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Do you have any Brahea Armata?

This pure strain blue E. Arenarius is flushing for the second time since spring! These things get big quick! I was lucky enough to get a handfull of these blues out of a flat of greens. Thanks for looking🤙

One of the last “True blue” Arenarius I have to flush this year.

E. Whitelockii

Natwood x Arewood

E. Fat Are x Are Wood

This is one of the big green Encephalartos you dont see everyday. Instead of flushing with a white fuzz it flushes brown and looks more like animal fur. E. Sp. Bunia

The flushes are still going strong and here are just a few. E. Laurentianus throwing a 3 leafer. Not a great pic as it is buried in a jungle of other Laurentianus.

I miss that color from my yard, they are spectacular palms. If you want to kill the others I'd use water to push dirt away directly under the bud and snip the main taproot with a pruner. That palm will ultimately tower over everything, they throw a bunch of shade. I just underestimated how big the Beccariophoenix and the borassus would get being close to each other. 9' from the house is insane for a palm that is that large. It will ne3ed to be trimmed for years. The leaves are heavy with super thick petioles, almost double the thickness of my S. Causiarum's petioles. I now have a small satakentia in that spot, but if only I'd given it 5 more feet from my house it would still be there. I look forward to the progress you get in coming years. It will first go palmate, then after a couple years the fans will get large. After that it will trunk and the petioles will get super thick and longer as the trunk swells to a stunning thickness (with leaf bases on). The 12 foot across leaves, make Bismarckia leaves look average. One think I was struck by is the sharpness of the thorns combined with the weight of a leaf can get you cut -not stabbed- cut like a saw in a hurry. A falling leaf could be very hazardous. Royal leaves are 10-15 lb heavier in the crownshaft but they thump they don't cut. Drag the leaves by the leaflet tips when handling to prevent injury.

If you look really close at the palms with the sign you can see they actually have some sabal minor and palmetto rare types! I have never seen a variegated Palmetto In person I thought that was so cool! They also had sabal Brazoria and for example things like blountstown dwarf minor. Again what I loved about Leu gardens is how they take advantage of the live oaks to use as a microclimate to grow palms I thought couldn’t grow in this zone! When you get out of the city areas where they only plant date palms palmettos and queens rarely in the town, seeing how many palms can actually grow in Orlando is crazy. (I thought only sugar palms and other things besides the regular would do well there. Also chamaedora or whatever. Could also tell some things did get damaged in winter I know this winter in Orlando was hard. But everything seemed to pull through!

My customers have been planting large Butia paraguayensis in Destin and Miramar Beach and they are growing well.

I don’t see a specialty nursery as a good source of income . The ones I’ve seen around here have all gone . As a hobby they can be rewarding . As they say …don’t quit your day job! If you spend enough time , I guess it could be a supplement if you were able to maintain your inventory , but the economics are challenging. Harry

Here’s a couple for you @Hu Palmeras in the Aussie bush showing you how it’s done with foxtails, just a master of the garden we create!

I got about 30 nice seedlings just germinated this season, so a few more floating around the nursery.

Ok we mostly have had a pet or two in our lives. And these special little creatures are the love of our lives. They ask for nothing in return, with souls that reach into our hearts beyond the furthest reaches in our mind. The love they offer is like no other. So what’s your favourite palm and pet picture!Sari the Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana!

Sold, Thanks

Locally prolific near Nha Trang

Cz totonacorum

They will always be your best friend no matter what. I lost my 19 year old kitty Kat, she passed away in the wife’s arms I couldn’t take her to the vet.

It may change to green/greener as it gets older, at least this had happened to my onwn specimen. On the other hand it nay also have some genes from Brahea armata.

Put a bar in there for a pit stop with all the top shelf goodies. That’s the plan spring, you gotta see how many new seedlings I have to pot up, I couldn’t do them in winter. Made that mistake before and lost to many.

You could try a few Australian Livistona palms. They’re pretty tough! I can’t grow coconuts due to being ten minutes inland from the ocean, but they can grow them on the coast just ten minutes away, so that’s a great example of zones being totally different. Yet all classed as a subtropical zone. So understanding microclimates is a big advantage that you can only fully understand if you live in that zone’s microclimate. Australia has a lot of beautiful looking tough plants, especially the wildflower small shrubs and trees, while not a country known for having hundreds of unique palms we do have some good ones. I live 3 hours south of the Queensland border and that border region is very rich in microclimates that is pretty well much up there with the other top palm growing areas. My climate suits Madagascar, New Caledonia, South America and the Asia regions. While you can’t grow a lot of the top tropicals, you certainly can grow a lot especially with all the new palms coming into cultivation. With a microclimate that I understand and know it’s one of the advantages of knowing your climate. I don’t go by the books or internet saying it needs this zone to survive, some of the top tropicals from around the globe are in my collection once unthought of growing in a subtropical climate.

Reckon you might need to install a train station halfway down...it's pretty long! Looking like it's going to be ready for spring.

It's Washingtonia??? Looks pretty awful, whatever it is, poor thing.

