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Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.

The yard was FULL of Clivia flowers but due to the unprecedented heat in March, I didn’t have much time to snap photos before the flowers began falling off.

A top little chamaedorea easy to grow cool tolerant. A pleated leaf look about it. A great little chamaedorea for the garden.

Good progress on chamaedorea microspadix seeds gifted by my brother Richard @happypalms

This Latania from several latanias collection

Ours just bloomed! I had to move it under the Chrysalidiocarpus Decaryi , it started to get sun burned . The courtyard is now getting a lot more after noon sun. Harry I love the blooms of these . We will probably get more at some point.

It is that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Mostly a variety with orange flowers here in my garden. They make a nice green ground cover when not in bloom.

While where on the subject of iriatea, here’s a few seedlings I germinated from gifted seeds. Even as seedlings they look gorgeous!

Glad to see kitty is alright! That’s BIG Chambeyronia!

Nice one Dave! Cats and palms hey. My dear kitty Kat sari is 19 now and she has used up all her nine lives, she’s having trouble walking and all the other ailments that go with age! But shes not letting go just yet! My princess sari!

A beautiful tray of Kentiopsis piersonorium. A great rare palm!

I see Conan missed severe injury from that frond . That is a gorgeous palm , Dave . Thank you for sharing! Harry

Thanks to everyone on these palms and particularly Eric. I agree with mnorell that Reinhardtia p was not in my wheelhouse. The picture may be misleading. This is not a small fragile palm. I will attempt to get some closer shots that give perspective on the size and depth of this specimen. Looking at Palmpedia, I do see resemblance and the pictures show that it is grown in this area. More to come!

Dave it looks healthy so hopefully the spathe will open normally and you will actually get a flower bract. My largest has produced the flower spathes for years, only to abort them before opening. It is currently holding two, but I have learned not to expect much from them.

The title is appropriate. This is like palm nut porn. Maybe a video tour of your full yard would be a good idea, à la Walt from FL?? 😉

Everything in the picture was planted by hand circa 2018-2019. New zoysia sod just went in a month ago. Love my little tropical garden! (SW Florida Zone 10b) JD

It’s the season for these Clivia blooms and the palms are “waking up” from winter’s slumber.

I have germinated seed, just for fun. They need heat and humidity. As Scott mentioned the tree is slow growing. I donated the seedlings at a garden club meeting, as at the time I had a larger specimen in a pot. I did not have the ideal spot to plant the larger Jaboticaba so I kept it in containers for years. After 15 years or so it never flowered in the pot, even after reaching about 10 ft. (3m) in height, so I sold it. The newer varieties vary in fruit color and flavor, which I have seen for sale but have not sampled. Other varieties claim to 'flower and fruit sooner' or possibly in a pot. Once I met a Jaboticaba grower from Brazil at TPIE who mentioned working on dozens of varieties. I didn't get his name or business name but he seemed excited. Ryan

Awwww. Our Lizzie Norwegian Forest Cat mix is 12 now but doesn't look a day over 8. If she understood geography she'd take over the world. Tough girl. Dave, that hookeri is gorgeous. Do you plan to sell seeds from it?

Chamaedorea microspadix is very common here. Richard is a very generous person. 👌

Through hard work, one will see great results. Thanks Harry. Richard

A few more going in the ground. Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons philodendron burle Marx anthurium vietchii hibiscus swan lake Arenga hookeriana

Dypsis procera has tucked itself in. And the grand old Caryota maxima looking rather grandeur at sunset.

It is not the size and well-shape of seed the most crucial feature, but rather the existence of the so called operculum or lid, which in case of Sabal seeds in particular resembles a belly button. Where there is a belly button, most probably there is also an embryo inside, where there is not such, most probably seed is sterile regardless other positive features.

I had the pleasure of getting a tour of @oliver's garden and thought I would share a few photos of the palms he has growing that survived 2021 freeze and I was able to photograph. He also has a Raphia sp. (sese?) planted next to a resaca so it stays wet. First up Tahina spectabilis.

Really nice palm garden . A very unique collection of mature specimens. Thank you for sharing. Harry

I think some plants are happy with this weather for the first time my Spathodea is blooming!!!

Put it in the ground and you can remove cuttings. These produce offsets prolificly like bromeliads and they are equally easy to divide and transplant.

It’s worth the risks!

Obscenities screamed.

