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when we went to the garden center early this evening to buy some more sand, Sabine saw a Howea forsteriana that seemed to have all its fronds bent and she immediately asked a gardener if she could have the plant. Yes, for 5 usd was the answer. Normal price 45 usd. After inspection, the plant was completely fit, nothing damaged and here it is.

Hi, after purchasing and separating a H. forsteriana (they were actually four) last September... ...they went into the ground today. I have to admit that I had one loss - you can see the already staked one, right center (photo was taken after the separating) because its stem was already at that time completely molded what I found out a week later. However the other three pulled through and since we are expecting the rain season to start soon, it would be a good moment to get into action. Because I like the jungle look they went into spot covered by other plants. I think it would look "cool" when these three get tall and create their own canopy of three (separated) Howea. Time will tell. Here they are, a bit hard to make out but the trained eye will recognize them soon. Because I was in the mood to do a bit more, I gave myself a push and planted out my last two surviving C.savoryanum. (I have already lost a couple of other already planted out ones, for unknown reason. Interesting was, when the others went down around 4 years ago, at almost the same time (early summer) all my other outplanted Clinostigma hopefuls (C. samoense, C. ponapense and C. harlandii) died as well. It was a sad moment. But today I told myself "why not" and here they are: Let's hope for the best, fingers crossed! Thank you for your time! Lars

Doing a bit of potting up with some bare rooted mail order plants. A few Areca guppyana and some Saraca indica trees. Some nice ones for the garden the Saracas will need lots of water and the guppyana will be fine in a shaded place with irrigation.

One of my favourites in my garden Howea forsteriana

Definitely not mine but some pics from Key Biscayne and Miami FL

the chamaerops humilis will also start flowering soon

Getting a few chamaedoreas in with some alternans, and a lanonia dasyantha, and a few more Cham adscendens, and a genoformis all germinatedby me the lanonia where from imported seeds out of china, and the chamaedorea from my garden. Give them a few years and they will adding the tropical look all round in the garden.

You try and retire and they pull you back in. My retirement lasted about 6 months until a nursery made me an offer I couldn't refuse. It has been a fun four years. IMG_20250506_155239.heic

We have noticed that all the palm trees in the community garden and also the other exotic and native plants are flowering over 3 weeks later than last year and other years before. How is it with you this year?

Some more winners this week with a dypsis minuta an adorable palm, a heliconia aemygdeana hot pink, lanonia hainensis, anthurium punctatum. So beauty’s in there for the garden.

Dasselbe also here! Phoenix loureiroi without even a trace of new spathes, while this is exactly the time, when it regularly reaches anthesis.

My Trachycarpei seem about a month behind schedule.

No I won’t have to if you do the hit and run once you get the B double truck organised, then @Harry’s Palms can be your driver and run for the hills with happypalms personal collection. But iam currently building a new greenhouse 40 meters by 6 do I might have to buy a few back of you to fill it😉 Richard

Last picture was right after Hurricane Ian 2022. Front garden beds.

It is alive!!!

Thanks for sharing.

I found this one left by the bins a couple of years ago, originally a triple, one plant died off but the other two are going great and enjoying life!

Some photos of Lake Constance

Six special little seeds to me the mooreana. A bit like Jak and the beanstalk these ones. Although I didn’t have to trade a cow to get them thankfully. They don’t look much now but if I can germinate them, I know they will look pretty special to me.

Kinda yes and no, it depends on how carful you are in keeping the soil intact around the roots. And it depends on some species that will not tolerate losing there soil like joeys and some licuala sp just to mention a few. You will need two people too plant your palm one holds the pit upside down as you hold the soil surface then as the pot is removed you need to hold it at the bottom and flip it over and plant. Or you can cut the bottom of the pot out carefully and, place it in the said planting hole cut the container bottom out back fill around then slide the container upwards then back fill and water seaweed extract it Amin B for stress. Good luck patience is a virtue.

I think the palm will love its new home! Washingtonia are pretty good with transplant unlike other palmate palms. Good luck! Harry

I love this palm

I finally finished the window area...one more spot done! I relaid the edgers at the walkway, built my Missouri limestone rings around the Bottles and Multipinnata, and did a topcoat of cypress mulch. I'm a little concerned about the Multipinnata, as it just killed off the last remaining tall frond. But it has two offsets flushing single leaves, and the center looks like it is thinking about a new flush. I'm sure I cut some roots when re-grading the area, so hopefully it's just responding to that...and not a sign of something worse:

@palmofmyhand I'd say plant them. If the roots were fairly pot-bound when you did the step up, they are probably still more or less in that shape 1-2 months later. If the roots were *not* pot-bound when you stepped them up, and partially fell apart when you stepped them up, then leaving them for a while could be a good choice. It depends on the palm species of course. If it were a super root-sensitive type (Bismarck) then I'd be more cautious. Otherwise in my experience palms grow much, much faster in the ground than in a pot. So even if there's a little temporary setback for a few weeks to a month of minimal aboveground growth, it'll be much faster and grow better in the latter half of the summer if you plant now.

