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Chrysalidocarpus hovomantsinus sloughing off a frond to reveal the first ring. I have 3; one already has several rings and this is —at last — the second to begin trunking “for real.”

Bought a 3 gallon clump back in May of 2020. Cut it in half and planted each half. Here is Clump 2 when planted and today. It's doing better than clump 1. I'll have to get pictures of that one tomorrow.

Just another day working in the garden being a palm collector it never ends planting new varieties and searching for new varieties it’s an amazing hobby I only had a picture in my mind when I planted my garden no plant designs just landscaping with a picture in my mind as to what I wanted to achieve I think it has turned out pretty good as with any garden it’s forever changing

Here’s a few different angles from this evening

Today I converted one popup sprinkler to a dripline regulator, and ran 1/2" tubing around the perimeter of my "tropical bed." This was getting drenched for 15 minutes every morning with I think 4 spray-heads on a stick and 5 popups...probably 300-400 gallons every day just to grow an enormous amount of weeds. Now it has about 15x 1gph drippers and 10x 2gph drippers...a total of 9 gallons of water per day targeting specific spots. I do have one sprayer still running in the bottom left of the photo, this hits all the nursery pots. I put down 5 cubic yards of mulch over the area to cut back on the weed growth. I'm sure I'll need to rip out a bunch more of the arrowhead vine that was trying to dominate the bed. At the corner the Dendrocalamus Elegans is starting to fill in nicely. And the centerpiece of this bed is the slightly lopsided-looking Bismarck. I had to chop off a couple of fronds on the right side that were attempting to crush the pair of Spindle palms. This palm was one of the very first I ever planted, around July 2018 from a 3 gallon big box store purchase. It's definitely trunking now, but I haven't stripped off the old leaf bases to show it yet. Though not super-fast it's pretty big for 5 years from a 3 gallon:

Other side today it's growing like a weed. 16'+. In person it's really out full at this point

stopped by today and they are not ready yet. Maybe a few more weeks? Few have fallen to the ground but the squirrels have gotten them. The bunches up top are starting to get some color so I think they'll start dropping by the hundreds soon, and the squirrels won't keep up with them.

When I first joined this forum I didn’t know because I was too far gone. But I was going through bad depression because of work. I was drinking heavily but also obsessed with palms. I was using palms and this forum as a way to feel better. I’m very thankful for that. And this. Iam doing amazing as I got a new job within the company. (Huge company) I’ve taken on reef tanks again. As I did as a youngster. Thank you to everyone for your support. Thanks for the love. The YouTube support. My palms are doing well indoors here in southern Ontario. I did loose a few seedlings this winter as I have been taking care of my family. My parrots and my reef tanks. But I do get some dm as people ask me for advice for indoor northern growing and it makes me feel great!! I know I’m not on a lot. But I just want to say thank you to everyone for helping me get through a hard time in my life ! rob

Its that time of year again!

@UK_PalmsIt's very strange that the jetstream pretty much for the whole of the month has been sending us weather from the arctic circle. I could only image what it would be like if it was December right now. The jetstream in the USA and Canada seems to be abnormally high over eastern Canada sending us all this crap weather. On the positive side despite being 3c below average for this month, some pretty tropical palms such as Bismarckia nobilis, chambeyronia oliviformis and chambeyronia macrocarpa are still growing despite the very cool temperatures for the time of the year. Which makes me think they don't need as much heat to grow as once thought. It does probably help though that a lot of nights here have been above 60f and it's has been more humid than usual. Despite the rain the grass is still fairly yellow that I could see when coming in to land at Heathrow the other day.

Bentinckia condapanna - great looking palm and a fast growing palm as well. These are some of the close to 30 B. condapannas that line the path between my property and Kim's property. Planted about ten years ago and they were no more than 10-12 inches tall at the time.

This is about 25 years old planted out 1 gallon size. I grew it from seed.

We finally got rain today! Thunderstorms have been passing through all day, interrupted by some sunny bits. It's very refreshing as the air feels purified. Today's high was 24.9°C and we had a low of 18.7°C this morning. ⛈️🥰

Some of my vanda hybrids and their nepenthes protector. The pitchers are full of dead small bugs and they all love the well water and breezes in the new yard. Starting over but the flowers are encouraging!

