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@Mazat thank you ! Here are pics that actually show the Pygmy Palms. Harry A trio A pair, these were dug up from a house a couple blocks away . He didn’t want them . “Too prickly!” These were volunteers from the big multi on the other side of the Dioon Another pair The multi that was a producer of many seedlings that were either moved or just weeded out.

Here's mine I grew from seed in Arizona. It is 25 years old. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Yesterday was a great day in the garden after encountering this C. ovobontsira reveal. Up until now this young palm was rather unremarkable, no longer. It was gifted to me by Hilo Jason a few years back, you picked out a good one Jason, and no, you can’t have it back. Glad I’m able to share these photos. Tim

A couple of new ones for the collection and what few beauties this week. First up a dypsis sp, followed by a Areca loaensis, anthurium rupicola, licuala triphylia, Zamia standelyi, Pinanga disticha complete leaf, iguanura bicornis,dypsis lantzeana and last not notnleast a iguanura complete leaf. Some garden eye candy in that little batch of winners. And the wife was quick to a bit home decor with them claiming them straight away so there goes those palms to the wife, and we all know what the wife wants they get!

Bump. My favorite thread on palmtalk. Would love some updates. Adding my mule palms that I planted 1 year ago. The trunks have exploded in growth.

Here’s my biggest Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) plumosa, about 12 feet 4 M tall.

The one in this thread tried to flower prematurely then never put out a leaf again. and died. I replaced it with a Chrysalidocarpus decipiens which is doing much better. Back in 2015 and I think 2016/17 I germinated some more. So I have a few growing here now. The best ones are in sand. I had a comm pot of 3 that were growing in about a 70% perlite mix that I was too scared to separate. As they are a clumping palm anyway I planted them near my big Strelitzia nicolai which they would do in habitat in sand as a group. They’re doing fine. I’ve got others in free draining areas but not sand and they’re ok, but two have decided to flower prematurely and then put out funky new growth. I’ve got one doing very well in a jungly area near my bananas and a Ravenala that is doing well but it’s not sand there.

C. Nucel and b. Grandiflora

Achmea recurvata var. benrathii, as ID'd by @Looking Glass a year ago...looking pretty.

Motivation to not give up on your palms over inclement weather, spend a few hours protecting. 17°F in January. Pictures from today in Pearland, Texas Copernicia alba Phoenix theophrastii ‘Golkoy’ Butia Copernicia alba Liviston nitida King Ravenea rivularis Phoenix sylvestris and Livistona decora Livistona decora Queen Beaucarnea recurves Bismarckia Bismarckia Livistona Australis

i planned to take shot from the roof, but its been raining nonstop for 2 days, not the best time to walk on a slippery roof haha. ive changed clothes like 3 times since ystday. so heres a few more angles today. by the way, this oasis is in western sydney, where the harsh weather is, the land is a normal 80s suburban size is only 8m x12m

I must admit , when I started planting palms at my new house after 7 years of collecting at my old house , I didn’t give as much thought as I could’ve. I had so many palms to transplant that I just dug holes like a mad gardener and stuck the wee ones in . They grew into their space pretty well and created quite the “jungle” look but a bit of planning ( and time) could’ve yielded a more attractive garden I guess. Too late now , 28 years goes by and no turning back. Harry

some of the other colour variations he gets, hes never the same colour

Today we found this three small agave americana variegata near the gardener lying on the floor ... we took them with us. now we'll see where we can plant them...

I follow your experiment with great interest but it has only been planted for a day. Let’s see how it adapts to being planted this summer and how it handles it’s first wet winter in the ground. I know the potted plant has been outside for some winters, but a pot that sometimes is being moved and during winter placed closely against a wall on a roof could lead to quite different results than a planted palm in a bit more exposed location. The growing medium is different (wetter in winter), the sun exposure is different and the temps at soil level could be colder during clear winternights than on rooftops. I hope it will do well. Looking forward to seeing it thrive.

Picture of one in our hood taken today:

O - K.. i got up on my roof n took a video, and took snapshots of the video, this is what i have to do to get a proper foto of my palms hahaha. enjoy

I would say at least 20 years or more but if it was in Hawaii 5 weeks old considering if you look at a palm in Hawaii it grows ten feet. But considering your climate give it 30 years.

Wow, congratulations on a very nice specimen and the price 🤗👍 that makes me happy for you

These are all in Pearland , south of Houston. Although they have seen Austin low temperatures the last 5 years. My parents live in a retirement community and I built them this garden. I drive in to protect what’s in ground and bring potted plants inside on average once a year.. They aren’t in physical shape to do that anymore, but enjoy having it 10-11 months out of the year. I think it’s a worthy investment

Great to see all the survivors Daniel. I'll be interested to hear at the end of the summer if the majesty's growth rate slows down after this past winter's cold. I've tried a few majesty's in Austin, that would survive sub 20F temps, but they always really slowed down after the experience. Hopefully that one is big enough that it can shrug it off.

