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HAHA - Oh I tease. October has been kind to the garden this year (with the exception of rain). With temps this month staying in the 80's/50's for the most part aside from a quick 2 day cool snap mid-month it's been quite wonderful. Our 10 day shows highs in the 80s and lows around 60 which I will take as long as mother nature wants to provide it! Nabbed a few image from the gardens: Hopefully the rack of namwahs has some time to mature. (doubtful) but one can wish.

For me, it's Schippia concolor. Slow-growing, but always looks perfect, and requires next to zero maintenance. Curious why it fell out of favor. I personally love mine.

Crown shafts on C. decipiens (formerly Dypsis) can be really waxy. This palm is almost twenty years old and has been in the ground seventeen years.

Pritchardia martii, abaxial side of the leaves. Almost looks like a frosty morning shot. Super dense lepida, (white hair like covering), one of the traits of this beautiful endemic species. Tim

There’s palms that get little or no enthusiasm or respect either on the auction block or in the sales yards or as gifts. But you plant them out and you come to appreciate them a lot more. One of mine is Chrysalidocarpus plumosa FKA Dypsis plumosa. Here’s one in my front garden. It’s about 10 feet (3.3 M) tall; crown is about six feet (2 M) across. Share your under appreciated gems!

Basselinia eriostachys, (right), Basselinia glabrata (left). Tim

Two of the three Butia eriospatha x Jubaea chilensis that my cousin was growing in her garden are fruiting. One of my palms also produced a few fruits last year, but not so many as this. The palms I grow at home grow in an acid sandy soil and strangely grew somewhat fatter trunks and longer leaves. Her palms grow in the same town, but in deep "latossolo vermelho" , a kind of soil I tend to prefer over mine, because generally it produces good crops. The fruits are more fibrous than pure B. eriospatha and a bit less juicy, also the fruit flesh is detached from the seed (like the seed is smaller than the fruit flesh...) tending to form " gapes" in the fruit.

It's nice to see rings, even if they're on common palms! 🌴 I got around to cleaning old leaf bases on my queen palm this afternoon. Let's see yours!

These are all planted along my driveway so here’s an overall shot of that area. Concrete was poured just a couple weeks ago.

Out slaving away in the yard, when Houailou is fixing to open a new leaf. Maybe show us your Houailous in general flashing or not?

So it is that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere, Autumn. Transplants to semi tropical places often lament the absence of seasons, particularly the leaves change of colors. Yes it is beautiful when Autumn arrives in places like Vermont or even in California's Sierras as deciduous trees go through their annual rite. Being a native of California i learned to appreciate other features of the seasons. Fall's transition from predominantly south swells to mixing swells and ultimately the predominantly north swells of winter. The gradually changes in high temperatures and decreasing ocean water temperature. As a plant person I learned to appreciate what was blooming in Autumn, the change of color in Hibiscus and Plumeria flowers from their hot season colors. And of course we have colorful leaves on some of our palms. So share some of your colors of Autumn 🍂.

Chelyocarpus ulei

I almost started a topic a few or more weeks ago pertaining to how well most of my Dypsis (Chrysalidocarpus) were fairing as a lot of them were in the throws of flowering but thought it unworthy . I was just wandering through the garden extolling the virtues of various Heliconias to my son Harry when I came upon this and was very excited. I hope you all share the excitement. Paul Nelms

Recently trimmed up Cyrtostachys Renda, when cleaned up like this the colors pop even more. I still pinch myself that I am growing these in my own garden in Hawaii!

Licuala, Verschiffeltia and friends today

An interesting conversation this afternoon from knocking on a door asking about some bellmoreana seeds in garden I spotted quite some time ago. It turns out the palms are originally from lord Howe being brought back in the early 80s from a very knowledgeable person in the seed industry knowing what he was bringing back. Further into the conversation the gentleman knew a few blokes in the local area whom I knew both of us talking about Howea plants in the early days when they hit the market in a big way back then. I just grabbed a few spikes about 100 bell seeds I was offered the rest of the seeds later on when ready. The palm in question was one prime specimen of a bell kentia solid looking with a great curve in the leaf and so it should being originally from lord Howe. I might have to make an enquiry next time I visit about some Hedyscepe seeds seeing as the contacts are still fresh with lord Howe you just never know. In return I offered a couple of Joey palms along with an anthurium veitchi in appreciation of the seeds.

