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The first palm is actually the first planting from when we bought our place back in 2010. Copernicia gigas.

Dear Palm People, This feels surprising to me but it is apparently true! The Palmetum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife will be finally opened to the public. We have been working for 17 years behing the curtain. The palmetum has been a dream project for years but it has never been opened to the public. Just a few thousands of lucky people have visited it during these years. locals. Palmtalk has been one of the few windows to the world. Our determination took us to the end: the City has just taken the last step and it will be opened as an official botanical garden. It will be managed by the existing foundation "Santa Cruz Sostenible", a sustainabilty-oriented non profit organisation. Now the earth is shaking and we will suddenly be on the news. The local TV is planning a 1 hour special after about 6 years of absolute silence. The news from a local newspaper, with a nice group picture with politicians and technicians posing in peaceful harmony. http://www.eldia.es/santacruz/2013-05-20/2-ayuntamiento-comprueba-estado-instalaciones-paso-previo-apertura-parque-tematico.htm Another newspaper with a longer text with more details http://www.laopinion.es/tenerife/2013/05/20/capital-ultima-detalles-abrir-palmetum/476623.html Carlo

Here is one From Tas

Took a photo of this monster I saw when taking a walk.

My favorite planting of CIDP at Asti winery in Northern California, Originally an Italian/Swiss colony formed in 1881. I think the palms were planted around the late 1890's

I was moved by reading this! there is nothing more to add

http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/small.shtml Thanks Kris. I was looking for just this type of all-in-one-page resource. Very helpful. JT

It sounds like Phytophthora i.e. - bud rot. Phytophthora nicotianae is known to affect the Lipstick Palm.

Just planted this about a month ago. I took out three Chamaerops humilis to make room.

This is my Copernicia Fallaensis. Also taken this morning.

Update from this morning on my Copernicia ekmanii. It's a great grower. There are some caterpillars that like to eat it, I have found...

I saw this the other day, phoenix cellularis and it seems to be popping up many places. I hear these are hardy to -273C and actually produce money when planted in your backyard. Does anyone know where one can get some seeds of this?

And my favorite: Copernicia gigas. This palm is just awesome. Plain and simple.

Copernicia fallaensis. I think this one is gonna be blue, one day...

Here it is with a chair and a shovel. I measured it and it is 89 inches tall in that's 7 feet and 5 inches. sorry I couldn't get into the picture -- I am camera shy and my talent fee is quite high.

Ok so based on my records they were sprouted/potted up in January 2008 which makes this baby 3 years and 7 months old. Wow that is fast!

Nice C. macroglossa, Gene. Here is a pretty nice one that we have at our nursery: Jody

Copernicia macroglossa is also a beautiful palm but soooooooooo slow too. This one was a palm with 2 leaves 2 feet in diameter when I planted it in the ground. I planted it before the C. Fallaensis. And the C. Fallaensis started from a seed! See the difference in growth rates!

I know we all love photos so here is my Copernicia ekmanii. It took a good hit(50%) with our very mild winter(39F), this year, but is coming back nicely. This may be one of my favorites some day...

When the light is right, Copernicia ekmanii is hard to beat! Jody

While we are on the subject of copernicias at TREC, I thought I would also share some "before" and "after" photos of the Bailey palm grove. This first group of photos was taken a couple years ago: And these two photos were taken a couple months ago after we successfully relocated all 11 palms to their new location (with no root pruning because there wasn't time) to make room for a new building: These palms were smaller than the C. fallaensis when I first started working there in 1997. Needless to day, they are not as slow as you might think. But there is definitely a difference in growth rate between individuals based on light and other environmental conditions. Jody

I can attest to the speed of growth of C. fallaensis. Below are two individuals planted in the ground at our field nursery seven years ago at 2-2.5' tall: 2010 2012 And this one was the size of yours, Gene, when I first started working at the UF Tropical Research & Education Center in Homestead back in 1997: 2012 Jody

Somewhere in the background on the left, there is a C. Baileyana it's leaf tips are yellowing a bit.

Heres mine. I noticed that the petioles have been getting really long lately even if the leaf size is just about the same. Can't wait for this to get like Rusty's plant. I notice that Rusty's (like the ones I saw in Fairchild's) are more silver than blue.

Andrew, i'm envious of all the Copernicias you have....i only have what i hope is fallaensis, and alba, xTextillis, and macroglossa.... ...here is a pic of the fallaensis, beverage bottle for scale, taken earlier this morning.