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Biennial Registration Open!
by Cindy Adair- 1 follower
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Dypsis onilahansis in my garden
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Another great palm to have in any garden is the dypsis onilahansis a true beauty it does set seed a much better looking palm than the golden cane moderately fast growing given enough water cold hardy 2 degrees Celsius possibly colder a very beautiful palm to grow
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Howea
by philinsydney- 3 followers
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Kentia seem to go through cycles where they don't look good. They usually seem to recover.
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Collecting chamaedorea adscendens pollen
by happypalms- 1 follower
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My chamaedorea adscedans are flowering again so time to arrange a special date night (or day) i Keep the pollen in the fridge and daily for a weeks visit the females and dust them with the pollen I had good success last seasons the seeds were sent to a company in another country and were for sale on the internet I was pretty happy knowing my garden seeds were going around the world to be grown on 😁
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Phoenix roebelenii love em or dislike em
by happypalms- 1 follower
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Well it had to come to this sooner or later the Pygmy date palm most likely one of the earliest palms in any garden back in the day they were so popular in Australia for there small growth habit a landscapers dream palm so predictable yet so deadly if you get spiked by one even a dead frond is deadly the trick is to prune the old leaf as close as possible leaving no spikes on the petiole it makes them so much easier to garden with these ones are at 30 years old picked up at nursery in the bargain bin out front I once worked in the nursery when I was young as I was buying them the owner remembered me and said you getting a real bargain there either way you love roebelenii …
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Palm books
by happypalms- 1 follower
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They say look at someone’s book collection and you can get a pretty good idea about that person obviously iam a palm nut in the days before the internet (I only started to google about 10 years ago) there was a thing called books information was a bit limited so you had to do research with a book then you had to find the books with the content you wanted I still use my books it’s nice to read them and it’s better than having a pixel addiction with a flat screen also you can learn a lot from books it’s a different feeling holding a book instead of looking at a screen 📺
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Seed source suggestions?
by MobileBayGarden- 1 follower
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Hello, I just wanted to ask if anyone had any suggestions about good reputable seed sources for Butias, Syagrus, ParaJubaeas, etc. RPS is so expensive to ship and has so many mixed reviews that I always talk myself out of it. Thanks for any info. Philippe
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Cyphophoenix Elegans
by pogobob- 3 followers
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Great palm for California. I’m germinating seeds from this
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I went to Lake Underhill nursery in Orlando yesterday and imagine my surprise and delight when across the nursery I see a sign for 8+ foot “Alexander Palms” for just $50! They were also specifically labeled as A. Alexandrae. That being said, when I got close, I became confused. The main reason I love Archontophoenix species so much is because (despite the occasional foliage loss due to a freeze) they can actually do pretty well in ground in this area and they have a much more tropical look than the dreaded Christmas Palm. I really don’t like Christmas palms at all because they always look “ratty” to me, they’re over used, and their trunks are too slender. Archontoph…
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Today wandering the garden as I often do while taking a break from work I noticed that my Beccariophoenix madagascariensis seems to be starting to put on a little size. I can’t remember exactly when I planted it. It’s been about 6 years I would guess. It was a small 5 gallon. Over those years it has consistently put out new leafs, but it never really seemed to get too much bigger. While still considered small, it seems to finally be putting on some size. 5 gallon bucket in 2nd pic for scale. So what palm in your garden caught your eye today? It doesn’t have to be your favorite, just something that stuck out to you today.
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Alexander Palm Germination
by jordantlewis3- 5 replies
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Hello, I was curious if anyone had a successful germination process and time frame for Alexander palm seeds? Thank you, Jordan
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Butia X Monty
by Robbertico18- 2 followers
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Anyone have a good sized specimen ??? Post up some pictures!
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Dypsis lanceolata question
by Darold Petty- 32 replies
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I purchased two plants of this species, a 5 gallon and a 7 gallon size, from a San Diego county vendor. One has a fuzzy petiole and the other a smooth petiole. The vendor acknowledged that his seed source may have been contaminated by hybridization with D. lutescens. So, which one is the true species? Thanks, and please post images of your true D. lanceolata. Technical difficulties with image upload of the two petioles, I get error message -200, even thought I downsized the images, perhaps later, thanks. (can anyone explain this error message ? I use a Canon point & shoot pocket camera, I downloaded the two images from the camera into a separ…
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In & Out Royals
by pogobob- 1 follower
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A pair of chunky royals were spotted in line at Oceanside
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Planting a Flamethrower near a retaining wall
by Breaktheory- 5 replies
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Hi folks I have a 15G I want to plant about 12” behind this wall…is such close proximity going to cause growth issues? Thanks! jon
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I would like this to be a thread where Palmtalkers post cold sensitive zone 10 palms you come across in the Orlando area. The ever-increasing effects of the urban heat island are more evident each year. The first is an updated photo of the Cocos nucifera growing at Smashburger near downtown.
