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Florida's next big crop? Sales pitch writes itself: " Protecting your Prostate, ...in the Sunshine state " 🙃🤣 ....In all seriousness though.. After ..years.. of seeing it marketed, on store shelves, etc, intrigued that there is still a demand for it since many legit studies into Saw Palmetto's effectiveness are highly questionable / uncertain. ..At least with other herbal things, like Ginsing, and / or Senna ( Usually Senna alata ..or Cassia fistula extracts ) there is ..pretty certain.. ( ...I'll leave some room for reasonable questioning of either plant's " benefits" ) evidence of each supplement's positive effectiveness.

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I've grown them from seed sourced from someone in California.

After back to back cones on my female Encephalartos whitlockii x sclavoi, I wasn't expecting a flush this late in the season. I was walking past it this morning and was pleasantly surprised though.

Agreed. Here, they are as fast as Archontophoenix cunninghamiana if the starting line is from the beginning of trunking. My tallest was planting either at the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011 from a 7 gallon pot. I didn't find planting photos, but I did find a photo from about 3 years after planting it as we began demolition for a remodel and addition to the house. The updated photos are best taken from the street outside our yard, since I can't get good photos of it now without other palms in the foreground blocking a significant portion of it. The only thing faster to get tall in my yard has been the Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos and pembanus. I found one more photo of the Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) oliviformis from the outside of the garden in late 2014, with the tips of the leaves just barely visible from the street from a similar perspective to one of my current photos of it.

Good day all, has anyone in this forum seen anything like this. This is a spathodea campanulata with new growth on a cut limb that is growing back with completely white leaves. They're healthy, not fried out , not mildew and able to endure full sun with no burning. Leaf shape and size appars stunted, mutated growing directly out of the trunk where a new shoot was cut off. This is not a different plant growing from the earth or between roots, it is growing straight out of solid wood that has green growth 3 feet away. It's very unusual and I'm curious if anyone has seen anything like this. Zone 10 a , Iona, Florida. Thanks for your time.

Thanks! Admittedly they're not easy to photograph, due to the fact that they're usually mixed into densely planted areas. I've been curious to see how their growth habit will be. I got one and planted it in I think will be a good spot.

Brassia Edvah Loo 'Nishida' HCC/AM/AOS. And I thought this wasn’t going to bloom this year because it was so late. The July heat and humidity must have sparked it. Continuing all the way into Aug Sept. Such a nice vanilla-like fragrance too.

A stunner indeed! I bet it doesn't take frost, like all stunners.

The super rare draceana goldieana! Absolutely gorgeous plants to have in the garden. Slow growing though.

What is that leopard-like plant in the last photo?

@Brodogfish It's fairly difficult to read and requires me to use a magnifying glass. I'll see what I can do.

this is the downside of C. oliviformis, slow recovery from cold events. They are also slow when small. After trunking they pick up some speed.

Heat is on thing iam used to, although it may be subtropical my climate, it can be unbearable in summer with temperatures reaching 42 degrees celcius and the humidity we get can be like the tropical climate. As discussed before you can never really water enough with a hose, it just seems to keep everything alive in those conditions that you describe. Spend all day watering in the heat and then do it again the next day. I enjoy seeing the other gardens on palm talk, some real beautiful gardens out there in the world and some great gardeners as well. I learn a lot from seeing other gardens and talking with gardeners you learn even more about plants and gardening. Won’t be long you will be in winter and cursing the cold weather damaging your new palms , the palm growers enemy hot and cold too much of it either way and the plants suffer. Richard

Nice photos , I really enjoy your virtual garden tours . My reprieve from our current weather condition. I am hoping our weeks long heat wave softens a bit so I can do a bit more time in our garden . It seems , by the time I get the watering done , it is just too hot and muggy to work. Some of our palms are starting to show signs of heat stress . The humidity , which we are not used to , is exhausting. The lack of “cool down” at night is very unusual for us. Thank you for the visual break. Harry

Time to plant the daruma, a Japanese clivia variety that’s variegated. Like all clivia this one should be easy enough to grow.

About $1/lb for the thieves. They can do up to 1000 lbs/day per person.

Just one lone daffodil, that’s all I could get this winter. Just not that cold. But a pretty one at that.

Heterospathe barfordi, young new leaf showing a bit of colour.

Chucking a few more seeds in, this lot a gift from a palmtalk member, carpoxylon macrospermum. All were floaters so I decided to crack them open. With only one dead seed and the rest all good to go!

6 acres of land and about 2.5 acres is taken by the garden. The garden is about 30 years old. Iam currently expanding the garden and renovating it along with doing the understory.

That's crazy, there must be some real money in it to go to that effort?

Very envious of your gardens Richard. How big is your property if you don’t mind me asking?

Here's an updated pic! Also to the OP: I'm not the best with Attalea, but it looks more like A. butyracea to me.