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First flower spathe on one of my Areca Macrocalyx.

I only have one of these in my yard here in Hilo compared to the 9 or 10 I had in California. Hard to get it all in the photo. Not trunking yet, but getting big. It’s the palm on the right in the pic below. On the left is Basselinia Humboldiana.

Small house, but every room has a view. View south out front door: Southeast Northeast: North view: Looking northwest: West view is limited: South from a different room: It’s been pouring down this afternoon, but I can enjoy the garden from inside.

Borassus Madagascarensis & Copernicia Baileyana

Mine are just youngsters but are growing almost as fast as A. cunninghamiana in my yard. Here’s one in the front yard. It was a one gallon plant four years ago.

Years ago my wife pointed out that we had palmy views out every window, both upstairs & down. Funny, I'd never noticed. Women and their attention to detail, geez. Anyway, here's a couple images; one of the north side of the living room, one looking out the second story master..

I agree. They really take off once they have some trunk here but can take some time to get to that stage. My oldest is the one in the back, with the trunk a little obscured (first photo). One of the others (second photo) is getting close to forming trunk, either by the end of this summer or sometime early in 2021 is my guess. Forgive the Veitchia spriralis burned leaflets in the foreground of the second photo, it didn't like one of our cold Santa Ana nights.

Im about a quarter of the way into zone 8a here (if you look at the USDA zoning map). There are several butias sprinkled about, and a few miles south they are abundant. Im planting a small blue butia today (my birthday) that I have been trying to find for a while. Wish it luck!

Firs pic hydriastele splendida and second pic at florabunda calyptrocalyx albertisiana

Planted as a 1-gallon good grower for California almost twice the speed of the chamberonia hookerii on the left

I love the wide long leaflets on these palms. These should be more widespread in 9b+ florida. I have 3 large overhead from Ken Johnson in 2011 early spring 2011 and one planted as 3 gallon seedling 6 months earlier. The seedling was fried in dec 2010, but the spear as intact. The KJ palms were slow at first and had 1-3' trunk. They kind of sat there and developed roots for 2 years while putting out ~2 leaves/yr at first. Here is the smallest one of kens delivery of (3), I'd say its ~25' overall, 11-12' trunk and its seeding for the second time. The fruits are red when ripe but these are just starting to form. This palms has about 11-12 clear trunk. I have two other Ken Johnson KO's that are larger and in the upper jungle canopy making them tough to photobraph. Id estimate they are a bit under 30' tall overall but it tough them being that high up and no clear distant view. When i look over the house from the street they appear to be 3-4' taller than the one pictured here. These have 13-15' clear trunk. Last is the one I planted from a seedling, it was in a high drainage spot at first, after a few years the little one started to grow. These past two years have been good years for the little one which only sees 3-4 hrs of direct sun. the spears on these palms are huge compared to my 3 species of mature archies(max,alex,myola). the wide long leaves catch peoples eye. Its the palm the uninitiated visitors ask about most "what is that"? First is the little one planted as a seedling. second the beginning of fruits, third is my 3rd largest that started with 1' clear trunk. Sorry about the bending trunk, ha to use a wide angle to get it all in.. If you look just to the left of the KO in the forefront you can see the crownshafts and ringed trunks of the other 2 lrger ones.

Not suppose to leave the compound so did a little walk around.

I acquired two of these back in May of 2017 thanks to @Ken Johnson Just wanted to show how great they look. Flanking a Pritchardia Pacifica. Only planted 3 months before hurricane Irma but did quite well. One was tilted a bit and slowed it's growth but is just fine. The bottom 2 photos show this one. It was the taller of the 2 at the time. They were planted as trunking specimens. I would say their growth rate is slow to moderate. Look closely and you can see how close the rings on the trunk are compared to the older rings. Planted in mostly full sun on the north side of my house. Just some extra Winter shade as the sun is more southerly. Not fast growing by any means but are a very attractive, different palm than the usual. Faster than the Chambeyronia palm. I am enjoying their height right where they are, so glad they're not too fast growing. I fertilize 2x a year and as you can see, haven't mulched them recently. Regular 2x per week waterings and Summer rainy season. Easy palm to grow. Enjoy the pics and show yours if you got them.

Dypsis Madagascariensis of some sort. Really stocky, solitary form: Clinostigma ? ptychosperma buretianum? And another shot of these really tall Hydriastele Longispatha! I’m happy to have a sibling of these in my yard. Thanks again Mike! Awesome place!

Great pictures Tim! And thanks for having us Mike! I only took a few photos that day, here they are: Dypsis Arenarum: ravenea lakatra (I think) Clinostigma:

Here you go various Windows throughout the house.this is a fun post it made me clean some windows wife was stoked

So the walk continues first day of no rain in a week.

Here is the only picture I can find when they were planted for their first few months. You can see they only had a few rings and green trunks. Pritchardia pacifica is the small palm between them.

The view from my TV room.

Great looking KO @Cape Garrett. I love this species. Mine is much smaller than yours but I am loving it. Not putting on much height just yet but the new leafs are incredibly large when they open up. Mine always has a lot of blue in it and also some yellow when they open. Below is a couple different angles and different lighting.

Looking east toward Atlantic Ocean. Veitchia, Coccothrinax, Cocos, Ptychosperma, Heterospathe.....Veitchia, Pritchardia, Drymooholeus, Coccothrinax, Hyophorbe, .....

