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Some nice old baronii in the garden doing well. The new golden cane is my sales push on this palm far more attractive to me than lutescens, but each to there own on that one. I do get the odd seed or two from them.

A few nice genoformis in the garden. All are 23 years old. They do produce seed but only if I hand pollinate them, which brings me to another question with a different answer as the male pollen was chamaedorea adscendens. And with a discussion about them with Colin Wilson it’s not meant to happen in that boy girl department. The last picture is the offspring from that so called arranged marriage. With some discussion with Mr Wilson it will be established that I shall keep a very close eye on this little palm in question. Time will tell what happens. One seed was ready to pick so it shall be sown and a close eye will be placed on tis one.

A few nice seedlings. An original RPS seed order from when I started my nursery again. Slow growing these ones are about 4 years old. Picking up a bit more pace as they have aged. So another repot into 140mm containers should see the start to really get a move on. A nice palm to have in the collection, definitely looking forward to planting them out.

I stopped and spoke to the owner today. This is off 7th Ave in midtown. Planted as a 5 gallon palm from Home Depot for 19.99 in 1997. It has seen some tough winters here. Makes you rethink Queens in Tallahassee. Also, large one on FSU campus and several large ones in the College Town neighborhood.

The Mexican cotton fan palm pretty easy to ID! Iam sure trump will deport them for not having a visa to migrate to CA. 🤣

It appears to be a Chamaedorea woodsoniana. They grow up to 12m tall and vary a lot in stem size. My experience with them is from 3 cm stem diameter which i obtained as Chamaedorea vistae. The giant form has up top a 10cm diameter. The normal form for me is around 5cm diameter. The pinnae to 36 each side of the rachis, Fruit 2x1 cm go from orange to black. However we have had fruit double that size on one stand of teh giant forms and it may be a completely different form./ More work to be done on that form regards Colin

In the wild on LHI Howea forsteriana and belmoreana inhabit different areas to each other although they do overlap in places. In general, forsteriana likes the high pH limestone sands and in areas grows very close to the ocean, just like a coconut would in more tropical areas. Howea belmoreana likes the acidic gravelly loams especially along creek lines that often have a higher tree canopy. Going up Mt Gower Howea belmoreana takes over from forsteriana at mid elevations at a guess from about 200m asl. It then progresses and crosses over with Hedyscepe for a bit at about 400m asl then disappears maybe at 500m asl. Hedyscepe continues and gets more emergent as you progress to the summit at 875m asl. How that would relate to cultivation for Howea bemoreana is that it does like some protection at least in part shade. There are some on LHI that are at near sea level and in full sun but they are usually still near creeks with acidic gravels and the tree canopy has probably been cleared anyway like near Soldiers creek. Howea forsteriana still likes shady rainforest areas, but its ability to handle sandy high pH soils in more open areas may make it easier in cultivation in hotter climates like Southern California especially where the soil is high in pH.

First 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.

Here’s my Dioon Edule “Queretaro Blue” flushing a set. Nothing last year so I’m excited. Definite difference between this variety new leaf color and the standard Edule. -dale

Playng where’s Waldo, Brassiophoenix drymophloeoides among friends.

I bought some of these about 8 years ago in 5 gallon pots from Kevin Weaver in California. I planted two in a part of the yard that briefly stands in water whenever it rains a lot or is irrigated and they have taken off. At first it didn’t look like the lanuginosa I had seen in Australian botanical gardens, I figured it was probably just a form of rigida, but the infructescence is definitely wooly and the seeds are pretty large. Two years ago one of the plants fruited but the seeds were smaller and not viable. This time most seeds look good (the other plant flowered for the first time this year). Any Livistona experts care to chime in?

This is about palm seeds from close up, i will be updating this with photos of seeds i make over time. Let me know if you think i could improve in any way or of what species would you like me to make some photos of this style. 1. Brahea armata, cross-sections of a mature seed

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.

Yes sari palm. I did have one that was 20 years old and it was about 8 feet high with a trunk of about 5 feet.

Little baby ptychosperma nicolai and chamaedorea nuerochlamys got a bit of attention today!

Hold in, I will post pictures of the foliage later today! @tim_brissy_13 your plant looks really very similar to mine, only the latter has more trashed fronds. Not only that many leaflets get torn off the rachis due to strong gusts, occasionally fronds break to half. As for the lighter green color of the quasi crownshaft, it may be that I had removed dry leaf bases just before those pictures. With exposure to sun light green parts of the palms usually obtain a darker color with time.

Livistona lanuginosa has large seeds, and those in the photo are large seeds, and from the photo of the plant I would say yes to Livistona lanuginosa

Thanks harry is amazing to see how nice and welcoming everyone is on this forum!

Please don’t send the palm mafia I promise I’ll be good! 🤣 Look, my A caudescens already looks better!

C woodsoniana does look closest out of everything suggested but it’s just so different to mine. Mine cops too much sun and winds too but is a much darker green. Could be nutritional but even the crownshaft colour is just very different. Mine is a male so hard to compare the inflorescences but structurally they are held in a similar way. On balance I’d say you’re probably right, I can’t think of anything else that fits.

That time of year again! Harry Dioon Spinalosa with a new flush!

When you’re obsessed with palms, short on space, and totally ignore the ‘space them out’ rule… Fast forward a few years, and boom!

