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W and I are headed south. Yesterday we drove to Dallas, Texas, where she has cousins. We arrived after dark. When we got up, look what we saw over their back fence:

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Posted : 19/12/2011 7:33 pm

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I could wake up to that view every morning and live a very happy life doing so.

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Posted : 19/12/2011 7:58 pm

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That is what I said! I immediately asked about jobs etc. in the Dallas area.
Those folks aren't palm-nuts or anything, which makes it all the more galling. Trachycarpus are just easy, even after the coldest winter and hottest, driest summer. Grrrr....

Posted : 19/12/2011 8:01 pm

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Go for it! 😀

Shoshone Idaho weather
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-

Posted : 19/12/2011 8:32 pm

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Those folks aren't palm-nuts

They're not livin' if they're not nuts about palms, especially since they grow there 😛

Dallas sounds like a great place to enquire, Erik.
Maybe cheque the ratio of universities to nurseries? :nike:

Barb

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Posted : 19/12/2011 11:01 pm

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Wow, nice view in the morning indeed.
I made some time ago a little mistification and put one of my Phoenix Roebellini in front of the kitchen window.
It was great to feel and look from time to time and see like I was in a palm tree area 🙂

Please look:

Keep exoting!
Godfryd

Posted : 20/12/2011 2:27 am

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What a nice looking PDP, Godfryd, very healthy.
Great view!

Barb

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Posted : 20/12/2011 11:35 am

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What a view. 😀

Shoshone Idaho weather
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
-Aaron-

Posted : 20/12/2011 2:09 pm

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We endured the all-night + most of next day bus odyssey. On the beach now surrounded by native palms like Cocos plus many ornamental Roystonea, Veitchia/Adonidia etc. Photos after I catch up on sleep.

Posted : 21/12/2011 9:46 pm

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Glad you made it safe and sound, Erik.

Lotsa photos please....Christmas + Christmas palms. Perfect! :cheers:

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Posted : 21/12/2011 10:14 pm

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Barb,
I'll run around and take photos of Christmas palms for you over the weekend.
Today we are having a winter storm. Here is a short (<30 sec.) video clip I took of chit palms in the storm.

If videos can embed:
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If not, the link:
http://youtu.be/Ok9xS9vLdnA

I like these because they look to me like Trachycarpus, with their thin hairy trunks and fan leaves that look a little bluish in the sun. They go by Thrinax radiata.

Posted : 23/12/2011 5:28 pm

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Erik, those are beautiful palms!!!! Wow. 😛
Is that black seeds on a branch, or just some black branches waving in the wind on one palm?

If it's seeds....ahem... 😯

We'd all trade our winter storms for yours.
Enjoy the warm sand, and photos only when you have some time!

Thanks for posting the Thrinax (Florida Thatch Palm) video.

Barb

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Posted : 23/12/2011 6:15 pm

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Abundant seed now on these "weeds", which feed the local birds.
Tempting, but while these may look like our beloved Trachies, they are zone 10b palms.

Posted : 23/12/2011 6:28 pm

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10b?

No problem.
Piece o' cake. 😆 😆

Barb

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Posted : 24/12/2011 10:16 am

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A pair of olive-throated parakeets must have heard me talk about the seeds as they are now gobbling them up for breakfast:

Posted : 24/12/2011 11:00 am