I've actually had pretty good luck growing this species in the Arizona desert.I know they are the real deal, as I collected the seeds myself in Cuba.(2014) They really yellow up over our cool winters but grow well (dare I say thrive?) over our extremely hot summers. (105F - 115F highs June thru September) Pics taken today. aztropic Mesa,Arizona

Here is my small one planted as a small 1 gallon a year ago. It has started to grow nicely

We have lots of windmill palms here. And I'm seeing more and more palmettos but still not as many as the windmills. I have 5 sabal birminghams and over 100 sabal bald head islands I'm going to try in my yard. We'll see how they do.

From the downstairs AirBnb part of our home:

Sorry, not been by here in a while... but here's an update of mine.. tip of spear is about 6'=2meters

I know Tissa, have you seen his camera? The relationship between ants and aphids is probably the best known association that ants have with other creatures. But there are a number of butterflies which have the same type of relationship - protection for the caterpillars in exchange for food for the ants. This is another of the Oak Blues, Arhopala micale (Shining Oak Blue). They have the same blue on the upper surfaces of the wings but I've never managed to get a photo with their wings open. Just one where half a hindwing had been bitten off and you can see the blue on the other. There is however a sinister relationship between one carnivorous butterfly here and ants and that's Liphyra brassolis, or Moth Butterfly. The larvae have a flattened body with tough skin and an impressive set of mandibles. They get into the Green Ant nests and eat the ant larvae. They pupate within their tough skin. On emerging they're covered with a lot of scales that are shed when the ants try to grab them.

Regia do have black spots on the crown shafts R. borinquena do not have the spots and are a nice lime green color and there fronds are a bit shorter hard to tell from your pic but that's what I think it could be. Make sure you plant it low and bury those roots it will really fatten up that way and it's going to be thirsty so give it plenty to drink . I did this with a R.regia that had been in a pot too long and the trunk fattened up alot. Anyway 1st pic R. Borinquena 2nd pic r regia with spots hope this helps aloha.

next is a view out my 12' sliding glass door in the back which opens up to the lanai. This area has lots of overhead crownshafted palms. Dypsis pembana, dypsys lutecene, chambyeronia macrocarpa, kentiopsis oliviformis, 3 species of achrontophoenix(max, ales, myola) are visible. Ishot away from sun, but there are more palms including royal, beccariophoenix alfredii to the right in th epic(into the sun so I didnt take a pic). The next pic is from the master BR looking up at the jungle canopy, this canopy looks amazing on a full moon night and the shadows cast on the ground are incredibly palmy on near full moon nights. I would need a better lens and tripod for a night time pic, I mahy look into that. The last photo is also out the master but looking toward the lanai on the right. the fence is 7' tall, royal is over 35' and again a wide angle lens crop frame 17 mm=full frame 22mm) squashed the height to get it in as it too close for a normal 35mm view.

Mine ready to plant. Gifts from Mike Harris of Caribbean Palms as seedlings. Thanks Mike! Getting acclimated to more sun from my shade house.

A rainy afternoon view from the kitchen

One of mine from 15gal pot 5 years ago

Bedroom window. living room window

My wife has a project room with desk that has the better view looking south out on a Howea belmoreana, Burretiokentia hapala, Pritchardia flynnii, orchids, Monstera deliciosa, clivia and some Aroids sort of hiding in the back.

Check out these Tahina. Holy Moly!

LOL @JLM you need to calm down about that queen palm hahaha. It'll likely be fine. If you are worried you can always throw a bucket over it with a rock on top

Awesome! Wish that could grow here. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one. Just yesterday I planted Bismarckia, Nannorrhops, and Pseudophoenix sargentii.

Wow, great pictures Tim! And yes, Mike has indeed a very extensive and impressive collection. I'm still amazed that he's able to keep up with it all. I know from experience what's involved. And a "rave' party would be something to look forward to!

Fasciating! *clears throat* I mean fascinating!

I agree with the triple King palms. With lots of water they grow super fast and triples usually start bending gracefully away from each other when young.

Kill kill muah hahaha

Calyptrocalyx elegans v. Boalak A good start to my inventory of palms planted at my new farm in the last two years. Not complete and lots in pots big enough to plant and more seedlings and seeds too. But better than these views from Sept 2017 day after Hurricane Maria:

This is interesting, because I do recall in a rough winter storm + wind, that the palm got crooked and wasn't planted straight anymore. So... maybe not the best idea in hindsight, I put in a stake about 10 feet away, used rope around the trunk to tug it back so it would continue to grow straight. In doing so I did hear a 'pop' in the roots. Which might explain its shortened life span. Fragile yet beautiful specimen. Lesson learned! Now that I'm gun shy getting another fishtail, I'm happy to take requests with what I should plant in its place. Thinking a 7 foot Triple King...

yes it's a male !

And a bunch of seeds

Tim - I've never made it to Mike's - but knew he must have some cool stuff. Thanks for letting me have a look. When things get back to normal, I'll have to see in person. That reminds me, I've never seen your place in person either. I've been sheltering in place much too long.

@Eric in Orlando, your "Ochies" look just like mine. One of them is now going to seed. They're so much nicer than C. urens; prettier coloring, nicer leaves, and, most important, they don't turn into the Monster that Ate Guada La Habra. (Or, Orlando.) Instead of 70 - 100 feet (23 - 32 M) tall, and 18 - 24" (45 - 60 CM) across the trunk like urens, ochies are about half that size. Not small, but manageable. Instead of a Great Dane or Mastiff, a nice, big German Shepherd or Golden Retriever. I'm going to save the seeds if I get the chance. (Urens will be castrated, then felled.)