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Another one of my all time favorites. Although in saying that, this particular Dypsis Carlsmithii has been an extremely slow grower. Started out from 8" pot and planted around 12 years now.

The dasyantha one palm that suits my growing style well. There a beautiful palm another great understory palm that does well in my garden. They do like water and will drink as much as you give them provided the drainage is there. And cool tolerant along with growing at a steady pace. Definitely worth planting in the garden.

I see now why I love my garden so much just like the test of us all. I see the hidden beauty in photographs I take. It always amazes me. it’s a beautiful gift a garden, one that is treasured. Just look at the gardener behind the garden and you see them in the garden style.

Butia capita flowering a lovely purple colour.

Such a beautiful palm and there are some real stunners out there in palm land. Let’s see them again. You could plant hundreds throughout the garden and have a wonderful tropical look every step you take. I have got about 20 planted throughout the garden so far and will planting more!

Brahea & red rose

What iam devastated, omg the poor kerriodoxa peachy my possum I shall have a replacement for at the next pacsoa show. Curse you hot western winds! Richard

A nice pot full Chuniophoenix nana seedlings never goes astray in the nursery. Harvested from hand pollinated plants. And by the looks of the new recently pollinated ones there will be a few more next season to germinate. Such a great understory palm or patio palm. It would most likely grow indoors for a while. Such a rewarding palm to work with I love them.

This has been in the ground for at least 10 years and the tallest leaf sits about 7-8ft tall. Just now starting to pick up speed. I have others in pots that have grown much faster so maybe it’s just the genes of this particular plant that make it so slow.

A beautiful Australian plant the peroffskyana. Super tough yet will lap up any amount of attention and look twice as good. Drought tolerant heat tolerate cool tolerant and fire tolerant. Grows in full bright light to deep shade, and tolerant of a lot of sun. Native to my area and I love them, although a bit common around the place but very noticeable when seen. Easy to propagate and single plants will set viable seeds provided the weevil is present in the garden. They take about twelve months to germinate and like all cycas species have a seed ripening period after harvest. Such a wonderful plant to have in the garden but you need room. I will be planting more of them around the new garden. Just like I did 26 years ago.

Hey Steve, your C. carlsmithii is a nice looking specimen, but I would agree it is slow. Sometimes you get a palm that just wants to take its time. Don’t be surprised in the next few years that it’s going to experience some significant growth. Mine went into the ground from little 2” wide cones, (50mm), back in 2009 and I’m amazed they even survived. Here are a couple a photos, one at 12 years and one taken earlier this year. The rate of growth in the last few years has been rather extraordinary. Tim

After growing happily, although very slowly, my poor Kerri succumbed to the recent heat wave after surviving everything nature threw at it for the last 2 years. I have decided to sell off a lot of my non palm pot plants, mainly for much needed space and a more realistic work load. Peachy

There some standout Australian trees that are must have if you have space to grow them. stenocarpus sinuatus Araucaria budwilliiAgatha robustaRandia fitzalaniiDavidsonia pruriens

Just wanted to share a few big filifera in Big Spring, TX I spotted recently.

@edbrown_III you missed a few! 🤣 Seriously though, that's just part Ed's collection of mature, inground palms. Hes got plenty more, as well as dozens, of not hundreds of smaller palms in pots protected in his sheltered palm forest he's created.

Wallichia disticha male flowerdypsis saintlucei seeds maturing

I can attest to the cold hardiness of these. They've seen single digits. They've seen snow they've seen ice they've seen triple digits. I don't know how long they've been there, and I left PLENTY. I dunno the legality of this, but I can always tell the cops they're just gonna sprout up and get mowed and the landscapers are just gonna cut. Anyway I've got more than I can ever use, I'm already sending off 2 baggies of them and should still have plenty. Pay postage and I'll send you some. I can get more. Reply here or DM me or whatever. I ain't cleaning them 😂

Hello, I just saw this new temperature outlook on facebook. I bet there will be a lot of palm carnage in central Florida, especially with some royals and possibly coconuts which I know are pretty common. Best of luck to you all. Anything you all will be wrapping up?

Mites love hot dry temperatures, dislike humidity and wet conditions. A regular spray program and rotation of different chemicals beats them. Predator mites work well or release lots of ladybugs 🐞. But a good hosing works wonders on the underside of the leaf.

Apparently. I just wanna grow palms without a polar vortex breathing down my neck for a change!

I have a couple Phoenix Sylvestris palms and think, they are the most attractive palms around. The only problem owning them is the chance of lethal bronzing( IBD). I am clearly against injecting any antibiotic into the trunk fearing the hole left in the trunk even though it can be plugged. My plan of attack of this disease is to attack the leafhopper from landing on my palms in the first place and why I spray a combination of insecticides including neom oil every two months on my froms. More often during rainy seasons. I also drench my Palms with an antibiotic every 5 months. So far my trees are doing fantastic and I hope to keep it that way.

Those Kerriodoxas Elegans are beautiful. Truly admirable, and whoever cultivates them will be their owner and master of these exotic luxuries. Mine are already sprouting from their long slumber. Up with you, growers, for the seeds must awaken from their long sleep!

