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I badly wanted to cross the river to get some under canopy photos but couldn't face wet clothes for the long journey ahead. But finally I gave in and found a nice grove and went and got these photos. Jaw droppingly beautiful to be inside a grove like this with towering old Nikaus and their millions of offspring underneath. As observed / mentioned before - these have a very Howea Forsteriana look when under canopy.

This is my Parajubaea torallyii Was planted as a strap leaf seedling in 2009 and has started seeding this year. Never had any problems so far. My coastal Tasmanian climate is a lot like Sausalito SF cool almost frost free and humid.

Hi everyone, I noticed something yesterday in my garden which let me dive into my files - here we go: Being super-happy about my first good looking Archontophoenix alexandrae in May2015. (Seeds were ordered in fall 2014, I guess). October, same year - with an impressive speed of growth , already replanted in larger pots. One year later, Oct. 2016, planted out in spring of that year - already starting to trunk. May 2017, completely trouble-free growing, definitely getting some seize on. Sept.2019, we got hit quite hard by some typhoons during that year - but there was no reason to be worried, they looked damaged but always showed signs of recovering immediately. Again a year later, last fall in 2020 - no typhoons at all let them almost explode. On a sunny day in January - always nice to look at. Very common in other parts of the world, but I like them. Noticing a dropped leaf yesterday let me glance around for some damage on other smaller plants close by... ...looking up to check the trunk for a possible bug attack - which has already happened on this one but it grew out of it without any problems - walking slowly around and getting the sun in front... ...Oh la la - what a nice suprise! The first flowering attempt - which might not be successful but the palm has definitely reached the next stage of its growth. Thank you for your time - best regards from Miyako island/Okinawa Lars

I finally found a Butia! The nursery had it labeled as a Pindo Palm but that doesnt guarantee the type it is. They had multiple small ones for $79.99, so we took it because we have never seen them anywhere else. Although i wont be very happy if it go to Lowe's or Home Depot to find them there for $20. Anyways, the nursery had recently expanded, so their lot basically doubled in size and almost the whole extension was full of PALMS! They had large and small Pindos, small Windmills, large and small Med fans, large and small Pygmy Dates (most were at flowering size and had several flowers), large Sylvesters, large Mules, and massive Queens. Most of the large stuff was in the $1000-$2000 range for the palm itself, not sure if that included instalation or not (didnt ask). They also had large Sabals as most nurseries do. Pretty sure they had Dypsis Lutescens too but i didnt see a tag on any of them. When the guy was telling us about the Pindos (i knew exactly what he was going to say before he said it, "This is the most cold hardy and beautiful palm for this area", yeah another person already said that lol), i said something about the large Pygmy Dates and he said that he tells people that those are basically just annuals here, dont waste your money with them. 100% agree with that but im a different animal so im planting them anyway. This was the first of hopefully many visits to this nursery, we also brought home fertilizer, but ive never heard of the brand before. This palm is going in the ground some time this summer, will post pics once its in the ground if i remember

I decided to try a needle palm here in zone 7b Mid-Atlantic. I figure that after 3 years of protection they should be near bulletproof here as they are rated as zone 6b and the summers here can be sweltering. I tried them here before but the first one died during the fall due to transplant shock (as it was shipped bare-root from the west coast) and the second one was a Home Depot blue pot from florida. I don’t think the blue pot one was a very strong plant as the leaves were quite brittle and snapped frequently. I’ve heard blue pots in general aren't very strong due to over-fertilization since they’re so slow growing. Anyway, this palm was shipped with a pot! So I hope that will ensure it’s survival. I also got it a bit bigger to make sure it’s hardy. I hope y’all like my new baby!

Spring haircuts

Surprisingly good. Everything outgrowing the frost/freeze and then hail event. Happened to snap this today. This area was wiped out by the freeze - down to the ground - then pelted by hail when it started to regrow. This is what 60 days of growth in Florida looks like. There are also several Archontophoenix seedlings now hidden in there from both you and @redant hidden by the elephant ears. This area gets copious sprinkler water (clearly). Can’t imagine what will happen once the summer rains start.