Hi Peachy, I believe Lanonia dasyantha used to be known as Licuala radula back in the day. Licuala as a genus still well and truly exists, there are still many Licuala species. Lanonia only has around 10 I think. Some were formerly Licuala and most from Vietnam I think. Some Lanonia species are proving to be relatively hardy. I’ve got L dasyantha, L magalonii and L calciphila in Melbourne, although all are still small seedlings.

Today was the first cloudy and somewhat wet day here. Still less than an inch but im happy with it. Hopefully it keeps up.

It’s crazy how hyper-local the wet season rains can be here. Weather calling for zero inches / sprinkles…. And instead, it’s a good soak out there, with the gutters gushing. You could be 10 minutes away and dry as a bone. Last year, was the exact opposite. Looks like the next few days will be dry though. It’s was clear, sunny, and pass-out hot during the day, so I did get my chance to trim and mow, but it was brutal out there in that sun. Night shots…

There were other better looking specimens that were planted in commercial and residential landscapes. These were definitely wild. Yucca Aloifolia in one of the last protected patches of sand dunes in Panama City Beach, Florida

Nice Tim! I am not sure if mine is the same just in sun or not?

Spotted today in Tauranga NZ. Note the roots enter the ground at the bottom of the embankment that the house sits on, not the top.

Here’s a few of my chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookeri I have in my garden they are around 20 years old there so beautiful in any situation hookeri seem to grow faster than macrocarpa in my area

So sorry to hear of your pain. So glad to hear you’re getting past it! All the best if you want seeds just ask!

Few days ago I went for a short vacation on Crete, Greece and as passionate palm lover Vai beach was a "must see" to check Phoenix Theophrasti in habitat. It's one of few rare palm reservates left on the island.

We often talk about how cold temperature exposure effects plants.. Rare we talk about the other extreme ..Exposure to long duration heat. While -to some at least- this might not sound like much of a big deal ..it can be since in both cases, you are damaging tissue, which can invite other trouble.. In many cases, there are plenty of ways to protect plants -from either extreme- In other cases, not much you can do except hoping the heat breaks. A few examples of what 22 days ( incl. today ..and counting ) above 110F plus dry air/ no rain can do to stuff.. Things that can't be moved to a shadier spot, until the worst of the heat ends. Ficus microcarpa / nitida. Top portions of the tree ( Approx 20ft in height ) Tipuana.. Slightly torched, despite deep watering 2x weekly Morning Glories suffering some burn ..but a more significant Spider Mite attack ..simply because it has been so hot and dry.. Even though they get watered weekly. They'll snap out of it once it starts raining more. Junipers out back ..Hard to see in the pictures, but after so many days of such heat, they're starting to turn yellow, an obvious sign of heat stress. What pines are left in the neighborhood are showing similar effects. I may be cutting these down / completely tearing out to plant something better / taller to provide some deg. of afternoon shade to this side of the house. Evil Trash Tree peeping out behind the Junipers in the background, lol. Needs to cool down so i can get behind the shed and chop them down. Damage caused by such heat isn't limited to plants exposed to afternoon sun either.. have seedlings of some native stuff i keep in shade that are pretty toasty atm too..

After a few relatively mild winters we are starting to see more palms in the outer banks of North Carolina. The northern Outer Banks are in zone 8b, but this is a relatively recent development as the area has warmed. There are a lot more palms near Wilmington, and Sabal palmetto is native to Bald Head Island south of Wilmington. A lot of the Wilmington area is oddly now in zone 8a. Here are a few of the palms I saw on my walk this morning. This is just a small section of Colington Island, on the sound side of Kill Devil Hills behind the FFA airport.

These photos are not mine but a friend allowed me to share them; the palms belonged to a veteran collector on the island. Just thought these needed to be on the internet somewhere as proof that radical zone pushing can sometimes be successful (on borrowed time of course). These palms enjoyed the legendary "warm epoch" in Galveston's climatic history which lasted from spring of 1997 to fall 2009 during which the Galveston Scholes Airport did not record a reading below 30F. The successive hard freezes in 2010 and 2011 wiped out a lot of the ultra tender stuff and of course 2021 overkill wiped out any remaining royals, foxtails, and triangle palms. There were also large clumps of Dypsis lutescens and a Satakentia during this period. I remember being impressed by all of the royals and foxtails on the island (as well as central Houston, which did not drop below 28F or so during the same 12 year period). Syagrus sancona Archontophoenix Carpentaria Dypsis sp.

