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Clinostigma samoense Clinostigma with Astrocaryum, Pritcharia, and Attalea in the foreground. Tim

It's been exactly 4 years since my Copernicia berteroana last flowered. Looks like this year will be the year to start some more seeds. Seems to be a scarcely seen palm in peoples gardens for whatever reason. Maybe a 4 year flowering cycle has something to do with it?🤔😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I was searching for something and this thread popped up. I decided to update this phot of the entryway, since it has changed a bit during the intervening period from March of 2018 to March of 2026. 8 years will do that... to gardens and people. This is the Leucadia house. I will have to get some updated photos of the garden in Carlsbad at another time.

Looks like my 2 good Washingtonias might just make a steady recovery, almost certain the first one will but iffy about the second one as it has white at the bottom of the spears but won’t pull. Replaced the dead windmills in new spots with better holes this time. Good luck to everyone else, apparently we will be seeing the 30s again later this week hopefully not below freezing though.

Here's an interesting planting of Livistona decora at the same nursery. The drought is severe here as well - no rain in 2026 yet...

When in Brisbane a must see place for any plant nut is the botanical gardens. The garden is improving with time and you can definitely see the age in some of the plants there. The tahina has tucked itself in and give it five years and a bit and it will be the showcase of the gardens, as you walk out of the visitors centre you will be greeted by the tahina welcoming you to the world of plants.

As a 'medium speed' grower, this berteroana currently has 10 feet of wood trunk. I originally collected seeds of this species from habitat during the IPS sponsored biennial to the Dominican Republic in October of 2006. The tree is almost 20 years old now, and has done very well growing under desert conditions, despite it's tropical nature. It definitely is freeze sensitive, has defoliated a few times over the years, but is able to completely replace a new crown in just 1 growing season. No problems at all with our full desert sun, heat, or monsoon weather. 👍🌴 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Copernicias seem to like the desert a lot better than the beach out here.

Everywhere you look it’s more plants!

We are thrilled to share a glimpse of the atreathtaking energy currently erupting in our collection here in Arbon/Stachen Switzerland. While many palms are still struggling with the winter-error, our other Howea forsteriana (Kentia) has just unleashed a magnificent, deep green vitality spear! 🌿✨ Despite the dry stalks around it, this new growth is a true light-bringer, thriving in the tropical warmth of my 4th-floor balcony sanctuary at 20.6 °C (69 °F) in the shade. It’s a testament to the limitless power of nature when the conditions are just right. This spear is more than just growth; it’s a symbol of 100% healing and the vibrant synergy of our sanctuary. We couldn't be happier to see this glissful weightlessness manifesting in such a strong, green signal! Best regards from the sunny shores of Lake Constance, Tom and Sabine

Here's some massive Sabal uresana at Dyer's nursery in Weslaco. Photo doesn't do it justice - note the thickness of the trunk. @5am for scale in both photos.

Very good job on that palm. The challenges that you face are well beyond what us , more temperate gardeners face , kudos for sure! Harry

Okay, it's in the grow room, Sabine just said, Phönix canariensis is doing well 🤗

Red Latania new frond

@Mazat this is what your country needs a spectacular show of palms for sale, if one had the investment money a two acre climate controlled environment would be the place to start your business!

I also have a Dioon Edule to plant. Not sure which form. Got a little sunburnt, so I’ll probably acclimate it and plant it next year.

Looks like it took a bit of a hit . The new growth is still healthy but keep an eye on it . I haven’t tested cold hardiness on mine but they do seem to be pretty tough palms . The bummer , at least for me , would be slow growth = slow to come back. Harry

Dioon spinulosum finally getting its first frond. Took over 3 months

Two new Dypsis procera certainly got my eye attention after I planted them today!

Bismarkia

It’s a photographers paradise for plants!

I’m new to cycads. Probably won’t have room to plant all of these. Most of these are hybrids. Will probably plant the big E. Arenarus, soon. Was curious is anyone had tried these crosses, or anything similar? I’m thinking about planting maybe 3-4 for the time being. Recommendations? I think I got the tags right. E. Arenarus E. Lehmanii x (blue) E. Longifolious E. Middelburgiensis x Dyerianus x (back crossed) Dyerianus E. Munchii E. Horrida E. Horrida x E Arenarus Giant Nubimontanus x Spiny Cupidis

Hello. I’m worried about my Chinese fan palm (livistona chinensis). I’m near San Antonio TX. It survived the winter freeze (we covered it) but then recently, most fronds started turning brown. There’s still green growth coming out of the bulb but it still seems weird. Ideas? Thank you!

