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Trachies are tough too. Rooting for all of you!

@ZPalms keep us updated, mules are tough! If you lose this one, try again. If you don't plant it a buddy!

Shade grown dictyosperma album.

Thanks Harry!

@bubba never disappoints! Harry

Another fine afternoon for planting palms in the garden. Always a fun job, somebody’s gotta do it! kerriodoxa elegans Zamia variegata stenocarpus pandanus sabinara magnifica Chuniophoenix nana Cham Ernest augustiidypsis rivularis lytocarum weddlianum satakentia liukiuensis hypohorbe langenicaulis

With some good rain in the garden and a spot of irrigation, has the chamaedoreas loving autumn!

The rhizomatosa I purchased at last years pacsoa show certainly has enjoyed the short time it’s been planted in the garden. Quite a beautiful palm and easy to propagate! The leaf sheaths get a nice yellow green colour and you can certainly tell the rhizomatosa is indeed a different chamaedorea to its cousins. Quite an ornamental palm.

Chambeyronia pyriformis finally.... opening its first new leaf since planting 6 months ago. I'm impressed by how much sun it has taken here in seq.

Bald Cypress

Chuniophoenix nana!

Even if my garden is young, for some palms The circle is complete

They don’t look like P eckmanii to me. P vinifera I’d say.

It’s an understory dream planting project, totally changes the palms you can grow not to mention the tropical ornamental plants!🌱 I've been using tithonia cuttings as an instant canopy while the canopy plants underneath find their feet. Ram it into the ground and it grows. Good mulch too, grows so quick that the canopy is complete again after selective pruning the week before. Anything for a canopy is better than no canopy at all. I have even seen botanical gardens use tobacco bush as a canopy when stag rainforest section.

A nice Joey followed by a dypsis lantzeana with a nice platycerium!

This is two weeks in my 4 traps. Thick as thieves.

I think the mule will be ok, I sprayed copper fungicide as a preventative, I’m more worried about the trachy this round 😭 but will do!

I purchased Chamaedorea schippii from Jungle Music. They were 5 gallon size, and had a main stem axis, and two or three clustering stems. It resembles C. hooperiana in this stem arrangement.

The trachy developed damage that I didn’t see from the freezes before hand the spear pulled yesterday and then I poured copper fungicide down the hole and then it was 31F apparently this morning which I wasn’t aware of so their was cold liquid down the hole which has me more worried. I guess all I can do is wait.

I'm looking forward to having that much shade. 👌

I've seen healthy ones in South Texas! The nice thing about Texas is that the climate is ideal until a cold front comes.

I'd like to share some information and photos of the eight full days IPS'ers spent in Viet Nam. These include palms and a few shots of the cities and countryside. The hotels were super, people friendly and helpful, and the streets swarmed with tourists, many probably Americans, Europeans, or Australians. Many shops in the streets had signs in English below the Vietnamese text - I'm told that English is taught in the schools. The tour started in Hanoi and ended in Hoi An, sister city to Da Nang. Nights were spent is six separate cities. I was told that it never freezes in Viet Nam, and this permits landscapers to use many palms. Everywhere, one of the most prominent was the royal palm (Roystonea regia). There were tremendous numbers pf betelnuts (Areca catechu). Another very common sight was the coconut (Cocos nucifera). I also saw a few plantings of the Manila or Christmas palm (Adonidia merrilli) and Chinese fans (Livistona chinensis). Overall, the selection for landscaping was pretty predictable and not highly interesting. Hours of sitting by bus windows made possible many pictures of unique aspects of the environment. Here is a typical city street in Hanoi: Here is a gathering of ladies at some sort of gathering. The long dresses are an anomaly, where women dress in traditional forms to celebrate a religious holiday. Normally, men and women dress just like we do. Photo number 3 is either from Hanoi or Ninh Binh, and shows an aspect of city travel that is unlike the USA, where even the poorest person drives a car. In Viet Nam motor scooters are much more common than motor vehicles and often used by young people of both genders. Quite often, there is a passenger (friend, wife, girl friend, child) clinging to waist of the driver. Masks are more common than not - I am told (but not convinced) that it is due to air pollution in cities like Hanoi (estimated population 10 million). Crossing the countryside, the lower elevation land devoted to rice paddies, usually with a country village in the background. Occasionally, the villagers decide to sacrifice a little rice growing land to have a graveyard. These are usually filled with elaborate structures to mark the resting places that are products of the peoples real tradition and skill at monument making. I was told that the lotus is considered to be a symbol of Viet Nam (I was also told that it was a heron, also a bull).But here is a city monument, probably in Ha Tinh. The hammer and sickle to the upper left are, of course, a symbol the the Vietnamese Communist party. The government of Viet Nam has an explicit symbol in its flag, red with a yellow star. The next pic is from our tour of the Forbidden City in Hue, showing one of many elaborate monuments from Viet Nams ancient past: Now, let's turn our attention to palms. Rain, slippery mud, huge rocks to climb over, laziness, and advancing age caused me to turn back or avoid several of the field excursions. Here's yours truly with a Lanonia species on the first day, in Cuc Phuong NP. Most of my best photos are from Bach Ma NP, where we were transported to the top of a hill on a concrete road and left to walk down and look at palms in the vegetation on either side. when we had done all we wanted to we could flag down one of the minibuses going back down the hill. My first shot was of what may be Pinanga ammanensis or possibly a Nenga species - Bill Baker wasn't yet sure. His photo in Facebook several days ago is much better than mine, but the same palm. My next photo is of a palm that I think is what Dr. Baker entered in Facebook as Licuala dakrongensis. We saw many Plectocomia elongata, which I am told is the tallest rattan. Everyone got a picture of this Caryota no (Bill Baker's is best). Here are two pics of Calamus walkeri, which was highly abundant everywhere. the second vividly illustrates the thorns. Finally, I will end with a shot of Da Nang, taken from a hillside in the Son Tra Nature Reserve. Hope you enjoyed this, as I did in posting.

