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More Hyophorbe lagenicaulis that survived the 2009-10 winter, and a big cluster of Wodyetia fruit behind them.

New growth on the Schefflera's has started. S. Tawainiana "yuan shan" - soon to be planted Schefflera delayvii - unusual looking new growth Not a Schefflera but another interesting plant - Pseudopanax laetus. This thing is growing much faster than I ever expected and bigger. Very shiny new foliage.

I remember Kelen posting some photo's of huge syagrus that he said are very cold hardy & take the teens F every year.

Mango Tree and Frangipani

That’s my Northern CA Roystonea borinquena between a Foxy Lady Palm and a Wodyetia bifurcata. The Royal was planted between the other two palms as a tiny 5” seedling four years ago. The three are purposely planted in a tight group whose trunks will eventually meet and fuse together. It’s the warmest part of my yard which is terribly important in a cool climate.

5/2019

That looks awesome. Before and after Butia from the same angle. 2 years and 9 months in the ground.

Forgot to mention this palm was planted 2011 from a 1 gallon as you can see it is planted in part day sun. Cheers

Update. Lucky for me I see spear coming up in the offshoot. Not the main trunk but at least showing signs of life. Btw, still pretty cold and gloomy weather here in SoCal. At least in Ventura. We are having cold, rainy wind. I’m ready for a spring weather.

I planted them about a week ago and they have been growing great. Put some Palm tone around them for a boost. Deer have not even neared them. Hoping for the best.

Ripening seeds of one of my two Ch. metallica... Best regards - Lars

Update on dennis Willoughbys tree

I have 3 planted in my driveway planter so I see them multiple times every day as I come and go from the house. These were planted out about 18 months ago from 1 gallon pots (from Floribunda). The one on the far left is a bit smaller than the other 2 but is still growing pretty fast I can’t show off with a 5 gallon bucket for scale yet, so the soda can will have to do!

These 2 Wodyetia are the first to be planted around Orlando that I know of (other than at Leu Gardens). They were planted around 1994. Back then Foxtails were still rare and very expensive.

It's about a foot wide now, at the base.

You may want to consider growing them in pots until they are larger before planting.

Patric Shafer

Roystonea regia

Again with the date palm growing from seed... I had some dates at Christmas and I just put a stone in the pot with my Pelargonium and forgot about it. Eventually I saw a shoot coming up and it was time to get it out. So I unpotted the Pelargonium, pulled out the palm seedling and potted it up. I had one going last year but it got caught by an early frost and it was toast. This time I will bring it indoors. Now I also have a little experiment with other date stones. See after I'd eaten those dates (Eat Me knockoffs which weren't very tasty) I got some different ones from Sainsbury's. They were Deglet Noir or something like that, and quite big and juicy. I kept those too, and I decided to plant both types, but in different pots, and I marked the pots with different coloured lids. Lets see if there's any difference in the seedlings!

A common bird in Darwin , the Masked Lapwing ( Spur Winged Plover ). They are common over most of the Continent except for south western Western Australia. The adults vigorously defend their nests and chicks. As a kid I was terrified of them... haha. They don't particularly like me nowadays either... The designer of the Junkers JU 87 ( WW2 German Dive Bomber ) must have some experience with the Plover.

Hey Ryan, any updates on new plantings at your place? Would love to see more if you have some.

Update: I think I am in the clear! That rotted spear has pushed out and opened (what was left of it) and the new push / spear is looking healthy. I marked it 2 days ago and it’s pushing an inch a day. I’m keeping up the peroxide but not nearly as regular. And i believe it really helps that May has been a very dry month here. Less than 1” of rain all month. Gave this thing the chance to dry out and push in all the sonshine we’ve had recently.

James, that palm is not dead yet. You'll know by mid summer if it is recovering. I just hope that it didn't come out of a green house because the existing leaves will sun burn and that might be the knockout blow. But that February we had would have gave any newly planted palm a challenge. That was one of the coldest and wettest on record. It was easily the coldest month of the winter. I can't be too far from you (Mountain & 210) and we had several nights of frost and below 30 temps. I lost at least one palm and had a foxtail totally defoliate after having no problems last year. Anyways good luck with that royal, I hope it comes back strong for you!

Triple mule very cool haven't seen one before

Last year I picked dozens of roebellini seeds from a sibling. They germinated in my southfacing outdoor bathroom/greenhaus. Just too many of them. All together they are like grass. I have given pots of these away to friends. I am left with two. I concocted a triple and a single in 3 gallons. However in the leftover pots, they're still battling it out. Survival of the fittest I suppose.

Got this triple mule in the ground today.

Hey! Another Chicago Palm grower! Welcome to PalmTalk. I am no expert but a pygmy indoors should be fine. Most of the palms that are imported to stores up here should be pretty easy going. As for a pygmy date, I personally have never purchased one however I know that Home Depot in their houseplant section sells them that are about 1 foot tall for $20.00, or in the summer months they also important bigger ones. I went to a home depot near where I live yesterday and they had a single trunk 3 foot pygmy date palm for $50.00. As for your size concern, last month I purchased a 7 foot adonidia merrillii and have taken it inside and out twice already with no problems. Good luck and happy palm growing!

