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My second Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) decipiens is going to flower. This one has the crownshaft and inflorescence more colorful than the others that are more greenish.

some chamaedorea in my garden

A couple a nice collectors palms to go in the garden. The Chambeyronia certainly has a long way to go before it matches the one in Sydney botanical gardens, but it certainly gave me the incentive to plant the one I have, what’s the best way to grow a palm plant it in the ground. The Areca is going to be an interesting palm in the years to come.

had the opportunity to visit @Hilo Jason and their garden of wonders today, no surprise they synchronized with a slice of heaven on earth

I can't plant them on the ground because its all concrete, my palms are all in pots some have not been repotted for 5 years. I currently have 8 species. Foxtail palm (Wodyetia bifurcata) Manila palm (Adonidia merrillii) Nipa palm (Nypa fruticans) Orania sp. Tiger palm (Pinanga maculata) Anahaw (Saribus rotundifolius) Fishtail palm (Caryota sp.) Betel palm (Areca catechu)

Those photos are at least a year old. Not sure what time of year. Harry

@Harry’s Palms had the first picture you posted been taken recently? Because slope looks full of green grass, and if this is really the situation right after summer, it makes me jealous, as here landscape is still barren.

Now imagine that next to this palm grows a Trithrinax campestris! This is exactly the situation in my garden lol

These reclinata trees are beautiful, Harry. Their tremendous offspring are worthy clones of their mother palm. RPS sells a pure reclinata tree. Not hybrid seeds. The trunks are thinner. Whether hybrid or pure, the palm tree is beautiful.

I have a large clump down the hill that produces seeds . Getting to the seeds would require a full body suit of armor! Harry Next to the tall Washingtonia Robusta . Innocent looking from up here , but….…..down here you can see the threat of bodily harm ! ‘My plan is to cut most of the suckers off , leaving only a couple of the larger trunks . The main trunk in the middle of the clump is being surrounded by heavily armed suckers , nearly impenetrable. Every time I get near this thing , I come away with wounds! Trying to trim it is very difficult due to the slope. Harry

Out of the linospadix varieties I have three in the garden, the most common monostachya is available always, the others are somewhat rare. The hunt goes on in the typical palm collecter ocd must have those varieties.

That and poor land management have resulted in worse fire conditions. Arson hasn’t helped either. The emptied reservoir meant for fires didn’t help last January either.

That is exactly my concern. That going through with everything as they want you to is simply unsustainable unless you are making thousands. Hobby growing is fun, and I believe it’s no use stressing growing as a business unless you genuinely have the means (time, land, and some initial investment) to do so. I’m sure it starts out operating on a loss for a while until sales heat up.

Beverly Hills residents concerned by "palm tree tourists" stopping in street to take selfies with city's landscape Though Beverly Hills is well-known for having some of the world's most iconic palm tree-lined streets, residents are beginning to grow tired of "palm tree tourists" stopping in the street to snap photos of the city's iconic landscapes. They say that the concerning trend really took off thanks to social media and influencers, with groups of people flooding popular streets like Rodeo Drive, Beverly Drive and Cañon Drive. "It's definitely taking a risk," said Jeremiah Cox, a Beverly Hills resident. "Because I drive through there all the time, and sometimes people are in the middle of the street, and you have to honk."

I believe there's a lot of genetics involved in how Sabal boots function. I've seen plantings of Sabals where some palms show bare trunks all the way up to the crown whereas others hold onto their boots to the ground. If the boots are loose or slipping you can usually peel them off easily. If they don't want to let go, leave them alone. I cringe at the thought of skinning boots off as a "fashion statement". It's a living entity not an object to be cut or hacked at to impress onlookers and attract pests and disease. And if someone is fixing to get his/her knickers in a twist because he/she thinks I'm dissing them, relax. I'm just stating my personal preference. The Sabal is one of the most abused palms around despite being just about the storm hardiest. People need to leave them in peace. Nothing more attractive than the "puffball on a stick" look of a fully leafed Sabal.

Both are Florida natives. They should handle Broward climate with little to no problem if they are fresh and not infested with vermin. However, this late in the season expect little to no germination until the heat is on next spring. Both species like lots of sun, heat and summer rain. I suggest you keep your pots in part shade or under shade cloth until they put up strap leaves. I keep my pots on plastic shelf units, never on bare ground where they can end up sitting in fetid water that may kill them quickly. I never go into a frenzy of repotting until my seedlings have at least 3 strap leaves and a small "bulb" where future stem meets roots. Seedlings are tiny and slow growing as stated above. You've been given a lot of good suggestions. Good luck.

A couple of juvenile Iguanura wallichiana var. wallichiana were looking quite happy in a shady spot. Tim

I acquired this Anthurium schlechtendalii a few years back from a friend. He had a large specimen mounted in the crook of a Ficus in his backyard. I don't recall seeing it when I was there last, but I was also distracted by so many other plants. The only problem I have is with slugs as you can see in some of the photos.

Indeed this sp seems very promiscuous. Nonetheless Harry's specimen looks quite pure.

Another late season flush is beginning on this Encephalartos munchii. It is the green form and has not coned yet.

Keep on planting your palms, what ever happed to that gardener you wanted. The joys of growing palms the older we get the better our palms look. Richard

After the hail storm, the cyclone and a few losses for no obvious reasons, I am planting everything here of a remotely survivable size. As for the truckload of baby palms here they will have to take their chances from now on. This fatigue has really set in and looks like it is here to stay so my hours of hand watering potted things have to be cut back. The 24 hour care home is looking better every day. Peachy

Thank you, Mike and Rick, for adding photos and information here on PalmTalk. Bo and I attended the morning session of the tour and I really appreciated what Dr. George has achieved in a relatively short time. The understory captured my attention as much as the palms -- an impressive amount of foliage plants really set off the palms. And the palms were varied and quite impressive. Photos below. Below, an astonishing pair of Dypsis rosea, closeup of inflorescence below. The one Colocasia I can keep alive, 'Gloriosum.' (Correction: Philodendron 'Gloriosum') Below, Dr. George on the left welcoming a visitor while Kenny (hope I got that right) mans the Polaris. Below: palm jewelry Fun getting acquainted with Leonard and his pal. Below, more of the wonderful foliage plants -- i"m told keeping them in sealed pots with plenty of water is the 'secret' to success for this one. Dr. George describing his still-young Sclerosperma mannii while engulfed in luxuriant greenery, Monkey pod tree overhead. Bo with a couple of old men, aka Coccothrinax crinita. Dr. George with what I vaguely remember as a Raphia species. Below, Borassodendron machadonis with Dr. George for scale. Next 2 photos: loving the understory inspo For a final bow, the most colorful and happy Bentinckia condapanna on the planet, no "enhancement' necessary. Special thanks to Hawaii Island Palm Society, Dr. George, and wife Lynn for an inspiring day in the garden. There was so much more than what you see here... just wonderful!

It's kind of on par with the regular floods in Houston where they're developing all the wetlands where all the rainwater used to flow off into. Now it's all McMansions and strip malls.

OMG one of my absolute favourites.

Before I knocked over my Butia, I was trying to show that this - I think it's a desert rose? Is branching. Surprise, it's happier in non-dollar store soil and with brighter light. Who knew?

You need a couple of them, bring them indoors in winter.

From the beginning of my Palm journey they were unobtainable, so rare I never saw any for sale in my area. And always thought they would never grow in my climate. Now 1500 of them later and and plenty planted in the garden there so easy just add water. They are even used as street trees in Singapore. Richard

Well that’s one way to keep them out. I don’t even lock my doors or windows when I go out, I leave my car keys in the car when iam at home. I live in a very safe area and also on community iconography land with ten other houses on the block safety in numbers. If they want to break in let them do so. Plant a calmus on the brick wall that will stop them climbing the fence.

Phytelephas tenuicaulis, female inflorescence. Tim

FWIW, the climate is warming. Some say Mangroves are in Georgia. ‘Holy cow!’ Mangroves discovered in Georgia, farther north than ever before » Yale Climate Connections Others are less sure. Mapping Moving Mangroves | US EPA So, imagine mangroves further north. ("Please come to Boston, to see the mangroves . . . . ")

Ceroxylon echinulatum

no because I only have one female specimen and it flowers in July, and the other phoenixes flower in other months In the photos, phoenix rupicola seeds, I have 3 in the garden, male and female

Ceroxylon vogelianum

Mine is a reclinata hybrid that hasn't suckered yet. Pollen doner is unknown but I suspect canariensis. Any thoughts @Phoenikakias @gyuseppe? Fronds were soft when it was given to me early last year but have since stiffened up.

Dictyocaryum lamarckianum

Geonoma undata

Unknown Geonoma ankle-biter

Mine too phoenix reclinata comes from rarepalmseeds, and is now about 5 meters tall.

Hey Mazat, this baby has been raised from seed bought from rps. I have another one in the ground, which is rather big. Peculiarly it did not bloom this summer but still looks healthy. Perhaps soil is too dry for its increasing size and offshoots. I had not not pruned it though during past winter. After winter pruning is no more advisable or even legal, as it would equal an invitation to rpw.

With ten thousand blueberrie plants to unload first thing this morning, @$10 a plant I would certainly love to be doing the cuttings for these plants. These ones are new varieties developed for market and they certainly have changed the flavour and size of the berries since the good old rabbit eye variety days that’s for sure.

Who doesnt love purple flower buds, these echiums are fantastic in the garden. Grown from seeds purchased on eBay, a great little buy for $4 I think.

Unknown acaulescent Attalea in the lowland amazon forest.

@palmaddict83 from what I have seen in my experience living in west Texas zone 8A and visiting and hearing everyone’s experience with filifera in Dallas I think they actually do better in west Texas even with lower ultimate temperatures. My theory is that it’s due to dry winters here vs wet winters in Dallas. From what I can tell the survival rate of filifera out here in west Texas through 2021 is close to 100%.

If you're in Broward county and the seeds are fresh then a community pot is an easy way to do it

Great photos @Mandrew968! I need to know more about this one. I can’t find reference to Prestoea longivaginata anywhere, but there’s P longipetiolata, Geonoma longivaginata and Euterpe precatoria var longivaginata but none of those seem right. Any further info and what elevation roughly was this?

A recent planting, it sulked for a few months over winter, now it’s warming up it’s starting to get a move on. A while to go before it starts to look like the ones in Sydney botanical gardens.

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Prestoea longivaginata

I don’t know how it is where you are . If it is just a few plants to “ word of mouth “ people , I wouldn’t worry about it. If you try to get permits or business license , it could go south . Don’t use the word “business” use “hobby” , ie. “it’s my hobby” . Keep it comfortable and low key . There are quite a few backyard growers in Southern California , not sure how many have business licenses. I have visited a couple and it is a hobby environment , cash and carry . I have a small business , not horticulture , I have to carry two million dollar liability insurance , business license , state and local taxes and income tax , plus annual fire and safety inspection. I would think it would take hundreds or even thousands of sales to be profitable with plants. My advice is keep it as a hobby , have fun! Harry