wow! Those are really gorgeous. No, there are no latin names on the plants. The guy who works there sometimes tells me he knows the latin name, I can't really follow when he says it so I will need to get him to write it down. I don't know, latin with spanish pronunciation gets lost in my brain. There are very few nurseries here that even attempt to know the latin names for any plants, they generally know the local common name which may not even be common for all of Mexico but only here in the Yucatan peninsula. So, NOID is my most common plant.

The kid who works there did say that there were bugs on some cycads he had over in a separate area. He had cut most of the branches off and said he was spraying them. I'm thinking now that it probably is the cycad scale and perhaps I should just forget the whole thing. My partner is telling me to wait until the fall as during the summer we keep the bedroom doors closed and have the AC on, it's only in the winter that we are open air. So, I wouldn't see the plant much until probably October.

I will look again at the different types that are not sagos and hopefully don't get that scale. Thank you.

On the cycad scale I believe after it got really crazy here in Florida and killed a bunch of cycads, they did introduce the predator for it, so it is once again mostly under control here now. I'd think your nurseries might get stuff from the same sources, so you might be ok too, Jonna.

That being said, even if you do see some, there's a fairly easy non-toxic treatment for it, too. So I wouldn't decide against a cycad for that reason.

Although they say it was proven ineffectual, I actually had good luck by mulching with coffee grounds. No more scale!

Here they sell tobacco, ground up, to mulch with and they say it keeps all the bugs away. I haven't tried it but it is everywhere. I generally use a systemic for sucking insects, of which there are many around here. I will inspect the plant though and make sure I don't see any. I also have plenty of coffee grounds so I could maybe mix that with the tobacco and the plant could become a real junkie - coffee and cigs.

but yeah I have heard of mulching with tobacco leaves.

It's a good day as I found and purchased a Lytocaryum weddellianum palm this morning and have it in the ground already. I had a nice shady spot for it.


Jim

My Zamia furfuracea is making its flush of new leaves finally! Good replacement for the older leaves after our cold, rainy winter:

We have had 6 years without a freeze and then on January the 18th, wham! It was 27 degrees here in the wee morning hours. This is when we pay for all of the zone pushing optimism and accumulated confidence. I won't know if these palms will pull through for another few months but here is what the hard hit ones look like now.

Satake palm ( Satakentia liukiuensis)


Arikury palm (Syagrus schizophylla)


Aneityum palm ( Carpoxylon macrospermum)


Sugar palm (Arenga pinnata)


Tringle palm (Dypsis decaryi)


Rootspine palm (Cryosophila warscewiczii)


Wallich's fishtail palm (Wallichia densiflora)


Toddy fishtail palm (Caryota urens)


Foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata)


Cat palm (Chamaedorea cataractarum)


I will update this if I see signs of life in the future.

Jim

It's heartbreaking. I really hope they can recover and all those palms aren't lost.

@hawkarica I tempted fate and planted different palms around my pond. Two years later and they all froze, in spite of my covering the trunks with blankets and string lights. Only one survived. I keep it to remind myself that I don't live in Florida. I'm tempted every time I see them in a nursery, but remember the heartbreak of losing them.

Yours do look like they will recover!

Every palm I show here is rated for zone 10 and I am in 9b. So, it's nothing I shouldn't have seen coming. The first and third ones are the ones that hurt most as they are beautiful and rare.

Jim

I'm sure they all hurt you when you lose them.

I found a giant fishtail palm (Caryota gigas) today and picked it up as a replacement should one of mine die. I have little hope for the Sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) and this fellow would go in that spot nicely. Some of the rest of them are looking like they may recover.

Jim

Good news that some are making a come back.

hawkarica said:I found a giant fishtail palm (Caryota gigas) today and picked it up as a replacement should one of mine die. I have little hope for the Sugar palm (Arenga pinnata) and this fellow would go in that spot nicely. Some of the rest of them are looking like they may recover.

Jim

Jim, Are you growing XButiagrus nabonnandii?

I have a Pindo Palm that appears to have developed a case of crown rot. This has never been a healthy tree. It was a bad winter here but I don't think that is the problem. I have two others that are doing fine. Should I cut more of the dead tissue out of the crown and cut more of the fronds off? You probably can't see it but there is some green and firm tissue down in the crown. Or is it just going to die? I had a Pygmy Date Palm that got crown rot several years ago and it eventually died.

Michael, are you by any chance a member of the SE Palm Society? https://www.palms.org/chapters...

There is a forum, open only to members, on their website and that would be a good place to ask about your palm. Most of the members are from Coastal GA and SC.

I am not a member but I will take a look at that site. Thank you for the information.

It has been a long time since anyone posted on this thread but I walked around the garden yesterday afternoon and captured these photos:
Livistona drudei (Halifax fan palm)


Syagrus schizophylla (Arikury palm)


Trachycarpus latisectus (Windamere palm)


Beccariophoenix alfredii (High plateau palm)


Copernicia alba (Caranday palm)


Livistona decora (Ribbon fan palm)


Sabal uresana (Sonoran palmetto)


Dypis decaryi (Triangle palm)


Livistona saribus (Taraw palm)


Lytocaryum weddellianum (Miniature coconut palm)


Copernecia macroglossa (Cuban petticoat palm)


Phoenix rupicola (Cliff date palm)


And a cycad just for fun, Dioon spinulosum


Jim