Here’s my biggest Cocothrinax fragrans. About 8 feet or 2.6 M tall.

hide the house ? hahahaha. thats what every guest said when they were trying to find our address too. thanks for the palm Expedition and walking us thru the place. i see you are having the same problem there. fotos of a leaf here, a trunk there. a bit of this n some of that haha. but in person its easy to admire, when u try to capture on camera its hard to do so. i always had issues trying to mature royal oleracs, afew years n they give up. fishtail faster than a syagrus ????? wow

I see who the Monty python fans are on palm talk, Tis but a scratch, alright we will call it a draw! And is @DoomsDavea Conan the barbarian a fan?

Hopefully, the first two winters are mild so it can get established.

This thread needs photos! Here's mine about 5' from the porch.

Tracy, that palm is looking pretty darn good and has some size as well. The name is still accepted for the species, according to the Kew site. I never heard of the possibility moving it to Syagrus. Tim

Bill's??? I bought mine after a Southern California Palm Society meeting at Jason's old Fallbrook garden in roughly 2013 or 14. I planted it later after running out of space in prominent positions in garden, so it hides behind my garage out of site. Tim, do I recall correctly that there was talk of moving this to Syagrus briefly before the Allagoptera caudescens assignment from Polyandrococcus?

G. coulteri, ...the little dude.. Neighborhood Royal Poinciana waiting for a little more heat.. Other neighbor's yard full of Canna / etc.. Weepy- looking tree up near the front of the house? Ficus benjamina. Desert Willow.. ** Pseudalbizzia ( No longer lumped in w/ Albizia < ..Which now appears to be assigned only to the old world sps. > ) sinaloensis w/ the surprise development of flowers.. Only been in the ground since '22 ..Think i'd started it back in '18 ..or maybe 2019. Under 10ft total height atm. Was not anticipating seeing -any- flowers on it for another year or two. Might be the first residentially - planted specimen to flower anywhere in AZ, let alone the U.S.. Fine if i'm wrong, but someone contesting my thoughts will have to find and post pictures of.. / the location of... another flowering sized, yard- grown specimen somewhere in AZ / the U.S. to prove that..

At 35.8933 degrees North from the equator in Attard Malta, my Cocos nucifera is probably the farthest from the equator 24/7 outdoors Coconut palm surviving outdoors wet winter

This is a palm you don’t see or hear about much., even here in Hawaii. The few Allagoptera caudescens I have encountered have been impressive specimens and I can sorta see similarities with the smaller A. arenaria. These photos were taken ten years back, I would think it is still there. Good on everyone for keeping the faith cultivating this species. Tim

Trachycarpus I think...should move easily enough, perfect time to do it for you northern hemisphericals.

Going through my pics , most have been posted on various threads . I kept planting close to the house because it was the only shade to be had . I planted about half a dozen Syagrus R. because they grow like rockets and give a bit of canopy that I needed for the others. The West side of my house , it is nice and shady there now but used to get quite warm in the afternoon during summer. The Pritchardia on the left is growing outward from the house . The East side of the house with a lot of the Chamaedorea that I had in a greenhouse at our old place Chamaedorea Tepejelote that I planted as a 4” band! This one turned out to be a clumper, hmm By dumb luck , the Arenga Engleri turned out to be a privacy wall on the East side . There is also a Syagrus R. and a couple of Howea F. jammed in there as well! They all seem to get along. A better shot of the Pritchardia H. A happy camper sharing some real estate with a C. Radicalis TF volunteer and Caryota Mitis . Reckless abandon was my method! This one , Caryota Obtusa ( C. Gigas when it was planted ) almost dwarfs everything when a new frond opens. The left border of the photo is a very large Caryota Urens that out paced the Syagrus! I had a couple of these that I didn’t know where to put . This one got jammed up against a retainer wall ! It has been through a couple of name changes . Currently Chrysalidiocarpus Decaryi. The trunk on the left is a Roystonia Oleracae , and another Caryota M. for good measure! Backing up a bit , you can see the mess I created . On the left border is a nice Chambeyronia Macrcarpa , one frond arching in from the upper left. This goes on all around the house . It is a hillside home so the bulk of the real estate is a south facing slope where only the most hardy of my palms got planted. The small concrete bench that the bag of mulch is on is my afternoon spot where I have spent a lot of afternoons gazing up at my palms and resting in the shade of it all. When the house was new it would’ve been too warm to sit there for any length of time . To the right is the entrance to the courtyard and more of the same with a large Archontophoenix Alexandrea , a couple more Kentia and various others leading to my front door. My daughter was a toddler then . She would follow around with her beach pail and ask me why I was trying to hide our house! Harry

Nice one I think it’s time for some small understory palms like chamaedorea adscedans and huniophoenix nana both take the cool weather. The fan palm is a Bismarck.

