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A few chamaedoreas around the garden, and apparently according to a local source the chamaedoreas are huge @peachy I have plenty more to go into the garden over time!

A view from my deck ! 15 years old and my largest of 4 Lepidorachis.

A spot of pruning and turning around the old kerriodoxa was beaming. And the sallehana is starting to put out a new leaf and likes its new home!

Out here in Oregon it's been warm. I'm at the same latitude as the Vermont/Canada boarder, and last week was our first freeze of the year. No rain for 3 weeks and the temps have been in the 60's up in the mountains, above the fog inversion. The few ski areas are able to open are only operating about 25% of their lifts. Garden looks good though. A couple of pics from last week. The famous Mt. Hood from a few weeks ago. There should be 5-10 ft of snow at this time.

Howea forsteriana is one of my favorite landscape palms. I planted several small ones throughout the years. These are some of the ones in the front yard. They become very dramatic in the wind and since coconuts are impossible here, these are about as close as you can get as a Cocos impersonator.

We recorded a wider spread for minimums throughout the property with readings 34F-36F. Around 1am, the temperature started climbing. Like Ray said, we got bailed out of one night.

Another picture of the Butia x Jubaea in Augusta, GA.

The first night of Adonidiageddon here was 29.1F but no visible frost. It stayed under freezing for 3.5 hours. The local airport registered 34 degrees for 2 hours. Current forecast lows are still the worst on Saturday morning at 25F and Sunday morning at 27F. Back to 9A here instead of their silly 10A rating!!!

Just FYI a French site (FdP) gives bottle palm for 10A and spindle palm for 10B! Same with Latania 😍 lontaroides 10A and lodigesii 10B.

I have generated some probability maps for those in central and southern Florida for Sunday morning, which looks to be the worst as far as low temperatures go. All maps below are using data from NWS Blend of Models. Starting in central Florida, here is the probability of seeing temperatures less than 32F. Probabilities are quite high for at least a minimal freeze: Next up, the probability of seeing a temperature of less than 25F. Probabilities of this occurring are at least moderate, especially in the vicinity of Osceola County. Areas north of I-4 stand a greater chance: Lastly for central Florida, the probability of seeing temperatures below 20F. These probabilities are very low, but not zero. The greatest chance (still quite low), is north of I-4: Now for south Florida. Only doing 2 maps for this region. The probability of seeing temperatures less than 32F in south FL is particularly high around Lake Okeechobee. Areas in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale areas have a very low chance of seeing a light freeze as it stands right now: Lastly, the probability of seeing temperatures of 25F or lower. These probabilities are quite low, but any chance of this happening is generally confined to areas north of Lake Okeechobee: Take of this data what you will. As time moves closer, we will see how things trend, hopefully it trends warmer for everyone in the state.

Good visualization/explanation of the set up+mechanism here

I woke up to 24.8 this morning. Yesterday's low was 22.8. This is what they looked like yesterday:

@Matthew92 I'm actually hoping for wind on Saturday morning, just to prevent frost from forming. In past cold fronts here it *seemed* as though the frost was a bigger cause of damage than just pure cold. That's just my observation, of course. Last night hit 29.6F with light frost. The airport recorded 35...

Same here dropped to 31 then kind hovered there between 31 and 33 all night.

Clouds saved the day night

Sat at 30 for a while then came up to 35 now. Odd. I expected 25 possibly based on last night. Some good news. Hope it keeps up, the forecast moderated a bit too.

This is the worst arctic oscillation index for Florida winter since 2010. It looks to stay negative which is pointing to more cold problems well into February. The longer that blackline stays under 0, the longer the door stays wide open for subsequent cold blasts. Notice the last time it was above 0! You know, La Nina winter, warmer than normal 🤬

More Coconut palm

This is a Butia x Jubaea hybrid that I purchased years ago from Dr. Merrill Wilcox. It has held its silver color beautifully. The picture doesn't do it justice. Augusta, GA

Licuala ‘mapu’ inflorescence. Tim

Recently came across some splidle palms growing outside a beach bar in crete and they look very healthy just seemed very interesting to me here is a picture on from google maps

Not to mention where the product actually comes from! And I heard straight from the horse’s mouth it was Colin Wilson’s grandfather who was the one in Australia to discover it and start to get into gardeners hands!

Get whatever you can, at a reasonable price. You need a lot of compost material to make soil. Peat is ok as an additive mixed with whatever you have on hand. If finances allow it buy a pallet of good quality bagged potting mix, worm castings, lucerne hay, get the neighbours lawn clippings anything animal manure whatever you can get at a reasonable price or free, blood and bone mixed in the soil, organic organic organic all the way!

Took a bit of time, but this little Fiji palm is looking rather elegant as of late. It was acquired as B. microcarpa, but it keys out as B. seemannii. I’ll have to look at the next seed batch more closely. Any one else growing Balaka? Tim

Lol are you aware of the latitude of Florida and SoCA? I just wonder why the 'Karaoloi' and the 'Kochlioi ' have not started yet an extensive palm production.

Lol no, but I want to try now. Lodigesii in the past failed miserably but I was not so experienced as nowadays. Hyophorbe indica is also a big NO.

