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  1. The garden is 15 years old and my climate is cool humid oceanic and frost free with little extremes of temperature. All the Lord Howe Island palms and cloud forest palms grow like escapees in the ground.
    48 points
  2. Trimming some overgrown accent plants and weeds, I noticed a loose leaf base. A little tug, and I screamed! 😱 An actual ring on the trunk was revealed. Just have to share. These palms survived toxic gasses from volcanic eruption, as well as the neglect of an absentee gardener. Oh! My heart be still! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
    45 points
  3. One of my Beccariophoenix alfredii (16 years old since germination) growing in Tibagi , 2nd tableland of Paraná, southern Brazil
    42 points
  4. 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
  5. But I noticed it has "earned" the pet name I gave to Jubeas years ago when I first saw large trunking ones... Mine today.
    34 points
  6. Here is my Hedyscepe canturburyana Grown from seed germinated in 2010 collected from Pogobob garden in San Clemente Ca. It's an easy grow in my cool humid oceanic climate record low in the garden 31f record high 96f
    33 points
  7. Today is the Sunday before Easter, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and people hailed his arrival by cutting leaves off palm trees and dropping them in the roadway. Hence Palm Sunday. I remember when I was a kid going to church and we'd get these little crosses made of what looked like leaflets from Sabal leaves, tied into a neat bow. But, here, every Sunday is Palm Sunday and wishing all of you a happy Easter. And a happy palmy Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And, show us some palm pictures! We won't say too many palms, or palms're ugly . . .
    33 points
  8. This is me in front of @Matt in SD’s fat and happy Parajubaea torallyi torallyi and an even fatter Sabal.
    32 points
  9. Just letting leafbases fall off, this one went into the ground august 2010 as a just going pinnate 3 gallon and was burned just about to the ground in the 2010 dec cold event with heavy frost(28Fx2 plus frost). The adirondack chair is 30" wide at the handrests. The distance from house to black fence at the border is 35'. that is about the width of the palm. This is one year out from hurricane IAN which spread out the previous more upright form. By comparison my 30' bismarckia is about 25' wide. I have two others planted same size same time in less than full sun and the are no more than 2/3rds the size of this one in all day sun. They do grow notably slower/smaller in shade it seems.
    31 points
  10. Was meandering through the garden today when I noticed the Dictyocaryum had shed a leaf and was almost glowing blue.
    31 points
  11. 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
  12. I’m wondering when this leaf will be green. It emerged in mid November and here we are the second week of February and it’s still red! Getting close to three months! This is a young C. macrocarpa. Nov. 18 Nov. 27 Dec. 22 Dec. 28 Jan. 8 Jan. 18 Jan. 30 Feb. 8 Starting to show some green.
    29 points
  13. I was overseas for a month and returned to a pleasant surprise !
    29 points
  14. Today, a new palm genus from Vitenam,Truongsonia lecongkietii, was published. This new palm is so peculiar that it required not only a new genus, but also a new tribe in the classification of palms (Truongsonieae) to accommodate it. Most extrpardinarily, its closest relative is the African genus Podococcus! It may be diminutive and unspectacular, but botanically it is even more remarkable than the discovery of Tahina (personal opinion, of course - I realise that this is heresy!) Unfortunately, only 10-15 plants are known in the wild, rendering it Critically Endangered. You can follow the link below to freely download the full article pdf, which is heavily illustrated for photographs. https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.613.3.1
