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A nice row of hookeri with almost three in a row putting on show.

A nice satakentia tucked in for the approaching winter.

A couple of dasyantha seedlings!

Calyptrocalyx elegans and a iguanura broad leaf sp

Phoenix market home depots have imported some rarely seen (here) tropical palms for the houseplant/patio department. If you've ever been in search of some spindle palms or Chinese fountain palms at a reasonable price, opportunity might be knocking... 😄 I saw a few chunky ones in my area that were tempting, but still passed as I already have a spindle. 🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

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The first thing that caught my eye today is the fact that despite me having been unable to work in the yard for months, plants are growing but some sure need mowing. I see my volunteer palms that hitched a ride from Floribunda are keeping pace with my remaining stilt palms - I had one cycad pot that had two volunteer palm seeds in it and another with one.

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Most expensive palm you will ever buy is the tall one who needs a trim every two years. I never envisioned having to cut down my archies or royals. I have to trim my phoenix rupicolas but I don't think they will ever get tall enough to out grow my 18' pole saw. The longer the pole saw, the harder it is to use. As time has gone by I have appreciated the palms that self shed and don't grow to the sky so fast. Slow growth is good! Dave, how old were those archies? And did you ultimately find the maxima to be a bigger palm than the others?

Well I got up this morning to thick fog and mist and about 16C with 100% RH. The fog didn’t lift until around 9.30am but it just reminded me of a cloud forest environment especially when I looked at my Parajubaeas which come from the Andes. So I took some pics. The trees were also dropping a lot of condensed water like rain in the rainforest area whenever the slightest breeze went through. I’m really happy that the trees were acting like rainforest trees. Really beautiful morning. Now in the afternoon it’s about 26C and very humid.

iguanura GFAreca rheopytica Cham adscendens kerriodoxa elegans dypsis louvelli Geonoma atrovirens Pinanga disticha

The ever reliable radicalis fits into any situation in the garden easy to grow and germinate sets seeds easy can almost be used as a ground cover if get the trunkless variety planted on mass cold tolerant a good patio indoor plant or in a nice container in a palm collection just because it’s common doesn’t mean it hasn’t got beauty and grace a great chamaedorea to grow

Very interesting information! I have found out also a couple other distinctive features of the dwarf form compared to the trunking one. Leaves of former have a rougher texture and seeds are smaller. Latter has a more glabrous texture and a subglaucous color on petioles and leaflets, perhaps due to more sun and wind exposure. Also seeds of latter are bigger. My oldest radicalis had been bought from Germany as a plant with already pinnate leaves, which had identical texture the the rest plants from your seeds. It used to remain for ever dwarf too, but I had the impression that it had a subterranean, creeping small trunk, just like Howea belmoreana. Unfortunately it got pissed to death by my dog.

Dont you love getting up early just to head of to work, we spend our chiliensis getting up early just to go to school, now we do the same, only difference is we get to wonder around our garden before work. Gone are the days of sleeping in!

A lot more landscaping needs to be done for all the new varieties. But I have the perfect little shovel I just purchased for the job, iam sure it is well suited to do the job!

Here’s a few more heterospathe elatadypsis sanctamariedypsis confusabeccariophoenix madascariensis

Omg shes a trunk and a half that one, I have yet to see my trunkless ones get a trunk. So iam not sure about this myth I have heard. When you say dwarf do you mean a variety that is smaller than the other trunkless varieties or just a stocky plant without a trun?

A few of the ladies on their mother’s day. How poetic that dyer decides to start dropping its seeds…. F2 trans wood, Latifrons, horridus, F2 natwood, dyerianus

Thanks for the advice. I will research into those palms as well. I'll give these areas a try and look around next time I'm around there. I see some of my neighbors have some good sized ones here in new river. The specimens that inspired me to grow them were these ones at the Hassayampa river preserve in Wickenburg. Astronomically massive. Theres some people in one of the photos for size comparison. I didn't get a photo but one of them had their skirt/beards never trimed and was taller then all the rest. Looked stunning.

https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/detachable-pole-pruning-saw-8m-tree-trimmer-saw-shearing/M35933274.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqky_t1lEeb_ukZqVmgEp-_yyIkSHzlEB9JfcXXWNzCfdeCaCLDDr0 It's close to this one. Poles screw together very securely and there are two heads (one pruner and one saw). I bought a good quality blade but honestly it came with two which are really good. Dirt cheap! I have a large Monterrey pine above a Jubaea hybird and was easily able to log and lower a large limb in sections which was obstructing growth. I also did the same with a huge Schizolobium. The blade has a hook which allows you to place the ropes easily.

Be super careful my friend! We need you and these palms are heavy enough to make angels. I know you have more to do and every one of them can be deadly. Harry

Here is mine in Phoenix it is in grass so gets lots of water plus I run the hose on it and give it more!!’ I have 3 others that are not in grass and they grow but don’t look good I probably should run extra water on them but am tired of crazy water bills!!!

Thick fog, mist and 100% RH this morning in Melbourne. Good time to take a pic of my P sunkha (front) and P tvt (back) surrounded by some tree ferns. They’ll all be enjoying this weather more than the extreme heat we had this summer.

Pritchardia martii. Tim

Syagrus Schizophylla a super tough palm.

Ravenea rivularis put them in a tropical garden and they are next level.

Couple of Chambeyronia hookeri looking quite happy!

Caryota maxima, winter is approaching with a sky that colour in the southern hemisphere!

Double Coconut (Lodocea) at Ann Norton:

Yes you can’t beat them for easy growing and predictable growth plus cold tolerance opens up many a gardening opportunity in most situations they even take a bit of sun well not hot afternoon sun but definitely bright dappled shade.

