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@LowDesertBoil Your plants look great with the backdrop of all of the deep green! Hope your tiling job went well. That's a blue collar job that is more of an art form. A lot is happening in the garden to get it ready for a few planned Fall showings. The weeds have been out of control this year, so there are currently three large piles waiting for their return to the earth... from a single garden bed that is not yet finished. That said, negativity is bad for a person, so here is one of the piles from my driveway bed, flanked by plants with some new borders. The bamboo has used this year to start annexing property. The clump has gotten wider than expected. Some of the new shoots are oval-ed in red. Even in a bad year, you get some kind of harvest. This year, we got our first pineapple. It's good to have friends in high places. This December will mark ten years of me and @DoomsDave trading seeds, stories, mistakes, dreams and aspirations. One of the seed batches Dave sent included Chrysalidocarpus plumosus. All of them that I haven't sold spent the entire winter outside. None took damage, including this one that has been in the ground for a while and put out its first pinnate frond earlier this month. 24oF and not a scratch. Often regarded as an impossible palm here due to our extreme heat and humidity combined with copious amounts of nematodes, Chrysalidocarpus decipiens from @Fishinsteeg234 went in the ground last June as a 2-leaf seedling is still going strong through its second summer, come 24oF or 101oF. I did lose the companions I bought for it, but that doesn't mean more are out of the question. This photo shows the first split-leaf, a new occurrence since the last photo in May. After seeing the performance of the Zombia antillarum at Lake Hollingsworth, I decided to start adding a few in some of the spots that opened up in the yard. This is one of a couple I plan on adding. The one just got a small layer of cut-up pine bark nugget mulch today. My host gift plant for the Fall 2022 CFPACS Meeting was an Encephalartos ferox. It has started to cone. Since two of my large coconuts survived the big freeze, two more were added. On the left is an Atlantic Tall seedling from @redant 's large 2010 survivor. On the right is a Panama Tall I got from @Plantking165 .

@Robert Cade Ross It would be great to get some fruit off the Arenga when it fully ripens. I don't know of any up in Houston that are fruiting or even close to that size.

Galveston this week. Found another 2021 survivor Bismarck and checked up on a few others around town . Other pics are from moody gardens .

Nice finds How is ol' Gene doing? Need to stop in and pick his brain about some rarer trees. Intrigued by your ramo. Seems it's leaves are longer than most i've seen in nurseries / gardens / used to sell. Regardless, looks great. Finding that size of a Dicho. is a bonus. Since they're prone to loosing branches in storms, not sure i would plant it under the elm ( ..Would yank & replace it w/ something more regionally appropriate ) Leucophyllum ( TX. Sage / Ranger ...whatever... ...Avoid use of common names as much as possible myself ) can survive transplanting, but have to be monitored carefully thru the process.. ....Take to small of a rootball when moving, they may die.. Too much water, ..until they show obvious signs that they're putting on a new root system, they'll croak as well. Now that we're headed into fall ..which will hopefully be mild and on the wetter side, = perfect time to move it. FYI, in case you hadn't heard: in honor of their 50 year anniversary, Aridlands is offering 50% off -everything- to walk- in customers this Saturday.. Offer does not apply to any wholesale / mail ordered plants.

Is there just one pot of 10 available? Or 3?

I wanted to share these pictures I took on my way home from work today when the outside temps were close to 108 here in Tucson. If someone new to this forum is from Tucson or the surrounding areas and are thinking about an A. Hercules planted in our weather, this might make you feel better about it. These Hercules have been in the ground since around 2015 when they were planted as small specimen maybe 2-3 ft tall from what I could tell on Google Map pictures. There are a few W. Robustas growing close by that could have shaded them somewhat although I doubt they had any impact. They are all exposed to the westward sun. The taller Hercules are just about as tall as the Robustas and their trunk is actually thicker! So this means they’ve been exposed to ours hottest days and our coldest nights. Since they happen to be in a Chipotle parking lot I doubt much care has ever been given to them besides maybe some irrigation water. They are located at the chipotle off of Cortaro rd and Silverbell rd.- close I-10. IMG_8186.dngIMG_8189.dngIMG_8190.dngIMG_8187.dng

As others have said lots of water. Archontophoenix in multiples are less sun tolerant than singles as they compete for water and nutrients. Cunninghamiana is the least sun and heat tolerant of the genus save Purpurea. Coming from San Diego they haven’t seen real heat down there so your days are probably 20 degrees hotter than where your palms just came from so it will take some time to acclimate but with lots of water they will get there.