Some more

Yes looks like a standard Phoenix canariensis to me, if the palm had been pot bound for a time before you purchased it that could make it slightly stunted & bring on flowering when relatively small. Although drought tolerant Phoenix canariensis actually grow better with lots of water too.

OK, Tim, just took a pic with the 5-gaL orange bucket. The larger one on the left produced a small inflorescence a year ago. A couple of fruits partially developed, but were not viable. I need to fertilize. Fortunately, I mowed this section only yesterday. Background facts: seeds from RPS sowed July 2010, two juvenile plants planted out in a full sun location from 2-gal buckets in Nov 2012. I suspect my palms will never catch up with Tim's great- looking ones, but they seem to be keeping pace.

Here we go with that second picture

dypsis baronii from nz botanical garden

Relatively still not all that common, unless you are a palm collector. I call them the super models of the palm world. Every aspect of the palm stands out: The wide, unique leaflets, blood red new fronds, colorful crown and trunk, swollen base. It's the whole package. The fact that it grows well in Southern California

My notes on Weberi didn't have it hardy below 20F, but I don't know that for sure. For large agave, the Guiengola and Attenuata are large but won't handle the cold. Ovatifolia is a good choice, as are varieties of Salmiani/Gentryi/etc. I have a "Bluebell Giants" and a "Stairway to Heaven" from Plant Delights. Both are dark green, big and very stabby. The Bluebell Giants grew from a 4" pot to about 1.5' diameter since last August, it's my fastest growing agave. With the rapid growth I have no doubt it'll get to the 8-12' diameter that they think it'll do. I'm glad I left a LOT of space for it in my agave bed! One other that's neat (and might be cold hardy) is Gentryi "Jaws" with blood red teeth on the new leaves. The DangerGarden place is a great read if you are looking to see what may survive in the PNW. I'd spend a day skimming through the history to see what they managed to keep alive.

Here is my “Bluebell Giant”, using my size 11 foot for comparison. This agave came from a 3.5” container(I mistyped 2.5 above and now it won’t let me edit)last August, so it has grown quite a bit. It has the Salmiana look despite no Salmiana lineage.

Pretty sweet ..Easter Morning treat, Maybe another to share by sunset.. Trichocereus X "Volcanic Sunset" Sits out on a mound closest to the edge of the yard. Wasn't sure if it would make it past last summer but plumped up / put on good new growth following our wetter winter.. More / bigger / better formed flowers on it this year too. First of the Tricho / Echinopsis to bloom this year.. Great color.. Just after opening, around 7:30AM 'Bout a half hour ago:

Wow.

I can provide pictures of two mature, fruiting trees. The first is in the garden of Rich Rawlinson who has since sold his Leilani Estates home and moved back to the mainland. (I collected a potful of seeds and now have dozens of extra plants.) Next is a flowering tree at the Maui home of Jerry Welch. My potted seedlings are growing a lot faster than the ones I committed to the ground, which I find rather frustrating.

Update

Thanks again for all the comments! Kim, Honestly that's the hardest part for me. I don't have a plan. I feel like I'm going to regret putting things in certain places and not considering the space between palms and the conditions they like. But I'm just going for it and will deal with the fallout. I wish I had more vision and planning like so many others here. Hopefully the palms and plants will just take over and you wont be able to tell that things are just placed wherever. Here are the planting from the last few days. been busy planting edibles and bamboo so not as many palms in the ground the last few days. Pair of 15G Euterpe Oleracae's, 20G Dypsis Lastelliana, 10G Dwarf Euterpe Oleracae, 10G Dypsis Lanceolata, 20G Pelagodoxa Henryana (a bit torn up from recent high winds )

35G Syagrus Amara, 20G Veitchia Joannis, 25G Ptychosperma Salomonense, (2) 20G Archontophoenix Tuckerii, 30G Dypsis Mahajanga, 20G Clinostigma Savoryanum, 25G Rhopaloblaste Augusta, 25G Ptychosperma Sp., and a bit of a group shot with a 25G Dypsis Pembana in front. Nothing palmy planted since then but I'm hoping to get a group of (5) 20GBentinckia Condapana's in the ground in the next few days.

For you Dave 10G Ptychosperma Salomonense, 30G Ptychosperma Sp. (has black seed), 25G Ponapea ledermanniana and garden buddy, 25G heterospathe glauca, 15G Pinanga Sp.

Yet another Areca Vestiaria, A pair of 15G Bentinckia Nobilis, a shot of my soil, and a 15G Kentiopsis Oliviformis

A few more. 10G Dypsis Lanceolata, 15G Ptychosperma Sp., 10G Areca Vestiaria yellow?, 5G Areca Vestiaria orange, 10G Heterospathe Intermedia.

About a month ago I really started to plant. I put in (3) 15G Cyphophoenix Nucele, 15G Chambeyronia Macrocarpa, (2) 15G Beccariophoenix alfredii & fenestralis, (2) 30G Archontophoenix purpurea

And the first few palms in the ground.... Dypsis ovobontsira, Matroxylon (chewed up by a beetle), Dypsis Pilulifera, Dypsis hovomantsina. Lots of my palms are a bit stressed with the move from Kona (or Hilo) to my property as I believe the UV is much higher at my elevation, or it could just be my care or the fact that a lot of these palms were rooted into the ground and in pots that were way too small.

Here was my collection coming from Kona.

Also a potted Rhapis can bloom very nicely: