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I don’t care that there are more CIDPs than people in the southwest. Still one of my two or three favorite palms. Here is mine in April, then again in October:

Your location will define the limits of what you can use. Can you grow orchids outdoors? For me they are a favorite for mounting on textured palm trunks at about eye level for some eye candy. Lately I have a developing addiction to Vireya, tropical rhododendrons. Vreisea bromeliads are lovely accents for their patterned foliage, and hibiscus are fine for taller accents. Certain gingers are quite lovely; I really like a tall purple flowering one that has variegated foliage. It appeared in the garden on its own, so I hope it doesn't become a management problem. Ti plants are so easy, and come in so many color variations. Examples below -- orchid, ti plant, bromeliads along a path, hibiscus, vireya

Here is another oddball in Hempstead,Tx. This one looks closer to Bermudana. It’s leaves are not recurved like the On this thread. I was told by Peckerwood Garden that they were planted in several location across the Deep South like along the train route or something. I am not sure why this one is leaning. My guess is that there was a tree that is no longer there.

It’s -9 degrees Celsius (15 Fahrenheit)this morning in Ottawa Canada, but my Washingtonia Robusta is happy at 8 degrees (46 Fahrenheit) in its winter protection! what is the temperature at your location? And what kind of palms are you protecting this winter?

Got some Winter planting to do. planted a Few Small Dypsis yesterday. Dypsis Affinis Dypsis Bertch Dypsis Pembana What I left Remaining is 4 Chamaedorea Woodsoniana 5ga’s and 15 GA Jubbie Already Planted a 15ga Jubbie a month ago, but got such a good deal on a 15ga Blue Jubbie had to grab it. Forgot, I also found couple Myolensis Kings which are hard to find so now I have every King Species growing in front yard. love being able to plant Year around in San Diego!

I don't fertilize over the winter. It would just be wasted if the trees are not actively growing. April,July,and September are when I apply fertilizer - nothing special - just Arizona's Best citrus food.(plants can't read ) Good idea with adding a little acid for the queen palms. Manganese sulphate is also a requirement for them to help prevent frizzletop. Once queen's get about 10 feet of wood,they seem to develop a myriad of problems in our desert area. aztropic Mesa,Arizona

It's always been one of mine too, I don't even understand some people's obsession with super rare, exotic, limited edition, palms...., unless one is a dealer and in a business, who cares how common they are?! I grew mine from seeds.

I know in the Parks and Rec world there is a rivalry between the two, there is Parks and there is Recreation. Most of us think of them as the same thing but they are not. Recreation is the active part of it, ball fields, tennis courts, basketball courts etc. Recreation includes all the little league and other sports. Parks is much more subtle with its open spaces and landscapes. Many Recreation oriented people think that Parks is wasted space. Sometimes there are certain grants available that pay salaries, buy equipment if you have enough ballfields to meet the grant's levels. This might be part of it. Some federal or state agency or private foundation may be pro ballfield and is holding out the carrot for more to be built.

Achieved almost 100% germination from this lot. They are coming along.

A beautiful Acanthophoenix rouselii and a recently trimmed “California coconut”

Hopefully I get this in the correct order: Dypsis manajarensis crown and Rhopalostylis cheesemanii trying to break through neighbors canopy:

Ptychosperma waitianum

It’s also a VERY slow-growing palm, at least once it reaches a certain height. It hasn’t grown much since 1994, when Tom McClendon discovered it (pictured). It sure does remind me of bermudana, but the seed size matches palmetto. Quite an oddball, indeed!

DYPSIS PEMBANA: seeds from @NatureGirl and seedlings from @PalmatierMeg I used a converted ice chest with 40 watt drop light, lid raised 1+ inches and the temp. is 85 deg. F 24/7, 50-50 Peat / Perlite mix, open plastic tub (no drainage so moisture is more critical - so no standing water, heavy misting daily). Photo is 1 month after first sprout. I HAVE A WAY TO CAUSE THE DEATH OF SOME OF THESE SEEN AND THOSE PURCHASED FROM MEG.....I use 16 oz. styrofoam cups with 4 drain holes in the bottom for potting up from the community pot, moist soil mix, poke a finger hole to allow roots to lower and put more soil mix around those roots.....BUT I LEARNED THAT I DO NOT PACK ENOUGH OF THE SOIL AROUND THOSE ROOTS, so an air pocket is present causing the death. I am making the mix a little more moist and pushing the outer most soil inward on the roots. The family photo of germinated seeds and seedlings was taken in September and most are now creating their 3rd set of leaves.

