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Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! In the upper right both Pygmy Dates appear to be growing back fine, with complete sets of fronds. 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! At the arch on my E pathway I planted some Mandevilla vines. There's a red and white on one corner and a pink Dipladenia on the other corner. The pink is supposed to be more bushy and less viney, we'll see what happens. I should be able to "train" the Dipladenia to grow up the side of the arch anyway, it just might not climb up and over. A bunch of other stuff is pushing new fronds, even if they are a bit distorted. A couple of Attalea Brejinhoensis, Phalerata, Speciosa and Butyracea are looking good, though a strap leaf Butyracea is probably toast. Two of the three Arenga Pinnata have opened new fronds, all the big Alfredii are growing well, and the Fallaensis and Baileyana are pushing new spears. The Triangle is opening up a horrendously ugly frond but making good progress. All of my Bamboo are sending up new shoots except for a Dendrocalamus Tsiangii...it might be a goner. My solo Foxtail with ~10ft of trunk is opening up a frond, but the triple looks pretty sad. I'll start culling the herd in a few weeks after our daily thunderstorms start. At that point it should be obvious what's alive and d-e-d. I didn't go to the Leu Gardens spring sale, the MB Palms open house, or the St. John's sale because I really had no idea what I might need...

Red is the color of the day.

Garret, yours an excellent looking example of copernicia baileyana! Mine started growing faster once it trunked. They are not fast for sure but the slower growth at that height is desirable, its a better view than looking up there. These are great palms for florida, but as they get tall, the hurricane damage is greater. Milton hit my yard at 100-110mph, the damage increased with height seemingly regardless of species. My bailey was spared some as it was about 15-16 feet tall, as tall as the house. My C. Fallaense was not so lucky at 25' overall, about 70% damage to the crown. Palms taller than the house saw the worst winds. My neighbor said my 40' royal was bent horizontal in the wind and it lost all 18-20 leaves, just a spear left. My bailey is still in recovery mode, it lost half the leaves to wind damage, lowest first. At this time 3/4ths of the crown is back, though it still holds 6-8 leaves that saw some damage in Milton. Milton seems to have stimulated trunk growth some as it has for several other palms of mine. This palm was planted in this time of year in 2011 about so 5 years older from a 3 gallon. The trunk, from ground to the last dead leafbase is 10' first, 6months in the ground sept 2011. New growth had smaller leaves since it was grown in shade and I put it in full sun. Next 15 months later Dec 2012 it was pumping out leaves at a good rate. Then it started to go vertical and carry more leaves by june 2015. Then it was hit by a hurricane IRMA in 2017 and suffered a spear bundle infection (caused by spear fracture) that persisted for two growing seasons till I managed to kill off the fungus with repeat treatments of daconil. Just when I was wondering if it the fungus was still present, it started to grow faster. This was a period of slow growth for 2 seasons as the infected spears grew out. In sept 2020 about 10 years in the ground, it was trunking and looking fully recovered with a good growth rate. Here it is with a full crown sept 2020, pictured with my larger Fallaensis. Frankly, I wish they both stopped growing at that size as the colors are best when you can see into the crown. Then it was hit by two hurricanes the next 4 years. The sharp thorns on petioles of the newer leaves shred the leaflets on the older ones in the hurricanes. Now here it is 20 months after Milton damage, still recovering. It is 16 years in the ground. I am hoping for a full crown late this summer. Trunk is about 6 1/2-7' clear and 10' including the dead leafbases waiting to fall off in the wet season. Let it rain please!

Finally starting to get some of the seedlings into the ground. A few additional Livistona species start the perilous trek to adulthood. @Plantking165 pointed me in the correct direction for a true Dwarf coconut. That coconut is going to attempt life opposite of the Atlantic Tall for best survival chances. You can also see the new Adeniums from GreenThumb resting on the rocks. The next couple of photos are plants from the CFPACS Spring Sale at SJBGNP. This Bismarckia nobilis will start life in the ground this year. Hopefully, I was gentle enough with the roots while cutting the pot apart. Thank you, @CodyM The first Chrysalidocarpus decipiens seemed to do pretty well during the heat last summer. I had an opportunity to add two more to the garden. Thank you @STLOUISPALMGUY! Clay Porch had 3G Phoenix theophrasti for sale. I've had trouble with these getting a fatal leaf spot in the past, but as tough as they are, I'll roll the dice again. Let's all hope we actually have a rainy season this year.

