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Mine has grown really well throughout our summer despite multiple days of extreme heat. Mine gets filtered light for most of the day; it’s on the south edge of a south facing garden (southern hemisphere) so larger palms in the garden give it a degree of protection but definitely does see at least brief periods of direct sun throughout the day.

@Fusca I'm sorry I killed your washies. But I still need to figure out which crape myrtle is the white one and get some seedlings for you when they start to bloom again.

I just found one in my neighborhood and knocked on the door to ask permission to take a picture. I ended up leaving with a huge cutting.

😂😂😂 Fixing to go throw a couple of your Giants where the dead washies are. It's also funny how plants look so much smaller when there isn't a ceiling for them to butt up against.

Closer up on that thing!

Can anyone advise what this is?

This little Ceroxylon amazonicum endured a lot of stress to get to California eventually! I ordered it in 2025 directly from an Ecuadorian nursery. It ended up in Florida quarantine for weeks, then arrived in California bare-root, half-dead and bone-dry! I tented it in plastic and kept it in standing water for weeks. It's now putting out its second leaf. I've not had much success with this species in the past, but I'm trying again. This palm hates heat waves, so I'll probably keep it indoors in a pot for the future. Eventually it may end up at a Bay Area botanical garden like the C. sasaimae seedlings I grew in the past.

I planted something. This means it's gonna snow next week. My bad! And yeah I made sure to dig deep, amended the hole with my bokashi compost and some gravel mixed with the clay and dug a few drainage trenches that'll eventually tie into the French drains where my Thai Giant colocasias are gonna go. An hour of work and I'm ready to die. Anyway don't put your flannel sheets away and this is all my fault. Also those are not weeds, those are native plants 😂

Dioon spinulosum cone

I did. I mounded up a little, because we have about two inches of mulch and I didn’t want to bury the base with it. The wobble is between the roots and the trunk.

It's a joke. I've been joking with people about how I'm cursed and the minute I plant something we're gonna get a blizzard But I'm about 40 miles south of Meridian, right on the Alabama line.

where in mississippi are you? I could be wrong but I haven't seen Arctic blast warnings for the Mississippi area or the south at all recently. but I don't live down there so I don't know

Indeed he did.

I can’t see from your pictures but hope you planted it deep enough to cover all the roots!!!

Female Dioon mejiae.

Thanks to all! The deed is done. It was still rocking around on those roots a little more than I'd like so I staked it at the base. It gets pretty windy around here in spring. Let the burn begin!

I think you're safe 🤞

That’s awesome Stacy! Right after I moved to this house in 1997 someone walking by noticed all the palms I was planting from our old house . He said he had some “prickly” type palms on the side of his house that he was gonna cut down but if I wanted them I could take them . They had about 2’ of trunk , two together. I literally had to get on my butt and dig as the slope was so steep . Lost a lot of the roots but managed to get them home . They didn’t even flinch , started growing almost immediately. Those will make someone happy in their new home. Harry Here they are now , greeting me as I come through my gate on the side of our house. I think of that day , 29 years ago , digging them up and dragging them UPHILL to my little Toyota pick up. When they get tall , no “prickly “ , it’s all overhead! Harry

I actually found a taker!!! A legit Palm reseller here in San Diego wants them. He took a look at them last week, and is coming Thursday to haul ‘em away! I shouldn’t be so sentimental, but it feels great to know they’ll be saved. 🥹 Better yet, the root ball will be removed, so adding their (more exotic) replacements will be a little easier. Yay! 🎉

My potted one is technically in a 7 gallon pot but the roots say something different.

Thanks Kim. I tried searching on line and going through my books but couldn't find anything about corneri anywhere. I think I will wait and see which one grows faster and keep the other for an emergency gift when I am caught without one. As for cages, I had to bring 5 more of them out of storage as last spring's batch of baby budgies were all too gorgeous to sell. As for my nighties, I am sure you have one or two stashed away for those long cold lonely winter nights.

A little over 3 years later and I am seeing the first fruit developing on my Ficus socatrana (vasta). While it has grown, it isn't a speed demon as you can see comparing above and photos today. I was a bit surprised to see fruit at this size but then again, I haven't seen many other small specimens to compare.

Hey Jim, late reply but here's my little fella looking pretty happy on a midwinter morning at 43 degrees south.

It's written in wax pencil on the pot wall, $350.