This Phoenix hybrid palm is growing at an office building just west of downtown Orlando. It is a hybrid of Phoenix robelenii (Pygmy Date Palm) with something else. It looks just like a P. roebelenii but just much larger. You can see "normal" P. roebelenii in some of the photos. It never holds seed, I have looked for years and never found any. It is nice they have not trimmed the palm and left a full crown of leaves.

Thanks. I don't know if they don't like pots but I too struggled growing these in pots. They were not happy at all so I just planted them in the ground. The weird thing is that my grandma had great success growing crinum in pots. She had the greenest of green thumbs I guess. I also have a light pink and a salmon/dark pink crinum. They don't flower to often since they prefer to flower after a nice rain and it doesn't rain to much here.

I ordered a Sabal Minor from Northeast Ohio Palms ( cant find Sabals out west ? ) It should arrive here next week. I am going to plant it on the south side of my house and I am not planning on giving it any winter protection other than a frost covering in the event of a major arctic outbreak. I have canna lillies that have been in this spot for several years now and they overwinter just fine. I think there is a small zone 8 microclimate next to the house. I will post pictures as soon as I have it planted. I welcome any and all feedback -Gator Central Utah Zone 6

I started these three rostratas from seed in 2014, at that point I was in the hunt for any cool looking plants that would survive in Tennessee. I had no idea if they would survive long term, but so far they have shown no winter damage over the years. Thought I would share some pics! The first pic is in 2015 when I planted them and the most recent is from last week.

I just want to post a few pictures of my crinum in bloom. This crinum only flowers when it rains just like rain lilies. If anybody wants to post your crinum flowers please feel free. The more the better.

Seedlings are 2 years old.In ground is 10 years old. It's actually a fairly quick growing palm for something out of the ordinary. aztropic Mesa,Arizona

I have lifted the front park of cloth up more to let afternoon sun in more. I think I’ll remove it this yr fully sometime. The big Canary helps w shade but gets afternoon sun for 4-5 hours. was a 15 GA size when I put it in ground brian

I would remove this palm and replace with a mule palm.

Here are some of mine. I have 7 seedlings altogether. Seeds planted on June 29-30, 2020. Germination started on Sep 19, 2020.

From my experience it's extremely difficult if not impossible to save a palm this far gone.

Thanks, yep you got it. I think that I had it once before but the doctor gave me something for it.

Yes, they started up again. New nursery manager: Peter Turrin. Had a very good feeling about him. Was very interested in natives in particular (not sure about palms). He has done some wild-collection himself too. Don't go by what the website suggests they have as you may be disappointed. Its a lot less (still a cool selection, though!) but I assume they are just getting themselves e-organized again. As for palms, from what I recall, they did have a bunch of 1G C. Radicalis and B. Moorei. Let the stampede begin!! (Ugh, now I wonder if I should have picked up another Moorei as mine is still so tiny... ) Anyway, I was there for other stuff so I could have missed some small sabals.

Amazing how quickly the fruit develops.

Finally I planted yesterday the second Canary after I planted the first one two days ago.

Pictures of a recovering Queen Palm at my old house. Also Pictures of more recovering Pygmy Date Palms. All in Angleton. Very surprised to see the PDP' trying to flower when in such bad shape with no fronds!

I love it, but if they're serving alcohol at this party, you'd better trot out that name early on.

I spotted this one which recently had a couple of fronds snapped off, perhaps by a falling branch or something, I thought the leaf form in the sunlight like that was absolutely awesome.

The river is great for trout fishing but sadly I didn't have time... :-(

Very archontophoenix looking don't you think? If the crownshaft was a bit less bulbous and more elongated on these, they would easily pass for archies.

