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

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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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?

A nice satakentia tucked in for the approaching winter.

A couple of dasyantha seedlings!

Calyptrocalyx elegans and a iguanura broad leaf sp

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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.

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

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Not a palm but cool:

I don’t see many sabinara on palmtalk, iam sure they are out there I just don’t see many here. I have 4 in the ground and a few seedlings. Surely iam not the only one growing them, are there any Australians in a subtropical zone growing them. Or am I the only one growing them this far south.

@Brad52 here's a closer detail on the two. Bifida has 2 separate attachment points, so the bifid leaf comes straight off the rachis: Micholitzii will have the middle and lower leaves coming off the rachis as a pair. It will have a fairly short stub before it splits into two bifid leaves:

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Another pitcher has opened!

Yep. The growers are not worried about the long term health of the palms. They just want to sell an eye catching pot full of palms for people to put in a dark corner of their living space, and replace 6 months later when they no longer look fresh. It's a market. When I lived in Minnesota, the cool thing to do was to buy a 15 or 25 gallon queen palm and plant it as an annual in your front yard. No chance of survival past October, but definitely an attention getter and conversation starter all summer...🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

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.

I don’t understand putting so many Livistona Chinensis in one pot. The trunks , eventually , get pretty big . Some retailers sell palms in community pots that should have been separated at the seedling stage. Both those would be better grown as singles. Harry

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

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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.

Konstantinos the low form comes from my seeds?

I will keep this brief... 23C / 74F max here today. ☀️ El Nino typically produces cool/wet summers in the UK (unlike La Nina and ENSO neutral), but I strongly suspect the extent of the Csb (warm-summer Med) forcing in southern England will completely override that signal nowadays. Previous moderate-strong El Nino transitions in spring-summer (1997 and 2015 come to mind) are the main analogs. Both cool, wet, cloudy summers, however the proper Csb transition has kicked in since then (circa 2017 so to speak). So I fully suspect it to override that typical pattern and we have yet another warm, dry summer. That would be quite telling if it does override the analogs, as I expect. And prove the switch to warm-summer Med in southern/eastern England. So all eyes on rainfall patterns this year, given the setup should favour the wettest possible outlook for us here. Although even right now it is very dry here, 1mm of rain over the past 6 weeks lol.

Gausia maya, Burretokentia hapala.

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii seedlings