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Admittedly I have been woefully absent on this forum for a while. But I was walking around downtown Oceanside today with an old friend that bought me ice cream for my Birthday today. We opted to walk some of it off after and opted to walk by some of the old city of Oceanside buildings where they had some Rhopalostylis palms... I was very surprised to see a TWO-HEADED one! It looks very much like a sapida I think? Forgive if posted before... but I was thinking it may be the first "rareish" palm I've seen with 2 heads!!

Phoenicophorium borsigianum. Beautiful palm from Seychelles. Tim

Slightly closer view..

Hello guys I wanna show you something cool that happened. I dug up this canna from a seed that came up in April and I come to find out it's a natural hybrid between my red canna lily and my pink one. which is pretty cool This has happened to me a couple times.

Growing in its current spot for over twenty years, this Wallichia flowers continually and each stem eventually dies off a few years later but new stems are always being produced as well. Anyone else have photos to share?

Ha-ha, Jon ! A lot of readers won' t get your joke, The genus Wodyetia is monotypic, ( contains only one species)

I can't give you a complete answer John, but the presence of iron (even in high concentrations) does not necessarily indicate high bioavailability to your plants. I imagine highly acidic soil would increase Fe bioavailability, but I don't know this for a fact. I believe it's true that excess iron uptake can inhibit uptake of other nutrients (eg: essential micros like manganese). Some palms would favor high iron availability (eg: high plateau palms from Madagascar). Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.

Three little new cal seedlings that are doing quite well. Slow to start off but getting stronger each new leaf. Would I say tricky as seedlings a little bit of attention is required when they are very young, but as they get older they just want water and not drying out. I think it will be a few more years before they get the chance to go in the ground!

A couple of goodies in this batch of Mother Natures finest gifts! Or is it gifts of the gods either way there’s some real beauties to be had for future garden projects, A true collectors edition!

Mobile is a very nice place by the way. I would also say it's a Trachycarpus fortunei with a skinned trunk.

I can't remember where I got some of these photos, but the one with the rainbow is my computer wallpaper. I know someone on PalmTalk took that one, so I appreciate the wallpaper. 😍 Absolutely love washies! such a great cinematic palm.

I found these Marojejya's growing out of solid lava rock fascinating...obviously a pretty tough palm to tough it out like that. Compare them to the one Tim posted earlier, growing in more favourable conditions at the bottom of the garden. The second pic shows...oh, just some more palms!

A couple more to keep us drooling!

May I ask what this is Latin name from Thanh Hoa province northern Vietnam，Thank you very much

This palm is growing in fairly deep shade. Walking in to show my friend Lisa the Kerriodoxa seed, we stopped short at the sight of these bright fruits, I remember planting this palm back in early 2015, but can’t match it up to anything in my records. It’s a mystery! Suggestions welcome. The bright fruits Clustering species, but slender and demure A look at a leaf The entire palm, about 10 ft. Overall height Thanks!

They get much slower than this palm the eckmanii, 24 years later and still no trunk. The first two pictures have recently been planted last summer. While the other pics are one that has been in the ground. Slow growing that’s for sure. They are slowly picking up pace now my attention has gone back to the garden with a noticeable increase in growth!

I love groves of same species palms in varying heights. It’s so tropical even in less than tropical locations. In your zone, perhaps Trachycarpus fortunei. Palm groves help cool the home in summer and offer some insulating properties in the winter.

Get you a super mule from Moultrie Palms. Mine has performed well and will take low 20s with little to no damage. It survived the snowstorm with a low of 12F. Major leaf burn and latent spear damage but it has grown out nicely. Pic from just now

I think Arenga engleri is rated z8b. If you're willing to cover it below 20°F, maybe try one.

W r-a at Singapore BGs.

It's crazy that St Pete had already hit 100F historically but not Tampa.

C.radicalis or microspadix?

Oh wow free happy palms real estate to plant out ok let’s see what I have in the greenhouse to start with the obvious Johannesteijsmannia magnifica, throw in a few Kerriodoxas or two, couple of chambeyronia hookeri, a nice kentiopsis oliviformis, Dypsi rivularis would look nice in there followed by a nice allogoptrea arenaria, then we could have a nice howea bellmoreana, a cute little dypsis black petiole baronii, that’s the canopy now the understory it’s obvious iam a chamaedorea fan so adscedans a few metallicas, dypsis lutea, dypsis louvelii, dypsis brevicaulis, a nice trio of calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana and to top it how about some Calpytrocalyx julienettii. Oh and I forgot a nice Pinang distichia. That’s all I could find in the greenhouse for now pretty busy so let me know when I can deliver and plant them for you free of charge of course! Ps almost forgot lanonia dasyatha lucky I remembered!

