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I haven't hand watered it for over two weeks now. The spear feels firm. I tugged it hard and it didn't budge. I'm thinking of maybe planting some Phoenix Roebellinis around it so it doesn't look as bad.

yes there are some sabal

Konstantinos, as you said, the palm tree is not diseased. I see a plant in excellent health (let's hope the owner is in excellent health too 😁).

Hi, I planted some random palm seeds I found in Florida about 3-4 years ago, and some of them sprouted. However, I am not sure what palms these are and I am looking for help identifying these. I suspect at least one of these to be Sabal Palmetto, but unsure about the rest. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot!

They're a nice dark green, so I haven't fertilized much but I'll get out there today and give them another application. Thanks.

That looks like Roystonia Oleracae , a bit more sensitive to cold temps than R. Regia . Probably taking advantage of the protection from the house. Harry

Your palm looks healthy to me . Some palms are just very slow and we just have to wait for them to grow. I don’t know anything about the particular palm you have , but I have a few palms that are very slow . I try to enjoy them as little palms , knowing I will probably never see them as mature specimens. Harry

It was a good almost 2 weeks for near normal summer rain here but barring tropical systems I think the summer rainy season is done. Non irrigated yards will be dry by Friday.

Good hardy palms; Acoelorrhphe wrightii Acrocomia totai Allagoptera arenaria Arenga engleri Arenga ryukyuensis Bismarckia nobilis Brahea brandegeei Brahea clara Brahea elegans Brahea decumbens Butia eriospatha Butia odorata (capitata) Butia paraguayensis Butia yatay X Butyagrus nabonnandii Chamaedorea microspadix Chamaerops humilis Chuniophoenix hainanensis Copernicia alba Copernicia prunifera Lanonia dasyantha (Licuala) Licuala fordiana Livistona australis Livistona chinensis Livistona decora Livistona fulva Livistona lanuginosa Livistona mariae Livistona nasmophylla Livistona nitida Livistona rigida Livistona saribus Phoenix acaulis Phoenix loureiroi Phoenix reclinata (hybrids) Rhapidophyllum hystrix Rhapis excelsa Rhapis humilis Rhapis multifida Sabal bermudana Sabal x brazoriensis Sabal causiarum Sabal domingensis Sabal etonia Sabal maritima Sabal miamiensis Sabal minor Sabal palmetto Sabal palmetto ‘Lisa’ Sabal tamaulipensis Sabal uresana Serenoa repens Syagrus romanzoffiana Washingtonia robusta more cold sensitive palms for protected locations Acrocomia aculeata Archontophoenix cunninghamiana Arenga australasica Arenga caudata Arenga hookeriana Arenga microcarpa Arenga obtusifolia Arenga tremula Attalea cohune Attalea phalerata Attalea rostrata Beccariophoenix alfredii Caryota mitis Caryota monostachya Caryota obtusa Chrysalidocarpus baronii Chrysalidocarpus decaryi Chrysalidocarpus madagascariensis Coccothrinax argentata Copernicia baileyana Copernicia fallaensis Copernicia glabrescens Copernicia gigas Copernicia macroglossa Geonoma schottiana Hyphaene coriacea Hyphaene petersiana Hyphaene thebaica Kerriodoxa elegans Leucothrinax morrissii Licuala peltata Licuala peltata var. sumawongii Licuala ramsayi Licuala spinosa Livistona benthamii Livistona drudei Livistona jenkinsiana Livistona muelleri Livistona speciosa Phoenix pusilla Phoenix reclinata (pure species form) Phoenix roebelenii Phoenix rupicola Pinanga coronata Rhapis laosensis Rhapis subtilis Roystonea regia Sabal mauritiiformis Sabal yapa Sabinaria magnifica Schippia concolor Syagrus coronata Syagrus scizophylla Wallichia caryotoides Wallichia disticha Wallichia oblongifolia (densiflora) Wodhyetia bifurcata

Wandering around in your garden a year ago transformed me into a non-verbal living entity Tim... The splendour! The splendour!!

Yep. Painful experience makes a person cautious...last year I started the southern hemisphere summer thread about 2 months to early...not touching that one again. Fully expecting that September will be the coldest on record.

This Copernicia is absolutely healthy but it seem like needing an eternity to put on some cm in height. What are possible reasons for it? Too little water (because of slopy landscape and/or competition with an adjacent Guava shrub), too cold in winter, to poor soil all together or what else? By all means it is healthy has 4 spears in different stages of developing.

A few more pics to brighten the day!

A mixture of chamaedoreas adscendens and metallica shining away!

One magical looking Ernest augustii!

Plant more trees I say, more palms even better, I was learning about acid rain in science in the mid 80s what has happened is happening! Richard

and now for the famine.....

Be weary if you have just had your mildest winter in terms of extreme min, and the the next one starts really mild also. It turns out you don't need a long lead in of gradually escalating cold or below average sea temperatures to break an all time cold record - just one super inopportune synoptic setup will do it. 🫣

A nice little shrub sized metrosideros for a bit kiwi touch in the garden with the New Zealand Xmas bush!

Couple of sabinara magnifica, not worried about winter at all, even putting out a new spear. I will say they have some cool tolerance with temperatures down to 2 degrees celcius cold and wet conditions!

Two large clumps of Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) lutescens in Upland, CA. (Inland Empire).

Little dypsis heterophylla!

This beautiful royal palm in San Jose, CA. (San Francisco Bay Area) looking like it’s growing in the tropics.

Merci Tracy !

I was never a big fan of Livistona, until recently I started to admire the beauty within them. Only specialist palm growers have the ones you mentioned above, most of them grow in very isolated areas, or in national parks that are protected, a lot of caravan camper travellers collect the seeds. Being home palm growers they know what they’re looking at. The same with our native cycads in such remote areas and hard to get places for the average person. And national parks officers don’t muck around when it comes to poaching seeds, they have a job to do and that’s to protect our flora and fauna. And a lot of cycads if you get the seeds you need tags to sell them! And they don’t issue those licenses to collect seeds to the home grower that’s for sure!