A couple more misty shots.

Another pitcher has opened!

Oh my , that’s quite the “shovel”. Harry

A few more rhapis in the collection.chojuayahme ahyame kannonchikushima

Today I came across this palm on Sanibel Island. Looks like they've planted a large amount on some of the beaches on the island . Some type of Sabal or Livistona?

Nope, there are really dwarf strains. I vouch for this! Have you come across a radicalis with such thick stem Trunking and dwarf form side by side

I agree with this, I too just use palm fert on my cycads. I only have two to be fair, so I can’t say it’s magic for all of them different types, but even the bags themselves say suitable for use on cycads and other tropical plants, not sure how much everyone trusts those labels but I haven’t been wronged. Also I made the comical mistake of buying a 40 pound bag of manganese. I needed it to correct frizzle top on a sago once and since then have used maybe one or two cups 😂. I might have that bag forever.

Doesn’t sound good for you, your persistent attempts in vain are saying that the palm won’t grow in your climate. If you’re that keen to get one I suggest you try getting seeds from one that is in the coldest possible location around, then germinate them grow them in a protected spot until they are at least 3 to 4 feet tall, this may give you a palm that is somewhat acclimatised to the cold. By collecting seeds from a palm that has already felt what cold weather is like, seeds from a tropical location are far more prone to cold. Good luck.

Looking good Don! That's a 10K palm at moon valley ...😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

A toasty Monday underway in the low desert.. 107 when i took the screen shot a few mins. ago, now up to 109 ( at 1:45PM ).. We'll see if we notch ..or eek past.. the 110F mark. Regardless, depending on your neighborhood, it might be in the mid -100s, or already topping 110 / 110+ right now. Always a bit surprised by this part of Chandler / Sun Lakes part of town.. Infested with neighborhood Golf Courses yet, as you can see, some of the hotter readings on the hotter days occur down there.. ..Not that it is exactly cool outside those areas.. Anyhow... Luckily, this looks like the hottest day of this particular warm up as temps start the forecasted downward slide to a more " normal May heat " level tomorrow.. Further abroad? Nice, late spring surge / flirty tease of monsoon -esque moisture driving some storm development over the Sierra Madre Occidental on the Satellite loop today.. With just a little of that moisture trickling into the mountains down around the borderlands. ...where they always get the fun stuff, first, lol. Closer inspection reveals maybe a brief, dry storm or two could be trying to form over the Santa Rita, Huachuca, and maybe the Chiricauhua mountains.. with a few weak build ups trying to bubble up as far north as the Sups < local nick name for the Superstition Mtns > just east of the valley.. If we're lucky, maybe a little of that southern moisture arrives overhead ..in the form of scattered, " here and there " clouds... by sunset.. Could see a slight uptick in buildups / storm or two more down across the borderlands tomorrow, otherwise, ..hot n' sunny locally ..though it should be a few degs cooler than today, ..w/ maybe a few more clouds around to make the sky a bit more interesting.. Gotta share / spread the fun stuff around a bit, ya know..

You go right the hell ahead! Come visit and I'll have you do it . . . I'm too old for this ladder stuff. (Thought about that too.)

Here's an update on growth speed from my neighbor, Ray, who bought one of my 5 gallon jubaeas just 4 years ago. Full, blasting, all day Arizona desert sun, planted in a 24" box equivalent cement planter. Tree grows like a weed with little to no burning, even after experiencing occasional 120F daytime summer temperatures. I'm super impressed with his growing skills. I think consistent moisture has mainly been the key to his success. Jubaea chilensis is definitely a viable species for a low desert growing environment. Congratulations Ray!👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! On the left middle an unknown "big green Encephalartos" is flushing. It could be an Equatorialis or just natural variation of Ituriensis/Whitelockii. Just behind it the big one is a Gratus x Laurentianus. Common Zamia Furfuracea are flushing bronze in the middle. In the foreground a Sclavoi x Ituriensis has 5 leaves going, and in the bottom center a Natalensis x Horridus has 5 finished leaves. Just to the bottom right is a Horridus x Natalensis with 3 new fronds in process. Not really visible behind the Pygmy Dates are a couple of Zamia Vasquezii and Picta also flushing. Also not really visible is a double-coning Cycas Simplicipinna on the other side of the path from the Gratus x Laurentianus. So this is sort of a 10-fer flush! In the center rear bed a few more are going gangbusters! The middle is a big Dioon Spinulosum with a pup flushing too. Just behind is to the left is a 2-headed Cycas Revoluta flushing just one of the two heads. Just below it is a single frond growing up on a tiny Encephalartos Umbeluziensis. Bottom left corner is a "fasciated" Zamia Furfuracea. The lower right cone is an unfortunate timing on a male Cycas Multipinnata that was completely defoliated. To the right behind the Spinulosum is a solid flush on an Encephalartos Ferox. In the background left of the Spinulosum is one of the triple Encephalartos Whitelockii/Ituriensis with a solid 8 leaf flush. The other two in the triple are thinking about it...but not quite yet!

A few C. rivialis in my garden. They're about 20+ years old, grown from seed collected in Dominican Republic...planted on the edge of a drainage ditch and sometimes standing in a foot or more of rain water for days.....Loxahatchee Groves, Florida.

UPDATE ON THIS: I was picking up nursery pots and the seller had a few Wine Palms and offered me a deal on one I couldn't pass. The day started with loading up the 26ft trailer and driving 2hrs. To give an idea of the palm size compared to the tractor. And then the battel starts. I started digging around the palm. The hole was like 4-5ft deep. Down it goes Moving this palm was an under taken it weighed my guess 2000 pounds and the tractor was almost to small for it. Taken my prize On my way home after a long day. The next day up and early