I used baggy method, sphagnum moss with perlite mixed in and dampened. I occasionally spray into the baggy to add moisture, but use a dilute hydrogen peroxide for adding moisture and reduce the probability of them molding. I had a similar issue with Dypsis onilahensis, but success with D heteromorpha and D prestoniana. Ahh... gas water heater in a closet, so I put the baggies in aluminum foil and set on top of the water heater. Still waiting to see what happens with the lanceolata seeds from this season. Your question is almost two parts... which are the easy ones and which are the hard ones that take some unusual tricks or patience. I assumed that I did a poor job cleaning my D onilahensis seeds, but maybe that wasn't the issue.

Seems to me that there are a few exceptions for using higher heat with a few of the Dypsis. Baronii and perhaps malcomberi(?) come to mind as germinating better at room temperature. May be others.

Hi ZenMan, You really shouldn't post your address on here in public. PM bill with it. Anyone on the internet can see your name and address now.

You're growing the wrong palms...

Just a couple quick color shots from around the garden as I head out the door cheers happy Sunday to all

Hey all, Its a blustery late fall day today and I’m doing some much needed maintenance on the garden. Here are a few things that caught my eye as I did some cleanup. Some Dypsis thingee, possible hybrid:

A pellet gun should do the trick!

There are a lot of tropical “companion” plants for palms. If you want that look, many have Bromeliads, Crontons, Ti’s, BoP’s (you mention), Agave’s, Cyad’s, Bamboo, Heliconia’s are just some. One also has to consider your zone of course.

November 28, 2021 After this year's cool summer, growth is less noticeable (although it still produced 4 leaves).

I live just off of lake Brantley, in Longwood FL, about 300 yards West of the lake. There’s a few 20’+ Roystonia regia directly on the waterfront in back yards, (will get photos soon) and this coco just a few blocks away. This coco is on the NW side of the lake, not sheltered much from the main lake affect, I believe.

I usually use pruning shears or loppers, but when that isn't enough:

The IPS board recently approved a tentative tour to Hawaii starting with a welcome dinner on Sunday, October 9, 2022 and ending with a farewell dinner in Hilo on Saturday, October15, 2022. Although planning continues, there is great uncertainty regarding how the pandemic will affect travel.

Finally, someone helping himself to Butia fruit as I post.. Thanks for looking!

You're close. Actually there are two different leaves from two different palms. I didn't realize that the lighting of the original pic made it so hard to see the volunteer seedling growing in the clump. I took another photo today from another angle.

Crotons and Cordyline for me.

A few from last week... The 1st from Seal Beach Pier CA... The second bunch from from desert camping near Ridgcreast CA Butch

New Seeds available: + Shipping by weight/zone Licuala peltata var. ‘sumawongii’ - .25 each. Socratea exorrhiza - .25 each. $20/100 Hyophorbe indica - .25 each (only 40 available). Bentinckia condapanna - .35 each (only 90 available). Calyptrocalyx elegans - .35 each (only 125 available). Hydriastele longispatha - .20 each $8/50 or $15/100. Hydriastele hombronii - .20 each (about 140 available). Ptychosperma macarthurii - .15 each $6.50/50 or $12/100. Coccothrinax borhidiana - .20 each $18/100 Dypsis madagascariensis ‘mahajanga’ - $5/50 or $8/100 Beachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Nice! CIDP’s are nice stately palms, who cares how many there are.

Yes, it is. They do well in the part of the world...

Aechmea gamosepala aka Matchstick1 on a chinese fan palm in my lil rainforest

Seems like it grew this season. They seem to get to a point where they are established and then take off. Be careful with them this winter. We may not be as spoiled in regard to absolute low temperature as we have been the last couple of years.

hmm. Nice though.

I don't know the size upon planting for Dick's Jubaea, for scale, he was more than six feet tall. Yes, the trunk is fairly smooth, lile a king or royal.

