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This was a small 1 gallon palm I bought from Jeff Searle in 2006. Keeps on moving albeit slowly. 30” of trunk now.

Here are a couple of photos of the P. martii. The petioles are unbelievably long even being in full sun. The abaxial side of the leaves are solid white, almost looks like heavy frost. I had Jonathan stand next to it for scale when he and his wife came for a visit. It’s unlike any Pritchardia I’ve ever seen. I know the provenance of this palm and it’s the real deal. Tim

Macarturii and Ponapea as well.

Obi island getting sexy, Pinanga looking bright, and a 4 year C pembana as I recall…

Got some interesting little palms coming through the greenhouse. All doing well no major troubles at the moment. Winter will be there test!

Done I will get onto those craft work beads for you🤣

A nice little tray of some Johannesteijsmannia magnifica anyone!

Updated pic of the huge Sabal Mexicana. I’m not sure if the alligator sabals are palmettos or mexicanas.

Here’s the P. glabrata. Tim

Overpotted and overwatered. It looks doomed!

Lanonia yunnanensis is a new species being described this year. It is thought to be as hardy as L. dasyantha and can tolerate temperatures as low as 0C/32F. This is the first time this elegant palm with slightly mottled leaves has been offered for sale. 3 dollars per seed. Shipping cost depends on the number of seeds and destination.

The good old trachycarpus, tougher than an old leather boot. I have 4 in my garden all 25 years old. They never receive any special attention all where gifted to me. They were so common back then. Sold as a frost tolerant winner, when the buyer asked what have you got that takes frost it was a no brainer trachycarpus fortunei! They are in shade and growing well, so they are shade tolerant and will grow quite well.

There a a few varieties of reindhatia that one might be latisectus. But it doesn’t matter how many varieties are available there all beautiful! Richard

Sabine found this Hentzia chekika in insectfinder, a Spider, when she took those pictures?🤔

To me it looks like an insect larvae . Usually , when these flower , they are on a pendulous extension growing out . I have flowering male and female C. Metallica right now and none of them look like that. Harry

P. beccariana is definitely one of my favorites, here’s one i donated to the Kopsick Palm arboretum in St. Pete in 2019

@happypalms When you posted this palm it triggered a memory I had of seeing a palm at the glass house , Huntington . In particular the detail of the “ window “ effect on the frond. This palm was unmarked and I had been trying to figure out what it was . It was about 4’ tall and dense with beautiful small fronds. Is it possible it was what you are growing? Harry These windows stuck out as a unique feature of this palm , like the one you have. The tag did not coincide with the palm , I don’t think.

There the ones perfect for the patio. It’s not all about everything in the ground, and by container growing it is possibly to grow that treasure of a palm in a container that won’t live in the ground no matter how much we try, container growing opens up a whole new collection of palms! Richard

You’re welcome to as many as you like, in fact how many do you want?

It’s amazing there the biggest weed I have ever seen in my area. There are thousands upon thousands of seeds just on the palm in my neighbour’s garden. How many do you want? I don’t have any growing in my garden thankfully but there a weed throughout my property due to the neighbours trees. A romanzoffiana seedling would live for years in a tube there so tough!

This one , lower right hand corner . Harry

Thanks, Syagrus grows well here if cared for. Most of them suffer from neglect. I just ordered B x S seeds from @Bigfish

Not the types of records I like setting, but it's a record none the less: This Twitter/X post was found at this link: https://weather.com/forecast/regional/news/2025-11-10-record-cold-florida-southeast-freeze I guess they rounded up our 35.6F at the airport to 36F for the official record. The Lakeland station has records back to the 1940s available for download and back to the early 1900s in COOP format. That's a lot of data to beat a daily record low by 8F. A few other excerpts of interest from the link: Orlando, Florida (36), tied for second coldest/earliest low, with Nov. 3, 1954 (36), and behind only Nov. 10, 1913 (35). Orlando Executive Airport recorded 37F - a smidge higher than KMCO. This is included for clarity for anyone in the area wondering where in Orlando the 36F was recorded. Cold Records Dozens of daily records have been tied or set during this cold outbreak, including records tied for the coldest so early in the season in Key West, Florida (57), Fort Myers, Florida (42), Melbourne, Florida (37), and Gulfport, Mississippi (27). However, each of the dates each city tied for happened at least one week earlier in the calendar than this Veterans Day cold. @carlosinkw We didn't want to leave you out of the fun.

