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Getting a few common varieties of palms in today’s planting expedition. No soil amendment, just the holes dug and the lot heeled in with a good watering in! lytocarum weddlianum hypohorbe indica green Oraniopsis appendiculata vietcha joannis hypohorbe indica red diploglottis Australis not a bad little haul today’s planting fun! dypsis rivularis Gausia maya Areca triandra Rhopalostylis baueri bentnickia condapanna Chambeyronia pyriformis Pinanga coronata Chambeyronia macrocarpa livistona rotundifolia dypsis baroni black petiole Livistona Australis

She’s staying in a pot for a long time before I plant this little princess of a palm, but I will certainly give it a go! Richard

Pinanga maroon crownshaft.

A little late but here's my last surviving Lyto. I learned so much from him despite so little actual interaction, and his wealth of knowledge especially about soil mixtures and these palms made me into the plant dork I am today. Do I follow his attention to detail and scientific methods? No. But did he have a lasting impact on me? Absolutely. I've been so careful with this plant after losing my others, and even if it just sits in the corner getting nothing but light and water it'll always be special.

Yes, they both appear to be rostrata. Not all Yucca rostrata are silver, it’s just the preferred cultivar.

@SCVpalmenthusiast I would give it shade where you are for sure . At least for a few years. Lots of water in the warmer months . Mine grew into the sun from deep shade and burned every summer until I figured out that it wanted more water. I now water every other day , spring through fall , and it helps a lot. Congratulations on your new palm. Harry

I like the Medjool palm. I have these palms, but they're protected indoors. And Theophrasti is great. I obtained pure RPS seeds.

You can always obtain a X theolifera or a X dactyphrasti ...

I would love to see an update. I just picked up a macrocarpa today. Florida prices are nice. Mine was over $100 similar size. I put it in the back of my truck and the leaflets got shredded bad on the freeway. One side of the petiole lost all the leaflets.

Man it's going to be pretty hot next week!

Very nice. Looks healthy, even though it looks like it would appreciate a little more shade.

Wow! That palm is amazing. So is the Enc. Longifolius (?) next to it!! Jeez….quite the pairing -dale

@D. Morrowii did the 55 gallon drum work out? I have a Koban and a variegated one that I'd like to plant. Both were way too aggressively spreading in the ground. My clusters of regular green Rhapis took off like mad not too long after I commented here that they were fine. I found shoots 6 feet away from the main clumps and ripped them all out. The unusual ones I potted up. I was thinking of pouring a concrete barrier 30" or so deep, or a galvanized steel tub, or something else like your drum.

@MarcusH Pandanus utilis

Have another ID for you guys. I already told my wife that I want to move to South Florida just for the foliage lol.

pindo palm is your safest choice

I see them all over SWFL. Some got some winter damage east of I-75 in Sarasota but pulling through just fine. That glossy lime green color is definitely an eye catcher

I have this caryota gigas in a pot that is good centerpiece material, but when i tried acclimating it to more sun it didn't look better until i drug it back under the tree. So i figured something else would appreciate the fun sun and well draining spot more than that.

Thanks, JLM, that’s good info. I see you are in Pace outside of Pensacola. Several years ago, really like more than a decade ago, a guy on this forum sent me seeds from Canary Island Day Palms h said we’re growing around the courthouse in Pensacola. He said the trees were probably about 100 years old. The seeds all sprouted beautifully, but I could not get long-term survival for CIPD here in Dallas, TX. When I visited Mobile and the Gulf Coast last year to see the SS United States, we drove over to Pensacola, but I did not see any CIPD around the courthouse. Did those trees just live out their years or did they freeze? thanks, I guess I didn’t know where to look. There used to be a few of those in Mobile, too, but I think they’ve all died out. On another note, I really don’t understand how the threads work on this form. I’m not sure if you’ll even see this reply.

Jim absolutely right about the size of plants from Flouibunda their 1 gal would pass as a 5 from a lot of nurseries!!!

Much like everyone else around here the hard freeze in feb killed my pandanus. When i was planting it i didn't know what to do with it and a website mentioned it was an old south fla custom to plant it right in the middle of your front yard, so that's what I did and gave it lots of room to grow out. Now that it's gone I've been racking my brain and scouring the interwebs for a replacement in such prime real-estate. I'm in inland central florida, they call it 10a but the hard freeze was a good reminder that anything very cold sensitive is subject to death or serious injury anytime. Not trying to recreate the pandanus incident. Spot is full sun on a well draining gentle sandy slope. I'd like to get something that isn't commonly used, but not very hard to grow. I've been looking at ornamental flowering trees, but it doesn't have to be something like that. A good example is that i have an australian bottle tree in the back that is getting big, looks good, and survived that hard freeze without problems and i kind of regret not putting that out front where more people could see it. So i thought it would be a good idea to ask for any out of the box type suggestions before i really settle on something.

Buy a $20 or $30 liner and get a free plant! 15 gal large Cycas Revoluta Sago

5 gal. Butia Capitata

In addition to some mentioned above I'm growing Ravenea glauca, Chrysalidocarpus ambrositae, onilahensis and baronii, Geonoma undata and Syagrus weddelliana. Howea belmoreana is nice and would take forever to get large. And maybe Chamaerops humilis. I'm also on a small lot with some overhead wires.