That one looks like a Potatorum or Isthmensis type. They are typically small and clustering, and hardy to around 25F. If you are really getting into agaves, I'd join the Agaveville forum, run by Ron Parker. Here's a good thread on general hardiness: https://www.agaveville.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=426 Agave Parrasana is supposed to be one of the more cold-hardy types, but they don't like it here in Florida. They grow great in the summer and seem to be water-tolerant, but rot and try to die in the winter here. I think they don't like wet soil and rain in the winter. There are some types that are ok with water when it's cold, and some like Parrasana and Parryi that just rot. I'm still learning what survives here in FL, since my parents in Texas can grow almost anything.

You see this same behavior in Arizona. People who want lush, green lawns but whose yards are nearly 100% sand and caliche will plant things like apple trees and then wonder why they're dying. I think they should plant Banyan trees. They're great for the small spaces in road medians and the little squares in sidewalks...

As much as I love palms I also get this from a practicality perspective. Part of why I love my neighborhood in AZ is that we’re in an oasis, so we have a full tree canopy in the summer. Even when it is 118-120, my kids are still outside playing - albeit quite literally with a gallon of water. The shade makes it all possible. They also only play on the shady streets when days are that hot.

Just a note of caution... I've experimented with needle palms for about 12 years now. The fronds are pretty trough once the palm is established, and annual 7a lows or even -10 F windchills or so are not too damaging, however, moisture in the crown in winter can kill the palm because of the freeze/thaw cycle many of us in zone 7 deal with. Unlike sabal minor, which has a tight spear and keeps most moisture out, the open spear of Needles tends to collect moisture in winter. While needles do become hardier to this problem as they get bigger, the main spear can of die, leaving the smaller pups (or suckers) around the base of the palm. Seems you never get a bigger palm to grow. I lost a few this way. My biggest is going on 8 years old, planted under the eave of the house....it has handled lows down to -4 F (2018) , windchills near 0 F, snow, ice..etc, never any spear pull. A safe bet might be a little overhead moisture protection in the wetter parts of zone 7. Here is mine...about 8 years old:

Blood ties to the land still call me, but, yeah, Queensland obviously has better plants and less crime!

- I have a photo of the A. vestiaria in Jeff's yard that he mentioned above. It was taken last October 5th during the 'Ganza post tour at his house. It was still holding an old inflorescence and had flowered before with less trunk. Ryan

I have had this one in the ground here in Brevard County for about 2 years now, this pic is about a year old

I'm wondering if anyone has experience or suggestions on how to handle a stolon shooting out from my palm at increasing speed? I got this Lipstick Palm 3½ years ago and have been growing it indoors since (pics are to scale): During the autumn the stolon has been growing very slowly, this pic is from Aug 6th: I tricked it into travelling over the brim (this image is a GIF that should be moving, if it doesn't, you can check my older post): Growth was very slow but recently it's picked up and only the thin center part is growing I think. The following 2 pics are just 10 days apart (Jan 23rd and Feb 2nd): What to do with it? If I let it grow into a separate pot can I then chop it off and get 2 palms? Or if not, can I just chop it off to stop it from reaching wherever it's aiming for (my balcony door it seems), is that safe? Or, if no safe way to chop it, maybe lead it into a round jar which it can circle forever? So far it hasn't expected soil or moisture I suppose but if in a jar maybe after a while it would give up and dry out? I don't have any use for it (unless I can get one more palm out of it), I just want to limit it in a safe way. Maybe you guys with palms in gardens of more invasive suckering type (I'm surprised a Lipstick can even get a stolon!) are used to keeping them from taking over the garden by chopping them or something? (Some older posts on this topic are here.)

Dictyocaryum lamarkianum!

Hi David, i am happy to know another guy as far north who loves tropical plants like me. It is easy to grow this typ of plants in Florida or Australia or California but not in Germany or Sweden. What other plants do you still have? I have got Wodyetia birfurcate, Adonidia merrillii, Veitchia arecina and Phoenix dactylifera. this big one I had to give it away because I moved in a smaller flat Because of the "low" temperatures also during summer time with cool nights (15°C (60°F)) its not possible to let my plants outside. So I have to bring them back into my flat. Thats the real challenge for us

When I first end started my garden I was most interested in palms. My tastes continue to change after viewing many other gardens and books and a combined palette of plants of my genus and species produced the look I prefer. Here is an example of one section of my garden with many of my favorite plants in combination.