So sorry to hear @peachy , we are having hot , dry winds this morning. The humidity drops , winds blow , and temps rise . I watered very well yesterday , soaking the ground good , but there is very little we can do for high pressure systems that suck the moisture out of everything. For us , in Southern California , Fall is not the best time . About 8 years ago we had a heat wave come through that lasted a few days , temps above 100f every day . It ended up killing my large Rhopalostylus Sapida in the courtyard . I loved that palm , grew it from a seedling . It was about 10’ tall when it died . Harry🤬

It was 46 degrees in Lithia on 11/01/2025. Had a chilly end to kids baseball season @ 8:30 am start

have a great time at the sale! Below are some pictures I took at Fairchild itself. Will post pictures of palms I purchased at the sale too.. Dypsis mirabilis Licuala Mapu Chambeyronia hookeri Caryota ophiopellis Dypsis Moantsetra Pinanga sp Cyrtostachys renda 'Theodora Buhler'

More from the Save the Species IPS committee: “Massive habitat destruction in Madagascar has reduced Ravenea louvellii to only a handful of palms. Our Save The Species December Fundraiser takes a multi prong approach which covers documenting additional palms, setting up a propagation program and community involvement.” Photo below by John Dransfield

I loved rereading the posts and seeing the old and new photos. Your Meryta trees are lovely Tracy! Are they in half sun? It was also interesting to see the photo I took of my little Meryta 5 years ago. The pinnate palm near it in my 2020 photo is Welfia regia which has now grown tall with some now very large tree ferns so my Meryta is in too much shade. I recently have done some thinning out but not easy on a steep slope. I have made much better spaces available for my Meryta but have no idea if it might withstand being moved. Best would be for me to find another and choose a better location… Traveling now but will try for some Meryta update photos upon my return.

That is bigger than mine was after 15 years in the ground. Peachy

I guess they need a certain insect or animal. Or a certain temperature perhaps in the home garden out of habitat it rains not enough. Many various reasons I guess. Richard

Try growing some cacao seeds. They are very easy to germinate and you should be able to sell them for $10-$20 each on ebay, plus they are interesting enough/have a certain cachet to appeal to 'normies'. Seeds must be fresh, though, and they hate low humidity, but they shouldn't be difficult to keep alive long enough to sell.

@Gill Welcome to PalmTalk! Hopefully this process works for you. There used to be a lot more Phoenix species around before Lethal Bronzing showed up. My city alone has lost thousands of them. Keep us updated!

I'm germinating some indoors or attempting to, but they're going outside in spring to bulk up. And once they get bigger they either go in the yard or get sold. And mine were obtained legally and someone else has offered to send me some more and I kinda need to follow up on that at some point.

Since message_from_god was interested in Ficus pseudoplama, this seemed like the thread to revive for an alternate but similar large long leafed plant, Meryta balansae. Particularly in that he/she is in San Diego area, where I know that Meryta balansae grows well and might still be available (search the For Sale section, Matt in SD had some he germinated from his plants a couple of years ago). A still potted specimen and one in ground grown here in San Diego County. These are still quite young toddlers.

Hard to say . Plants look healthy enough , my guess would be animals or wind. My very tall Ravenea ( Majesty ) gets shredded whenever there is a wind event. Harry

I purchased the plant that was flowering and lucked up. Then the one I already had flowered so I had two flowering pretty well much one after the other. They are both flowering now and I harvested seeds of both of them not long ago. So more to pop up I hope. They are cool tolerant and being small you would be able to overwinter inside easily. If my memory serves me correctly I think the seller was saying 15 years old or that might have been my dypsis louvelli I got from them. As I said to Harry it’s difficult to germinate very small imported seeds for reasons you are aware of. Actually how did you go on that brom seed you got from me?

That really is too bad. I would be devastated. So sorry for your loss. Harry

I have been growing palms since 1981------ no telling how many spcies I have but heres a list Caryota obtusa ( 10 foot of trunkk) Caryota maxima 20 foot of trunk and flowering Arenga pinniata 10 foot overall Brahea aculeata --maybe 10 foot of trunk Jubeaopsis caffra ---- may be 5 foot of trunk Chrysidalacarpus decaryi easily 10 foot of trunk Chuniophoenix nana Lytocareum hoenei Livistona saribus , chinensis and Livistona australus and fulva and L. drudei and L. muellerii and L. decora Sabal causerium, S. domingensis , S maritima S. mexicaa large adult trees over 10 ft of trunk Syagrus schizophylla S. kellyana Lots of Jack-ass palms ---- Butia x Jubeaex Sr Butia x Syagrus coronata Butia Jubaea

This afternoon I noticed a bunch of seedlings at the base of a pair of Howea forsteriana in Carlsbad.

I’m growing up a couple in 15gal and will probably plant out nex spring

My Alexandrea caught my eye as I was leaving for work this morning . It just opened another frond. It seems this year it has accelerated a bit , the crown shaft shed a leaf base and got much thicker! Harry

Here's a hybrid from Jungle Music Nursery: Archontophoenix "Teracarpa"

A nice little dypsis procera worthy of a bit of attention.

Well, well, well, first flowering for my Lemurophoenix. A few weak prior attempts but, finally. Planted as a 3 gallon back mid 2008 from Bo Lundkvist stock. That seventeen years has gone by like a rocket. Tim

Yesterday I managed to muster up the fortitude to go for a short walk on part of the property and see how the drought affected things, looks like the little Areca stilt palm died along with six or seven others out right but other things look pretty amazingly well considering what they’ve been through.

Sabal Yapa first/new frond start opening

I do have fruits on both my Ficus dammaropsis and my Ficus pseudopalma. However even on the easy to reach dammaropsis I have no idea how to tell when they are ripe. I can only see the fruits of the pseudopalma hidden within the leaves with binoculars. They are dark brown. Hard to see but there is a rake handle next to the trunk trying to provide scale. Nothing for scale in the photo taken 4 years ago but probably less than 6 feet tall then. Really too bright mid day for these photos…

Meryta balansae is dead center in this photo from above a part of my jungle. Looks like some critter has been dining on some of the leaves.