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Pretty surprised to so Licuala, Cocothrinax, and RedLatana at my local L👌👌👌s bigbox store in Brandon on Causeway get get yall one! I went for the Buccaneer i seen last week, its gone

@Johnny Palmseed, I've germinated C. lastelliana before and they didn't look quite like yours, but more like C. leptocheilos (as @Frond-friend42 mentioned) or Euterpe edulis. It seems like yours skipped a step and went straight to adult-ish pinnate leaves! Maybe it's normal but looks cool to me!

Would definitely be interested. Only problem is that I am in Europe 🥲

Phoenix roebelenii, coconut and a bismarkia? Am I close?

A local friend has a very large yard on a hillside, and wishes to install two Bismarkia palms down the hillside from his deck. What is the proper spacing so that the mature crowns will be close, but not overlap ?? Palmpedia suggests that the crown is 14 to 16 feet in diameter, so that would indicate perhaps 20 feet on center ? Thanks !

Very cool garden and people! Heres a few photos I took.

A very nice score. I'm lucky as well to have a couple of those in my collection. I have to double check which ones, but they always have great info and wonderful photos. Ryan

Arenga pinnata if I recall correctly.

Update: Some expected cold damage but now are starting to push out new fronds

Whoa, what is that?

There’s bizzies as far north as southern SC, but I never saw a kentia palm in the area.

Update: the seagrape died before I could uncover it. I’m assuming it was because of rot since this has been why I’ve lost a lot of plants (the soil is awful). But weirdly enough the monstera deliciosa and burle marx philodendron i planted next to it came back perfect fine lol might just plant one in my heated greenhouse and call it a day.

All grown in my greenhouse but I keep them outside between april to october

Amh, did you ever find some seeds? I'm looking for some as well. It looks like these people in the Netherlands have them available https://onszaden.com/Araucaria_angustifolia They state that they might ship to the USA. I wrote them an email and am waiting on response. I'll keep you posted. By the way, has anyone had any luck buying seeds from overseas? If they do ship them these would be my very first time buying seeds from Europe.

My daughter and her husband have been doing landscape design and installation for a long time. She knows a lot about palms, she's my daughter lol. Most of her clients in very expensive areas are new here from up north. They know nothing about palms and generally go for the cheap common stuff. The rare exotic stuff just is a small market for palm nuts in general. I had talked Jeff S (forgot the last name) had his rain forest collection said he had to do other stuff like hedging and broms to turn a profit, exotic palms take to long and to few buyers, I had sold stuff online, rare stuff and people don't want to pay up for a slow growing palm that u put 5 years into,

all good ideas imo

That’s really neat that you were able to get some of his trees. I’m sure he’d be happy to know someone is taking great care of them. His house address is not far from my work (which makes sense because he worked where I do now) so next week I will drive by as least creepily as I can and see how the palms look from the road. If I can do it without weirding anyone out, I’ll take a couple pictures. @WillI got two of Scott’s mules. I’d highly recommend!

Can get land far cheaper in the north for stuff like that, then also avoid the transportation

water water and some humic acid monthly for the first year. Humic acid creates the soil chemistry needed for beneficial microbes. That palm for 15k is predatory. $700 with the dig is actually pretty cheap. Consider that that palm is already 20+ years old. They are reputed to have a 25-50 year lifespan in europe. How long they live after transplanting at that age in Nevada is unknown, might be a 10 year palm for you even if makes it past transplanting. It does make a nice statement where its placed in the yard, and all things considered its worth $700 for sure, the dig and transport probably could be that much. I also agree with merlyn, no fertilization with NPK fertilizer for two months. I would probably put down some langbeinite(KMag, sulpomag are other trade names for langbeinite). It has no nitrogen so it wont burn tender roots.

@dada that's a great palm, especially for $700! I have several of them here in the swamps of Floriduh with 2-3 feet of clear trunk. They seem to be pretty water-tolerant, though I am in sand soil that drains really fast. A couple of things to look for: I'd mark the new spears with a sharpie, horizontally across the spear leaf to the ones next to it. Watch out for the thorns! This will tell you if the new spear is growing. Expect it to be mostly stationary for a few weeks, at least. A good sign of survival is if it grows steadily an inch or so per week. Take some up close photos of the base of the trunk and each head. That way in a few weeks you can compare pictures and see if things are improving or getting worse. I mention the base of the trunk because it's always possible they "cracked" a trunk in transplant. And at the top you can compare photos to see if the fronds are opening up (i.e. good water supply), or shrinking and closing (i.e. it's not pulling in enough water). Going from memory of what it used to look like probably isn't going to work all that well, in my personal experience. On fresh plantings the normal advice here is to wait 1-2 months before fertilizing, and use a smaller dose than "normal" for the first fertilizing. The recommended fertilizer here is an 8-2-12 ratio (or similar) like PalmGain or Florikan. The normal dose is 1.5lb of 8-2-12 for every 100sqft of canopy. For a palm that size, roughly 6' overall diameter, that's 3.14*3ft*3ft = 28sqft. So 1.5lb * 28sqft / 100 = 0.42lb of 8-2-12. It's just a guideline, and is based on Florida soils. If it were my palm I'd buy some PalmGain off of Amazon and give it a light sprinkling in a couple of weeks, and follow up with about a half pound in 6-8 weeks from now. For watering, make sure you are hitting the rootball that they dug. It'll take months and months for it to really grow out into the surrounding soil. Just avoid any high pressure spray on the trunks, as this can cause rot. Splashing water from a hose probably won't hurt anything, but there are a lot of cases with sprinklers hitting trunks and killing palms. So don't put a hose sprayer on the trunks with a high pressure nozzle.

Agree with Peachy. Lately I've had newbies freak out over 2 mm ants crawling up a palm trunk. What would they do if a 2 lb water rat fell on their heads? The palms in the first photos look flat-out ratty and trashy. Growing palms is not for animal haters or the faint of heart. Here in SWFL the frequent gale force winds rip dead fronds off non crown shafted palms and scatter them all over the neighborhood. Even mini-skirted palms reveal more than is comely.

You laugh but you know it's true! But the irony of the street names below LOL "FALLEN PALMS", "BURNING PALMS"😆 will be there in person soon, stay tuned. this was in cold west Houston btw

Nice find! Like old cycling publications from the seventies , a good way to reflect on what was hot , new discoveries , and tips. I started my palm journey in 1990 and there are quite a few changes I’ve seen as a newbie. I’ll never forget the first time I was introduced to a serious collection at some of Pauline Sullivan’s gardens. Harry

Thanks for the replies guys! I will try to adjust them gradually to the sun more this time, maybe give them more part shade for the time being

Algo hay, pero no creo que sea el caso. Tuve una palmera con picudo rojo y los sintomas eran muy distintos. Ademas el picudo acaba rapidamente con la palmera, esta lleva asi varios meses.