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The family made the short trip to Busch Gardens last weekend. Here are some photos.

What I garner from these observations on the American Meteorological Society board is that even after the event/winter of 2009/2010 that they still don't have a concrete/consenus, theory/explaination as to why it was so below average this year,little lone did they predict it in advance? It also strikes me that some of these opinions are in direct conflict with the offical stance of the AMS on climate change? Granted this was but one year ,and climate can't be based on the last year but needs to be viewed over a extended period of time. But the theory of climate change seems to also be based in part on current trends,is this cooling a current trend,or just an anomoly,who knows? If this had been a record HEAT year ,they would have used that to point out the climate is definately warming! If they can't tell me why it happened, even AFTER it happened,why would I think they could tell me what is going to happen in the future?

(Link removed - we already have a sub-forum for links to useful sites. It's called Share-a-Site. Links of this type are not appropriate for Discussing Palm Trees. First of all, there's no discussion here. Secondly, the site contains advertisements by non-IPS members, which is not appropriate either. The fact that Dave's Garden has an unfortunate habit of publishing photos without appropriate credit doesn't exactly help. All posts in this thread have been removed - bgl)

Here's a Livistona chinensis that I planted in my front yard in July of 1990 as a one gallon plant. It started clumping a couple of years later and is starting a new fourth trunk now. The plant is huge but only just beginning to trunk. I posted this palm in 2006 I think but it has grown considerably since then. It's in almost full shade all day. Fourth stem emerging. Fourth stem has actually been slowly pushing for a few years.

I have never thought of L. chinensis as a slow grower. Here is a picture of mine planted 11 yrs ago from a 3 gal pot. Clear trunk of at least 12'.