As a fellow grower at an elevation of 5273' in Rio Rancho, NM, large rocks/boulders at the base are most beneficial in my climate. The heavier the better for thermal mass. I actually seed mine directly in the ground, do not protect other than the rocks, and maybe dry leaves. Do not water past mid October. Nice palms

Pretty much warm afternoon sun . The courtyard is sort of boxed in a bit so it gets warm but sees morning and late afternoon shade . Full sun from about 1-3 in the afternoon. Harry

A Yucky... Gross.... Disgusting...... 112 -118F Trial by Blast Furnace out there at 3:29PM around town on your final Hump Day of August ....and Summer... 2026 Under some clouds passing thru your back yard atm? = you might be hanging at the lower end of the Yuck factor ( 112 -114F ) More sun in your particular 'hood? ...extra yucky 115 - 115+'s Thankfully,........ Just a day or two left to go before relief arrives via a trough anticipated to set up over the Pac. N.W. this weekend, which will shove the " stubbornly stuck over AZ " portion of the 4C High to ....somewhere... over Southern TX / the Gulf Coast region, which will help bring our temps down to ...reasonable.. levels for the end of Aug / Start of September and Meto. Autumn. At the same time? Still looking like moisture returns to a wide portion of the state ...perhaps solidly... by Saturday, ...if not noticeably on Friday. If so, that may keep temps from reaching above 110, and / or temper the suggested high of 107F for Saturday. Depending on how things evolve, Sunday ..and / or Monday and Tuesday... could be quite active for the lower deserts. Upper level flow under the trough over the Pac. N.W., + some tropical moisture streaming in from Baja / Mexico, + a good set up for inducing -at least- a couple deep Gulf surges, = something to keep a close eye on ...If you want more than just dust and sprinkles. Guaranteed outcome? Uhhh, No. ...There is no such thing. Beyond Tuesday? ..just have to keep an eye on the forecasts.. Could dry out a little bit, ...or maybe it stays active well into next week. Continued activity in the E. Pac., right off Mexico, and what happens across the Pac. N.W. = the biggest things to watch. ...Ain't much of a storm but Iselle still looking pretty on Satellite atm. Moisture being sheared off of it is helping to generate some scattered storms over Baja Norte and parts of far S.E.'rn CA/ Yuma area here in AZ. If you ask really nicely, maybe a brief shower or two tries to sneak west of the mountains in San Diego thru the afternoon / evening or tomorrow. One thing does look pretty certain as the first week of Autumn 2026 gets going ....Temps., locally at least, next week, won't be like this week, ...even if they do end up ticking up a hair by the end of next week. We'll see whether or not tomorrow ( and / or Friday ) marks the end of 110F readings for the rest of 2026. Dehydrated fingers crossed, lol.

Here’s my youngster.

They are just going across the state . Thank you

I am 50 miles inland in SoCal. I have one that’s in my front yard where it’s in full blazing all day sun with a mini block wall on one side and my drive way and on the other side my driveway reflecting heat from the sun. It’s 2 years from a small 5 gallon and is now almost 7 feet at the top of the newest leaf. I give it copious amounts of water. These are tough palms that grow faster than its flamethrower cousins. As was stated above I believe the wax protects against both heat and frost which it gets each winter as it’s on the south east side of the yard and has seen 27-28 at night last winter.

Where did you source this one from? Any updated pictures?

Hey @Harry’s Palms I picked one up today from @DoomsDave but I am not sure where to plant it? You’re planting north facing wall with afternoon shade?

I will take all 10 thank you

2 happy seedlings arrived today safe and sound! Also just curious if you have any planted in the ground in Ocean Springs?

That’s fast growth for a seed sprouted in 2025! Great job! Looking forward to see how it performs in an environment such as Parson. That’s a beautiful area of Arizona. Hoping the El Niño won’t be a bust, too much hype regarding this event. Would be nice to see an end to the extended droughts over the southwest and southern US. Please let us know how this little dude does! Cheers, Chris

Thanks, Tom I had all 5 seeds that I bought, planted there, in situ. The plan was always to only keep one plant. I’ll need to carefully kill the other two - I don’t wish to risk digging them up. They’re maybe 8’ from the fence and maybe like 12’ from the house. Mostly Western with lesser Southern exposure. This was the most practical spot for me, at them time. I do love the hue of the leaves, as well.

@Jim in Los Altos @Darold Petty Thank you, gentlemen! I’m looking forward to seeing how many seeds I get from it.

Fascinating topic. Thanks for sharing. I also briefly(!) thought of trying to grow and sell. Until I saw the different success rates of germinating RPS seeds... I take it you dont live of your growing business? Would be interesting to start from the other end: How much money do I need to make? And go from there to understand the size of my nursery and the turnover. I do see people growing the hip indoor plant stuff. Begonias, Philodendron, etc. In transparent plastic boxes in their cellar under LED. But again, to make a living in an expensive OECD country? When you have growers from Thailand and Indonesia... Palms are still not that much en vogue in the indoor plant world. Which I dont really understand. Many greetings to down under Matti

Oh they said the black bamboo doesn’t run. Yer right they got that wrong!

Im looking for chamaerops humilis var cerifera and a chamaerops humilis 'vulcano prefer a small sized one between 3 and 7 gallon is preferable but dm if your selling any. TIA

I couldn't help thinking about the space that takes just to cut up a dead old frond when it comes down. Living in an urban area where our green waste gets picked up and hauled away, the other challenge is how much space in the waste bins just one dead frond would take. And before that, the damage that one of those fronds dropping would create in a huge footprint. Not something for a little garden like either of mine even if they would grow here. They are beautiful though to admire in other gardens better equipped to handle them.

Putting borassus aethiopum that close to each other is insane. They grow to a huge size, 4' thick trunk can be expected without leafbases. They have that very uncommon ethereal waxy light green color which is stunning. Best of luck with it(or them), hope you have a lot of space.