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The brown tips are a sign of overwatering, indoors elegans are very tolerant of dry soil. So maybe a bit too much love in the water department. As for fertiliser a slow release osmocote is fine or you could use a liquid seaweed fertiliser next time you water but only fertilise in summer and follow the manufactures recommendations, even go a little under the rate recommended less is best.

Arenga nana seedlings a rare palm.

Thought it might be one chamaedorea you would be wanting. A super tough chamaedorea species!

What a stunning garden so far away from the equator! Thank you for sharing!

If you want that tropical exotic look than look no further than platycerium!

richard you know i would be very happy !

Here you go, it’s a slow growing brom. And I think you got one of the last picture as well. Broms are great for humidity on those hot days. If you get hot days in sunny Tassie!

Licuala triphylla var stenophylla

Dictyosperma album gracing the skyline.

Yes! Considering there isn't even cell phone service out there, seeing a Medemia argun in one of the most remote parts of Mexico was definitely a surprise!

A couple of chamaedorea plumosa seeds. I might have to send them to @gyuseppe and see how he goes with them!

Iam still perplexed about this little palm, labeled as a ptychosperma baliese. But i cannot find any information about it. So it is a mystery to me I can’t even remember getting the palm.

I have one nice one in the garden and a recent purchase from pacsoa. Slow growing I know that much.

Yes, it could be due to it growing on such a steep slope . It also gets a ton of water being down at the bottom of the hill. Harry

Really difficult in your case from the photos without clear images of the inflorescences and we’d need to understand full size fruit size and shape. The only observation I’d note is that the second one appears to have scattered lepidia on the abaxial surface of the fronds which would rule out P hillebrandii. Here’s a link to an article with a key. https://palms.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/vol51n4supplementPritchardia.pdf

Beautiful palm trees. They have a great Mediterranean feel.

@Harry’s Palms this edulis has a very chunky trunk! 😍

@palmtreesforpleasure and @tim_brissy_13 after the original thread I have doubts about the identity of my two Pritchardia specimens. I am totally in the dark about the usual diagnostic features applied in the genus, since I do not have the relevant book of Don Hodel. I can only say that the first sp is more prone to nutritional deficiency (sensitive to alkalinity) but also cold hardier. Besides it has already bloomed at a much smaller size and its flowers are more yellowish. So here we go: First one obtained as Pritchardia lowreyana Second one obtained as Pritchardia hillebrandii:

108 currently accepted species so I reckon we can all easily squeeze in 216 Chamaedoreas in our gardens to get fruiting pairs! I’m sitting at 41 species now and they really don’t take up much space.

Yeah mate they rock!

Sunday night Extras..... Coral Vine.. Year #2 of flowering in the Spring. Citharexylum spinosum AKA: FL. / Spiny Fiddlewood.. Leucophyllum x " Lynn's Legacy " Spring cycle.. Pseudobombax Surprised to see this 5 month old Senna hirsuta seedling already flowering. Mistflower ( Conoclinium dissectum ) up front, Solanum houstonii in da' back..

That’s the one Harry, but the best part is look at how great your garden will look. What with only another 400 varieties to collect, plus you will need a male and female of each if one wants to do a bit of palm seed collecting. So another 800 little chamaedoreas won’t need that much space, I think! Richard

Argh the dypsis complex syndrome. Such a shame that Madagascar has lost most of its native habitat. Palms in cultivation will never be found in habitat there again. This leaves a big gap in the identification of indigenous species now in cultivation.

Here’s the “type” at the Black garden in Fountain Valley, OC California. Scream obscenities with delight! Chrysalidocarpus blackii (above) looks a lot like lanceloata, in fact Mr Black bought his thinking that’s what it was since that’s what the original label says. But the trunks are a lot thicker and the infructescence is totally different. Blackii’s are dense and compact while lanceolata’s dangle like C. lutescens’.

I'm gonna open with this meme. Anyway as always price is OBO, white monstera. Yes it was sold by Costa but it's been confirmed they did not grow them, it's from the Kunzo lineage also confirmed by them. Not an albo or creme Brule or Thai con. Rehabbed and is now pushing out of a 1g pot. I've got it listed elsewhere for more optimistic prices, these were sold in March and didn't last long. $75 obo for y'all plus the ride.