Has anyone seen anything like this before? I can’t help but wonder which Rhopalostylis variety it might be. My first thought was Chatham Islands, but I’m starting to doubt that. It could possibly be a Great Barrier Island form instead. Or even a naturally occurring hybrid with archontophoenix cunninghamiana? It’s surrounded by them.. Anyway what caught my attention is the very open crown and the extremely dark crownshaft color. I was also looking through some older Rhopalostylis photos and I think Geoff Stein used to have a few similar plants in cultivation. Curious to hear what others think on the variety — what are your bets?

I just couldn’t pass up on some of the plants on offer at the pacsoa show this weekend. Just a couple more for the collection! satakentia liukiuensis kentiopsis oliviformis Dypsis ambositrae Geonoma atrovirens licuala sallehana Calyptrocalyx flabellata pinanga sarawakensis loxococcus rupicola calyptronoma occidentalisDypsis sp Bill Beattie Basselina glabrata Dypsis orange crush calmus muelleri polyandrococus caudescens Calyptrocalyx yummutumecalyptrocalyx flabellata cocothrinax guargruana Mapu for the wife you know how it is fellas you gotta get the wife a gift when you spend up! Zamia pictaDypsis hetromorphusDypsis avisonii Dypsis DrannsfieldiiDioon Rio verdeDioon holmgreniiSchippia concolor All set to go in the garden for a bit more of that tropical look chamearops humillis cocothrinax eckmanii licuala fractiflexavietcha montgomerianadypsis procera

Too right. You would have done the same @DoomsDave, I know a palm nut when I see one Dave!

I run out of room in the car, I had offers other goodies, just no room to bring them home. Next time I suppose. And there where other beautiful palms there some I had already or missed out on them! Richard

Check for holes in the ground around the base of the trunk.

A few pictures from JLBG’s Winter garden. I thought the palmettos looked especially good.

Looks like a portion of the show followed you home , great score! Harry

These are my dypsis decipens f2 hybrids and one normal dypsis decipens that I’m gonna grow in Lancaster California zone 9a I got them from floribunda palms I hope they are going to survive we almost only get to low to mid 20s in winter only 1 -2 times a year I hope they do well any tips I know I guy from Modesto grew them so I’m confident I’m also gonna try the coco queen palm next

Looking good! That C. Decaryi sure took on some size ….as did the others. Harry

If you had told me what the weather would be like and the location I would’ve never thought there would be this damage. I don’t know what to say about it really, just reporting what I’m seeing. I thought I had some damage to the Bismarckia fronds and the Sabal causiarums only. I felt good and then this last week I started seeing damage on so many palms. I forgot to mention I also lost a Brahea moorei. That one showed damage right away and went downhill quick, even though it survived 19F last year. I also saw Katy got like a tenth of an inch from the storm on Saturday night and I got 4.5” with the additional rain on Sunday. Totally opposite. I expect next year most of these palms will be established enough that I won’t be seeing this again. But who knows I feel you can never predict how palms will do over winter. Further to your point all the palms around me and Houston for the most part look great. It’s only when I get up to Tomball that I see damage from this past winter.

How tall and old is this Copernicia? Do the fronds take the heat and sun and monsoon well? It looks amazing!

It's like we live in alternate realities. I'm not seeing anything remotely like the damage you're describing. I drive by tons of mostly abandoned Chamaerops and Butia every day and there isn't a scratch on any of them. Maybe the frost cloth is hurting your palms? All no protection: Livistona nitida - zero 0.0% burn on all leaves except for spear pull on 2 newest leaves, already pushing up growth. Livistona decora - 16-18 inch high seedlings, slight tip burn on a few Livistona chinensis - mostly undamaged Sabal rosei - no damage Sabal causiarum - no damage Sabal guatemalensis - tip burn to 30% burn on older leaves Bismarckia - mostly defoliated but pushing growth Queens x2 - one is only 30% burned, another is mostly defoliated but pushing growth Chuniophoenix nana - defoliated but pushing growth Bonus Lytocaryum hoehnei covered with a cardboard box (no heat) - no damage

My minimum temperature was 13F this year, accompanied by freezing rain. My results were as follows. Chamaerops humilis (unprotected): No damage, actively growing. Chamaedorea microspadix (unprotected): Burning where ice accumulated, but actively growing. No damage to leaves that did not ice over. Chamaedorea radicalis (unprotected): Burning where ice accumulated, but actively growing. No damage to leaves that did not ice over. Sabal minor (unprotected): No damage. Sabal miamiensis (unprotected): No damage. Sabal miamiensis Leu garden hybrid (unprotected): No damage. Sabal uresana highlands form (unprotected): No damage and actively growing. Sabal uresana green/silver form (tarp wrapped around the spear base): No damage and actively growing. Brahea dulcis (covered by a tarp): Minor discoloration, but actively growing. Cycas revoluta (unprotected): Exposed leaves are burned, normal for temperatures below 14F.

