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I have recently begun growing Jubaea and Butia palms from seed and I have a few questions. Can Jubaea chilensis and its hybrids be grown in part to dappled shade, like an understory plant or on the edge of a woodland? Can the fresh seeds of Jubaea chilensis and its hybrids be dried and stored over winter? Does anyone have other related advice to give me, germination, fertilizing, etc?
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Halloween treats
by Tracy- 3 replies
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Trick or treat....something orange for the kids in costume.
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Adventitious roots on livistona rigida
by NickJames- 1 reply
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A couple of my l. Rigida are really beginning to bust out in adventitious roots. Oh my!
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What to do with extra palm trees
by btmansfi- 8 replies
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I am planning ahead to the spring, where we will likely be purchasing some wholesale palm trees from Florida. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 20-30 sabals, 10 pindos, and 10 washingtonia hybrids. We live near Virginia Beach (more inland) and zone 8A/8B. Unlikely that we would need to wrap any of these in the winter unless we have some crazy cold front come through. We are going the route of buying wholesale mainly due to the cost savings as well as being able to get larger trees. I don't need that many trees, but it's cheaper for me to fill up a trailer and have them delivered than it would be for me to buy a few windmills locally. My thought is to plant wh…
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Your Favorite Palm
by Jegs- 1 follower
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Post a picture of your favorite palm and why it draws you to it. Could be one with sentimental meaning, color, or just an aesthetically pleasing look. It could also be a rare and hard to get exotic palm.
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They grow up so quickly! 1 2
by aztropic- 2 followers
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After raising this 11 year old Bismarckia from a 1 gallon seedling,I decided it was time to do it all over again. aztropic Mesa,Arizona
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Washingtonia filifera? Filibusta?
by Norwaypalmtrees- 1 follower
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Hi Photos taken in Arizona of a beautiful Washingtonia, but I am not sure about this one being pure filifera.. looks like a little robusta in there - leaves not cut that deep, color is in between, semi-large spikes on petioles, might be some reddish but mostly green petioles.. hmm... what do you think?
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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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Marojejya thread 1 2
by realarch- 2 followers
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Eye popping palms in any garden if conditions are right. I have three in the ground, two growing on rock with very little soil. They are also the oldest, about 12 years from one gallon containers. Recently they’ve had growth spurts which means their roots have found fractures in the lava rock. They look impressive at any size. These are all M.darianii, photos of insignis would be awesome. Tim
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Pseudophoenix sargentii
by Rudy yuma,az- 3 replies
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I want to plan Pseudophoenix sargentii in the ground on the north side of my house in Yuma Arizona. Will it grow if it only gets morning sunlight and mostly shade in the afternoon in the winter .It will get full sun in the summer,
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Little ID help
by Beachsider- 19 replies
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Hi there. I’ve been lurking on the site a little while now. Always reading always learning. First post. I found this from a local grower here in Brevard county Florida. He wasn’t totally sure what it was. It caught my eye right away. I thought it might be a dypsis pembana or similar. I’d really appreciate your thoughts on ID. I want to put it in the ground soon but want to have a better idea so I don’t get myself in trouble with wrong placement. Thanks in advance. I can post better pics if someone needs a better angle.
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Found this tray of Alta I had forgotten about. A nice little find it will keep me busy for an hour potting them up. They grow very well in my climate. This lot will get planted in the ground somewhere in the new garden.
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Not Susceptible to Ganoderma Butt Rot
by Don-Vero- 1 follower
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Over the past 10 years, I have lost palms in two different areas of the yard to Ganoderma. Unfortunately, the locations are such that I cannot remove the 10x10 area of dirt needed to allow for planting other palms. Can anyone suggest non-palm substitutes? I would love to identify a non-palm that looks like a palm.
