in pots and so many in the ground, I have worked them out and are easy to grow. And there are a few different varieties available as well.

Nope, no politics at all, just personal...

Great thread bump! Habitat pics are always good to see on the forum and it’s really useful to understand the climate of the native habitat of palms. I think this explains a lot. L dasyantha are a lot tougher than they look. I’ve never had a spot on mine even down to around -1.5C/29F, and we get relatively long, cool winters with around 10 frosts per year on average. Here my 2 planted up the back of the garden in a cool South facing position. Slow growing for me but the bigger one is starting to put out its character fronds which is exciting.

I have no idea of any of this. But living in a Greek village, politics is an everyday thing. Not often I see it extend far beyond just a village! There are so few in the palm world in Greece, so I guess it's only natural.

Those louvelii are gorgeous things Richard! Is that minuta the one you bought with seeds on it? Looks like you might get some more next year!

You know more than I do, what is between me and them?