    29 points
  15. The late Richard Douglas, past president of the IPS.
    29 points
  16. Hi everybody. A long time since I posted here, but I always remember you all ( thanks Jeff) and the nice and sometimes deep level " talks" on this fora. Yes, I'm still in palms. 😀. Posting sometimes on Facebook. Inspired by the Huntingtons Garden, that I saw years ago, I'm working hard to finish my garden with succulents, cactus, bromeliads , cycads and others. Still looking for some palms like Brahea decumbens, the real Ravenea glauca, Ravenea cycadifolia, etc. Some pics of the garden this week ( it''s dry lately)
    29 points
  17. Like the title says I’m posting these as dypsis jurassic park and dypsis decipiens despite the name change . Jurassic park came from jd andersen as jurassic park had it in a 55 gallon trash can for the last 2 years . Dypsis decipiens came from Perry glen . Planted these today man it feels good to get these in the ground
    28 points
  18. My last property update was in 2021, so I thought it was time to do a recent update, which I made last month (October). There's nothing special about my palm garden, nothing really exotic as I'm limited by my zone 9b climate. The past two winters it dipped to about 30 degrees F for one night each winter, so in essence I'm right on the 9b/10a border. But three winters ago it dipped to 27 degrees at sun up for one day. My coconut palm got some burn that winter. I don't think my garden saw anything lower than 27 degrees F since December of 2010 when I recorded my all-time lowest temperature of 20.7 degrees on a radiational cooling night. I don't think my garden (in the past 25 years) had ever been damaged by an advective freeze, as the lowest advective freeze I had, my open yard temperature was just above 29 degrees F with no frost (no frost is the key). Without exception all my devastating freezes were radiational with heavy frost. During the above devastating freezes I used to protect (to at least some degree) my most cold/frost sensitive palms. Because of my age (75-years-old) and suffering from an aggressive form of prostate cancer -- and just recently came down with Rheumatoid arthritis in both shoulder and hands -- it's become too difficult to protect my cold sensitive palms like I once did. Even if I were younger and in better shape it would be hard to protect many of my palms because they are now too tall. Hopefully, I will have another relatively mild winter and my palms will receive little or no damage. In any event, click on the link and check things out. I'm located 2 miles N.E. of the small town of Lake Placid, Florida.
    28 points
  19. My parajubaea cocoides was grown from seed in 2010 seed from Darold Petty garden San Francisco. Once it developed fully pinnate leaves the growth rate increased exponentially
    28 points
  20. “She’s” been very productive lately.
    27 points
  21. I thought I’d start this thread to document the growth of my palms/trees. Some are flourishing and I think it’s worth recording their progress over time. My Archontophoenix are in this photo. The one on the left was purchased from Frank Tintera that at he grew from seed. The parent palm was one of his fastest growing and he believed it was an A myolensis. It’s was planted as a 3g 3 years ago and has flourished. The archontophoenix on the right was just planted as a 7g a couple months ago. It’s some sort of alexandrae x cunninghamiana hybrid I purchased from @eaperture67, and he purchased the parent palms from @Mike Evans. The Hong Kong orchid is killing it. Planted as a 3g about 3yrs ago and it’s just thriving here. Below is my lytocaryum hoenie, planted about 2yrs ago as a 3g. It’s hanging in there, but not a good performer this far. It probably needs more water than it’s getting. Beccariophoenix alfredii is killing it, as expected. 3yrs in ground from a 7g. Also from Frank. My two majesties are flourishing too. They were planted 1 year ago as 3g palms. Tipuana tipu doing amazing. It came in the mail as a 5’ 1g. After 3yrs in ground it’s about 20ft tall; simply amazing. It’s been zero fuss, I highly recommend them. Lady Palm, just planted. Thrinax radiata, 3yrs in ground from a 2g. It took awhile to get established, but it’s doing great now.
    27 points
  22. I planted 24 Jubaea seeds in 1982, two of which finally made it from sprouts to pots to planting outdoors next to my driveway. For 35 years they slowly grew into big bushes and finally in 2011 starting showing signs of what I hoped to be a trunk emerging. Then in 2012 a trunk began to appear, first picture. Then in 2015 while visiting a nursery I saw up on their photo board a picture of my home and the two palms. Four years later when searching on the web for Palms in Brookings I saw the same picture from the Nursery posted in Palm Society where discussion circulated as to where these two palms were. There was speculation but many wanted to know so I took some pictures, joined Palm Socieity and posted new pictures of same two Jubaea. Today the two I planted from seed are second Picture taken Jan 6, 2024.