Konstantinos, ein prachtvolles Exemplar, your Phönix loureiroi 👍

Great follow up , I remember the thread. Sorry you lost one but the others look great. At that stage they will be somewhat slow growers but they really pick up after a few years in the ground. Harry

My Trachycarpus F. is flowering as are the Butia , Brahea . The Phoenix already dropping fruit . This has been a drought year here in SoCal but I water frequently. Harry

Richard...outside in the deepest shade with those seeds! Absolutely no bottom heat, they want to be between 10 to 20c max.

And a lovely one at that! They grow much faster when they get that size , at least here in Southern California. It seems to take a while to get there , but once they have a trunk , every year’s growth is exponential. Harry

I got sick of digging and went all out with my tractor and an auger on the back of it to drill holes. But what iam planting now is tried and tested. No way am I going to plant the super rare stuff until mid spring, but joeys and Kerriodoxas are going out for planting faster than a sale at fosseys (now that’s an old store you will remember) and at a chandlers sale. Richard

You can come and dig holes here when you are finished. My hopes of getting things in the ground before winter have flown out the window since I have been so sick for the last few weeks. Once again I think it will all go on hold until spring. Peachy

Yet another nice haul. You will have to put an extension on the verandah to hold them all. Peachy

a very beautiful specimen 🤗

Give them water and a nice home , they are resilient palms . I have been given some that were crispy except for the wee spear that was green . Six fairly large palms , just starting to trunk. Only one died . That was 20 years ago and they are still going strong. Harry

@Muslim Gardener parts of that story you wrote are quite the myth with some mistakes in it. I've lived in many of the places you've mentioned in Virginia and North Carolina. I've read a lot about the history of sabal minors in Virginia and NC. I have ancestry going back to early Jamestown. In the early 1800's there was a major cold event that killed all Virginia palms that lived potentially up to Williamsburg, and disputably on the Eastern Shore all the way down to Monkey Island, NC. I still haven't seen sabal minor in the Dismal Swamp, even if it might have crept back centuries later with human help. The Melungeons and related groups are fairly few in number nowadays. I would consider the Lumbee a bit separate in some respects. Side note, my grandfather used to warn me not to venture into the Green Swamp in SE NC where some of them lived because the marijuana growers might shoot at you. Supposedly, some of the so called Qarsherskiyan people converted to a modern synthesis of Manichaenism, Bhuddism, and Islam starting in 1991. Manichaenism has previously sank its filthy claws into other religions. It is predominantly eradicated from Christianity, but unfortunately stills rears it head in certain branches of Judaism. Did you ever find sabal minor growing on an island in the lake off Oriana? I mentioned to you a couple years ago that I threw seeds there maybe 12-15 years ago. Virginia Beach has minors planted all over, so the offspring have renaturalized to some extent. There should still be a fat trunked palmetto and some minors I planted on Daphne Drive many years ago.

Holy palm trees Batman that’s a cracker. Iam definitely marking the palm i found maybe one day seeds your one is up there with Chambeyronia. Maybe lacospadix Australis got into the alexandrae gene pool. But whatever it was, that’s the best looking alexandrae I have ever seen your one.

Nice Sabals Marcus! And I think that is a great price. Rainbow Gardens has some about that size maybe a bit larger that are $150 each!!! Those are going to do great in your yard.

That’s the one peachy. After you do the hit and run from my nursery you will have one you can post to Harry🤣

Here's the 8 years later update. Funky trunk kink from a very large Brazilian Red Cloak plant that was overtaking the area, which has since been cut down.

Butch

A new frond for my Roystonia Oleracae , first of the year . A bit of a zone push for me . Thank you to Palm Talk for the help with this palm when it was just hanging in there a couple years ago. More watering and a bit of organic with mulch and the fronds are much larger . Last year this palm pushed 4 fronds , progressively getting larger , thicker! Harry Blue sky framing the plumose foilage.

This guy is looking really pretty at this stage. I think this palm gets passed over a lot due to "Palm Snobbery".

Do you protect those? Where I live in Atlanta, they're good for 6 or 7 years before a dieback. I think they're safe in Augusta.

I will be digging holes this weekend . I have a few from my latest expedition to get in the ground . I want get them started as we head into summer. Harry

I love my guppy palm. Also love it's cousin areca novohibernica, similar looking but more colour. Still looking for one of those. This will be the first outdoor winter for my Socratea exhorriza so I am hoping it makes it. Something really fascinating about the stilt rooted palms for me. Peachy

I was lucky to get them when the world was going to end. I thought if the world is going to end at least I will some palms to go with to the pearly gates of wisdom. I would have loved to see have seen your old garden you had a lot in there. Do you have any photos of it please. Richard

Yes, I have my doubts about the ID as well. I believe that it was grown from seed sourced from Garry at Coldplant but not sure. I'm told it's a slow grower. Any ideas? Doesn't look like yours or Matt's.

Might be something to do with cool weather, I had some nice reddish leaves on my young ones back in the winter. The same ones that are flushing now, as summer sets in, are more or less just green (pic from January, grown from seed and I assume it's alexandrae but also wondered if it could be tuckeri)