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Hi All, The palm talk forum website is very powerful and has an enormous amount of information. The only problem I see is that when you first start up you need to know where to look, to know how to use it. Most of the information is there but not in one location. Would it be possible for a basic document to be created that documents all the features and the best ways to enjoy the forum. I am still finding ways to do things on the forum and cannot find if they are documented. The search engine does not always work, for instance search for 'Reputation' (which I still don't understand what this rating is) and the search engine does not find any threads or posts relevant. What are your thoughts? Just trying to help to make this a very popular forum for new comers, and then keep them. Regards Stephen

On the "plants wanted" forum I posted something yesterday, indicating I'm going to go on a 1 gallon shopping spree to fill out my "bulletproof" garden. It's been four years since I took out the lawn and installed a bunch of small palms in the garden, which is the first thing you see as you drive in to my driveway. I made sure to plant it with palms that look good year-round and don't yellow during either the summer or the winter. Right now it's full of Ravenea rivularis, Ravenea glauca, Rhopalostylis, Chambeyronia, Dypsis decipiens, Dypsis onilahensis, and Dypsis leptichelos. They're all big enough now that I'm ready to plants some more, preferably 1-2 gallon palms underneath. I was contemplating getting some of the following - please let me know if these are appropriate, or whether they'd be better suited for another part of the yard (there's plenty of room in other areas): * Dypsis ambositrae * Dypsis saintelucei * Beccarophoenix alfredii * Sabal mauritiiformis * Euterpe edulis * Burretiokentia hapala * Laccospadix australasica Also, if there are other, better palms that you recommend for my area (8-10 miles inland, but still constant ocean influence), please let me know. Here's some pictures of the bed, taken about a year ago, to give some context. The bananas are on their way out, since they look like crud during the winter, so any palms that can take their place, let me know that too. Thank you all in advance.

Just an update....bifen-it appears to have worked. Retreated after 3 weeks at a rate of .25 fl/oz per gal and did see one adult fly off while spraying compared to 40 or so adults on the 1st treatment. Going to treat one more time in 2 weeks and follow up with systemic just to make sure I get em all.

Orange crush are so slow. Poor Bill would be dead before he could sit under it. A nice Chamaedorea plumosa would be perfect. Not too bushy, not too big and okay for the stucco, bucko. Peachy

Oh is that what reputation means. That one had me quite worried for a long time. Being technically inept I cant even find my last post half the time. So is there a button for the stinkers ? Peachy

Hi Stephan, I understand how reputation works. At the bottom right corner of evey post you can click to give the poster a better reputation score. You can even vote for yourself. I know that one or I would have a terrible reputation . I think the reputation thing is rediculous myself! I hope that helps. You should write the first book about you wanting a data base for our bablings! Randy I gave you a good reputation vote

It's been four years since I took out the lawn and installed a bunch of small palms in my "bulletproof bed" - the first thing you see as you drive in to my driveway. I made sure to plant it with palms that look good year-round and don't yellow during either the summer or the winter. It's full of Ravenea rivularis, Ravenea glauca, Rhopalostylis, Chambeyronia, Dypsis decipiens, Dypsis onilahensis, and Dypsis leptichelos. They're all big enough now that I'm ready to plants some more, preferably 1-2 gallon palms underneath. Anyone who has a bunch of tiny stuff that would be good for this type of palm bed, and is ready to go in the ground, please let me know. Here are some pics to give an idea of what the palm bed looks like.

The little thin filifera...

I was a dummy when I planted this palm. it only gets about 7 hours of sun, and that's in the middle of summer. In the middle of winter it gets very little to none. It's right next to some Bambusa oldhamii directly to the west so afternoon sun is out of the question. This was an incredibly poor planting decision on my part and I'm really kicking myself now. I've decided that moving it is the lesser of two evils (weevils?). It's either going to die eventually in the spot it's in now, or it's got a 50/50 chance of making it if I dig it up and put it somewhere warm & sunny. It's been in the ground 1 1/2 years so I'm figuring it's now or never. I'm trying to give it a somewhat large rootball for such a small palm. But, I'm already finding that there are some good size roots that I'm cutting into . I'm going out roughly a foot in all directions and I'm going to build a box around it, then pull it up. Digging is my forte'. Any thoughts on this strategy? Also, I remember seeing a post a while back talking about spacing out your trenching job out over time for the sake of the palm, which is possibility since I have until roughly the end of September until it starts to cool off. I was just wondering if the group had any thoughts. Thanks! Pat

Oddly enough I had a situation this year of to move or not to move my armata which is just about the same size as yours. We bought a new home and I really wanted my armata which I had previously bought in Arizona for they are hard to come by here in central Texas. I trenched my armata as well but I went out farther from the trunk (18" or so). My timing was also a part of the success as I trenched in spring and moved it in early summer when it started getting hot. In the shots below you can see it loaded up in my truck and then planted in the new yard. Thus far, its doing well and growing in my new yard. Best of luck with whatever you decide... Jv