I really like the look of these as multiples. They look good as singles, but a little lonely sometimes. They put them in all over in groups and singles, by the beach, at Lauderdale by the Sea, and they look really nice and happy there. Drought, alkaline, and poor-soil tolerant.

Yucca treculeana, Yucca pallida, and a possible hybrid of the two near Lometa, Texas Yucca treculeana above the Colorado River Echinocereus coccineus var. roemeriSun and drought faded Yucca pallidaA possible hybrid of the two forming a small trunk. Long upright leaves like treculeana, but rough, thin, and flexible like pallida.

It’s nice to see the East Coast species in habitat

As the risk of being banned for OT discussion - No, I only went to "the chul" last year. There is one MM sale near the UA campus, but I've never been reminded about it's date and time. Hi 107˚, Lo 78˚ - We're cooling down. A shower tonight

Most of those "matchstick" bromeliads like Aechmea gamosepela are pretty hardy and aren't too spiky and often small so they're easy to protect or move various Dyckia Aechmea recurvata might be hardiest Aechmea, tolerant even of prolonged cool temps (one of the few I see grown successfully in UK landscapes) there's some nice hybrids of it and neos (e.g. xNeomea Strawberry) that had no damage at 24 F in completely exposed site here There's also Billbergia I think B. nutans and its hybrids might be hardiest of the group but all I have tried have been zone 9a under oak canopy. Aechmea disticantha is probably zone 8b but it's the pokiest plant I deal with and I deal with many plants lol The real hardiest is Tillandsia usenoides which has populations in zone 7b. They all have to be kept dry during cold. If it were me I'd try A. recurvata and a Billbergia I really liked the look of and I'd divide them to keep some inside as houseplants and others for the experiment

Cat palms definitely will

Not necessarily 100% fool proof... When it is 110+ out ..for days... Soak plants in pots, esp any where the sun is on them at any point thru the day, and they can cook ( the roots ). Had this happen w/ plenty of things i'd kept in shade. May only be 109F in the shade when it is 120+ in full sun but water absorbs and retains heat, so, while the soil in those pots might not be broiling ( compared to the plants in full sun ) if X plant's roots are heat sensitive, even a soil temp of 104, in the shade, day after day, for 3 or 4 months straight, can cause problems. Have lost ..uncountable... #'s of plants assuming just upping the frequency of watering would keep them going through these kinds of heatwaves.. Lawn area / in ground trees, etc out back are watered 2x weekly for just over an hour.. That does nothing to stop sunburn, ..an may actually make it worse by promoting tender new growth at a time when that growth is much more susceptible to being burned. Contrast that to out front where the Olive shades the grass / some other stuff, and the house itself provides shade in the afternoon.. Grass out there is healthy / grows like mad. Plants out there suffer some heat stress ..but not nearly as much as stuff does out back. Some sps of Agave in the ground can also cook the same way as well.. Aside from what being in direct sun can do to some cacti which naturally grow under something else that provides X amount of shade, Soak a # of cacti weekly / bi- weekly when nights are consistently in the 80s / 90s and they can cook, simply because, being the ultimate CAM plant, they can't breathe and go into a semi- dormant state when it is that hot. Remember, cacti and numerous other Succulent- type plants, open their Stoma only at night.. Keeping them closed during the day is how they evolved to survive arid environments. Numerous cacti will also shed finer roots when it is dry / hot to conserve moisture / save it for the main roots.. Then resume fine root growth when it rains and cools down. Saguaro can start this regenerative process within hours of a Monsoon soaking. Planting potted cacti specimens in the correct soil type / mix ..IE: less than 10% of... ...or absolutely no Organics in the soil mix seems to help ( Am able to give those specific Cacti an occasional splash or two of water when it is this hot, w/out watching them cook, from the bottom up afterwards ) ..but mirroring the kind of soil they grow in, in habitat, doesn't completely eliminate that threat. As far as Kaolin.. I use " Tree Paint ", which provides a similar, sun / heat reflective benefit, esp for thin / sun- sensitive- skinned trees like Citrus, ..The Tipuana, my Plumeria, etc.. Occasionally, you'll see trees around town that had been painted as well. I'll be painting the Ficus this fall when i raise the canopy a little. Can see where the tree had been damaged after it was trimmed in the past. One reason i let it fill out as much as possible to shade the trunks this year. As far as the weather goes, after such a wet / snowy winter ( in nearby areas of the western U.S. ) i knew this summer would most likely lean drier / hotter ..but this is nuts, lol. That said, it fits in with the overall pattern suggested in a warming world. between the two? i think heat-related stress /damage will become more of a challenge compared to cold -related stress / damage going forward. Sure there will still be cold winters ..Just think there won't be as many, ..Compared to sizzling summers anyway, IMO.