I don't comment much but I was saying on a dozen Facebook forums that the damage was bad but less than the 2010 freeze, I think we can all see that now, at least for cocos, which would seem unusual, in my neighborhood in old eau gallie, almost every coconut palm is recovering, almost all the cocos at frigates (including others), the old talls at squidlips that survived 2010, even relative juveniles are recovering well. The bottom line, this was an extremely rare strong adjective freeze which we aren't used to here, 2010 was deadlier by far but a totally different animal, and the royals, we all know by now that relatively established robust royals are not nearly as sensitive to freezes as most think.

@epicure3 there's a really nice one over at Palma sola botanical Park if you drive over there. One of the nicest and biggest orange geigers I've seen in the area. It's flowering really well right now too.

Update…like nothing ever happened. Why it would have shut down for months is a mystery to me! Looks better than ever now though..

@Merlyn Yeah, I'd get rid of the Foxtails if their close. They might look fine for a while and then collapse. Hollis had that happen with a Bismarckia out of the blue. Thankfully, no one was standing anywhere near it at the time. It is good to see some green coming back in your garden and in the area, in general.

I can’t believe I managed to get these ceroxylon seeds to germinat. I wasnt doubting the quality of seeds. I was more worried about my climate being to warm for once, pretty well much sown at the start of summer so my fear was was that I wasn’t going to be able to keep them cool enough to germinate. It was a long hot summer, so the seeds were kept inside on tile floor in the coolest part of the house. So nearly 6 months later they are a popping. Not sure what I will do with them I might have to send them to the polar bear growers down south!

75% to 90% of the coconuts are recovering. I'm actually really surprised.

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!

Areca is still one of the best hedging palms around. Individual trunks are not crazy heavy either, so if you do get a 25-28F cold snap that kills a few trunks it's not too tough to clean up...and they'll grow back reasonably quick. Caryota Mitis have noticeably heavier trunks when they die. In FL the frost is the big issue with Lutescens. Frost-free nights in the low 30s didn't seem to affect them too much.

Yes apart from a million dollar climate controled environment my odds are pretty slim in my climate, I do know of a couple of cool climate growers so they may destined for those places. Wait and see how many I get I may keep a few to try and the rest shipped out to a much better climate that would suite them. They were originally purchased due to a request from another grower who consequently later purchased their own seeds. The cool climate growers got pretty excited when they were released from rps.

Wow it’s noticeably blue in the picture. Wishing you the best for that one it will surely look sharp and stunning as it grows.

Pulling that off with the amount of pitching injuries is absurd, too. It feels like there's about 47 pitchers hurt. Seeing a pitcher get hurt getting up off the floor from playing with his kids is wild.

1 left 25 off so 125 for the 15 gallon

Very.. though you might see a longer overall flowering season compared to here, especially as it matures. Flowers from just about every new growth it pushes out each year. Nice, < ...or maybe not , > ....Depending on personal opinion .. aspect about this cultivar is it doesn't form seeds.. For all the heaps of flowers produced each year / native bees attracted to them, never once seen a pod form on it. Fast grower, esp if given a deep soak once weekly / every other week this time of year. Also sited where runoff from the roof collects when it rains. Grows fast enough < ..mine so far at least, > that it gets kind of whip -y and i have to head it back a little, every so often to keep it's desired frame developing how i want it to.. Is flirting w/ the bottom of the roofline atm, after being planted as a whippy, approx. 5ft tall 3gal in '24. Laughs at full sun / plenty of west facing, reflected heat.. Mine is planted where it is blasted by sun, every day, esp. this time of year, ..From about 10:30 - 11am, until the sun sets.