What is the current water temperature in your waters, lakes, sea, rivers near you? the various bodies of water influence our palm trees and other exotic plants to a greater or lesser extent depending on their size and distance from our gardens Lake Constance at the moment near us: 24.4 degrees Celsius / 75.92 degrees fahrenheit rising trend

My Sabal brazoriensis in Dallas , growing adjacent to Sabal mexicana and Sabal minor were unusually all in bloom at the same time this year. The fruit currently being produced seem to vary dramaticy in size. Could it be a sign of hybridization ? We had hundreds of honeybees pollinating them.

There was not a lot I could do with this rocky outcrop as far as planting palms in there. So bring out the agave I thought. And what a nice feature it turned out to be. I don’t really get in there and clean the she oak leaves and weed around, just to dangerous for my little cultivation fingers, they do get you and they hurt every time I try to clean them up. It gets very hot in summer and they love it. The more sun you give them the better they grow.

Tony, is this a shot of your brazoriensis or minor? I don't think that variable fruit size is an indicator of hybridization but I could be wrong. I think the fruits and seeds are similar to whatever the mother palm is in a hybrid. What do you think @Scott W?

There were 7 of these tarantula wasps on this one latifrons juvenile. It had just put out this nice flush which, apparently, they found irresistible. There were 3 other latifrons juveniles within two feet of this plant, but only this one was suitable for their intentions 🤔

Summertime hair cut for this Encephalartos arenarius × . It has so many pups both on its main caudex and base, that entanglement problems arise when it flushes if I don’t trim some of the older flushes off.

Super nice orange color. It looks similar to some of the trunks on both of my Lutescens but the leaf looks fuller and more relaxed. Both of mine get a lot of sun. The Baronii looks a bit more graceful. Harry

Yes eating poutine and all my candied salmon I believe 🤣

Nice! I'm jealous of the tropical climates, where "common" palms are stuff I can only grow in pots.

i guess i’ll just keep enjoying the 90s!

Summer highs range from mid 80s to mid 90s. It can really be brutal in shopping centers or anywhere without tree cover.

Ok I think it probably is C woodsoniana. One thing that threw me with the photos was what looked to be grouped leaflets whereas I thought C woodsoniana was regularly spaced. Looking closely at mine, each frond has a few grouped leaflets about mid way along the petiole. Not sure if this is a diagnostic feature, but it must be possible for C woodsoniana.

I tried to separate some once and killed them. Then again I think I've killed everything I've ever tried to separate. Pygmies, L. Chineseis, C. Elegans, and Kentias.

My Attalea butyracea is starting to show that reddish brown petiole color. It isn't as noticeable in the older fronds.

I think I missed a couple small orders, but here's my latest... I'm especially excited about the two hybrids... Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) Prestonianus hybrid (1G) Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) sp. "Jason Dunn" (4") I also got another 1G of the Pinanga "Maroon Crownshaft" (far right) and a couple Hankona 4" (far left). Most of the palms from my original 2021 order will either be in the ground (finally) or sold by Fall. I still have a lot of the slower growing palms in pots though. Let me know if you want a photo of anything in my collection to document growth speed... with disclaimer that this is for growth speed in semi-coastal California, outdoors in a pot. It's been an amazing ride, and once again much gratitude to @Floribunda Palms and the many backyard growers who have supercharged my palm collecting hobby.

Loving life is a blessing not an addiction. Your garden looks fantastic, love the mix of heights and colors, and the overall diversity of plants. It’s nice to see people taking advantage of all the outdoor space they have even if it’s not massive. My front yard would be a jungle too if only I was allowed to (hoa 🙄).

Heck yeah!!! That's around the time I started getting serious about my landscaping redo, and it was hard to see the vision when they were small dudes... but it's totally worth the wait. I also love all the COLOR you're mixing in, and the layering was well-planned out. Great job! I recognize most of them, but can you confirm ID on the following palms? Photo #1 - Palms on far left & far right. Photo #2 - Both of the taller palms Photo #3 - Large Palm to the right/front of the BBQ.

I certainly will look. I have room for a couple more Dypsis. I really like them , not a huge palm but larger than most Chamaedorea. In between type palm! 🙂Harry

With a couple of Chams to spare why not plant a row of them along the path to the greenhouse. Germinated these few from a RPS batch of 200 seeds and lucked up in the Chamaedorea department. A nice row will make for a nice casual walk to the greenhouse sort of the driveway of driveways only to the greenhouse!

yesterday evening it looked good for a short time regarding rain here soon. Another tropical night with a minimum of 20.4 degrees Celsius/69.08 degrees Fahrenheit in the community garden and 22 degrees Celsius/71.6 degrees Fahrenheit at the lake. where is the rain 🤔 Pictures yesterday evening at 7.30 pm

Four little palms lanonia magaloni licuala bracteata Lanonia centralis Lanonia dasyantha

Chrysalidocarpus Hovomantsina showing off

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Tracy those are some great looking plants! What pollen did you hit her with?

Well it's not much but it is positive growth. These were from the batch of seedlings that Kinzjr had for sale last year. When they arrived here in Arizona they looked perfect and were packed very well. They did not acclimate to my cultivation techniques and started to go south. I put them in the ground a few months ago knowing they'd be happier there once Summer started. Now that we are hitting triple digits everyday, this is what they love, they're starting to grow again. I'm glad to see Positive Growth that means they are still alive.😁👍🏼