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I started this addiction of mine during covid and I'm hooked, still planting away even though I dont have the space so I cut away concrete to make more land. My wife thinks I'm nuts but supports my alot better habit compared to others out there.
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7 pointsBelmores do great here 10 miles from the beach North county Bonsall
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Hyophorbe Indica (Champagne Palm) $250 OBO for XL 15 Gallon (but ready for larger pot... or even better DIRT) Bought in 2021 as a 5G $150 OBO for Med 10 Gallon (but ready for 15 Gallon, or ground) Bought in 2022 as a 1G Pickup in Carlsbad, CA (North San Diego County). No shipping. Wide shot of both... Trunk close-up...
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5 pointsA beautiful small dypsis I have tucked away in the garden. Only viewed when I get in and have a look through the rest of the garden hiding it away. One day it will break through.
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5 pointsTim I water my Hedyscepe and Leppidorachis and all the other palms on automatic drip bubbler irrigation for 1 hour every 4 days Mount Gower gets 1.3 M of precipitation a year especially in winter.5 points -
5 pointsFour little palms lanonia magaloni licuala bracteata Lanonia centralis Lanonia dasyantha
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4 pointsPinanga Javana $150 OBO 5 Gallon (ready for larger pot or DIRT) Originally purchased in 2021 from Floribunda. Has been thriving in a mostly-shade outdoor spot. Pickup in Carlsbad, CA (North San Diego County). No shipping.
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I recently got to spend a brief (less than 24 hours) time at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. I snapped a few palm photos while is was there. I think I was most impressed by the number of large Butias. Butias are as common around San Antonio, and there certainly aren't a ton of them as tall as these that I saw in a small area of Jacksonville. Butias:
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A few pygmy dates: And a bigger date that looked like a hybrid to my amateur eyes:
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I thought this Sabal with a tiny crown was interesting as well:
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4 pointsI can second "deep summer". Up here at 480 feet and 3 miles from the ocean (2 miles inland from @Darold Petty), in the evening you can barely see across the street. The photo below is typical--it was heavier last night. By morning everything under canopy is soaked from the "rain". The sun frequently fails to emerge all day. Locals refer to Grey May, June Gloom, No Sky July and Fogust 😆 It's great for the cool-weather palms and plants like our Sphaeropteris medullaris...not so much for lounging in the hammock, or watching fireworks. Our Hedyscepe is doing great, although a ways from trunking still. Our little double Howea belmoreana is struggling due to K deficiency and it actually does fry when the sun shines, but I think it will be fine eventually. (No palms in this pic, sorry.)
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Choice of two options, which have grown very differently... $150 OBO (for either) 5 Gallon (ready for larger pot, or DIRT) Purchased as 1G back in 2021 Pickup in Carlsbad, CA (North San Diego County). No shipping. ==== OPTION #1: Bushy, 6-trunk baronii, with relatively even trunk distribution... Close-up of trunks... ==== OPTION #2: Massive Trunk that wants to "rule them all", plus 4 smaller ones. Fronds reach to 7 feet. Close-up of trunks...
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Ground hog day hey Harry. Iam fortunate enough not to have those sort of critters. I did have a brush turkey problem due to the wife feeding them, a big no no when it comes to those things. Fortunately I believe they went to another national park after a discussion with the wife. Resorts and landscapers love Bismarck palms, even the chain stores sell them they are that popular. I grow a few for the market out there. Richard3 points
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3 pointsLooking down at my accommodationin Batu Patong on the Kelibat Highlands. At Bario waiting for my flight to Miri now.
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Yep too right, and that ain’t going to freeze anytime soon.3 points
Yes Monsanto and Dow Corning, running the globe. Just look up Bopal in India and the chemical disaster they had. The US bans it then Australia gets dumped with it!3 points
One palm that has become so popular that it hardly even gets a second look from a collectors point of view. Out done by its own popularity yet it still shines through as a number one favourite with gardeners and new home owners. Such a grand palm in colour and size from a small seed. An easy palm to sell due it’s tough as nails grow in a lot of places plant me iam tough attitude. I like them and they are still a popular palm yet overlooked with so many varieties of new palms a collector just won’t worry about them due to the fact they have already have them planted. But if it was a sabinara they would sell like hot cakes to the collectors lining up for more that’s for sure.
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2 pointsFirst picture is the front area with a Adonia merrillii and a bentickia nicobarica planted in 2023 2nd picture are 2 coconuts the biggest one planted in 2015 and the smaller one grown from seed from hurricane irma in 2017 3rd picture is a small dypsis decaryi 4th picture is "palm row" with a bottle palm spindle palm and a foxtail all planted in 2013 5th picture is a robelini and the back part of palm row 6th picture is a robelini planted in 1997 with a spindle planted in 2012 7th picture is the side with a coconut and Chinese fan palm both planted in 2012 with a satakenita planted in 2024 to replace a huge Sylvester palm killed from hurricane ian The last 2 pictures are the patio with some butias sabals , licuala grandis and some king palms all ready for whatever I come up with next lol.
