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  1. Got an opportunity to stop by Jim's garden over the weekend. I enjoyed taking some of these photos, despite the difficult lighting conditions (bright highlights, dark shadows). Did a little post processing work to bring these photos to life. Hope you like them. Click the link to view the album. https://photos.app.goo.gl/GneVpq1VwwjRpdYr8
    34 points
  2. C. hovomantsina revealed the pale yellow band that will eventually turn green. The very next day, Lemurophoenix halleuxii dropped a frond to spectacular effect. Photos were taken within an hour or two of the event, allowing capture of the saturated colors. Got some color? Show it off here!
    30 points
  3. Well dreams come true and I finally got the chance to visit this legendary garden on the big island of Hawaii! I feel like the majority of the palms I saw were firsts for me! Click here for all of the photos with labels Sclerosperma walkers Masoala madagascriensis Ravenea musicalis Areca gurita Geonoma atrovirens Manicaria saccifera
    24 points
  4. A couple years ago I posted a thread on here (which I can no longer find) about wanting to remove about 20 stumps from the north side of the front yard to create a new planter. Well I finally got around to it and since then I’ve been bringing in soil to level out the planter and prepare it for a new row of palms. Since I had already collected and acclimated a good number of palms in the meantime, once the planter was ready to go it was hard to hold myself back, so needless to say this all came together pretty quick. Here’s some photos of the progress as well as how it looks today. There’s room for about 2 more palms to complete the row so it’s almost done.
    20 points
  5. Late last fall I planted a hookeri not sure what to expect colorwise as its my first. while in containers they kind of faded similar to my watermelon but this late winter leaf is holding fast in 3/4 day shade shade. My watermelon was salmon color by the 3rd or 4th day even this time of year and it is planted 25' due east, same winter sun exposure. I had heard that the hookeri had more color, but my watermelon had some great rose red color in low light but more orange content in high sunlight. Light transmitting the hookeri leaf is more boldly red for longer in my 2 palm comparison. Here is show the low light(reflected) color of hookeri in shade and the sun transmitted color more orange in transmitted light at the 12 day mark after the spear opened I couldnt be happier its about 3x longer than I have seen on the watermelon. Shade pic at 12 days followed by sun pic at the same time: At the 3 day mark the color looked very similar in low light but the transmitted color was a stunning red. The spot here is a half day shade spot with no late day direct sun. I have another hookeri and am considering planting it in a more sunny position. I am concerned that the initial red color of transmitted light may fade faster in sun. But that is why we run experiments to see what happens. Any hookeris in sun out there holding up the color? shade and sun(transmitted) close up
    19 points
  6. The red colored fuzz on this Chrysalidocarpus caught my eye this morning
    18 points
  7. We have just made PDFs of the Palms of New Guinea book freely available for download! We hope that this makes it even more available to the widest audience. Of course, we still encourage you to buy a hard copy - but the electronic version allows everyone to use it in different ways. We've made two version available - one low resolution and one high resolution. The low res one works really well on a phone. I hope you enjoy it! https://doi.org/10.34885/qepn-3c65
    17 points
  8. Pretty neat palm as a juvenile too bad they don’t keep this color very long!!!
    17 points
  9. Finally got around to giving this trio of Dypsis rosea some TLC. After trimming off some old leaf sheaths and fronds, they are looking rather epic. On island, we always referred to this palm as ‘Hawaiian Punch’, for obvious reasons. The smaller of the three needed more trimming and doesn’t have much color. These are not small palms. The white 5 gal. bucket for some scale in the one photo is between the two trunks. Tim
    16 points
  10. Brahea calcarea acquired today. Thx to the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA. Very much looking forward to sinking this palm. Third pic is of RBG’s calcarea in the ground. Any growers of this species? Bucket list ✔️
    16 points
  11. Good Morning, looking forward to another sunny day... Lars
    16 points
  12. So driving on Mulberry yesterday west of Main and spotted this beauty. I know Oblate has one but this one is ice blue! Have any of y’all seen this one? Sabal uresana Sonoran palmetto
    15 points
  13. Not every plant gets a special Sunday…
    15 points
  14. I’ve posted this palm several times here on PalmTalk. Collected as seed by a friend in Madagascar. He referred to it as Dypsis “column” due to its size. It’s a stocky solitary Lutescens-type palm. It recently started seeding for me and I’m getting about 100% germination on the seeds. But what’s interesting is that some of the sprouts are green and some are golden. Does this also happen with the regular common Lutescens? I’ve never sprouted Lutescens so I don’t know. Would love any input. Parent plant: and here are a couple of the community pots of seedlings showing the golden and green coloring: Also interesting to note is the seed of my parent plant was collected 6 years ago. So from seed to seeding plant in 6 years seems pretty fast to me!