I had a small area of trunk rot on a young KO at one point. I scraped some of the outer soft portion off, then painted it directly with undiluted daconil a couple of times. It fixed the issue, but it wasn’t a crazy bad case. It was revealed by a shed leaf base, and dried out once exposed which probably helped a lot, also. I can say that there is little downside to this approach. Never had an adverse reaction to any amount of daconil put directly on a palm.

Yes, you are correct. Dave was just persisting in old habits.

Not yet, but I’ve got a few seedlings not too far behind my largest so I’m hoping I’ll have at least one of each sex in time. I still don’t know which sex the one pictured is, the spadix is still immature. Hopefully soon I’ll be enabling your JOMS!

Do you have one of each Tim? In other words, when are you sending me some seeds, lol! To be honest I've probably got enough Chamaedorea seedlings from seed gifted by yourself, Colin and Richard to last me a lifetime...however with no vaccine or cure currently available for JOMS Disease (just one more species), there's little point fighting it!

other alstroemeria in bloom

Feathered friends from the Riparian Preserve ..Or as " oddly eccentric " folk ...who believe in cloud seeding / chem - trail -esque " Conspiro - Theories " like to call them: Covert, life - like drones developed by the govt. in the 50's ..or 70s.. < Can't keep up with the " theorized " timeline > for widespread, public surveillance.. Birds aren't real, ya know.. 🤡 Anyway.... American Wigeon, Mareca americana Drake.. Long - Billed Dowitcher, Limnodromus scolopaceus American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana and friends.. Including: Black - Necked Stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, Cinnamon Teal, Spatula cyanoptera ..Great Egret, Ardea alba, ...and Least Sandpiper, Calidria minutilla ...Da' tiny " drones " watchin everyone closely ( 🤔 ..weird ...cuz you can't ever get close to em' without em' flying off.. ..Or, is that part of the " plan ", 🤣) American White Pelican, Pelicanus erythrorhynchos ..Yupp, " Pelicans in the " desert " " is a real thing.. Brown Pelicans ( Pelicanus occidentalis ssp californicus ) the fishing boat / pier- side beggers anyone living near a beach in CA. or FL. are probably quite familiar with? ..they too fid their way to local neighborhood ponds / lakes every so often.. Snowy Egret, Egretta thula Great Blue Heron, Ardea herodias and Neotropical Comorant, Nannopterum brasilianum lurking in the background of a few of the shots as well... Male, White Crowned Sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys ..spying on me... < scratchy voice .. . " We're watchingg youuu " >

Hmmm interesting! FWIW droopy onilahensis do well for me and seem to take drier conditions than “upright” onilahensis. I’m in northern Orange County California, near Los Angeles county.

@Jake1989 nice to meet you! Where are you moving to? Near where you are now or someplace different?

Like a lot of tropical fruits,they do ripen quickly. Green one day, black the next! 😄👍 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Beautiful, Richard! It’s too bad they only bloom in the springtime though. Luckily they have colorful berries that hang on quite a while.

I know the feeling to well jim 👍

Much of the garden is 20 years old but it’s evolved. A lot is significantly younger and a few of the palms are older than 20. None of my backyard is pictured in this thread however.

So I put in an order with Floribunda early in the month, and it came the other day 2-day shipping. Everyone arrived reasonably happy, being well packed and secured. The box weighed 70lbs and cost about $90 to ship. UPS made sure to drop-kick the package 600 times enroute, but still the palms arrived in decent shape from half way around the world. Yippie! Many of the Palms are potted in tiny, jagged lava rock stones. So I made sure, in my haste and excitement, to fling a bunch here and there, sporadically around my place. I managed to get a few right outside the doorway, so that they could greet the full weight of my bare heel as I take my first step out the door in bare feet. I’m sure they will forever be with me now. I got some B Alfredii.. Cyphophoenix elegans.... Chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookeri... this is the type of Palm-crack they send to get you hooked. Areca vestiaria reds... Ravenea hildebrandtii... Dypsis orange crush... and Dypsis lafazamanga sprouts... Wish me luck....

Hard to get a good picture as its buried in behind a few things but after 10 years in the ground from a 8 inch seedling its starting to get moving prob 5ft tall hasnt split yet but growing well all year round, ive got another in a pot that fell over and started growing up whilst on the ground hates being stood up really strange what its doing

I was there yesterday and got some fruit . The thing is massive . One trunk was cut off years ago but still three healthy trunks. Terry and Sevan gave me permission to take all the seeds I want . Harry