All 3 of these Chrysalidocarpus Prestonianus hybrids came from Bill Austin here on the Big Island. Seed from his Prestonianus tree. Not sure what they are crossed with and as the photos show, there’s some variation between them. First up is my personal favorite of the 3: And then there’s this one that is similar to the first but has split into 2: And then this one is quite a bit different. Coloring, leaf structure and form, and it pushed out one sucker off the main plant awhile ago: I will try to also post photos of my big one from my previous garden that also came from Bill but a few years before I got these. It was different as well as it had irregular / almost plumose leaflets. Feel free to share pictures of this hybrid here if you are growing it.

This beefy Chrysalidocarpus Leptocheillos caught my eye. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite this stocky. Almost like Lastelliana. Size 10 shoe for scale.

Here are my 2 in my New Cal planter. Interestingly neither throws a colored leaf. But either does its cousin Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) Pyriformis. Seems strange.

this is in the top 3 of my favorite photos i have managed to capture, thank you Jeff and Suchin

These flowers on this Itaya amicorum caught my eye today.

A special moment when you have a palm for 23 years and you finally get around to planting it in the garden. I purchased this palm from Rich Trapnell, Rosebud Farm whim we all knew who sold not only the best palms in Australia mail order. We will never see another great flood of exotic palms at such a great price and so many varieties of plants and palms. Thats where I got most of my original collection from rosebud farm and I purchased around 10 Kerriodoxa elegans plants with now only 5 of that 10 left and there doing pretty well. I had a group of 2 elegans so why not make a group of three, for reasons well know why seed production in the years to come your bound get some sort of male female ratio. And with them been all as old as each other they may decide to flower after 23 years one day. What is the age of a Kerriodoxa has to be to set flower? But it’s been through a lot this palm seeing how old it is in the collection it’s always been a one of my all time favourite palm to grow such grace and beauty all in one. Time for her to grow in the ground with complete freedom this palm and I have seen a lot together she will always be my friend lots of love Vicky I miss you ma6 you grow in peace.

What palms have you grown that have proved after than conventional wisdom would have assumed? Probably my most surprising grower has been my little nannorrhops. When I got it in late May, it sat in a hot mailbox too long. So its only two little strap leaves shriveled and died. It quickly started sending out new growth though. It has grown six new leaves in 4 months. That's not crazy, but it is faster than most young palms grow in my experience. End of May: Today:

Try Prestoea acuminata. Amazing palm that really should be grown more in cool areas.

Wanted to show ya’ll the progress of my unprotected Sabal Minors in Delaware. I think they’ve been in-ground for 8-years or so. Both are the same size (statue in the 2nd pic is 18” for scale) Bases are about 12” in diameter and, of course, no visible trunk with Sabal Minor. There are “volunteers” popping up all over the place. Seems to me, this is a palm that could assimilate here with no problem. I have 3 seed sprouted offspring in my backyard in Virginia from these two. I’ll send pics of them at some point.

Inflorescence opening up on this semi dwarf Areca Catechu

Screen enclosure 'hurricane feature' has 12 8x8' screens that can be removed to let the wind pass thru...pulled those panels and closeed the shutters

Back from a trip to Argentina, filmed this drone video of Trithrinax campestris habitat in Pampa de Pocho, Cordoba, Argentina. Enjoy!

This Pinanga coronata var. 'kuhlii’ caught my eye today. A few years ago it died back to one stem and I thought it was going to die. It’s amazing how quickly palms can recover under the right conditions.