Hi Dimitri Malia is the place, where I got all my examples from, when someone says we have a limited range, what can grow in Greece 😁 I came across Malia by coincidence because I googled nurseries in Greece. I found one nursery, that had a few Hotel Projects on its homepage, all of which were in Malia. That was the reason I started to stroll around that town in google streetview. The garden landscapers know about their potential there and the hotels are trying to outdo each other with increasingly tropical gardens. I found a few more nice palmy spots in Malia. If you click on the hotels of your streetview findings, you will see many more photos of the hotel gardens in the Google Images. Here a few more examples (not only Hyophorbe Verschaffeltii): https://maps.app.goo.gl/6L57h7ZMCm2d99US7 https://maps.app.goo.gl/wH9b4PSJh11c2Lf16 https://maps.app.goo.gl/4oYp3vZ9gx7He7pV6 (here you can see a Veitchia as well) https://maps.app.goo.gl/cQtiqCBn6FMLtEpLA https://maps.app.goo.gl/yDkoHmSgaiYbLKak7 (a Hotel with a stunning Garden) https://maps.app.goo.gl/3xLCRzfioPyVy9gb9

Very brief dip to 25F this morning. Washies are not happy campers. Bizzy not showing any signs of damage but I know it will soon. Queens look mostly fine, front yard queen burn might be the result of that really dry wind. Backyard queen looks fine for now.

Richard as you know i love chamaedorea, thanks for sharing the photos, it's always a pleasure for me to read your posts

At least 40% native soil in the mix. You can add sulphur pellets in to the deeper layers beneath the root ball. I usually dig about half the diameter of the root ball deeper and amend soil plus I try to loosen even deeper soil layers adding sulphur pellets at about 1/4 depth of root ball' s diameter.

NO!

Go for it Than. If difference in quality and properties is enormous between fill in and surrounding soil, the risk of the palm refusing to spread and deepen its root system is really serious. And you need in our climate extended and deep root system for coping better both with drought and cold.

I planted my last 1 i had in a pot and they are no faster in the ground or a pot painfully slow they are growing but slow cant wait till they decide to get going

At it again planting a few more in the ground, a nice paludosa, I even managed to get a couple of baby suckers of that one I shall see how they go, and this one was labeled as poiveana but I looked it up and it said solitary, so a bit of confusion on this little dypsis. The usual adscendens for a bit of fun, and a trio of gracilis getting thrown in the ground in the understory m. All under irrigation and well watered in a bit of time and that tropical look will be worth the wait.

Cymbidium season has begun in my garden. They are dependable color.

Glad the Great State of Texas fared well. My place hit 12°F this morning.

The Tropic of Capricorn is about as far south you move to from that cold place!

I got too see snow in Manitoba Canada minus 30, flip me it was cold, took breath away, snow is not for this summer bunny iam afraid you can have your snow bunny’s !

Already 35deg here at 6:30pm. Forecast low is 29??? I don’t trust it. Might be quite a nasty radiational freeze. Sometimes it will be alarming and drop more quickly earlier in the evening only to plateau halfway through the night, but some other times I’ve seen it get colder than predicted and it drops like a rock through early morning. Glad I still have everything covered.

A ground frost will form at 2-3C / 36-38F but an air frost obviously needs to be 0C / 32F. I wouldn’t bet against -1C / 30F in Miami on Saturday night. So a fair bit colder than 2010. There could however be last minute adjustments and it may get nowhere near that cold, staying in the mid 30’s F. Time will tell. Miami could have a colder winter minimum than parts of England and Ireland this winter. And we had the coldest start to January in 16 years here, since 2010, a few weeks back. Funny how 2010 keeps coming up on analogs. Similarish setups on both sides of the Atlantic to that winter. Although that winter was something else altogether in Europe. Anyway, the lowest in the Isles of Scilly (50N) just off Cornwall this winter is +3.1C / 38F. I will be looking to see how Key West performs too this weekend.

My location is supposed to be 9a with the new map but starting in the ‘22-‘23 winter I've had lows each winter of 18, 19, and 15 deg!!! smh…

My Robusta is already turning brown lol. Nothing new .

Better mix good soil with native one. It helps the plant to adapt to local soil easier and faster. You won't be spared from the task to amend soil after transplanting, no matter what you are contemplating!

Here is a video i made about the street there

Astrocaryum murumuru. This spiny baby is well out of poking range but, a nice looking palm. Tim

I forgot i visited the big Butias along "palm avenue"(old Gaston Av) that has some huge old Butia species that have made it so far this brutal decade! prob also will have many dead leaves again. Tony's unprotected Mex blue palms give me hope my beauties will be ok as they have a lightbulb protective the center bud! Brahea armata in winter coat & bulb the Sabal bermudana only mulched. Here is a couple others in the white ness of this cold Jan!

K here are some pics of the damage. We were under a hard freeze for about ten hours last night and for about sixteen the night before. Didnt get ice but temps went to 23.5 F on my thermometer here at West Houston/Westchase area. First pics are of three queens I have, small. Then strelitzia nicolais (giant bird of paradise), then areca palms (they are alive at the growth points) and last but not least a cat palm. Not sure how that one is doing. Leaves look a bit darker than before and they have that smell of rot... time will tell. I will update.

Where I grew up there were only Washingtonia and Phoenix canariensis palms. When I attended UCSB in Santa Barbara, CA I was stunned and intrigued to see Howea forsteriana ground planted outdoors as a landscape plant. Now, all these years later, I have about 15 plants on a garden 8 meters wide !

Always a wonderful sight to see Howea in a collection or even stand alone. They do very well in my climate . We are now seeing them grace industrial buildings where my shop is . I have a few that I have grown from seed. Harry These were rescued from a mall tear down several years ago. They were in very rough shape , burnt to a crisp. They had just started to trunk.