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Still going strong, thanks to our mild winter. I'm curious to see how it does above the roof!

Thought I’d ‘bump’ this topic and add a few recent progression photos. This Lemur has really grown in the last few years and is such a magnificent palm. In one of the overall shots there is a shovel with an orange handle for scale. Tim

I just noticed a spathe tip poking out from below an old boot on my Burretiokentia koghiensis. The two oldest boots were easily removed and I could see another spathe that was previously hidden beneath a boot. They didn't get an opportunity to fully open since the boots never dropped on their own. These are the first spathes on this specimen.

A flash of red getting around the place!areca vestria dypsis lantzeana dypsis louvelli

A vigorous push on one of my Encephalartos ituriensis.

Blue bayou, (Linda ronstadt)

Best of luck with them Richard! Thanks to Richard for making the seeds available! I recently germinated a bunch (maybe 80+%) in comm pot and baggie using vermiculite and bottom heat. I've already potted up several with more to do!

Spring is entering gradually and new growth starts appearing on Bismarckia and Nannorrhops. Which one is more blue in your opinion?

Yesterday was a great day, PRA with Justin, Jason, and Billeb. Toured Jason’s and my garden which gave me a photo op opportunity with Jason for an update. Powering on! Tim

I've had some luck with this notoriously cold sensitive palm. I got a batch of seeds from Dypsis DeanO about 6 years ago and only 1 survived in the community pot after the first winter in my greenhouse. So after a couple years I planted it out as a small seedling. It's survived 3 winters so far and despite my lack of attention to fertilizing it, it's growing steadily. If it makes it through this next winter I'll start fertilizing and see if it'll grow up to be a real palm someday. Anyone else have luck growing this palm in less than tropical conditions?

Spines do deter. I'm on a busy sidewalk and have had fronds messed with before the palms got taller. Some were cut off with a machete, others were bent at the petiole. I put up a surveillance sign once when I thought it would happen again with newly planted stuff. I figured it was pedestrians angry at being touched by a palm. When working in the yard, I have been yelled at by people travelling down the sidewalk... 'Cut these leaves!' ... answered promptly with "No." Ryan

How about a silver / blue Brahea ? Gopher ate my Bizzy ! Harry ‘Brahea Armata , actually more silver/green like my Butia. Oh well…. Butia Oderata No blue in these two but plenty of silver!

At it again with a few more intresting varieties. This lot should keep me busy for a day or two.

What got planted today. A couple of nice palms. A. Ive pacsoa purchase of a vonitra dransfeildia, a nice home grown licuala triphylla followed by a Merc psillakis cyphophoenix elegans. This should give the garden a bit more of a tropical look! Vonitra dransfeildia cyphophoenix elegans licuala triphylla

Both are beautiful palms . It would be hard for me to make a call on that. Harry

I'd give the edge to the Nanorrhops.

Nice one Harry, you get excited with just one try having 2 dozen of them throughout the garden, pure ecstasy. Richard

I only have one Chambeyronia so I really get excited when a new frond opens. This time it didn’t mess around, the spear showed no signs of opening Sunday when I was watering . Yesterday afternoon it opened . Within 3 days it will be green , it is in full sun. Harry

I’d say in your location the two main challenges will be hot and dry in summer, and cold and wet in winter. Similar to the issues in my climate. As you say, A cunninghamiana is probably well suited, however I’d guess that winter damp soil may be a big challenge for C leptocheilos and B condapanna. Even Chambeyronia macrocarpa would want to have good drainage in winter ideally and also won’t love hot and dry for too long unless you can irrigate. They are pretty tough though so that’s your best from the palms you have. Here’s some other palms I’d think would be suited to the conditions: Archontophoenix purpurea, maxima, myolensis Chrysalicarpus baronii Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae, onilahensis (might need soil ammendment for drainage) Rhapis humilis Livistona australis, decora Chamaedorea radicalis, plumosa

SW Houston today just outside 610, in person this thing is nearly glistening in the morning light. No burn in sight, but it's a warm area (the young queens are green, the split leaf philodendrons and giant bird of paradise have living aerial crowns, pristine citrus, etc). It was installed in 2021 to replace a big queen palm. Met this guy who is REALLY into zone pushing (he even has a lipstick palm). Becarriophoenix and foxtail pictured. For hardier stuff he also has Bismarckia and hardy Chamaedorea spp.

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

Never a dull moment in the garden with a dypsis louvelli and a Chambeyronia hookerii for a touch of colour.

An amazing palm . I didn’t know anything about them until I saw one in the glass house at The Huntington in Pasadena , California. Yours is splendid! Harry

Some garden eye candy, caught my eye today!

Another flower forming on the dypsis saintlucei!

Ho Lee Grail, Ho Lee Chit! Thankfully I have a garden large enough to wander and wonder at the beauty and variability of the various species of plants. Every now and then an event happens that well......, takes one's breath away. This Lemurophoenix has decided to come out of it's shell. It has held it's leaf sheaths for years now and they finally gave way to reveal the most spectacular display, in a large way, of mauve, purple, and pink. Planted almost 12 years to the day from a 3 gallon, it was certainly worth the wait. Now, where's that bus, I'm ready to be run over. Tim

I did something very stupid today. I wish I had a full size truck and I could just rip these damn things out of the ground. They replaced this one because the crape myrtle in front of it grew too big so I spent a few hours with the drainage spade (praise jeebus it has teeth) sawing through about 25 years worth of Bermuda grass and tree roots and I still need to get a pry bar and the SledgeOMatic to break it loose. It's in the perfect spot for one of the Redemption colocasias. (See, I made it relevant to this forum after all). I'm not even done and there's 2 more and I wanna die and there's some of y'all almost twice my age running up the sides of mountains with 300 pounds of rocks and concrete. Jesus.

