What's looking Exotic in 2020

Hi John,I notice that the trachys and the true palms flower every year once they reach maturity.

Cordyline flower most years once they become multi headed, but not from every rosette.

 

I have had my young Trachy and Waggy flower this year for the first time, the chamy hum every year but not Chamy hum cerifera yet.

 

Mine took 3yrs to flower,then the seeds about vanished,do goldfinches eat them? as thats the only bird i seen at a glance resting on it x

 

Errr...is this some new language that I ought to learn? Marginally easier than Mandarin

 

@noisette47 It's easier than Esperanto!!!!

In 'reel inglysh'

Trachycarpus fortunei
Trachycarpus wagnerianus
Chamaerops humilis
Chamaerops humilis cerifera
OH, I haven't got a Washy anymore but Pete might show you his!!

 

Now there's a prospect! Round here it's mostly Trachycarpus deadasadodoiana, courtesy of palm moth

 

@noisette47 Is it just affecting Trachys? I don't know whether the palm beetle is still killing Phoenix palms in the Med but I haven't heard of this moth.

 

No, all palms susceptible but Trachys are most widely-grown round here. There's palm weevil and also the moth, big brownish-grey thing. Up to 50 big larvae tunnel up to growing point. I managed to save a small Trachy and a Chamy by hooking the larvae out with a bent wire. GCs are now selling various traps and Bacillus thuringiensis should work in principle.

 

I haven't heard of it in years here. Some of the palms are growing back. Storks are nesting in the frondless tops now ... we have hundreds of them. A funny thing, yesterday we were coming through Silves where the have colonised and there was a stork bending into the nest (possibly feeding a baby) and there were new fronds growing up through the nest ... like a doughnut ... so guess they will have to move home soon. Shame I couldn't get a photo.

 

@pete , that’s a rather nice Passion Flower you have there. Growing outside?

 

Its only outside in the summer Freddy
Although one did survive in a pot outside last winter.

 

Hi @pete , which one is it please?
I've a P. Quadrangularis I'm waiting on to flower but I think yours is a little pinkier .

 

I take it that you keep it in the same pot all year?