Thank you Mike, look like it was a great trip!

And to get back on topic, the Philodendron "Silver Sword" aka hastatum which has not been speedy, but it has always looked fine. It has kept the narrow leaves unlike the one pictured above that Xenon is growing.

I can't remember exactly but the description on Palmweb says globose, 6 to 10mm, so not tiny.

Very healthy 15g with a new spear and grown in full sun coastal SD. Ready for pickup and have lots of other palms (dypsis, burretiokentia, king varieties, carryota, etc..) available this weekend and $200 for the teddy bear

Unfortunately I beat my personal record and caught 21 in two days plus I whacked 2 out of the air after I hung the trap back up so a total of 23 in two days. the hot weather has made these guys get extra busy.

Encephalartos altensteinii single frond flush

What a tremendous explosion, Dave! It's like a bomb. Palma macrocarpa🦜🦜🌴

All good books, ornamental palm horticulture is a growers bible must have and betrocks! But another must have is The encyclopaedia of cultivated palms!

Thanks for posting these Mike. Good seeing you on the trip.

you know now that you've pointed this out ive noticed theres often many spike sized holes in the trees that have it the worst. thanks so much!

It's been flowering?

15-20 years from seed is my guess. Could this seed be your trees?

I'm not sure what you mean by exist once. Queens used to be 50-100x more common than Butia, most common pinnate palm by far. These look better than any Butia, sorry it's the truth 😝

If it's brown,take it down. If it's green,let it lean... 😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Couple of dypsis species basilonga and prestonia

I'd guess 1970s +/- I think Butia appearance is just a lottery. 95% of them don't do it for me with the wiry wispy unkept open crown look. Nothing to do with manicure imo. Most mules inherit the trait too, don't like most of them either 😅

Old photo. Accidentally caught a bird while taking a picture of a Borrasus

My golden Christmas ready to go in the ground caught my eye. Full sun for full yellow color.

Sabal Yapa new frond

Here's some massive Sabal uresana at Dyer's nursery in Weslaco. Photo doesn't do it justice - note the thickness of the trunk. @5am for scale in both photos.

Clinostigma samoense Clinostigma with Astrocaryum, Pritcharia, and Attalea in the foreground. Tim

Yes, that would be the Blue ( ranges from grayish green to blue -y / slivery hued actually ) " highland " form of Sabal uresana.. Here are some shots of specimens in a well known garden in Tucson.. Been a few years since i last looked them over so the size of them in the shots isn't current. Some consider them slow but, if treated right once established, they pick up speed at a decent pace. NO issues w/ our heat or cooler winter nights. Green form is supposedly a bit more tender but, as you can see below, they're doing fine in Tucson ..which can be a bit cooler than we are during the winter ..and see a dusting to 2 or so inches of snow every so often. I myself are a sucker for the recurved fronds of this species. Has that " almost a feather leaf -type palm / tropical but tough looking " look. Fits in perfectly with a leafy / flowery tropical looking landscape, or the tougher " desert look " kind of landscape. Blue form on the left, Green / coastal form on the right.. Both do fine here. ..Brahea armata is another excellent for the area blue -toned palm option that doesn't get quite as massive as Bismarckia. Kind of slow to start off and better to start with smaller specimens vs. gambling with really big sized options, IMO ( roots can be a bit touchy when disturbed) but, treated right, they progress at a steady pace once established after planting. REALLY nice, blindingly blue specimen grown in the same garden as the Sabal uresana specimens.. Some other Brahea sps out there that work well here too include: Brahea aculeata, brandegeei, calcarea, dulcis, ..and some others from both eastern and southern Mexico. Rare and harder to find than B. armata, but just as neat and worth any time you might spend tracking down, if interesting enough to pursue.

Trachycarpus have grown on me a ton. They are very common here and, in general, I don’t think people take good care of them. They tend to get heavily over-pruned. And a lot of people put them in full sun, with no water. But when given some extra water and fertilizer, and a break from the summer sun, they a such an exotic looking plant to add to a temperate area. These are 2 weeks off of 12 degree lows, and enjoying the rain today. 1 of the 4 is looking suspiciously “waggy”. With a much lighter green, smaller fronds, and 0 bend. It seems to grow slower as well.

Uncovered my bxj last weekend. I kept it covered for all of December and January thought the coldest lows and ice. Really glad I did. But I purposely uncovered it early enough to still see some temps in the teens this past week. Any discoloration was there prior to being wrapped up.

Pics from the ice overnight. Currently 25F. With some cold cold ahead.

Should be fine, I have several that spend all winter in the ground and only get covered for the <5 days with lows below 30F. My January average is ~64F/43F. It's native to southeastern Brazil so not ultra tropical or anything. Here is a pic in the middle of January 2022