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This has been a fun palm to watch grow. I planted it in 2012 as a solid dark green 1 gallon. Slowly it became more and more silver on the bottom of the leaves and then started to turn silver on the tops. Now I have to climb on the roof to shoot a pic of the tops of the leaves and they are solid silver only loosing some their color as the leaf ages. Sorry for the Bigfoot quality photo on the first shot.

Foxtails survive in cooler climates but never look their best and the slightest of problems kills them. Here they are are so common that I am actually thinking about getting rid of mine for something more unique. Peachy

Wodyetia are a bit sensitive in their roots . It could take more time to recover or it may not recover at all. They can be very hardy or super sensitive , hit or miss . My bet is that it won’t recover , but that is because I have lost two of them for no apparent reason . One was growing like a weed for about ten years , got big , then just started fading . I tried everything to save it but finally had it cut down. Harry

A year ago my palm was blown over as far as 45 degrees. Obviously failed to plant deep enough. I staked it and used a mixture of cactus soil and native so cal. soil around the roots raising the height of soil by 6 inches. Palm has failed to sprout new roots and still unstable so anything else I can try?

That’s not a rat it’s cappabarra by the size of that thing omg! But that’s a rat on mission by the looks of him for sure!

It seems like there are some sort of critters in every corner of the globe that do damage. I guess Donald Duck had the right idea about squirrels poor old Chip and Dale!

Different Ravenea species but also should be considered for the future

Yeah rats live in gangs. You can be rat free, then bang, 30 can just rock up from nowhere and cause trouble. I bait them. I don’t like doing it, but, I’d rather kill a few rats than let them breed and then need to kill 200 of them. When you live in rural properties they are never too far away. They love chicken coops too. So if you have chickens they won’t ever be too far away. They will burrow underground in a chicken coop. Sometimes you will get university trained rats that won’t take a bait and know how to take the bait from a trap. They teach others. If you have that problem you need to get the intelligent first. Simply put poisoned bait on the trap. I had super intelligent rats in my previous garden and if I had a gun I would have sat out in the garden at night with night vision goggles. Anyway the only thing that worked was using poison on the trap. Job done. Rattus rattus is best Rattus deadus.

This is a nightly occurrence in our yard. Thankfully, they haven’t devoured any plants yet, perhaps because they are too busy gorging on the slug pellets that I broadcast regularly. PS, we never had rat issues until the neighbor on the other side of the fence decided to get chickens 🤬 c55a79e7b5ad50995f71561c51abed63.mp4

Over here in South Texas, our worst enemy that comes back every year are squirrels and they stay for months in your backyard. They love do dig holes everywhere. One time they used the trunk of a potted Ravenea Rivularis to sharpen their claws, left a pretty nasty scar on the trunk. It's a losing battle .

Hello, my friend Jonathan! He's adorable! I'd adopt him right away! I don't understand how some people mistreat animals. Fortunately, here, rats and cats don't cause any harm, while my brothers' dogs, who live across the street, have damaged so many of my plants. Hitting them wouldn't do any good; they wouldn't understand. Please, let's love all living creatures, animals and plants, that our creator created.

This is unfortunately the solution. We have an absolute feral cat plague here at the moment, haven’t seen a rat or mouse for over a year. Usually the rodents move into the greenhouse in winter and wreak havoc, this winter not a single one. The downside is that the bloody cats have killed everything else as well - bandicoots and all the ground nesting birds, lizards, etc. So the solution to the cat problem is this little cutie who's coming home with us on Friday! If she's anything like our previous shepherds she'll chase the cats away and leave everything else in peace. Yep, we'll end up with rats and mice again but that's a small problem compared to the devastation cats cause.

A friend of mine and his wife were to Thailand a couple (pair) of weeks ago. He has sent me these pictures of " high class" species. From top to bottom: Verschaffeltia/ Latania lodigesii/ Carpoxylon/ Cryosophylla/ more Verschaffeltia/ Pelagodoxa/ Pelagodoxa drilling a hole through the roof/ Licualas/ Angiopteris/ Cissus. He has sent me some seeds too. Does anyone know how to sow Mauritiella seeds?

Thank you Not right now as I have been swamped running my coffee shops. It took all my time. Writing was a full time job. Plus, I would never want to use new tools like ChatGPT - which so many bloggers now do.