I have transported several 24 inch boxed Howea palms 500 miles on the freeway from San Diego to San Francisco in my tiny, 2004 Tacoma truck. Here in California the permissible rear overhang is 2/3 of the vehicle wheelbase length. This is from the "last point of support", during daylight hours, with a 16 inch square red flag at the rear. This is California Vehicle Code Section 35410. Lay the palm down in the truck bed with the pot all the way forward, while standing at the tailgate start tying the petioles closely together. Face forward, with the palm between your torso and right arm, and wind the rope around the group of petioles, compressing them with your right arm as you back up with the spiral rope binding the petioles and fronds together into a tight bunch. Use fabric that breathes to wrap the bundled palm, I use 36 inch wide weed control fabric. Fasten the fabric with wide, blue painters tape, duct tape is too sticky and will be difficult to remove. Use more rope on the top of the fabric. Be sure to securely fasten the red flag to the palm with a cord all the way up to the petiole base. If you try to just tape the flag to the fabric it is likely to blow off. If you have a cylindrical pot rather than a square box, then you must secure the pot so that it doesn't roll from side to side. I use sandbags, but rope will work also. Good luck, and now you owe us a photo of the load !! (Disclaimer, this wrapped Howea exceeds the 2/3 wheelbase dimension, but I slipped through with no problems ! )

Couple of new additions that will be going in our landscaping once we get the retaining wall done, and cleaned up over the summer... 2x 3G Sabal Lisas Sabal Bermudana that will go on the south side of our home, protected by the house and full beautiful sun all day long Our retaining wall won't be done until probably August or early September.. should I just let these live in pots until next year or is the few months before winter enough time to get them acclimated? Thanks!

Does anyone know of a good website to look up historic weather data? I'm trying to find historic mininum temps for my area. I know weather underground has historic data but I know some of the numbers are wrong as it doesn't show the winter storm we had earlier this year and it says we got into single digits last year. Which I know we did not. Thanks.

Live here in Greenville SC, Had several cold days this past winter. Three of my windmill palms (3' to 4' tall) have some damage. There are a few different stage spears that turned brown. Some party open, some almost all the way open but are turning brown. This is my first exsperence with this. What is the procedure to help, or are they done.

Of the older ones, fire survivors I saw about 20% that were fried over a month ago. They may have leafed out since then. All the newly planted ones looked fine. Made me wonder if they are the same pine! or maybe height had something to do with it. Bigger plants took the wind bad.

Agaves yes, palms maybe not. All the palms So far I have seen flower, eventually have put out leaves. I can tell you that the dead ones have absolutely no way of sending out a flower because they are beyond dead. If flowering was a sign of death in my palms, then I’d have many Many MANY flowering. Instead it’s only the live ones. I am only seeing a flower stock on 1 Washingtonia of mine. And I have two dozen. But there are two not far from me that are doing the same thing but since they were trimmed you can see the leaves coming out. I am crossing my fingered I see green soon.

Very nice, thanks for posting. What is the narrow foliaged plant to the left of the palm at the very end ?? Cordyline, Pandanus, or something else ?

Absolutely stunning mate, you are a lucky man to live in such a beautiful part of the world my Kiwi friend.

Beautiful

I tried bro, I think he’s half mythical creature and won’t answer little minions questions lol. Palmlord

As my palms have gotten taller, I've been using tropical fruit trees to fill in the space. Growing different Eugenias (Grumichama / COTRG / Cedar Bay Cherry / Pitomba) and guavas.

in 2003 we put in a pool, in close proximity to 3 mature Washingtonias. One is so close you can touch the trunk when in the spa. Not the slightest issue. I actually had this conversation with the pool builder when considering the project & he told me they've never caused any issues. I wouldn't worry about it..

Nice stilts!

@John hovancsek Amazing Hopefully mine will look like that soon.

Well, three weeks out from the first day of winter here in Perth, the coconut had a rough summer due to the strong easterly winds, here in Western Australia when they come they're blowing straight from the dry desert interior of our state which is quite unpleasant if you happen to be a plant! I probably didn't spend as much time watering and caring for the palm as I should have but sometimes life gets in the way. Not to worry, he's still punching on and about to enter his third (I think) winter with no protection so we'll see what happens. Here's hoping!

One of my Mexican fan palms is sending out a flower!