You sure did do a good job of growing your banana. Keep up the good work. I am no expert and do not claim to be able to Identify bananas but am going to guess it is not Musa ingens. But I admit I could be wrong as there is not a ton of info on the internet that is not just a repeating of other peoples previously posted info and there could be different types of ingens or even hybrids (which would not be an ingens). The give aways are, at least from pictures on the net, M. ingens does not have red blotches in the leaf. as your pic shows. Also the plant in your pic holds it's leaves horizontally and ingens holds them upright. Probably some others on here can give you a better idea of what you have. Don't feel bad about having the wrong I.D. as there are tons of misidentified bananas out there and has been for many decades at least. Even some very reputable growers can end up with the wrong ID.

Couple of nice Chambeyronia there. When planting palms give them as much room as possible then you can go to town after they have grown a bit and plant more in the gaps. Then work on your understory which is what iam currently working on now that I have a canopy after about 25 years of gardening in my five acres. And in the meantime iam now working on a whole new garden starting from scratch again so iam in for the next 25 years of gardening.

The late Richard Douglas and Inge Hoffmann, two of my palm mentors, (Richard was more than six feet tall) then three images of my Ceroxylon quindiuense. I don't feel confident about estimating height, but I believe it to have about 35 feet of clean trunk below the leafbases. (10.6 m )

Have you some Rhopalostylis seeds for sale ?

Im not an expert but this actually looks fine! I could be wrong but they look like healthy roebeleniis to me!

Good old normal sago but fresh flushes never get old.

Thanks for the response! I’m so sorry it’s been literal months; I got a big fit of the winter blues and it was quiet the day I posted, so I tjought maybe everyone had gone. I see now that I was wrong, and am so happy! l had the most luck back then with my coconut palm, actually! It lasted a few years and was the light of my plant life, but like an idiot one fall I forgot to put the heat pad under it….. then, months later, it caught some sort of bug and couldn’t handle it anymore. I felt terrible, but definitely learned my lesson! I had the two majesty palms for a REALLY long time! They were from my mom, so older plants. One was chronically ill so it died a few years back, but then the second died of old age (I am guessing; it was happy and I did everything right but it had been potted for probably something like 10-15 years) just late last fall. Right now I am taking a break from palms to focus on citrus, and I am looking around for a tea tree to grow as well. I have a yucca cane just for funsies; i call it my Dr. Seuss tree. 😁 (As for the date palms—somehow my least successful experiment! I also had a variety of seeds that I couldn’t coax at all.)

Nice bunch there! The last pic showing off the Draceana shows you newly created section with a lovely back drop of jungle, awesome😉. Harry

Despite signs of spring coming it is still winter here. Nights are cold still and water temps in the ocean have dropped to their lowest in 2025. Ocean temps definitely correlate to on land conditions in this area. We are still awaiting spring. Old timers in the area have always warned that early March is still a risky time for overnight lows that can be records for the year. Signs of spring were apparent on.my walk. A neighbor's Macrozamia has some cones beginning to emerge.

He's a pretty happy little guy. Loves everyone, gets to sleep in hotels and gets lots of attention, then he gets to come home and sleep around a bunch of palms lol. Thanks for the belated birthday wishes, I'll pass them along to him with some ear scratching and belly rubs.

I've found them to a be a tougher grow than expected myself. In the pots, easy. In the ground, not so much. People love them here, though. Hair (and toupee) pulling fights over them.

It has fattened up since my last post, but we had a wet cold winter. The middle spear has come out all dried and shrivelled, but it's still pushing it out fairly fast for this species. I've given it some peroxide and should give it another dose. I don't want to lose it. The good thing is the weather has dried right out and warmed up so conducive to good growth now.

Here you go. This one has been in this full sun position and seen 43.1C with no burn whatsoever. They were not hard to germinate. It was good seed I think. I will try this species again. I would have had more success with the seedlings if I put them in full sun at a younger age. But up in Perth I didn't have the space in full sun so they rotted. It would also be bigger if it had seen full sun earlier in life. But it's happy in this spot and I do keep it moist during the heat of summer.

One day later, I now have 40% germination. I'm really happy. They're like germinating an Archontophoenix. regards Tyrone

Thanks for the comments guys. The seed looks just like Jubaea. regards Tyrone