I’m not clear what the purpose is of discussing this? Bottom line is Minneapolis can’t have palms, Dallas can have a few, Miami is very favorable. What Dallas is more similar to is irrelevant, no?

These awful trees carpet the drier areas of the hawaiian islands and have made reforesting of native drylands species nearly impossible

Anything in the Archontophoenix family?

Beaucarnea recurvata can go below freezing, but days below freezing with low at 20 or below will kill them. There used to be some huge plants in protected Houston gardens with gigantic bases, but to the best of my knowledge they all died in the Texas freeze.

I have a Chamaedorea in 2" pot sitting in a flooded coffee can outside. Not sure if tepejilote or radicalis. Doing great.

Just FYI, the street view of those Washingtonia filifera on the Kern River was just updated, so you can see many of their trunks inundated by the June 2023 snowmelt!

Your palms look great…Trachy looks very happy! Once the Sabals get their subterranean trunks set, they’ll start to move pretty quickly…have three seed starts in ground for 2-3 years and they are just now going from single strap leaves to multistrap, so not long till the mature fronds emerge? All my palms took a hit after the Christmas freeze this past winter…very mild winter up to Christmas, then two nights, one at 5 F. and the next at 11 F. followed by two days below freezing…then back to somewhat mild…the combination of mild to super cold to mild again was a real challenge…one theory I read here was that the palms were not slowly acclimated to the pending real cold as the temperatures leading up to the event were mild for a winter, so they literally got the shock of their lives as past, much harsher winters produced NO frond losses, none, but this past winter, a lot of frond damage on the 11’ Trachy, but it’s recovering quickly…before Christmas freeze: After…lost a lot of fronds…but new ones coming in big and strong: The Brazoria behind it took frond damage, too but is pushing new fronds out at a good rate…before flash freeze: After… The Chamaerops got almost completely fried but has really bounced back…from this… To this…I’ll protect much better this winter…it is the only one protected every winter… I highly recommend a Sabal McCurtain for you…thinner segments than a Minor and very dark green/bluish…nice looking, no protection palm. Here’s one of the Sabal Minors from seed looking to show a more mature three pointed frond? But I’m with you, takes time but no protection is a big plus! Glad to see yours are doing so well…I do think, even though not that many miles separate our locations, urban island winter temperatures in our zone 7 region are a real advantage for sure…

I hope you get an answer to your question. I've heard Brahea armata are native to within a few miles of the CA border, and would love to see a wild Brahea in California. Definitely interesting to see plants growing where you don't expect them to grow.

This is a love hate relationship. So many pretty flowers in this genus but the runners are awful in my part of the world! I have taken a chance with this one because I do like the flowers and it might be corralled by being next to my driveway preventing spread in that direction and closely monitored. Time will tell. Please post yours if you dare to grow them.

There are about 6 species of Clerodendrum here, none of them producing runners as far as I know. The largest, C floribundum, grows as a small tree or over sized slender shrub. The others are smaller shrubs with one being just a ground cover. The ones growing wild at my place are C. costatum (I think, they can be difficult to ID).

I have some in liners right now. Once they are bumped up to 1g, may list for sale. I want to be sure they are true tribears. Pretty sure tho, but the looks of the first leaf on these they are tho.

I managed to stop by and pick these seeds up while on a business trip to San Diego several years ago. Haven't collected any since. These seeds are now mostly 15 gallon potted plants, selling for $250 each. 😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Regardless, it does not relate to the 2023 season. You could always make a separate thread about it, im not sure how long it will last before it becomes politicized by that minority though.

Please take the climate change nonsense elsewhere. This is a thread about the hurricane season, not politics. Thanks in advance.

One of the major news outlets ran a story last week on how climate change (a catch-all, non-discript phrase) is altering NC's Outer Banks. These barrier Islands have been changing constantly since the glaciers receded about 10K to 15K years ago. We are currently still in a cool phase.