Nice one, many shade loving plants means many a canopy plant, that and 20 years to create the shade! Looks like you will be planting a lot more palms, my garden has plenty of understory that’s for sure!

Just sharing my Syagrus pseudococos growing and fruiting in the garden. I like the looks of this Syagrus with a fairly thin trunk and best of all it is self cleaning.

Nice update and bump. Thank you for sharing your jungle. Harry

@Skenny I can hardly see any green stuff, so keep in mind that the green needs to see the sun to generate new energy. Cutting dead ends off the fronds might help, if the brown stuff really is blocking the sun. For fertilizer I might use about 2-3 handfuls of the Sunniland 6-1-8 per clump. That's a highly scientific measure, obviously. I've used Sunniland 6-1-8 for years, and recently switched to their Pro 8-0-10 Tree/Shrub. It's actually slightly cheaper per pound of Nitrogen and Potassium. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sunniland-50-lb-All-Purpose-Fertilizer-8-0-10/1000007606

Ravenea Rivularis loves water. They do fine in sun around here . Harry

Color change shown on these two flowers of a Bc. Sunny Delight × Bc. Richard Muller. Old flower is now predominantly yellow.

Horse poo is no good, unless it’s going to be a hybrid mix, and we all know you guys like hybrids!

I made a post a bit ago talking about some of the tropical plants I was zone pushing here in zone 6a, Colorado. They are Cycas revoluta, Eucalyptus cinerea, and Monstera deliciosa. Starting with the Cycad, sago palm, I have no idea if it's dead or alive. I should apparently not uproot it or do anything with it yet because iits to early to tell whether it will continue growing or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were dead. There is no spear pull or rot; however, I did not protect it probably as much as I should have, and its leaves died due to snowfall indirectly touching the fronds on the frost cloth. Regarldess I will wait and see what happens. I should also mention it has been a relatively mild winter with not much snow and the lowest temp being about 0-1 degrees farenheight (-17 degrees Celsius). My eucalyptus is still alive with some mild damage and dieback, and someone mentioned in my last post that cold damage does not show until temps warm up, which makes sense since it did not get any damage until warmer temperatures arrived. My monstera is alive, but i dont know if it will come back; however, apparently, it might. Its stem is still green and alive with nodes and aerial roots, but no leaves, so i dont know what to expect. I will mention I have an Ensete ventricosum 'maurelii', which is supposedly hardy in only zones 9-11, but mine survived close to a wall and mulched. The canna lillies I did not dig up but are growing after I unmulched them, and my blue passionflower is still green and bendy at the base of the stem. Any tips or helpful advice, or anything? Thanks!

I’m thinking you should plant Calamus radicalis along your front entrance. If he tries to go near it you will find him in the morning tangled up in it. A palm that fights back.

Each new leaf on the dypsis basilonga just gets better and better, followed by y a nice young Dypsis utilis leaf and don’t forget the vonitra Dransfeildii for putting on a nice new leaf for a bit of colour!

sounds good, on extrea hot breezy days dont hesitate to use overhead water late in the day( 1-1 1/2 hr before sunset).

Thanks Dale, Yeah they are turning into one of my favorite Encephalartos right there with Horridus! Iv’e sold a few but the pure strain green Arenarius are selling really good for me! I sold a couple more today. Steve

Could be too much fertilizer as well, in future only use Osmocote plus indoor/outdoor on that pot. That palm is not growing well enough to take non slow release fertilizer.

Allogoptera caudescens opening a new leaf is such an attractive sight.

“genetic anomaly” sounds logical, yes Harry🤗

Some 🔥 in the garden recently. Dypsis rosea Chambeyronia divaricata

Yesterday we had a great hike in Phong Nha National Park. Licuala bachmaensis Dr. Bill Baker explaining morphological differences between Lanonia and Licuala Close up for Lanonia centralis demonstrating a small bump just before the center leaf split. Rhapis excelsa Lanonia centralis Hiking up a waterfall to end the hike

Very cool, too bad there wasn't something in there for scale. Riversides are supposed to be a very large Sabal and fast growing. I have two in my yard and they are indeed fast growing, and were not bothered by this winter as well.

Nice work! As long as you're careful not to snap the root, you'll be fine. I typically use Trenta Starbucks cups for them and that is deep enough to get them ground ready. If you have something taller, that's probably better. It seems like it takes forever for them to put down all of those roots and then finally push a spear above ground.

A few pictures of the specimens in Kopsick's collection. St. Petersburg FL. July and December 2014 ( pics # 1 & 2 ), and Feb. 2016 ( Last pic )

This was a large 1gal. from Floribunda that has been in the ground since July 2016. These pictures are from this past August. I also had a 4" from Floribunda in a neighboring spot that had been hanging on since 2015 but I pulled it just a few weeks ago as it wasn't looking so hot after our awful winter. I have a one gallon from Jeff still in a southern exposure. It's burned and looks ratty but still hanging on.