I germinated 600 dasyatha and out of that 600 I got one special variegated seedling. At first I didn’t pay much attention to this little seedling but I still kept an eye on it noting where it was in with its cousins. Sitting there growing like the rest it started to continue to hold its variegated leaves each new leaf still had variegation. Either one in million or a freak of nature it will be one special little plant if it holds onto its variegation. Iam sure if it does stay true iam sure it will be one little palm that would be wanted in a collectors garden such as myself.

Clinostigma sp.

Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos planted June of 2022 from a 3 gallon finally showing some scars. A little earlier than intended courtesy of Milton.

This is the most colored frond I’ve seen outta my Houailou. Not as much color as @DoomsDave but I’ll take it. -dale

Hi I am quite new to this forum, but I have been growing palm trees in Ålesund, Norway at latitude 62N for 20 years. We have a huge Trachycarpus fortunei standing about 4m tall - been in the ground over 15 years, never protected during the winters. Our winter climate is VERY MILD for the high latitude (gulf stream heated) and qualify for a us zone 8b, some places even 9a. This year I have taken it a step further and planted Washingtonia robusta, Jubaea chilensis and Phoenix canariensis in the garden too (+ a lot of other exotic plants). I will cover those palm trees for the winter, but it will only be a light cover, no boxes with extra heating or anything like that. I have an instagram page "norwaypalmtrees" where you can see more photos. I also make youtube-videos and you can find one here:

Quick update on mine before the weather starts to cool off. 4 trunks so far but looks like it might even split into 6. 🫣😳

Coccothrinax crinita subsp. brevicrinis. The long hair version of Coccothrinax crinita is an excellent palm but I feel that Coccothrinax crinita subsp. brevicrinis doesn’t get the credit it deserves.

V joannis, the small ones in last pic were 18” less than a year ago so they grow fast, make a nice trunk and I love the form with the darker green leaves.

My eye was easily snagged today, first some Obi Island

This C. elegans seems to like this small space between our house and walkway. It’s kind of been neglected but our resent rains have given it new life. Today it caught my attention that I should incorporate it into the irrigation system and take better care of it.

We bought our new house a year and a half ago, and seeing so many newly planted trees falling over in storms, we decided to pull our trees out and plant a bunch of palms. We took the advice you folks offered here, digging holes for our palms in certain ways, and amending the soil in certain ways to prevent root bound plants. All of our palms survived Milton, and though we've only posted here once, we check the boards often, and just wanted to say thanks for being good to our palms. It feels good to have people here who provide good advice and research. Just wanted to say thanks.

Hydriastele selebica Dypsis minuta Astrocaryum vulgare Sabal sp., causiarum?

Jeff is back so we did a golden hour walkaround Pigafetta elata, and Clinostigma haerestigma in between two Tahinas Attalea cohune

A. Divorcicata

I have not seen videos from this gardener before, but he has a really amazing collection of palms for the UK. Lots of Butia and Jubaea hybrids including the holy grail Jubaea x Syagrus that is as tall as his two story house. He even has the years of when he planted everything. Most of the palms seemed to be from 2011-2013, so probably back when it was easier to get palms over to the UK from the US and other spots. JxS starts at 11:22 and its a real beauty.

I have 3 Clinistigma Savoryanum planted in my new garden. These were planted as 5 gallon palms about 3 years ago. Hard to get photos as this area is a bit jungly and has seen pretty incredible growth overall. Clinostigma is probably one of my favorite palm genus and I’m happy to have a bit more room in this garden to plant more of them. My previous 1/2 acre garden didn’t feel large enough for the Samonense and Ponapense species. The coloring on all Clinostigma is amazing. Love that lime green and white.

Paul, First off, it was a pleasure having you two to the garden! Perhaps try a Chambeyronia in a spot that receives some sun. Maybe adjacent to a south or west facing wall. The picture below is one of my young ones this past January opening a new leaf in the winter’s cool temperatures. Most of my twelve flamethrowers produce three new fronds per year. The slower ones, 1 and half to two. It’s worth a try.

Dypsis species

This Ponapea ledermanniana generally is eye catching.

And C elegans