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Dolomite for Chambeyronia Oliviformis
by Looking Glass- 1 follower
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I’ve been growing these for a couple of year in heavy sun. They grow decently, but are always a little pale with yellow tips like they might have magnesium deficiency. There is some necrosis sometimes like manganese deficiency too. I was wondering if anyone is using dolomite lime or lime gravel on these? The soil there is rich and a bit wet. Direct supplementation and fertilization doesn’t seem to help. I wonder if the dolomite might help. What say you… November 2021…. September 2023…
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A trio of Dypsis hovomantsina are loitering in the back of my garden. Purchased around June 2011, they were in 4- inch pots and soon moved up to larger pots... where they didn’t do much but soak up rain and sun. Eventually they made it to plantable size and went in the ground. (Have to check my records to provide the date. EDIT: July 2014) At last they are showing some great progress, and one is definitely gaining more weight than the others. I wonder how other D. hovos out there are doing? Please post your experiences and photos. The lower palm is planted in a depression, the one above was just liberated from weed captivity. This is the largest of the thre…
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Termites vs Palm?
by Looking Glass- 1 follower
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I noticed some dry area of the trunk of one of the Livistona chinensis had been flaking off over the past year. It’s in the stronger of the pair. Today I noticed it looked bad. It’s happening about 8-9 feet up, where the trunk meets the junk before the fronds come out. These look tiny in the pics, but they aren’t that small. They are probably 18 feet tall to the highest spear. The outer bark has kind of come off in this area. Down about 1/2-1 inches to some sort of under bark. It’s a dry rot it looks like. Flaking off in chunks. There are some little holes in the dry chips, that could be termite galleries. I noticed during…
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Hi, I don't think this is mentioned anywhere else online, but on the grounds of the Disneyland Hotel at the original Magical Kingdom in Anaheim, California sit two good-sized Beccariophoenix alfredii palm trees! I first noticed them about three or four years ago in person shortly after they were planted (there were about a foot or so tall.) Last evening I was watching a video on YouTube about the reopening of the Disneyland Hotel, and the video's hostess got a shot of them...the look wonderful! They must be at least 10 feet tall and in very good shape. What most impressed me is the speed in which the palms have grown. I took a couple of screen shots from the video an…
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Thought I would share my present garden here in The hills of North county Bonsall- Vista California 1 2 3
by pogobob- 3 followers
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I gotta stop buying plants again 1 2
by happypalms- 2 followers
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As usual buying more plants this time a nice dypsis pinnatafrons basselinia pancheri linospadix microcaryus kentiopsis pyriformis dypsis carlsmithii cyphophoenix elegans a Brazilian tree fern banksia Anopterus macleayanus rainforest tree a rare banksia polycephala native gardenia atrocarpus chartaceus a buckhinghamia celcissima tree all from local nurseries it was so nice to go to local nurseries instead of chain stores where you just never know what you will find if you’re a collector plus a lot more friendly to deal with whilst supporting local growers with a passion for plants and supporting there business in the local economy to me the growers of small hobby business…
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Location - Florida My queen is dying and I have no idea what to do and that’s because there is no clear instructions on how to take care of it. Some say it needs a lot of water and others say it can be over watered. Some websites say the fronds are yellow because to much water/not enough water/lack of nutrients…. Like whattttt how do I take care of this thing! ----- I have 4 queen palms. The 3 in the back are good but the one in the front doesn’t seem right. I went away last month for a month and came back to a bunch of the fronds dying(yellow/ brown). I’ll admit that I never water them because everyone told me they are easy and I don’t have …
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P. Reclinata with Roebellenii pollen
by TheMadScientist- 5 replies
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This palm is at the Tonga Apartments in Ventura (no longer part of the Sullivan properties). Some of these photos can be compared to the other post about CIDP pollen. The base photo is difficult to see the cut off "heads" but you can see sprouts that might be 1 foot tall coming from each cut head. With just 3 heads still growing, you can compare trunks, leaves and height to the other post and both appear to have been planted near the same timeframe. These seeds were cleaned by finger nail, 2 hour water soak, sown same day and germinated in 4 weeks. The height of this seedling which is just above 3 inches happened in just 1 week. Notice how slender the trunk is. The…
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Advice with remote germination
by meridannight- 3 replies
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I'm having some difficulties getting germinated seeds of the remote germinator types of palms to the seedling stage. Namely, I succeed in germinating the seeds well enough (I use ziplock bags to germinate the seeds, and when the first shoots are an inch or so long I pot them up), but when I pot them into their own containers, by far most of them end up either rotting or drying up before even pushing out the first cotyledon. It's a problem, because I'm really losing a great number of palms this way, not just 2 or 3 here and there. For example, I germinated 8 out of 10 Johannesteijsmannia altiforns seeds, but only 2 survived to the seedling stage. 6 just rotted in their con…
