Cool...Wish we had that many of them up north here!

OMG Erik those Bottle Palms are fab-u-lous!!!!!! 😯 😯 😯 😯
For 30 bucks?
Wow what a bargain.

Good! Now I'm not the only one in the "how to prune the base of a bottle palm class" 😆 😆 😆
(I flunked, if you recall)

And since there was a chicken in the pic, I presume that was back at home? 😆

Great buys!
Barb

Yes, I thought the bottle palms were great buys, given that small cold damaged Bismarckia were $35. Remember, this "Florida palms for OK" thing is a hobby for this family. I made a case for OK's native palm, Sabal minor, and hope they go big with them next year.
Now, I have to figure out what to do with the bottle palms. Can they take intense heat/sun/dry winds? If so, my plan is to pot plant them now and then pot-up in September for the winter indoors. I'm hoping they are more forgiving than Cocos....

Erik,
In my experience (babying my Bottle Palm), it gets only morning sun because it needs high humidity (think Hawaii).
We have zilch humidity in summer so it's mostly in shade.
I mist it twice daily.

Since you have humidity in summer, they may be able to take sun.
But we never really know how a palm was grown at the nursery.
So if leaves sunburn, get it into dappled shade.

Mine gets lots of warmed water in summer.

I think pot planting for the first year is a good idea to see what conditions it may prefer.

Barb

Yesterday we had a high of 82F,dewpoint 7F and humidity of 6%

That is some wacky shite for Fairfield Iowa!

Remember last summer when the dewpoint went to 86F?

The heat index was 134F-bizarre

I don't ever remember seeing numbers like that before,
maybe in Phoenix or some jungle location.

Jim,
I do remember. No, never got that humid here. I think you were as warm as me today.

I spent the entire day outdoors in the sun selling annual bedding plants to fund my palm hobby.
I'm as sunburned as if I was in the tropics 😆

Barb,
I don't get dewpoints like Jim does. That is why we put a mister system up--to raise the humidity for the plants.
(Ah, does me good to think "summer protection" while still counting winter casualties....)

Tentatively, two of the bottle palms will be pot-planted where they will benefit from the mister and one will not be.
I hate to think of bottle palms as so cheap I can experiment with them, but hey, US$30?!?
I think W gave me permission to buy more (in lieu of the giant PDP).
Who would of thought of using cheap bottle palms to test summer protection methods? This is a peculiar hobby....
--Erik

This is a peculiar hobby....

To say the least. 😉

Somewhere in Tonga, Samoa, or Hawaii, a bunch of eccentrics are trying to make their back yards look like the Yukon.

Erik, I paid what seems like an arm and a leg for mine, so have to be very careful.
It sure is easier to experiment with a low-priced specimen.
Also because you have three.
Apart from the bottle shape, they're unusual in that they never get more than 4 or 5 leaves.

Jack,

Somewhere in Tonga, Samoa, or Hawaii, a bunch of eccentrics are trying to make their back yards look like the Yukon.

Good one!
We could give them tips on how to kill a Blue Spruce. 😆

Barb

Supposed to be in the 90s tomorrow Erik.

The thermometer at the airport is surrounded by corn fields.
Last year we had 72 (in a row) days 80 or above and 60" of rain,May-Sept.

You add that kind of water in the ground and all that corn transpiring
and you can get some serious humidity.