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I think we need a new updated thread for these palms... Starting with the big one at Overcliffe Gardens near Dublin in Ireland. This is probably the largest Juania in the British Isles. The Earlscliffe Juania was planted very small back i 1995, so it has been in the ground for 30 years now. The earliest photos I can find are from 2002 and 2003. The third photo below shows it in 2009... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up we have the Juania specimen at Overbeck's Garden in Salcome, Devon. The Overbecks Juania was apparently planted in 1995 as well, but it was a very small seedling back then. the earliest photos I can find for it are from 2011 and 2013. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up we have another legendary Juania at Glendurgan Gardens in Cornwall that has been in the ground about 25 years as well, alongside Dr Kevin Spence for scale... Here is a grainy photo of the Glendurgan Juania from 2012 before it had properly started trunking... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are other decent specimens in southern England and Ireland, which I will update on in due course...

A friend in HB has this hellacious Hedyscepe canturburyana in a 20 gallon pot. Imagine how gorgeous this would be in front of your beachfront mansion? Or coastal cottage? $500 or best offer. That is a bit of moolah but this plant has been around a while. It’s gorgeous! PM me if interested.

Plant a brahea armata and thank me in 20 years.

Planted hybrids and renda in man made pond.

We went on a trek to Cape Tainaro which I think is the southernmost tip of continental Europe. Beautiful place and some nice flowers. Euphorbias are in their best right now. Enjoy!

The SFPS had its biannual sale this past weekend at the University of Miami Arboretum. We had very nice weather. See pictures attached.

April 2024 planting: November 2024 before covering: November after covering: I'm watching the weather for the big spring reveal. Stay tuned.

One more royal palm from my garden with beautiful ring color

The graphic below is from an article in the Summer 2021 issue of The Palmateer about small palms. The full issue, including the article featuring this graphic, is viewable at the link: https://cfpacs.com/org/wp-content/uploads/publications/2021/palmateer_2021_02_74.pdf

Defenitely Northern Catalpa Tree. Most tropical looking tree here, it really doesn't fit in with the rest of the flora around it, and it also has tropical looking flowers and "beans"

Planted a washingtonia robusta today at the driveway approach. My neighborhood needs a little more palms by the road

Winter storm warning with heavy snow up north.... triple digits down south 😆

I had a good spot for a Trachy and dug up a volunteer Trachy in the backyard and moved it to the front yard . I was trying to get a good solid rootball and I think I succeeded . These small Trachys are Taylor Forms . Watered and mulched . Not the prettiest little palm but it was in and amongst a bunch of overgrown plants and it just needs a few new fronds to look decent . Future Trachys to be planted below .

If its allowed ( I don't know if you are in an HOA). You could remove the planter walls and bring in soil and rocks and make an extended raised bed garden.

I saw this complex a couple of months back and their landscaping is amazing. It's way, way out in Katy. I finally saw it again, and was able to find it on google maps. https://maps.app.goo.gl/BFR8CV3774Mj7QMP8

The local CIDPs here in the San Antonio suburbs have started to show their damage from the two hard freezes this winter. In my neck of the woods it bottomed out at around 23F and 22F during the January and February events, respectively. Initially, I didn't see any damage on CIDP fronds. Within the last week or so though, all of the CIDPs near me seem to be showing 50 to 80% leaf burn. That is pretty disappointing, considering we had a 9a winter. I went out to check the only P. dactylifera I have seen in the area. And here is what I found: These are planted at a farm house that is definitely far enough out to not get any benefit from urban heating. The main trunk on the palm on the right seems to have died in 2021, with only offshoots surviving. Both of these seemed to have less leaf damage than the CIDPs growing in neighborhoods nearby. I have heard that dactylifera and perhaps stylvestris may be more leaf hardy than CIDP, while the CIDP will ultimately survive colder temps than any other Phoenix. At least this year, it appears that the dactylifera near me did suffer less leaf damage than CIDP. The pattern of damage on the dactylifera seems to be more damage to older leaves, while the CIDPs seem to be damaged on old and new fronds alike. Just a few observations.

So yesterday the Montgomery Botanic Garden had its annual luncheon and they showed us their 15 sprouted Palmyra Atoll coconuts that they collected last year. These are the largest coconut fruits known, and very oblong. The trees apparently are not distinctly bigger than the regular types. BTW, The folks at Montgomery had to beg the folks at the US Forestry Department to NOT cut those trees down - since they were thought to have been introduced for agriculture to the Atoll. MBG convinced them that these were obviously an endemic variety and were not the same as the agricultural one. See the attached pictures for a comparison with a regular sized. coconut.

@realarch lovely color on that one! I am still amazed , even after 25+ years of growing palms , the colors that the crown or petiole , or even the fruit display. Here’s a couple of colorful pics from a couple of more common palms . Harry ‘The more common , but still impressive , C. Lutescens with the red petiole emerging from the golden speckled bases. A little help from a ground orchid , Bletilla The “almost ripe”fruit of the Chamaedorea Microspadix . A highlight to the light green leaflets.

