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ooo la la. Almost makes me wish I was still camping out in Tampa

When you do fertilize (not in 2024) use a time release fertilizer formulated for palms. Do not apply the blue granular stuff aimed at houseplants. That may chemically burn the roots it is trying to grow because that nasty stuff is so strong and quick acting.

Well it's still pretty palmy. Westchase area today

The South Florida Palm Society will have their first show and sale in eight years. The sale will take place on April 27-28, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on the west side of the University of Miami campus, just steps from the Gifford Arboretum. Hundreds of common, uncommon and extremely rare palms and cycads will be for sale from local growers who are always willing to answer questions about planting and maintaining the species they offer. Two tours of the Gifford Arboretum will also be given each day, all free of charge. Additional information including directions is provided at www.southfloridapalmsociety.org . Please Note: This program, while located at the University of Miami, is neither the responsibility of, nor endorsed by the University of Miami.

Hello, Did they survive?

The big boxes are getting a better selection. We have a similar inventory here. Grabbed a Red Latan and a Syagrus schizophylla the other day. Probably not the hardiest choice on the Red Latan, but 🤷‍♂️

Awesome pics. This is my favorite. A monster… This particular Aechmea is a PIA to get to root to trees like that, for me….

Thanks very much, Tom, very helpful. My friend's placement exposure will be all day, direct sun, south facing, with hot temperatures during summer daytime in San Rafael, CA.

If you are growing for profit, the common, easy care, fast growing stuff sells by volume. Most people just want the same easy stuff that grows with little effort. But if you are doing it as a fun hobby, the sky’s the limit. If I had a “for fun”, in zone 11 Florida, small nursery….. I’d grow stuff that I was interested in, was less common, and that I think would be good to see more of in my area. For me that would be Copernicia, Coccothrinax, Pseudophoenix, Serenoa, Thrinax, Leucothrinax, Lantania, Chambeyronia, Satakentia, Dictyosperma, Beccariophoenix, Allagopterra, a few Dypsis/Chrysadidocarpus, Coonties and a couple other Cycads, and my favorite less common crotons and bromeliads. These would be things that grow well in the area without ICU-level care, but are still interesting enough and eye catching.

Darold, that seems small so I checked. My fruiting female looks about 20' across and while she is a beautiful waxy white, not the biggest bizzie have seen in crown. I used a tape measure at trunk center then looked straight up to where the leaves extended then doubled that radius to get crown diameter. My C. baileyana was 16'(8'x2) C. fallaensis was about 19'(9.5' x2) while my largest beccariophoenix alfredii was 30'(15x2). I would say 23-25' should have them not touching long term if they were the same crown height. If one is lower planting or notably smaller than another, a closer fit is possible. Are california bizzies only 14-16' across? That might be the case. Mine is in full sun and the ones I see in shade have longer petioles, they are perhaps 4-5' wider in a more sparse crown vs the full sun grown ones. A guy down the street has 2 under oaks in at least half day shade and they are definitely bigger across than mine but hold 4-5(?) fewer leaves.

Pretty surprised to so Licuala, Cocothrinax, and RedLatana at my local L👌👌👌s bigbox store in Brandon on Causeway get get yall one! I went for the Buccaneer i seen last week, its gone

@Johnny Palmseed, I've germinated C. lastelliana before and they didn't look quite like yours, but more like C. leptocheilos (as @Frond-friend42 mentioned) or Euterpe edulis. It seems like yours skipped a step and went straight to adult-ish pinnate leaves! Maybe it's normal but looks cool to me!

Would definitely be interested. Only problem is that I am in Europe 🥲

Phoenix roebelenii, coconut and a bismarkia? Am I close?

A local friend has a very large yard on a hillside, and wishes to install two Bismarkia palms down the hillside from his deck. What is the proper spacing so that the mature crowns will be close, but not overlap ?? Palmpedia suggests that the crown is 14 to 16 feet in diameter, so that would indicate perhaps 20 feet on center ? Thanks !

Very cool garden and people! Heres a few photos I took.

A very nice score. I'm lucky as well to have a couple of those in my collection. I have to double check which ones, but they always have great info and wonderful photos. Ryan

Arenga pinnata if I recall correctly.

Update: Some expected cold damage but now are starting to push out new fronds

Whoa, what is that?

There’s bizzies as far north as southern SC, but I never saw a kentia palm in the area.

Update: the seagrape died before I could uncover it. I’m assuming it was because of rot since this has been why I’ve lost a lot of plants (the soil is awful). But weirdly enough the monstera deliciosa and burle marx philodendron i planted next to it came back perfect fine lol might just plant one in my heated greenhouse and call it a day.

All grown in my greenhouse but I keep them outside between april to october

Amh, did you ever find some seeds? I'm looking for some as well. It looks like these people in the Netherlands have them available https://onszaden.com/Araucaria_angustifolia They state that they might ship to the USA. I wrote them an email and am waiting on response. I'll keep you posted. By the way, has anyone had any luck buying seeds from overseas? If they do ship them these would be my very first time buying seeds from Europe.

My daughter and her husband have been doing landscape design and installation for a long time. She knows a lot about palms, she's my daughter lol. Most of her clients in very expensive areas are new here from up north. They know nothing about palms and generally go for the cheap common stuff. The rare exotic stuff just is a small market for palm nuts in general. I had talked Jeff S (forgot the last name) had his rain forest collection said he had to do other stuff like hedging and broms to turn a profit, exotic palms take to long and to few buyers, I had sold stuff online, rare stuff and people don't want to pay up for a slow growing palm that u put 5 years into,