    15 points
  15. Lemurophoenix with some Arecas (alba, dwarf catechu and ipot) and Euterpe Oleracea behind
    15 points
  16. Areca novohibernica. Similar to A. guppyana, but more robust. Tim
    15 points
  17. While planting some new plants in the garden I always look around and amaze myself at what I have created over 25 and these maxima palms are just that vision I had all those years ago now they are prime real estate for stags and orchids
    14 points
  18. Germinated in March 2010 my Rhopalostylis sapida Chatham island form is finally flowering The seeds were sent to me from Pogobob in San clemente California and his specimen was the best Rhopalostylis I've seen ! Well then I saw the big one in Darold petty garden was impressive
    14 points
  19. People will have a hard time making a suggestion because they may not share your aesthetic sense about what ugly and attractive palms are.
    14 points
  20. This morning, my attention was snagged by a Licuala (sp Kalimantan?) bearing fruit in a pot.
    13 points
  21. Foxy rockets, you only get to enjoy foxy ladies for a short period of time, just so darn fast. one in the center closest is the foxy lady, royals around it.
    13 points
  22. Well, I figured it's been a while, and I need to update how Archy's survive in a chilly (winter) 9B climate. Here's what 8 years in the ground have done to this once tiny Lowes triple!
    13 points
  23. Today it caught my eye that this thread was getting buried so here is a 3 year old dry full sun Pinanga coronata…
    13 points
  24. Went to Civic Center in Santa Ana (county seat of Orange County) and saw this nice line of Roystonea regia, not far from the federal lock up.
    13 points
  25. There are not many people keeping coconut trees in Houston, so I would like to share mine. I bought 6 coconut trees in the summer of 2018. They were just sprouted coconuts back then. I live in Pearland Texas, inside Houston city limits. Of the 6 coconut trees, 2 live today. The 4 that died were in pots. 1 of the living ones is in a pot and is still quite small. But I will focus on the one that is in the ground. The attached pictures were taken this year during the freeze that got into the mid teens. The tree actually took 12 hours of 28-32 degree weather before I could get to it. After that it was wrapped up as you can see with a 1500 watt infrared heater pointed at it with no heating cable. I was almost positive it was going to die. But It is doing quite well considering. The newest leaf is growing and 3 leafs besides that are 75% green. In 2021 it got down to 15 degrees! And in 2022 17 degrees. It was wrapped up in blankets and heating cables in 2021. I did not wrap all the leaves. It was completely defoliated and the center frond pulled and was rotten. But the tree recovered! It was mostly defoliated again in 2022. In the summer of 2023 it was over 100 degrees every day for 2 months straight. I have heard they can’t handle heat, but I have seen differently. It was watered 5 times a week. mistakes- Using a heating cable that was 5 watts per foot burned the center part of the fronds, killing the entire fronds. Putting the heater too close has fried a few fronds. The tree has about 10” of trunk now at the base. I make sure to water it a lot during the summers. And I also fertilize a few times a year. Over the past few years I have lost a massive medjool date palm, 2 Sylvester date palms, 2 Beccariophoenix Alfredii, 3 king palms, 1 Cuban royal palm and 2 Christmas’s tree palms.The Christmas’s tree palms, king palms, and Cuban royal were covered and heated like the coconut tree with heating cables but not a infrared heater. And the coconut tree still lives! I can post more pictures in a week or so that are stored somewhere on my computer if people are interested. I can also take a picture of the coconut tree next to the defoliated cidp from the big freeze a few months ago if there is doubt that I am lying about my location.
    12 points
  26. Here is the only one I have. It has grown really good for me and every time it drops a leaf the red comes out
    12 points
  27. I just spent a few nights with my wife in Tofino on the west side of Vancouver Island relaxing and (trying) to surf. Of course, I also spent some time checking out the local flora like always whenever I go. I always love seeing all the giant Cordylines around town (I know, not technically a palm but similar appearance/ feel) and was worried they may have been nuked from the series of bad winters we have had recently. All the large ones I know on Eastern Vancouver Island were fried back in December 2021 and got hit again this year. I was happy to see the ones in Tofino all look perfectly healthy with no sign of cold damage / collapse. For this reason, I would put Tofino as a solid zone 9 and the furthest north zone 9 I know of in North America. Of course, there are lots of palms in Tofino (mostly windmills as anything else is hard to find in Canada) but I was able to find a few others and a very nice palm garden: Brahea (I think): Big Butias, Jubaea, and a CIDP (the only one that was protected, and just minimally with fronds tied up): Big Cordylines Giant Eucalyptus nitens (I think): I am surprised with Tofino’s cool / wet weather (much cooler in the summer and about 4x the rain as my location) that the heat loving palms like Butia look great. I’m sure they grow painfully slow and have been there a long time but still nice to see.
