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A beautiful little dypsis lantzeana!

Well just adding to my blog here. I had my first in person customer today. Sweet lady, home health care nurse. She and her daughter showed up looking for the elephant ears I have on FB marketplace, and they were just kind of in awe of all the stuff I've got growing _out here_. She told me she keeps killing her houseplants, I showed her how to mix coco coir and perlite and stop using potting soil, her daughter was fascinated with the kittens. Sancho didn't make an appearance, and she killed a bee that flew in after I told her I was allergic so I basically gave her the plants for half price and gave her a philodendron. I think she'll be back once more stuff sprouts up. I've got dozens more bulbs to sprout. And then there was a bunch of "ohhhh yeah that's not for sale" 😂

Livistona australis. I've seen them in habitat with their roots pretty much in standing water, so I planted a dozen in amongst the reeds of one of my swampy areas down here in Tas, they're coming along nicely. We've got winter dominant rainfall, so the swamp is super wet and cold in winter, doesn't seem to bother them at all. L decora growing in similar conditions yellows off a bit in winter, which isn't surprising given it's more tropical distribution, but greens up again pretty quickly in spring. In a warmer climate than mine it'd be a beast in a swamp!

One element you need to grow a garden is water, and in a palm garden you can never have enough water especially in my climate. If iam to grow the exotic palms I wish to have I must irrigate them. There are pipes in all sorts of directions, with shifts on top of shifts overlapping each other, I have a bore for pretty well much unlimited water. And every chance I get I water, usually 20 minute shifts. So if you want to get your garden growing get onto irrigation it works. I have over 30 taps throughout my garden most with 19mm fittings for the sprinklers. It’s a game changer!

I have a few Butia archeri var. Diamantina available. Seedlings are about a year old 2-3 leaves. I expect a nice growth spurt coming soon. I’ll ship in tubes. 1 seedling grower choice $35 USPS priority shipping $13

I feel your pain. Buy 10 seeds and each one is inspected under a microscope for fungal spores. Meanwhile you can buy a whole ship load of palm kernel for cattle feed.... Makes no sense.

This Cyrtochilum villenaorum is now in full bloom. It's inflorescence wrapped around a palm frond which has since dropped. I decided to tie thr inflorescence up higher on the trunk of the Chrysalidocarpus pembanus so the flowers would be up higher and more visible.

Richard the water is very good for the plants,d summer I have to water every day,d summer it never rains here,they call it the long Mediterranean summer

Iam finally getting back to the greenhouse, with a change in the season it’s time to get on with the property projects. So time to get the welder out put it to good use. So far total cost 2 rolls of welding wire and labour the rest of the materials from leftovers at work, the boss even gave me the two roll of shade cloth. About time as well after 24 years of working for them! My sister works for a trucking company so the plastic pallets were freighted up from Sydney. Not what you know but who you know in the palm growing game!

Apparently it’s all about the grain industry in Australia, kharpa beetle, there scared it will get into the grain industry and then the government won’t be able collect taxes and not be able to hold too a trade agreement with some foreign countries. So we continue to send our resources overseas and buy them back as a product, how many washing machines and refrigerators do we really need! I’ve had a headache with customs continually. But oh yes lets import the worlds rainforest timber and get a heap of pest in those shipments!

Yep that’s the way it is, not even a phone call a quick email just asking for them to be placed in the bin, the best part is the rest of the order is held up and as we all know what are the odds of those seeds germinating. The joys of getting seeds is wearing thin!

The days we grew up in are long gone. Unfortunately it’s the way of the world now, technology is a great thing, but place it in a government bureaucracy system and it’s a different story. The difficult part is when I was at school we didn’t have computers to learn on. Now they give kindergarten kids a laptop we don’t stand a chance against that kind technology! Richard

Welcome to PalmTalk! From the sounds of it, probably a weevil infestation, but a picture would help a lot.

You're a cruel and heartless man Tim.

Thankfully they can handle periods of drought also - my swamp dried up last summer and we haven't had any rain since December. More work for me now to irrigate by hand! Licuala spinosa seems to be doing well also and doesn't mind full all-day sun or even 27°F freeze without protection!

Lol anything that enjoys cold wet winters with lots of rain and hot humid summers where it almost rains but won't? Sabal Sabal and more Sabal.

Last year and the latter half of 2024 my yard had a water leak on the supply side so at least I wasn't paying for the swamp it created! Numerous calls to the water company yielded no results so I decided to plant accordingly. Archontophoenix maxima, Ravenea rivularis, Acoelorraphe wrightii and Licuala spinosa. Also planted a Phoenix paludosa hybrid. And of course shortly after I planted them the water company showed up and fixed the leak! No more swamp ...

Yea , it turns out it was a thirsty palm . I couldn’t believe how quickly it drank the moisture out of the soil! Now I have to water over there. Harry

I had an area of my yard that was constantly wet . We had just bought the house ( new ) and the builder installed another French drain but it was still wet ….mosquito wet. I bought a 24” box Syagrus Romanzoffiana for $25 that was on death’s door , dug into the mud , and planted it . It took off like a rocket , problem solved . No more mud over there and we provided shade for my neighbor! Harry

I have tried to send seeds to folks in Europe and it requires certain certificates and such. I won’t fib on the customs report as to what I’m sending . I get away with nothing and I don’t want to get fined for a few seeds ….not worth it. If I wanted to deal with customs here I would think it similar to what you are dealing with , high cost and frustration. I get the idea of foreign born plant disease potential but I fear the whole process has become more about $$ than safety. It was easy to bring home plants from Hawaii because the garden I bought from was set up with everything , but I bet they paid heavily for that , just to sell a few baby palms or orchids. That was almost 20 years ago and I doubt it has gotten any easier over there . Harry

What caught my eye today was rather intresting, palm related as well, this little monkey of a rat. Whom I shall say was lucky to get away his life today, especially after eating a dypsis minuta!