    26 points
  23. Boy, that’s a tough ask! My all time favorite Madagascar palm is by far, Lemurophoenix, but as far as Crysalidocarpus, (Dypsis), I’m currently amazed by C. hovomantsina. As it matures, it’s becoming a magnificent palm particularly when it drops a leaf sheath. After sulking silently for awhile, it lost a sheath in mid September and then another yesterday. What a sight. Tim
    26 points
  24. Lady’s crystalline voice: “What’s it all about, Alfie?” Booming macho basso: “It’s about getting enormous across the base and taking forever to make a trunk.” The shoe is 13” long, 30 cm.
    26 points
  25. A rose is a rose is a rose. A Mealy Bug is a Dypsis is a Chrysalidocarpus. This C. mananjarensis making a nice addition to the garden.
    26 points
  26. Hello All This being my first post into this great forum, let me introduce myself Enrique Vega, located north of Sacramento Area in a city called Lincoln 9b. The Sacramento area in General is a little colder than most of South Ca but not that extreme, we do not get Snow but we do get very prolonged winters and extreme heat, that reduces drastically from species that would survive in San Diego, LA or even San Francisco Bay Area. But that did not stop me from trying and experimenting to see what can be grown in this area. So I decided to experiment a little with some Species that I know upfront will not survive in 9B Zone. The species I know will not have issues in my zone are the normal and common everywhere Queen Palms, Pindo Palms, Canary, King Palm, Robellini, Mexican Fan Palm, Windmill and some others. So after researching in the Forum and other sources I came to know that the species I wanted to try have zero chances of survival in this zone but I still wanted to try against all the odds, and there you have me trying alternative ways to plant and care Tropical Trees pushing the zone to the extreme. So far I was able to make a Coco Red Spicata Survive along with two Royals, and also got some other species that got too damaged in the winter but still survived. I will share my experience and findings on how to make tropical palm trees survive in this kind of zones. That will be shared in a different thread.
    26 points
  27. Finally got a little time to do some palm shopping….. went up to Caribbean Palms Nursery to pick up a few things. Got 3 Gaussia princeps with their massive roots busting out… Two more C. miraguama roseocarpa to make a little threesome out of the one I planted… A nice little Coccothrinax crinita ssp brevicus to plug in somewhere…. Along with a little macro glossy azul… Picked up another Allogapterra arenaria for out front…. He’s got many big ones in the ground there… Wasn’t planning on these, but got two nice little Leucothrinax morrisii. Was excited to grab these. Also got a trio of Coccothrinax miraguama ssp miraguama to make a little group. Grabbed two bigger Pseudophoenix Sargentii ssp saonea to add to me ever growing collection of Pseudophoenix…. Found a stumpy little silver Serenoa repans that I couldn’t resist also. And some mail order baby coonties arrived today from Etsy also….. Mike also had a lot of nice stuff to see around the property, so enjoy just a few shots…. Man, I’ve got a lot of holes to dig now…. And it’s hot and sunny out there….
    26 points
  28. This is the first area that was planted out about 2 - 2.5 years ago. Filling in nicely and several palms are now seeding. Last picture for now is of an incredible sunset from a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for looking.
    25 points
  29. As of today, the Buticocos nathanii is growing well. Looking forward to seeing it develop.
    25 points
  30. I knew they were supposed to be slow, but after 12 years from a "small above the soil" 5 gallon my bailey has weathered 2 hurricane force wind events and a resulting spear mold infection that took 2 years to fully eradicate. IRMA had the worst hurricane damage by far, newer leaves cut the older ones up good with petiole thorns. It had half the leaves shredded on the windward side. Currently its 4-5 leaves short of a full crown but its growing quickly now. Three pics: august 2011 6 months after planting showing a new flush of leaves. Second pic 2017 just prior to iRMA and last pic today sept 4 2023. By comparison with the peak of the house roof of 16', it looks to be 2-3 foot taller overall so a few feet shy of 20', and just about 7' of trunk. I could tear the leafbases off with my hand but allowing them to fall off naturally leads to a more smooth trunk. The first 4 feet of leafbases are loosely held, a smooth trunk awaits in the near future. Annual growth in height and numbers of leaves increases as the palm matures so a slow start does not mean its slow in a 12 year scale. I'd say its a medium grower.