...Their Bismarck was quite the " growing well in Tucson " surprise when i made my first visit there after the move here back in '16. May have asked Gene about it but, ..it's been awhile, lol. I visited to get info on some rarer, regionally native tree sps some people i'd known from Desert Survivors had mentioned Gene might be growing. ..and to pick up some other stuff. My pair of Cyrtocarpa edulis, a very rare ( ..for now.. ) .. and really neat tree from southern Baja came from his place. Anyway, I'd wanted to meet / talk with his other half but never seemed to cross paths with her whenever i was in town. Yeah, that's the thing about Bach's ..Visited once, enjoyed the visit / picked up a couple things but, their nursery seemed a bit more " standard fare " than say the trips to Aridlands. If it was grown in one of the greenhouses / under shade, that may explain why the leaves are a bit long, compared to other specimens i've seen. When you go to Tohono Chul ..and /or make a trip to Aridlands, you might get a better idea of how " pure " it may ..or may not.. be. Bob, over at Aridlands, is the go to guru when it comes to African succulents, having traveled all over South Africa. Imagine if you showed him a couple shots of the plant, he'd be able to tell if there's something mixed in w/ it's genetics, or if it's just stretched out a little. Regarding Chinese Elms, I will say they aren't nearly as bad ( ...of a non -native, temperate tree option ) as Siberian Elm, which are horrible and do look similar.. That said, there have been reports from various areas of these invading highly irrigated areas outside of cultivated settings, even here in AZ. They are also susceptible to random, sudden die back as well, like a lot of non natives that are better suited to consistently moister areas ( Elms are typically found near streams ). Being a " Riparian habitat " - type tree, they can have lots of thirsty surface roots, vs. desert trees that produce deep, anchoring taproots and a smaller degree of near surface lateral roots. There is an Apartment complex w/ several Chinese / Lacebark Elms lining a portion of the property and they do look good / are maintained well, but i've seen sizable pieces sheered off of a few of them after some of our bigger storms, and some die back on others. Have seen them drop dead as soon as regular irrigation is cut off in other areas. Since it is bigger than it looks in the background of the picture w/ a view of your yard, i'd probably just let it be and see what happens. 10ft away from it will probably be alright, just remember the Aloe will require much less water than the Elm. As far as Mesquite and Palo Verde go, ...for the most part, majority of those you and i see blow down / sheer off in large sections after storms are the non - native Mesquite ( Pure species and cultivars involving the South American species, IE: Argentine / Chilean ..and what many refer to as " Swamp -'Squites, which are all the rando hybrids between those two, and /or a couple of our local native sps most of the nurseries sell ) Spadefoot Nursery did a good write up on the subject awhile back. Part of the reason they ...and the hybrid Palo Verde.. ( IE: Desert Museum ) collapse, ...or fully uproot in storms... is due to 3 reasons, 1: extremely fast growth, which often = weak / weak -er wood. 2: How they are maintained, Palo Verde esp. " Lion Tailing " = trimming technique guaranteed to lead to storm damage. See that occur every year, w/ out fail up here... 3: Providing WAYYYYYYY......... too much water in cultivated settings. #3 leads to 1, and is made worse by #2. Of the species, Blue ( Parkinsonia florida ) and Palo Brea ( Parkinsonia praecox ) like -some- moisture since they do grow close to larger streams out in the desert. That said, what moisture they get in habitat is far less than what is provided in many parks / commercial landscapes, so their overall growth rate is moderate/ steady compared to cultivated specimens. Honestly, while i like them all, Ft. Hill / Little - Leaf Palo Verde, Parkinsonia microphylla, is the only P.V. i'd plant, since it is the toughest / needs the least amount of water after establishment. These are the Palo Verde you'll see growing alongside Saguaros in the driest areas out in the desert. Honestly, after 11 years of observation, of all the " desert " trees i've seen daily since moving here, Ironwood ( Olneya tesota ) and TX. Ebony are the two trees i rarely see suffer damage in storms. Last big storm we had a week or so ago was bad enough that it damaged several roofs pretty badly in the neighborhood and took down one of the big traffic signal poles ( Multi - signal, Mast - Arm type ) near the hospital. TX Ebony and Ironwood planted on the same corner? not a branch stripped off of them. By contrast? good sized section of a Palo Verde managed to sheer off one of several planted across the street, and blow into the front yard at the old house, after crossing a 6 lane road with a 12ft wide island in the center. Pretty wild. I've watched limbs get ripped off of others / entire specimens get ripped out of the ground over there over the years during storms as well. When i'd examine those ripped out of the ground? ground was always wet / roots rotting. Neighbor's South American Mesquites? While the top of one looks like it came down recently, i'm surprised all 3 haven't been torn to shreds this year. Since moving here, those trees have suffered major damage 4 times. Massive Mesquite at the old house, which sits just across the alley from our neighbors? Have sat and watched it during some of the worst storms we've had. Only thing it has ever dropped? really old, really dead small branches. Pretty sure its a species from central Mexico ( Neltuma laevigata ).