I hope it is a male so it can marry my reclinata which i feel or looks pure reclinata to me.

Lololol I know all about full, I'm working on building a 3rd table in my grow room right now.

Nothing like a bargain bin rescue mission. I have saved many a plant that way!

Nice find. I need to make a Lowes run for more 2x4s but I've never caught them throwing stuff in the dumpster here. I think I'd even rescue majesties from that for 2 bucks.

Good score there! I once spotted a pallet of palms headed for the dumpster at HD . When I asked , the guy told me that they are not allowed to give them away . I said I wasn’t looking for hand outs , I got a bunch of Queen palms for $2 each , they all survived and looked worse than the fishtail you just bought . The fun part of the ordeal I went through was trying to fit all my new palms in an old Mazda 626! Thank God for folding seats and four doors. I had a crowd cheering me on . It was quite the day . Then , when I got home….. my wife “ what the…..?” She started coming with me when I go to Lowe’s or HD. Harry

Probably the genus I obsess over more than most. Got a nice husky P. forbesiana from floribunda several years ago. Followed by a becarriana I previously posted, but just is turning into a monster.

A magical little understory palm. So delicate looking and surprisingly tough for how delicate it is, a water lover but this one has seen a few dry times and still grows on. Very slow growing with an age of 25 years the one in the garden is not going to outpace any rhapis in a hurry that’s for sure. I have about 100 in tubes and they will e grown in containers and a few planted in the garden.

This one's for us us us

We discovered this while eating at one of the three plants. But what is it ? We planted all three in September 27 this year.

Thank you very much my friend Hugo, for this information. i`m really surprised.

I also collected seeds from the pavements in a town called Nafplio, near Athens. They sprouted super fast.

If you check out the chamaedorea adscendens there is one picture of a palm from my garden. And the actinotus (flannel flower) flower pictures they have are my pictures as well.

A few more good ones starting to get to that potting up stage the first leaf or as spikes, the earlier the better to avoid root disturbance. The Chuniophoenix are from my garden and the others are imports. This should give the rats something to chew on for a while nothing but the finest seedlings on the menu!

It originally came in a relatively large pot... Then we planted it out, overwintered it on the balcony, repotted it, and then today ☹️

Thank you very much for your information and explanations, Harry. No, we don't have any good addresses apart from RPS. Some seeds of Syagrus romanzoffiana, and others that Otto will bring towards the end of the week, are originally from Portugal. He takes them and others with him on business trips, so the costs remain reasonable ...

Just after I finished protecting my C. mitis from the cold I went shopping for something and stopped by home depot otw home. I was about to leave, having already decided to buy a yucca, and I saw 4 palms in the corner looking ready for the trash. And while I couldn’t buy all 4, I did decide to rescue one lucky fishtail. It’s a bit rough, but for 80% off it’s a no brainer to buy one.

Never thought I would get the revisit this thread with another photo but here we are! It was visible to the naked eye too!

It looks exactly like a rupicola I had. Are the spines at the base of the petioles flexible or stiff? If stiff it probably isn't 100% rupicola but mostly rupicola. Phoenix palms hybridize easily.

@Maddox Gardening-youtube post some updates in a few days, frequently damage is latent. In cold fronts here it took around 3 days for the damage to show. Some things that were spots turned to completely torched fronds, sometimes it just stayed as spotting. I didn't see much here today after 34.7F and 15mph winds. By this weekend whatever damage happened will be more clear.

Thanks, man. I feel better already.

SOLD November 11, 2025

low of 31 for me in northern st aug. no frost it was too dry. not any damage yet either from what i can see

Yard stayed between 36.2 and 37.4 per depending on the sensor. 2f+ warmer than the forecasts. Wind stayed whipping all night, so wouldn’t be surprised to see some desiccated leaves in coming days. Not much of a test of the garden, but hopefully that polar vortex picks a different place to drop down next time

So when looking at the calendar, you might say April through October months are your friends. November through March are real sons of b----s. Even though November and March are of concern, they don't pose real freeze threats in my neck of the woods. Tampa's last March freeze was in 1980 and last November freeze was 1970. That said, Tampa's record low for November is 23 dating back to horse and carriage days. When considering this, we got off light this year. Count your blessings and move forward. There's more fun where this came from 😆

Mine are now 30 years in the ground. The leafbase internodes have shortened a lot, so little vertical increase. If you search RPS for this species the image shows my group of this palm. https://www.rarepalmseeds.com/chamaedorea-plumosa