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Sad, that you guys had such a bad winter over there. Some of our Coastal South Texas Coconut Palms look better. We got down to 28 at my place in Flour Bluff (east side of Corpus Christi), and mine are Fried, but alive and growing again (I protected them with incandescent Christmas lights and towels wrapped around the trunks). The ones on Padre Island here, hardly even look freeze injured at all, and the biggest one on the island my actually flower and fruit late this year.

Unfortunately graduation weekend at FSU for my youngest....

Thanks Dale, Yeah they are turning into one of my favorite Encephalartos right there with Horridus! Iv’e sold a few but the pure strain green Arenarius are selling really good for me! I sold a couple more today. Steve

yeah that was a tree fern Cyathea medullaris ----I had reset it there after the freeze --- it is doing pretty good tho

That is a beauty Matty! I hope you have success with the cutting.

Steve! These True Blues are super nice. Some people need to grab these while available -dale

Dale, thanks for the kind comments. This particular plant is well over 10 years old, a one gallon plant via Floribunda. I planted it on a hillside and like many plants, it just wasn’t getting enough water for many years. These plants had a tendency to increase in diameter a little bit without going vertical very much. About a year and a half ago I finally got the drip irrigation and fertilizer regimen all dialed in and most everything on the hillside started looking much better, super green, with really developed root systems. Plus, there’s just a lot of partial canopy going on in the backyard now. This seems to always help from having plants bleach out too much, especially in our low humidity environment. You mentioned the brown crown shaft, I’ve noticed that on mine as well!

Only like 9 more to go lol. I'm gonna keep 2 in the buckets to bring back in when it gets cold to see if I can get them to fruit. I know I've said this 8 times already but they seem so much smaller when there's not a ceiling for them to hit.

Glad to see you moved some bananas out!

I dunno how you survived the onslaught of word barrage, but you obviously did @Jonathan. You should’ve known you were up a couple of ocd pet owners, never stand between a pekinese and their owner, otherwise someone will get bitten, they are absolute terrors those pekinese, my mum had one it mauled my hand, iam never touching one of those ever again!

Hi, I’m interested in the old man palm 15g and above. Thank you, Feng

Dioon spinulosum cone

I did. I mounded up a little, because we have about two inches of mulch and I didn’t want to bury the base with it. The wobble is between the roots and the trunk.

Good information. I'll keep this in mind if/when I plant mine out in my crowded palm garden. Yours looks great!

Again doesn’t look like Borrasodendron machadonis to me. Again I’d say it looks like either Corypha or more likely one of the African Borrasus sp which I struggle to tell apart. When I see Borrasodendron machadonis I find it distinctive based on its very dark green fronds with deeply divided leaflets and much narrower petioles than Corypha and Borassus.

Mine has grown really well throughout our summer despite multiple days of extreme heat. Mine gets filtered light for most of the day; it’s on the south edge of a south facing garden (southern hemisphere) so larger palms in the garden give it a degree of protection but definitely does see at least brief periods of direct sun throughout the day.

@Fusca I'm sorry I killed your washies. But I still need to figure out which crape myrtle is the white one and get some seedlings for you when they start to bloom again.

It's a joke. I've been joking with people about how I'm cursed and the minute I plant something we're gonna get a blizzard But I'm about 40 miles south of Meridian, right on the Alabama line.

@Phoenikakias, here’s my Rubrum in SoCal. It was planted out 4yrs ago as a 20G from Bluebell and had 4 lines of trunk. Maybe 5ft total height. It’s grown substantially and rings are getting nice and wide. Always produces a super unique brown crown. It’s very hard to photo due to the Triangle behind it so I took a few. Pritchardia is growing out of a shock phase. -dale Bret, I think you’ve got the best looking one in SoCal. Hardly ever see these in gardens. Impossible to capture the beauty of the Florida grown plants here but yours looks how it’s supposed to look. 👍🏻

where in mississippi are you? I could be wrong but I haven't seen Arctic blast warnings for the Mississippi area or the south at all recently. but I don't live down there so I don't know

I love how nothing I've posted here in months is palm related. I had a yard thread somewhere but whatevs. This is my journey.

Thank you Gene! These Dioones are cool.

Maybe it is too soon to start making conclusions, but it appears C. macrocarpa is no where near as tough as even a foxtail. If you look close enough in the last picture, you can see there is a small foxtail that experienced the same brutal wind and cold that is opening a new spear. My Roystonea got a little fried on the more horizontal fronds but has already opened a couple new spears. Bismarckia did fine in my yard, but I have seen some fried not to far to the north and east of me. I have a stretched out bottle palm under foxtail canopy that prematurely dropped a couple fronds but otherwise seems ok. C. lutescens got a little toasty on top fronds but have been pushing out new fronds like nothing happened. C. probably cabidus (i ?) by the little coconut got a little crispier than lutescens but all the stems have opened new fronds. The P. elegans took a little too frond damage and maybe have prematurely dropped some fronds but all seem to have opened new fronds. R. rivularis seems like nothing happened. My last and final Adonidia still seems alive but looks like crap. I may have posted this already but I will reiterate that more wind sheltered areas of my yard somehow took more damage in this event (frost). My back yard is wind sheltered from the north by I have no actual oak or pine canopy, only palms. Frost still seems to my biggest enemy. The north side, front yard looks like nothing happened, foxtail and C. lutescens being the canary in the mine. It has been a good learning experience. I’m probably going to try any more coconuts or Adonidia. C. macrocarpa is a letdown too, it really needs canopy here. Foxtails and Roystonea still win, C. lutescens wins too, and Bismarckia. No wonder these are the more common palms sold here.

Indeed he did.

I just found one in my neighborhood and knocked on the door to ask permission to take a picture. I ended up leaving with a huge cutting.