New Palms for the Spring Season We are ringing in the Spring season with a brand new price list, new palms for your nursery / garden, alongside our extensive list of rare and exotic species. First we have a restock of Kentiopsis piersoniorum (pictured above). This New Caledonian beauty adds a dramatic flair to any garden and is sought after, and Floribunda is one of the only places you can find it, available now as seedlings for $25.00. We continue our New Caledonian theme with Cyphophoenix nucele, a palm that has a beautiful white crownshaft and upright leaves, available in 4in size for $8.50. Basselinia glabrata is an amazing talking point in the garden, with its interesting stacked inflorescences. These are available as 1 gallon sized plants at $20.00. Hailing from São Paulo, Brazil, Lytocaryum hoehnei is endangered in the wild, but you can help preserve or distribute it to add it to more gardens and preserve this beautiful species. Seedlings available now for $4.00. Reinhardtia latisecta from Central America has amazing wide leaflets and beautiful inflorescences. A wonderful clustering understory palm for warmer climates. All this and more are on our new price list, enter (N) into the search to filter out the new items, but don't forget to explore the rest of the list for old favorites! We also have the trunking cycad Lepidozamia hopeii available in our cycad section! https://floribunda.xyz/pricelist

Hi, UK (south) here! I found this page and was hoping to find some helpful advice please. I have a Mediterranean fan palm? in a metal pot with an interior lip, sat on gravel over a weed membrane, over soil. I’ve had it for at least 25 years maybe more but 17 years in this spot and it’s not budging so I assume it’s roots have set through the bottom in to the ground? I’m going to be moving soon, in the next few months but realise if I’m going to disturb it around now would be a good time? What I’d like to do is cut it free to leave a flat base, 1 to avoid having to dig it and the gravel and the weed membrane, take an angle grinder to the pot and find a new one and 2, I’d like it to be able to sit on a hard surface as it is, the new garden is wild and not suitable yet. How risky would it be to cut the roots? Looking at the base of the pot a dig is looking more likely. Any suggestions greatly received. I’d love to keep it but also of it’s going to be too big and left bare rooted I’d happy sell it to someone who can cope with it (maybe who’d want to plant it) and I’d start again with a baby. At the moment this plant is loving life, it’s always been happy and low maintenance. Thanks in advance

I wouldn't do it because of the arm-shredding thorns and stiff eye-poking leaflets. You could get away with a Roebellini on a 6' median because the leaflets are soft and flexible...and the thorns are no more than 6-12" away from the trunk. I'd agree with @kinzyjr on Lethal Bronzing, now that it's made it to my neighborhood. All the Dactylifera and Sylvesters nearby are dying one by one. Give it another year or so and they'll be 100% d-e-d. I finally decided to avoid the "fallacy of sunk costs" and just trashed all my Sylvestris and one Canariensis. Just because I spent time and $$ on Phoenix palms doesn't mean I should continue trying to grow a palm that's likely to randomly die in the next year or two...

just planted a Sable miner

Mature washingtonia in round rock

I'm guessing that if you're old enough to post on here and still have a living grandma, that your Grandma probably only has a decade or two left of living on her own. Buy a filifera dominant Washingtonia with a few feet of trunk off Facebook marketplace, plant it near a south facing wall, and watch it explode in growth over the next few years. Without any major freeze events it will be two stories tall within a decade With sabals your choices are either dropping big bucks on transplanting one in that will grow at a snails pace for a few years as it regrows its roots and re-establishes itself, or growing one from seed which is a slow slow process. Long term hardiness? Questionable, but we have hybrids here still in DFW that are still going strong after seeing temps at least 5 degrees lower in each winter than what you see, so it's definitely worth trying.

15C / 59F here at 4pm. After a run of 18C / 64F days here, the cold front is hitting now. A few parts of England reached 20C last week. It was nice while it lasted, but that is early spring for you. Back to winter again later this week it seems with the risk of overnight frost returning. Really looking forward to summer now.

in the community garden last week we had between -3.3 to -1.6 degrees Celsius/26.06 to 29.12 degrees Fahrenheit lowest temperatures only yesterday 0.1 degrees Celsius/ 32.18 degrees Fahrenheit so in the plus. The daily highs were 15.2 to 21.1 degrees Celsius/59.36 to 69.98 degrees Fahrenheit. Saturday was the warmest day. The differences between minimum and maximum temperatures are very large from our point of view.

Whoo, Whoo, that's one fine looking Hedyscepe! I can just see someone who doesn't know any better thinking that it would look great at their bayfront mansion in the Miami area! There's beachfront and then there's beachfront!