Yes Liverpool is quite a bit cooler than London. Though it is still mild enough for canary island date palms to grow there. They tend to get more Atlantic westerlies whist during the winter Atlantic westerlies are more common in London it’s more from the south west direction. Even February sun here can heat those tropical/subtropical air masses up from the canaries sometimes into the high teens. Whilst spring and summer we get much more continental heat and southerly winds coming up from France/Spain and occasionally Africa. Besides having one of the largest heat islands in the world London also has hills to the south, as well as the north. Then some lower elevation ones to the west whilst the east has none. Which also helps the trap the heat in. As well as block the wind. For example London city airport can sometimes be 2-3c cooler on hot days compared to central and western London. As there is a cool breeze flowing down the Thames estuary originating from the North Sea. Here’s it’s possible to grow 9b plants and even some 10a plants in microclimates. Ensete Ventricosum and monstera year after year I see be left out as summer bedding plants and they continue growing in spring with only partial damage. I have not been to Lake Constance but on wunderground map it clearly shows the microclimate differences when I last looked. It’s always amazing how a short distance can have such a sudden change on the temperature and weather in some areas. Which is why the canaries and Hawaii's climate always fascinates me.

so there is hope that it can live in your country too, if so good luck, also because in the future you might have seeds of an uncommon species

The Howea belmoreana presents well from the street outside my garden now too. It is above the wall with its foliage, visible in the center behind the two trunks of Chrysalidocarpus pembanus in this photo. The 5 gallon bucket from the big orange box provides perspective. I need to borrow Tim's shovel for future garden shoots.

Hey palmtalkers. Just wanted to share the progress of my bailey palm. I planted this one from an overgrown, rooted in the ground, 1 gallon baby palm back in May 2016. A picture of that at first planting is shown as well with it being the tiny palm, center of the pictures. It has about an overall height of 9 to 10 feet now to the top of the leaf. Has been slower growing for me than I would like. It gets way to much shade from the surrounding palms now that they outgrew the bailey. It's hard to show in the photos, but this one has that blue-green color. One I prefer. Has been through 3 major hurricanes. Irma, Ian, and Milton. Some winds from Helene as well. It still holds damaged leaves from Milton, but I didn't want to over trim. Took some leaves off and left the others. Hopefully now that it's getting larger and a bit more sun, it will start to grow a bit faster.

Sorry mate, kept all the good ones for myself 😉

Excuses excuses, you polar bears need a a germinating lesson! But honestly would Tim our president of the southern palm mafia chapter send you the floater iam shocked at such accusations! I reckon it’s the happypalms knack!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ps hopefully I can get a few to you

Well done I got some quindiuense to sprout from the last RPS batch, I checked a couple of the parvifrons and found they had no embryo.

Today the favorite is this Encephalartos which is currently flushing. I include some photos of it earlier in the flush.

I have tried fertiliser with trace elements, Hydrogen Peroxide, topical fungicide and a heavy dose of Epsom salts (which is a good cure for similar problems in Parajubaea coccoides) but alas nothing works. The first photo is a plant that was in perfect condition six months ago but I knew it was just a matter of time before the misfiring spears would come. The second photo is where it is heading and likely remain between life and death for many years!

I would plant Sabal minor (or both species?). I've often said you can landscape a whole yard with S. minor cultivars so your choices are many. Needle palms are relict palms from the Pleistocene that some palm experts claim were aided reproductively by now extinct giant sloths - bears are thought to do that chore now. Whether they are on the way to extinction themselves I don't know but they are what they are - no cultivars or varieties unlike Sabal minors. While they are beautiful and tough in their own right I have discovered that they don't thrive in my SWFL sweltering, ferocious sun climate. I believe my winters are not cold enough for them. I have been unable to keep a needle alive long term even in shade and given up on them - 3 strikes put this species out of my lineup. If I were you I would experiment with both species and report the results to PT. If more people did that we'd learn a lot more faster.

Calyptrocalyx leptostachys. Tim

Nice bit of colour from the lanonia dasyantha!