    25 points
  31. Warm winter and rainy spring make everything looks great....
    25 points
  32. Some photos from our travels around Mauritius.
    25 points
  33. 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
  34. She came out of the darkness and revealed herself to be a two faced split personality. Anyone else seen this before?
    24 points
  35. This never gets old. Leaf fell off today.
    24 points
  36. One of my favorite palms is flowering for the first time. It’s most likely a hybrid so the seed might not be viable but I’ll still try to sprout some. that last picture shows Chrysalidocarpus sp. Lafazamanga on the right which is always flowering and seeding. Maybe it can somehow cross with the mystery hybrid?
    24 points
  37. This is the cleanest one I have seen. Almost as good as Aztropic’s:
    24 points
  38. It's mid May and we have yet to hit 100F in Fresno, which is not typical. Everything is off to a slow start, but things are ready for summer and some real heat. 😎 I was outside watering this morning and snapped a few pictures. Earlier this year I sawed down one of my two entryway phoenix. The stump is still there lol this opened up space for sun and airflow. Three green ground cover in the foreground is actually a leafy cactus (pereskia) which is a thorny bastard, but it keeps the neighborhood cats from doing their business in my mulch. Chamaerops cerifera Phoenix rupicola and some plumeria in the background that are JUST beginning to leaf out - this winter was tough on my plumeria. I got lot's of black tips, which I guess now means heavy branching but probably few flowers until late in the season. Sabal birmingham, next to a clump of chamaedorea plumosa Some non-palm content: a California native Dudleya. I don't know if this is edulis or pulverulenta. It's working on a nice bloom spike right now. This spineless echinopsis came from Solana Succulents. Here's a Chrysalidocarpus (formerly Dypsis) baronii sp. black petiole from Dave Austin's seed. Looking unfazed after this long winter. C. ambositrae also looking great after winter and putting on size. I do believe it's splitting... is this typical for this species? This came from Darold in San Francisco a few years ago Sabal yapa is suddenly gaining size! Check out the length of those petioles. Sabal uresana Parajubaea sunkha - this came from Dave in La Habra As did this one. The little guy at the bottom is Brahea edulis from Sago Rey Palms in Fresno. The big leaf ficus is Ficus auriculata from Jeff in Modesto. Lastly, the first plumeria bloom of the season - this is a cutting I rooted indoors over winter. This variety is called Heirloom and has a soft peach color.
    24 points
  39. While in town for a conference we had a amazing dinner with Dr Dransfield..Dr Pete Balasky and Jeff Searle joined...between the 3 of them they have made probably over 40 trips to Madagascar. Possibly the largest in cultivation...Dr D explains to Greg K the discovery by a cashew farmer
    24 points
  40. I've been hit or miss here most of this past miserable fall and winter. While our ultimate low was a relatively mild 44.8F here in Cape Coral we've had a record 84+ sunless days, drizzle/downpours and highs that often barely rose past 60F. Not our typical sunny, dry, warm/cool winter days. We've had more rain this winter than all of last summer. I've been unable to work in the soggy yard for weeks at a time. Our gardens are a mess. But in the last week or so the sun has made a miracle return and brought days in the 70s to 80F. This past Saturday I went to the biggest garden festival in the area at the Edison-Ford Estate in downtown Ft. Myers. I ended up with three small palms and they are dandies. Today I took my first photos in months and present them here. Happy belated New Year to all palm lovers. May your palm burst into growth. 1. Ptychosperma caryotoides - one of my favorite Ptychos and while supposedly common is hard to find around here. 2. Ravenea hillebrandii - I keep trying to grow this little gem. Hoping for success at last 3. Areca catechu Dwarf - I lost one of my small, planted specimens last fall. Hurricane Ian plus summer drought plus chilly, dreary fall/winter may have been too much. Its companion Dwarf is till on live support. I hope it survives. So on Saturday when I saw almost no petioles on this Dwarf I couldn't resist.
    23 points
  41. This one I got very small from an IPS director who collected the seed in habitat. He told me that he collected seed from the most colorful specimens. This is in solid clay. It has been very slow. It is very colorful and moving along.
    23 points
  42. They get way bigger than I had planned when I put it in the ground.
    23 points
  43. Great palm for California. I’m germinating seeds from this
    23 points
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