I was just in the Ft. Worth area last week and almost every palm I saw appeared dead. Tree removal companies and nurseries should be doing well this year. aztropic Mesa,Arizona

Lie down at an angle, with the fronds / head facing off the back of the trailer /truck bed..( Use something like a piece of old Carpet/ towels.. to cushion the trunks from the back of the truck/trailer, so they don't suffer any damage ) Can use either shade cloth or burlap to wrap the fronds, then use something like a rope to cinch up the burlap to help keep the fronds from moving around much. Can also pour water over the material to help keep the fronds from drying out while in -transit between where you pick them up, and your planting location.

Here it is. On the south side of the house with only bougainvillea leaves to protect it. I forgot to mention that the temps I provided in my previous post were converted to Celcius. Interestingly the boug. hasn't come back although 2 smaller ones on the west side of the house did.

Exciting to see your enthusiasm of clearing out land, getting palms in ground and monitoring them as they grow/recover. As for the clearing of land, I remember immediately wanting to rid my yard of any nutrient sucking oaks and/or deciduous trees in my yard in order to give my place the greenest and most subtropical look I could. Although, some larger trees (evergreen) can serve as great protection canopy for any undergrowth/shorter palms. Like in my area, there probably aren't very many evergreen trees but if you have any, they can be valuable. Excited to see how your Sabal Lisa's grow. One of my favorites. On another note, I looked up where Oak Point, Texas is, I see you have a large lake around you. Besides the ridges on your property for microclimates are you closeby to any water that can help with moderating temperatures? It'll be a long journey with some deaths in your palm family but several years from now, you'll cherish these pictures. You'll see them as they were small and become even more proud once you see the progress as they establish themselves and start to grow horizontally and vertically. Good luck!

Hedyscepe canterburyana is an easy grow for me in coastal Tasmania - I have 4 the biggest was grown from seed germinated in September 2009 and now has 3 rings of trunk it is exposed to full sun most of the day and my extreme temperature range is record Low -0.3 C (32 F ) high 38 C ( 100f ) daytime temps are winter 50F (10C ) - 63 F 17 C . Humidity is usually above 50 % and located 600m from the water. During the warmer months i irrigate for 40 m every 3 days. Use organic fertilizer and compost with a small amount of nutricote total in spring.

Happy New Year 2020!

Thanks, but it really shouldn't be a big surprise that a tropical look is easy to achieve here in northern California. The difference being that we can't really grow the heat loving subtropicals or anything that needs warm nights, so that means there isn't a great deal of overlap between sw Florida plants and here. There are an awful lot of high elevation montane and cloud forest plants that thrive here with our cool foggy summers and relatively mild winters. The main concern is the occasional bad freeze which skews the climate towards a 9b rather than 10a from time to time, and being conscious of the need to conserve water. I find bromeliads in particular a good plant type to use in low water use gardens, because they can easily get by here with just once a week short misting applications, if planted in some shade. They can also easily go 3 weeks without any irrigation at all in summer if forced to. So I generally try to use them judiciously in gardens and minimize lawn area to reduce summer irrigation requirements. Given that we have a 6 month long dry season, it really isn't possible to use most bromeliads and subtropicals here without some summer irrigation. Here's one more large clumping foliage bromeliad I use a lot of, even though the foliage isn't anything colorful. It can easily get 5 feet tall by across here, and is a great tropical looking backdrop for softer leaved plantings. Aechmea distichantha hybrid by David Feix Landscape Design, on Flickr Aechmea distichantha hybrid in bloom by David Feix Landscape Design, on Flickr Another favorite Aechmea ortgiesii group member, typically blooms in spring here: Aechmea kertesziae in bloom and berry by David Feix Landscape Design, on Flickr I love the red/blue combination of this A. purpureorosea, but it is a bit shyer to bloom than some of the others:

Also blooming profusely this year are sweetshade (Hymenosporum flavum) (Pittosporaceae). Usually seen as a narrow, often crooked tree to about 40'/13m and about half as wide, this Australian native does best in areas where spring is warm but not hot. Not best along the immediate coast, but can't take desert conditions at all. Hardy to at least 25F with age. Flowers extremely fragrant, smell almost exactly like Singapore White plumeria (Plumeria obtusa). Worth trying in Florida where soil isn't limestone.