Checking seeds after getting home. Drymophleus oliviophormis from the garden is obviously making fertile seeds.

Lanonia dasyantha and a nice Chambeyronia hookeri

Wax on wax off grasshopper you are learning congratulations you earned your certificate 2 in palm cultivation. Keep it simple don’t overwater, know the palms you are growing and good free draining soil!

Perlite is used only for the time after germination and up to the separation of seedling from the seed. Afterwards an even coarser medium is recommended, especially when juvenile has to spend time in pot during a cool and moist winter.

Dave, what would you consider dwarf? This palm clump is 6’ tall and 7’ wide. My other Fishtail palms (Caryota) are monsters in comparison.

They have their beauty but they’re not dwarves in my experience.

And why not it’s a beautiful palm actually!

Very nice happypalms! I only got to my shadehouse today but here’s another Wettinia.

A teeny weener and a crinkle cut bloke...refer to others for more information!

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Richard beat me to it but here's my Wodyetia. I have all the species in this genus! 😆

I've found they go pretty well inside over winter, with a little spell in the poly tunnel or outside during summer. This one was delicious! Also, they seem to like a free draining mix, mine is in an orchid type mix, mostly bark.

Wonderful. Here it's probably too cold, unfortunately ☹️, but we'll try it anyway ...

What I was doing was taking a chopstick or a bamboo skewer and gently poking until I hit something solid and kind of eyeballing the movement. It's taken it all summer to finally start to push a frond but it's green and pretty. As far as heat warnings go, our central AC has crapped out so I'm probably better off sleeping outside until it gets fixed.

And why not it’s a beautiful palm actually!

Well, I checked on the Windmill earlier this afternoon. As I was about to treat the palm with another round of H2O2, I noticed a whiteish spot in the area where the center spear should be. I felt it, and I am fairly confident that there is a new spear on the way... Also, no additional fronds have died off since the last update. This palm has performed exceptionally well through this process given the extreme heat and humidity of the past 2 weeks. In other news, I don't flinch at extreme heat warnings anymore.

Not full blazing sun, the more humidity the more it will tolerate the sun. I would say 65 percent sun perhaps a tad more depending on your location and UV factor. Definitely not full blazing Arizona sun that is for sure. But tolerant only once have I seen my one suffer over 24 years and that was in drought that was killing native trees in the bush and were talking gosh darn dry living in a matchbox weather system that had practically had the east coast of Australia on fire a few years back, if you remember that on the news about Australia!

Looks trachycarpus to me and a very old one at that!

I was lucky enough to travel to Southern California a few weeks ago and visit some amazing palm gardens. I went to Pauline Sullivan's famous gardens in Ventura, CA, then wandered through Santa Barbara. Additionally, I got to travel to the Newport Beach Hyatt Regency, San Diego Zoo, and former Quail Botanic Gardens, now known as San Diego Botanic Gardens. The complete photo collection can be seen in the link below, and I included some highlights here! Clicker HERE for all of the photos One of my favorite Braheas: Brahea moorei w/ glaucous leaves and silver undersides Bismarckia are growing at Balboa Park Borassus flabellifer growing at the San Diego Zoo! This is my first time seeing one in Southern California This scene reminded me of somewhere that receives more than 9 inches of annual rainfall

Late to the discussion, but... I've grown my share of wobbly palms, and never staked a one. My solution was rocks. Large rocks to help support the palm at its base. Or if no rocks around, one could use bricks, or if you're into that kind of thing, garden gnomes, concrete bunnies, or an upside-down clay pot -- something with some heft that will encourage the palm to stay upright. Then a year or two along the calendar, you can simply move them elsewhere. No marring of the trunk from any ties, and the palm ends up with a firm grip on its place in the soil.

Actually, no... it was from near your current whereabouts though!

They may be considered a weed palm here in CA but a very beautiful towering “weed” for sure. Virtually no maintenance either except collecting occasional fallen old fronds. These are all the same palm from different vantage points.

A few cute little things who's identity I can't recall...

just throw hundreds of morning glory seeds all over 😂

I would add a bunch of evergreen Magnolia/Michelia, everything from the common Magnolia figo (banana shrub) to new hybrids like Magnolia 'Fairy' and Magnolia × foggii. All should be well adapted to your climate and soil. Smells good and adds to the tropical look too

If you get hungry you can cut agave leaves and roast them with pork. SO GOOD!