Yesterday was mostly cleanup work, like cleaning up the back porch, stepping up a pair of newly bought Licuala Ramsayi from 3g to 7g and spraying all those $*#(@#*$ weeds with 2,4-D again. The last batch of weedkiller I made in October and it had been sitting in part sun over the entire winter. So I think it had degraded and was mostly useless. So I mixed up a new batch and went over most of the yard, including around this second blooming Agave Vilmoriana / Octopus: The "Stairway to Heaven" agave hybrid on the bottom right is getting ready to bloom too, you can tell by the narrowing center fronds. So I'll have to replace both of these with something new! At the Leu Gardens plant sale we also bought a 100lb concrete dragon's head to go in the front walkway. It has holes for the eyes and a spot for a tiki torch light behind it. I have low voltage landscape lighting along the walkway, so I'll run a line over there and light the eyes from behind:

Haha I paid $500 for a juvenile that is still not trunking six years later. I know more now.

Number 2 native tree to my area is Quercas agrifolia, California coast live oak. Encinitas is Español for "little oaks". From the park a couple of blocks away named Leucadia Oaks Park. The namesake tree is behind the new art installation.

Adam requested updated photos of my Aloidendron "Hercules" hybrid. Here it is.

A few additional threads discussing Juania australis: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/24474-the-juania-australis-today-in-ireland https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/76743-juania-australis-earlscliffe-garden-ireland https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/52461-seed-grown-juania-australis https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/56374-juania-australis-palm-possible-climates https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/54117-sad-truth-about-juania-australismaybe https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/16959-juania-australis https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/17752-juania-australis-heat-tolerance https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/35552-juania-australis-in-huntington https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/24194-juania-australis https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/31238-juania-australis-flowering-for-christmas

They take damage and die here once in a while. The linked photo below is from the January 2022 cold snap outside of the UHI. It's a little grainy, but you can see that roughly half the fronds are torched:

I am in Barcelona right now and it is not uncommon to see this palm in planters. I do not know what the longterm plan is for these palms, since they're solitary, so I assume they'll just compete till death until a few survive? They are flowering but I have not seen any produce fruit, but it might be too early in the season for that.

Im going with Sabal Mexicana or Sabal minor. Both are native (former being once native) to your area and should do well. Washingtonia filifera should do well. Sabal palmetto as well. If you want a pinnate palm, I would try butia odorata or maybe one of the hybrid mule palms (queen x butia)

I think the simplest explanation is possibly that rain contains nitrogen, particularly in thunderstorms, where the energy from lighting breaks the chemical bond in the nitrogen gas in the atmosphere and releases water soluble nitrates that plants can use.

So I believe all 3 of the ones shown have produced flowers as of 2024 now (some of these photos are from 2023) however you really need separate male and female specimens for pollination as they are dioecious. So someone would need to collect male pollen and hack the female plant at Earlscliffe with it, assuming either of those other two are male. Those are definitely female flower sacks on the Earlscliffe Juania. Some are fresh and not opened up in the image below, but you can also see older, spent ones hanging down too. The first flower supposedly emerged way back in 2016, so I would have been flowering for about 7-8 years now. Hopefully some of the gardens and owners can lend some pollen. I think there are other large Juania’s in private gardens too.

This palm will break your heart. I have grown several, and they exhibit what I call "sudden death syndrome" even though I have a very good microclimate. They grow well and then die suddenly without any sign of distress. Any Ceroxylon has a similar look and is much easier to grow. Carpe emptor !

I agree with a lot of the comments above. Sabal palmetto or Sabal mexicana are the best bet for a nice trunking palm that you won't need to worry much about.

Man in 8b/9a I'd go for it. Plenty of options. Sabal palmetto and Sabal Mexicana would be my go tos. Wahingtonia filifera would be a fantastic choice as well. You certainly could do some windmills but I have heard they do better in texas with some shade. Minors and needles for sure. Perhaps a butia but I've heard mixed reviews on them in texas as well. Hardy cycads,although not palms, certainly could be in the mix. Cycas panzhuiensis and the good old sago( Cycas revoluta) as well as some Dioon edule could help roundout your plants. I'm near KCMO and I have minor, needle and windmill growing. They're not big yet but I protect in winter(zone 6b) I'd be stoked to have your winters. I Know that you guys have had a string of bad winters,but see if you can source some from survivors. They should be extra ready for winters going forward. Good luck

Aloidendron ramosissimum.

Aloidendron dichotomum

Lemurophoenix, just an amazing palm. Tim

Min of 11c/52f with a high of 18c/64.4f. slightly higher humidity today. Clouds suppressed the temps. Not a bad forecast for the next two days before the Arctic air mass moves in.

Here in southwest Germany it feels like spring. Temps during the day of 17°C/63°F. Next week some showers but still like spring. Can't wait to start digging in the dirt. Eckhard

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Looks like real spring and calendar spring will coincide this year here. This week has been all sunny and warm and will remain so for another few days at least. Maximum of 18 C / 65F today and minimum of 3 C / 37F. The weekend will be warmer apparently. No rain expected. Today I had to remove spidermites from my Colocasia and it's only beginning of March!!! 😫

I think spring is here to stay well at least I hope lol.

The forecast has been upgraded again. Today is running above the forecast so I'd imagine it could be even warmer. Crystal clear skies again today.

Last August I remember cologne city center was fairly warm at night but when travelling to Dusseldorf airport it was quite a bit cooler.