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Assuming that's indeed a Medemia, then this is what you can look forward to. The two large palms in the center are Medemia argun. Photo taken during the Biennial in Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden in September 2012.

This year has been good....so far. Once we get past hurricane season then I can chill. Planted a few more pams this summer,(getting harder and harder to find new species, that I need or want), but I did plant Licuala fordii (3), Dypsis mananjarensis 6-7', Burretiokentia vieillardii and B. kohgiensis both 3 gallon, a really nice Licuala paludosa 5' showing nice orange, Dypsis paludosa 4' that I threw in the full sun as a test, and yes, it burned pretty good but might make it. Also a Cyphophoenix elegans 3-4'. probably a few more that escape my memory for now. Planted probably more than 50 more crotons, many new, many as duplicates as well. These sure add color to the canvas. A couple of rare flowering trees as well. I just started a new project for an area off to the side of our pool and bedroom window. I am putting in 4 6"x6" x12' wood post to anchor a swing that I can use as I grow old. It will have a vine growing up on it. And Andrea will then lay flagstone rock as a flooring underneath it. I'm thinking I will plant in this area one of my largest Cyrtostachys sp. Hybrid. It will plant out at approx. 9-10'. I also have an old Phoenix roebelenii var. reasoneri that originates in Laos. It's the clumping form of P. roebelenii.

Uh, isn't that extinct? Like, long dead and fossilized extinct, not "whoops we introduced rats" extinct? Yep, it's long dead extinct (too bad ). But a friend shown me a couple of charcoal-looking fossil seeds when I was in NZ. I couldn't resist to post it here. It's a true coconut species, after all! This is what happens when you start google'ing for "Evolution" and "Coconut": http://aciar.gov.au/files/node/453/mono101.pdf

Here's one that no one's mentioned yet. Brahea decumbens! A bit on the silver/blue side but a stunner never the less. This specimine was planted by Al in Kona in his former Lemon Grove, CA garden.