Bizzy update: We have something emerging other than brown. Its not green or silver, but at least its not brown. Continuing to monitor its progress. And yes, those are frisbees in the background. I will pick them up and move them, but the dogs like to put them back there, so I guess thats just where they will be lol

jax beach …pic taken fall 2024, no damage xmas freeze 2022, 70% burn feb 2026 freeze.

Time to plant some boulders.

Asterogyne martiana is apparently an easy grower for me, this one has done outstanding this last 6 months despite a chilly winter, even in the greenhouse. There are others that look good but this one I really noticed recently after moving it.

Lucky washies shielded from lightning

2 more on the way.

As others have said/asked, consider if it blocks the sidewalk and if so how badly. Based on that you can decide whether or not you have a right to be mad. If it doesn’t then i really don’t know why anyone would do that. You live in miami (right?), a lushly landscaped city, so i don’t see why anyone would just decide to mess with random palms at your place specifically.

A flash of red getting around the place!areca vestria dypsis lantzeana dypsis louvelli

I just noticed a spathe tip poking out from below an old boot on my Burretiokentia koghiensis. The two oldest boots were easily removed and I could see another spathe that was previously hidden beneath a boot. They didn't get an opportunity to fully open since the boots never dropped on their own. These are the first spathes on this specimen.

I only have one Chambeyronia so I really get excited when a new frond opens. This time it didn’t mess around, the spear showed no signs of opening Sunday when I was watering . Yesterday afternoon it opened . Within 3 days it will be green , it is in full sun. Harry

Each new leaf on the dypsis basilonga just gets better and better, followed by y a nice young Dypsis utilis leaf and don’t forget the vonitra Dransfeildii for putting on a nice new leaf for a bit of colour!

I guess it was time to update my Inkbird thermostat. Now the left side is named Colocasia Cooker and the right is Bulb and Palm cooker (character limited...blah) Anyway that's all I did today. That and chop up the colocasia stems I planted today. I mean, with all of those weeds my soil clearly needs more nitrogen, right? 😑

A nice Joey, followed by a iguanura sanderianum, and a iguanura broad leaf. All three got my attention in the greenhouse.

I love how nothing I've posted here in months is palm related. I had a yard thread somewhere but whatevs. This is my journey.

Maybe it is too soon to start making conclusions, but it appears C. macrocarpa is no where near as tough as even a foxtail. If you look close enough in the last picture, you can see there is a small foxtail that experienced the same brutal wind and cold that is opening a new spear. My Roystonea got a little fried on the more horizontal fronds but has already opened a couple new spears. Bismarckia did fine in my yard, but I have seen some fried not to far to the north and east of me. I have a stretched out bottle palm under foxtail canopy that prematurely dropped a couple fronds but otherwise seems ok. C. lutescens got a little toasty on top fronds but have been pushing out new fronds like nothing happened. C. probably cabidus (i ?) by the little coconut got a little crispier than lutescens but all the stems have opened new fronds. The P. elegans took a little too frond damage and maybe have prematurely dropped some fronds but all seem to have opened new fronds. R. rivularis seems like nothing happened. My last and final Adonidia still seems alive but looks like crap. I may have posted this already but I will reiterate that more wind sheltered areas of my yard somehow took more damage in this event (frost). My back yard is wind sheltered from the north by I have no actual oak or pine canopy, only palms. Frost still seems to my biggest enemy. The north side, front yard looks like nothing happened, foxtail and C. lutescens being the canary in the mine. It has been a good learning experience. I’m probably going to try any more coconuts or Adonidia. C. macrocarpa is a letdown too, it really needs canopy here. Foxtails and Roystonea still win, C. lutescens wins too, and Bismarckia. No wonder these are the more common palms sold here.

Never a dull moment in the garden with a dypsis louvelli and a Chambeyronia hookerii for a touch of colour.

While we are on the subject of alogoptrea caudescens, here’s a couple floating around the garden!

Reinhardtia latisecta. Tim

Just admiring my Buddha statue and for all the peace and harmony related to Buddhism, the world needs a bit of piece and quite in the garden now and then!

Iam on my way to sunny Melbourne @tim_brissy_13 to dig that rosea out, it needs a nice subtropical climate, in a nice loving garden with lots of happypalms attention. Not that iam saying you dont give your palms any love, I just can’t bear to see that that poor rosea live in refrigerator, any longer! 🤣

Some orchids are blooming! Even with an extended , unseasonal heat wave they are doing good so far . They have been outdoors , next to the house for a couple of years now . They only get a couple of hours of early morning sun. Harry

Here’s a pic I snapped about a month ago at MB Palms’ open house event in Orlando. The owner Mike said these are about 12 years old in ground, planted from 30 gallon container size. He also mentioned these were from the original seed batch. They’re spaced roughly 10-12 feet apart trunk to trunk.

Here is another alfredi, 16 year old from seed.

Mine is 16 yo from seed. Another one in shade is smaller.

I snapped this one from Searle Brothers a couple of years back…. I’ve posted the pic a few times before. 10-12 years old perhaps? There are some mature ones in Florida here and there.