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I wanted to share my rather crazy looking but effective method for watering my Foxtails and this could be any palm really. I devised a method to simulate medium rain for even distribution and deep wateing. Hand watering all the time is time consuming to water slowly and effectively. Spray sprinkers have issues with hitting trunks repeatedly and often not watering deeply. Bubblers and drip are ok but hard to monitor and they get clogged, and often not watering deeply. So when it's time to water, I lean a 2x4 wood on the sprinkler side of the trunk, to prevent the spray from directly hitting the trunk. As the trunk widens I will switch to 2x6, then 2x8, etc. I also lean a…
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Measuring palm trees
by Prochick75- 1 reply
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Please, I am so confused. How do you measure palm trees by gallons or thumb rule? I am doing a research and I can't figure this out. If could help I would really love that. Thanks =)
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Weak Potted Queen Palm
by kimgerlach1- 1 follower
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Hello everyone, I bought a potted queen palm from facebook marketplace this year. It was a 5 1/2 foot trunk about ten feet high with it's fronds (if that is the right word). The previous owner had put ties around the fronds to hold them upright. I was assuming that it was because, as she told me, that the palm had not been outside for four years since the day she bought it. I thought that had perhaps made the fronds weak due to having no resistance given to them. I took the ties off because I thought they were ugly and the very first time a strong wind came, boom, it bent and laid on the ground. The next newest one gave me hope as it would grow outdoors, but i…
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Phoenix Sylvestris Advice and Progress 1 2
by JRVL- 1 follower
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Hey everyone, I have a Phoenix Sylvestris being shipped to me as we speak from California and I should have it in the ground this weekend. I've searched around the forums for a lot of information but I have a few questions I haven't been able to answer. So I'm gonna see if anyone can help here. I've seen several people say not to fertilize the first year to make sure the roots grow strong, so I'll be doing that. But I was wondering if anyone has any idea how much to water a brand new Phoenix? We get a decent amount of rain where I am, especially in spring, so I was just wondering if anyone had some advice about how many times a week etc? I'm orderi…
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Why are my mexican fan palms slowly dying?
by Slifer00- 1 follower
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My mexican fan palms have been slowly dying over the past month -- despite no changes to their environment. The seedlings are all 5-7 months old, and up to 55cm in height. The tips slowly lighten in colour, before turning yellow and then brown. Now their youngest leaves are dead. I thought at first that they are losing the leaves naturally, however I soon realised this isn't the case as it is happening to all of them at the same time despite the difference in sizes. Now all the fonds are slowly withering away, even though my biggest one is pushing out adult leaves. I had fungus gnats in which I exterminated a couple months ago with a cider-soap-honey-water mix, in which i…
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The garden I started 25 years ago began as a bush block. The first photo is what it looked like before I began to landscape it while I was building my house over a 5 year period. Then I started collecting plants for my garden during those 5 years at the markets and pretty well any other place that had plants for sale when nurseries where still around before the chain stores killed them and put them out of business.There was no internet around like it is today. Once I moved in I started to plant my garden with the plants I was growing while renting. Then a couple of years of living in my house I discovered an advertisement in the gardening Australia magazine for variegate…
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Pastel Colors of Rhopalostylis baueri
by Jim in Los Altos- 12 replies
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This particular Rhopalostylis baueri in the front yard shows off some nice coloring year round whenever an old frond breaks away. The palm is eighteen years old from seed.
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Potting up another mixed group of some palm winners
by happypalms- 1 reply
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Another mixed bag of palms on the potting bench. A couple of chambeyronia macrocarpa, cocothrinax Alta (dussinia) licuala ramsayi, wodyetia bifurcata and the cerotazamia sp Toman I purchased mail order. All in all a nice little group of palms with a couple of cerotazamia. Most will be destined for the market and a couple for the garden.
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At it again buying more plants
by happypalms- 2 replies
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With winter finished the growers in North Queensland are selling their plants again. I find if I buy tender tropical plants in winter you lose too many to the cold. They need time to acclimatise. So this weeks fix is a dypsis lantzeana arenga hookeriana and a zingier sp black leaf or Borneo ginger a bit of a zone push on that one iam pretty confident it will become a indoor house plant in winter in my climate. But the the two palms are a definite cool tolerant varieties.
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To Trim Or Not To Trim (Power Lines) 1 2
by Jim in Los Altos- 2 followers
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My utility company, PG&E, alerts me two or three times a year that the pictured Archotophoenix needs to be trimmed by the power lines. I always take care of it myself because their tree workers tend to butcher. Todays the last time I’ll do this. While near the top of my ladder and with my 25’ extendible aluminum saw, I sawed the leaf’s stem and the frond bent down and onto the high tension wires sending several hundred volts down the pole and into me which threw me off the latter and onto the flagstone and concrete patio below. Luckily nothing broken but a badly pulled tendon in my right knee and a badly swollen and painful left wrist. Tail bone is pretty so…
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Fallaensis from sept 2011 to july 2024
by sonoranfans- 2 followers
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I thought this palm history was worth a story. I bought a copernicia fallaensis from Ken Johnson and sons in late sept 2011 and dug a huge hole for it, 5'+ across. I dyug the hole an extra foot deep and amended that last foot of depth with half sand with the native clay the builders put near the streets to support it. put extra sand beneath the palm. Here is the holle I dug with the ammended mix refilled under the palm Ken arrived and he and his son unl;oaded the palm and planted it with a 2500 lb bobcat. The rootball was limestone rock and it was too much weight for a 1500 lb bobcat. In the ground as of sept 19 2011.
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Three Trithrinax species
by yachtingone- 4 replies
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Trithrinax brasiliensis
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