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2 pointsThanks yes I am definitely going to plant some other stuff in those planters because I recently re-did my 2 zone irrigation to a 4 zone system because the original system from the late 90s just wasn't cutting it so that planter now has irrigation hooked up to it!2 points
2 pointsHeavenly! And fun to see several palms that aren't seen much where I am on the West Coast. I assume the current Dypsis decaryi location is temporary? It's a great-looking arrangement in the short-term. I also love the pops of color (esp the purple flowers in the first pic, and decaryi arrangement). Maybe see if you can slip in some red, pink or purple foliage in the planter behind the bottle/spindles at some point (to further emphasize what is already a gorgeous arrangement). 🌺2 points
2 pointsLooks a lot like woodsoniana doing it tough to me - does the inflorescence turn orange eventually?2 points
2 pointsThat time of year again! Harry Dioon Spinalosa with a new flush!
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Beautiful, I started my palm nursery due to Covid! I bet the wife doesn’t think you’re nuts now.2 points
2 pointsI have consulted the palm bible Donald R Hodel and the only thing I can find in there that remotely looks the palm in question is yes wait for it woodsoniana. So in my opinion palmiz gets the golden star this week for his knowledge of what the palm may be! But it is endless as to what it may be and the pictures posted make it difficult, if one was to see the palm in person then it may be described. I shall go out on a limb and call in @palmtreesforpleasure as our go to chamaedorea man at the moment. Unless anyone has Mr Hodels contact details we are at a mystery palm.2 points
They became a victim of their own success. So popular they outdid themselves. Foxtails in the Darwin area of Australia, councils are asking people not to plant them they grow so fast and are problem with the large amount of seeds.2 points
2 pointsYes tilandsia seeds, I imported them for a palm talk member. And I wish them the best of luck in germinating them. Tiny seeds just sprinkle on top of medium and keep moist I would think. No baggie method in those ones I think! They are like fishing lures tilandsias catching more collectors than there is lures available. A true obsession those ones my father had the tilandsia bug. I like them so real beautiful little plants among them. Richard2 points
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While I have an established 20 year old Bismarckia nobilis in my garden, I hesitate to recommend them here in California because they appear to be a second line favorite of the South American palm weevil. I have plenty of blue cycads and a large colony of Puya alpestris to contrast with my green leafed Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae in the front of my house. As previously mentioned, Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae is still relatively uncommon in gardens with its deep green recurved leaves and white retained petiole base. Bismarckia nobilis has become much more common with big box stores selling them here for over 15 years.. The blue cycads are still hardening off so haven't attained there full color yet. The palm is a Cocothrinax borhidiana hybrid which is in front of the green leaf Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae. I also have a pale Aloidendron dichotomum in that front planter area to create a color contrast.
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2 pointsHey RoystoneaJax: Here are some updated pictures of those Royal Palms in Jax taken in April 2025. These are real survivors, with more than 20 yrs. at this location.
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2 pointsEncephalartos lehmannii, last season's cone falling apart and this season's flush on one of its other caudices.
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It's a cold day in h*ll when the US actually bans something. The EU won't even feed our food exports to it's dogs.2 points
2 pointsCan you get any more photos of the crown? It doesn’t seem like any of the usual candidates.2 points
Hmmm. If the EU bans it, we in the US usually go double-dose with it.2 points
This might be true Gyuseppe but hybrids are pretty variable. If you did it a second time you might get a hybrid that looks like radicalis. I am hoping to try myself once my microspadix begins flowering.2 points
2 pointsThe Golden Gate is a narrow gap in the California coastal range of mountains serving as entrance to the SF bay. As the enormous, interior central valleys heat up the cool marine air is drawn through this gap, and this marine onshore flow is the same as the ocean water temperature, normally in the high 50s F, but currently below average due to deep water upwelling. So, the hotter the interior, the cooler at my place, 1.4 km inland from the beach !2 points
Yep , absolutely agree. If I had listened to sage advice I would not have my Roystonia Oleracae! Phil at Jungle Music was very convincing that it would NOT survive one year , actually insisted.. I really wanted it ( called Venezuelana back then ) because of the supposed thinner trunk , smaller size. The palm will let you know what it wants . If you can grow a Vershafeltia….go for it ! Ya never know. Harry I am sure it would look better in a more tropical climate but I love it . The advice I got here on PT is helping immensely. It just wanted more water . If you look at the lowest frond on the right , you can see how they are slowly getting larger and the crown is fuller.
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I love how people who couldn't find where you live on a google map are the very experts that tell you all the things that won't stand a chance in your garden. Peachy2 points
2 pointsWallachia densifolia looks pretty good looking west into the sunset
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Those are some nice Butias. I wonder how old they are.1 point
Great post! Very tough ….until the gophers find it! Once planted ( root disturbance can be fatal) they grow well and , in sun , quickly become a statement in landscaping. These are still not overly planted here but certainly seeing more of them. I paid a lot of money for a moderate sized one and a year later it was laying on its side. The roots were completely eaten off by the gophers. I even used a galvanized mesh around the root ball as I had been warned of the gophers attraction. There is no room around my house for such a large palm or I would have planted it in a “gophers free” zone. Harry1 point