Yeah, that's the penalty you pay for planting zone 10 palms in a borderline 9b/9a area. Many of the established palms will grow back ok, and I'm guessing all the burnt cycads will do just fine. One thing that I'll definitely be doing is not replanting any large, "marginal" palms. Anything that gets big quickly and might randomly die one winter will not have a space in my yard. But smaller ones (Syagrus Amara, for example) may get another chance. The Arenga Pinnatas will stay if they live, because they take a long, long time to get too big to remove. Speaking of which, I cleaned up another part of the front yard yesterday afternoon. This is along the driveway, just to the right of the photos in my last post. This is the "before" photo: The big visible burned ones are (left to right) Coccothrinax Argentea, Zombia/Coccothrinax hybrid, Triangle (Dypsis/Chrysalidocarpus Decaryi), an Encephalartos Whitelockii behind the Sago, and a tall Arenga Pinnata. Here's the after: The Coccothrinax and Zombia/Cocco hybrid seem to be okay. Both are pushing new fronds with good looking spears. The Triangle's spear looks pretty good. I need to go sharpie-mark it and the Arenga Pinnata. The couple of cycads (Encephalartos Whitelockii, Tegulaneus, Manikensis/Turneri, Natalensis, and a Cycas Clivicola) were all burnt to a crisp but should be fine. The Clivicola is already bulging with a pending new flush. An Encephalartos Senticosus (Msinganus?) looks totally fine, with just 3 or 4 burnt leaves out of 50 or so. The Arenga Pinnata is a big question mark. The end of the new spear is dead, but the lower part of the spear looks ok. The lower end of the existing fronds seem solid. It's grown back (slowly) from previous defoliations in the 25-28F range. I cut the dead ends off and snipped off the dead leaflets: On the right side of the above photo there's 3 sticks that *might* be an alive Attalea Brejinhoensis. The spear and lower end of the older fronds seem ok too. Hopefully it gets moving soon! The variegated Caryota Mitis was torched to the ground, killing all 5 trunks. But there's at least 4 new sprouts from the roots!

I am tired of wasting many years of my life realizing I was duped and sold wrong seeds and wrong plants. This was sent to me as a seedling by PAUL WITTE at PALMANIA.ES with a tag "Sabal etonia". I think he has been out of business for years now. It's a shame I've offered these seeds with a wrong tag, trusting the "professional", without knowing that. Bigfish, thank you for identifying my plant. Inform other hobbyists if you are sold wrong seed(ling)s.

Everyone is doing well. 🤗

Are we getting one last cold front? My 10 day shows a drop into the mid 40s next week. I’m hoping it doesn’t end up being anything too severe I already took a bunch of plants outside.

Yellow latania

a little bit of Italy in Australia, here they are everywhere

Not my pic but somebody posted this on another forum. It's the Smashburger coconuts on Colonial Dr in Orlando. They said the other is pushing a green spear too. Mine has opened some green and I've seen others in Orlando and people's pictures down to Melbourne also pushing green already. Unless all these palms eventually show issues longer term, I have to admit I'm surprised because of the type of freeze. Many experienced 24F-26F. If we see decent amount of survivors this cold may need analyzed why we saw as many survivors. Kinda odd.

Even if my garden is young, for some palms The circle is complete

This Encephalartos was barely holding a couple of leaflets on these last leaves from its last flush. I don't recall it flushing last year, but I see what will be the first Spring flush in my garden this year. I don't include my flushing Encephalartos laurentianus as a spring flush because that began in January.

Another old frond removal today. This one is particularly special as it's the only solitary maroon leaf, red vestiaria I've ever been able to find. And believe me I've looked.

My twin sister Lisa gave us a greenhouse as a gift when she visited us last weekend. Dimensions of all greenhouses: width x depth x height - 69 cm x 49 cm x 159.8 cm / 27.1635 in x 19.29134 in x 62.91339 in, 3 shelves inside. We already had one. Then we got another one for $11 and another one for $8.90 from friends of the store manager at a discount store, and at the same time we got another one completely reduced because it had already been opened by customers. Now we have four.We placed them back to back and put the heating mats on Sagex today at the bottom. This way, the heat rises and heats everything from the bottom up, or so we hope.

I must have missed this thread when it was first posted, but the updates are pretty amazing! The history makes me even more appreciative of the beauty on display during the PSSC tour of your garden. Both the house and the garden have come a very long way over the years. Well done!

Dale, the triple Phoenix roebelenii was behind the Cycas thouarsii below, sandwiched between it and the E lebomboensis. It was getting squished on both sides. Editing from time to time is just part of having a garden.

@Tracy, this example of how close things get when mature scares me. I can already see me editing my garden(s). @realarch, you won’t be disappointed. -dale