    12 points
  28. Here comes Rhopalostylis cheesemanii.
    12 points
  29. The palm and cycad society of Australia annual plant sale had some rare and common varieties for sale well worth a visit for any collector of rare plants the show was held in the grounds of mount cootha botanical gardens in Brisbane they had some wonderful palms on display along with cycads as usual you have to be first in the door to get the super rare palms which would have sold out real fast as they say first in best dressed so the early bird gets the worm next time perhaps the prices reflected the market prices for rare palms I believe the growers of rare palms deserve what ever price they put on there plants as a grower myself I fully understand what goes into obtaining rare palm seeds and growing rare palms to a sales point a lot of work mostly done for the love of palms
    12 points
  30. Post freeze, taken today. You can see the papaya tree, plumeria, and hummingbird trees are gone. Canary island date palms pushing new leaves, and the coco looks pretty good considering.
    12 points
  31. My ramsayi is looking good with the recent rain also it gets the grey water from my laundry shed getting pretty well much perfect licuala moisture level conditions
    11 points
  32. I bought a pair that were field-dug to place on both sides of my steps. My opinion is that Chamaerops are somewhat the "roebelinii" of the hardy world, with their smaller size and multiple curved trunks. Albeit they grow slowly. The one on the left is a normal looking, somewhat silver specimen. The one on the right had a fungal infection from when the rootball sat in the black plastic wrapping all winter. I hit it with copper fungicide and it's pushing clean healthy green growth. But the fronds are like wagnerianus fronds in that they are small and like a palm whose fingers are all closed like a knife-hand. I don't know if this is genetic variety or a symptom of the fungus damage. The third is still in a 15 gal pot. Very green and healthy. Edit: Also, the 15g very green one, is producing flower spikes.
    11 points
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  34. Crysalidocarpus onilahensis. Tim
    11 points
  35. Mine’s about 20 years old. Easy grower.
    11 points
  36. This is as close as it gets to make your dream come true for your cold hardiness zone. Who said you can't have tropical "cold hardy " palms? 6 ft clear trunk coconut,low maintenance.
    11 points
  37. Losing my head over the lanceolata…..
    11 points
  38. Mine are growing at a good steady speed and seem healthy.
    11 points
  39. Almost forgot about these seedlings that had germinated in their container. Surprised by how robust the tap root had become for this smaller palm. Syagrus hoehnei. Tim
    11 points
  40. yes, my garden is in west-flanders, similar climate like zeeland in the netherlands...There are a few Butia and Jubaea around here but not many but they are doeing great. Here are a few pictures of my Jubaeas and my Butia. The last time they saw some protection was 2011/2012. I can also grow Livistona chinensis with only some fleece for protection during cold spells. B. edulis is also a good palm for here, suffering only minor leaf damage during winters...
    11 points
  41. Thriving but not flowering yet. It did have a bit of a wobble with a soft spot on the trunk but seems to have pulled through. Seems to hold the orange a lot longer now. I love the way the leaflets hang.
    10 points
  42. If you like the look of Dykia, you’ll probably love the various Hohenbergia. They have that similar gnarly, spiny look. Most want to be kept dry, I put mine in a mix of orchid or bromeliad mix with more sand than the mix. Many people pot them in mostly rock mixes. Some like full sun, but most seem to like half day sun. They don’t get too crazy and behave well in pots. Yours look great too. Bromeliads add great color and are super durable. Super addictive. I definitely have a problem at this point.
    10 points
  43. Just a beautiful palm, nice color and scale. Dropped a frond a few days ago which is always worth looking forward to. Note the leaf nodes, pretty fast grower. Tim
    10 points
  44. A. Divorcicata opened its new leaf this morning. I think it will darken in a day or so
    10 points
  45. Really nice Kim! My Hovomantsina recently dropped a frond as well and revealed its first flower.
    10 points
  46. Spotted this huge Bismarck palm in a rather large container in excellent condition giving the groundskeeper bonus points for such gardening skills another tough survivor in India
    10 points
  47. While staying with a family in the punjab living the daily life a street vendor literally pedaling his plants around the the streets selling his home grown plants calling out in the streets garden plants for sale as he rode around I just had to get a photo he was making a living and doing something he loved to do only in India anything goes
    10 points
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