A stack of cash 💰 my dear possum! Richard

There all varmits!

I couldn’t see you standing on chair in the kitchen screaming rats rats help. With that army pooches and the cute little fur ball of rat killing paws and teeth in the form of cats we all love, ever since my cat retired and just sleeps on the lounge, it’s wonderful to take the rat I just caught and show her just like she used to do at 3 in the morning saying look I love you I got a rat meow meow as she drops it on my face in bed in the morning it’s a wonderful thing and it brings me great joy to return the favour to her. Now she is 19 and just wonders around and sleeps. Richard

A nice young burretokentia hapala, had the dancing lady orchid to dance with!

Evening sun hitting this 2 headed Chrysalidocarpus Prestonianus Hybrid

Today it caught my eye how difficult it is to photograph my Mauritia and how easy it is to photograph my Pinanga.

Here's a Corypha sp. at Kopsick loaded with fruits with lots of seeds to be collected later and a big removal to come as well!

The common and exotic, both have a role in the garden to do!

A view from my new garden. I moved in April.

A coconut palm doing well in my 9b suburb of Orlando:

My 1.5yr old Borneo Giant has flowered! Never really found any of the Alocasia flowers impressive imo.

Dypsis procera, beautiful smallish palm.

L weddelianum today.

Skippy the bush kangaroo in amongst the palms.

Great thread …. Inspired me to write AVerse I am nearly 70 And some call me a grumpy old man I see I see I and Us and them I see politics and war and religion and war I see humanity I see a planet overwhelmed I wonder Am I fatalist or nihilist Its not my job to have hope I grow palm trees

I remember you and @tim_brissy_13 being young kids back in the day and being super impressed with your knowledge and maturity, great that you're both still posting here. Think I joined PT in 2008, so would have been 38 at the time. Had been sporadically into palms since the age of about 20 when I germinated a few CIDP seeds that I found locally. I just added my vote to the mid 50's category...I imagine my age is already out there in cyber space, freely available to any rapacious corporation, identity thief or corrupt dictatorship who desire it. Maybe they might steal 20 years and I'll wake up tomorrow aged 35 again!

I'm 28 now and started posting when I was 13 (lurked for a bit before). Surprised (but glad) this forum is still around! I think palmtalk has really started to skew younger overall (as in 30s and 40s) compared to when I first joined (55+). Not sure what all the negativity about sharing age is about, feel free to steal my age info 😆

I am 81- 1/2 year old. Joined this Forum in 2013 . Grew up in Daytona Beach , but only discovered the Palm Society in about 1964 , while spending time in one of the local Libraries looking for palm info , and in one of the books , it slowly dawned on me that many of the pictures looked like my town !! Further searching revealed the Palm Society , and the Dent Smith connection etc . Been hanging in there for all of this time . Still active , and occasionally adding a new palm , but my yard is limited in size , so.....

Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens Solitary Form and a dwarf Areca catechu happy with all these recent rain.

H rheophytica twas today.

A nice Chambeyronia pyriformis looking good.

First flowering of my Pelagodoxa. Unlikely to still be here when/if it sets seeds

Today I noticed my 3 Brassiophoenix drymophloeoides

Like Harry, I was drawn to the site of a rainbow 🌈 visible from my walkway, looking west. Unfortunately, to get to the end of this rainbow, I would need to dawn my wetsuits and paddle out to find it. After all the pollution runoff, I will wait a couple of days before returning to the ocean. The palms lining my walkway were also a draw for my eyes.

2.5ft still going, getting concerned about its stability.

Lights are crooked because I haven't untied their power cables yet. I sat on this table just to make sure it was solid and I'm about 210 pounds. I stood on it hanging lights. I think it can handle some seedlings. Now that it's done I found all the extra braces I had tucked away for it.

After 4 days of a rain . Maybe a break with more on the way. More than just a silver lining. Deep watering for our palms in Southern California . Harry

Triple-headed Hyophorbe lagenicaulis at Montgomery Botanical Center.

Nice fat Carpoxylon at the same nursery.

A few nice Satakentia at a nursery in Homestead, Florida. Needless to say I walked out with a 5-gal to take back to South Texas! 😉

Iguanura wallichiana var. major. Tim

Another Chambeyronia hookeri in flower, and a few seeds on the lytocarum weddlianum.

My Latania from the top