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A rather fast growing majestic Syagrus with stiff dark green leaves. Ripe fruit is yellow and the size of golf balls. These have got to be in the 30 foot range. (10m) Always loaded with seed. Tim

Hey all, Got invited up to Beaumont to see fellow palm geeks Randall (inland palms) & Eric (Beaumont tropics), along with Bill (Cardiff palms). Beaumont is about 2,800 feet in elevation (I believe) and we had great weather. Both have wonderful gardens. We started at Randall’s. Yes, there is a house back there. He must have 150 palms and cycads packed in there. First up, the nerds congregate. Followed by a nice, fast growing Nanorropes richiana, and an awesome Phoenix rupicola.

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

He was a busy host.. Notice how he seamlessly folded the mule palm into his deck!

Next, the best Trachycarpus princeps I’ve ever seen. Interestingly, they won’t grow very well here near the coast. But a slam dunk in the dryer air where he lives. Followed by a canopy view with a Livistona decora poking its head out. As his canopy has expanded, what used to be impossible for him to grow, is no longer out of the question. Case in point, Becarriophoenix alfredii.

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Next up is a nice stout Brahea armata, followed by a great Phoenix rupicola & finally Dr. Randall explaining the characteristics of a Cycas hybrid.

A few pics from the far north coast of NSW. Apart from South West Rocks, these could be the most southerly. Covering Brunswick Heads to Yamba.

The lantzeana would have to be one of my favourite little dypsis species around. Cool tolerant a little dry tolerant and absolutely beautiful. A nice rosey red colour to the new leaf. And it makes a great little container palm. You gotta love the lantzeana.

Calyptrogyne.

Approx 15 years at the Santa Fé mall NE of Atlanta.

My bottles don't start flowing until around 8 pm.

This little beauty Pinanga disticha complete leaf, definitely can’t wait to get this one in the ground!

Thanks for looking!!

Lastly, and a bit off-topic, Randall told me several months ago that he was relocating some palms in his backyard so that he could make a tiki hut. I’m thinking of something like maybe an outdoor barbecue/ bar area, open air, with a thatched roof. Ah no.. His attention to detail was absolutely unbelievable. Beyond words, enjoy..

Theres more growing around but only right on the coastal towns, most are pretty well on the beach or headlands.

There’s a few planted around Woolgoolga,Mullaway and Red rock. I tried to grow them only 10 minutes drive away further north inland but no luck. Definitely a coastal palm for this area!

And a volunteer.

Not exactly today, but....

Prestoea acuminata var montana inflorescence would catch anyone's eye. In two weeks it will be pink, then red. The bees are having a party.

A nice looking palm the dwarf variety. They will never flower, the only way of propagating them is by cutting them up. This one you would get 4 clumps if you attacked it with a reciprocal saw. I might have to do just that!

Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

Absolutely fantastic! I see many ‘happy places’ in your garden to pause and ponder all the hard work. Tim

Another sub tropical fruit tree that seems to at least grow well under Phoenix Arizona desert conditions. Very pretty tree that maintains dark green foliage with strong copper colored undersides. Mine has flowered in the past, but has still to produce a single fruit. Maybe someday? 🤞 (This tree is already 15 years old, grown from seed from a star apple fruit I purchased on a Hawaiian vacation in 2010) aztropic Mesa, Arizona

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Looking great JD! I love all the multi's! The environment speaks to calm tropics with splashes of color, very meditative environment. Broms are nice, makes me miss mine which seemed to last for 8-9 years. Are some of these hybrids? Let us know how that zoysa works out. Is it good in part shade? My bermuda grass dies out in part shade. My daughter had some zoysa plugs that were looking good but she moved, I have no idea if the grass does well in sandy shady spots long term. Just want some pathways that I can walk without shoes. I have a similar yard with a path through the palms and a homemade firepit. Yours looks like a bigger yard. Hoping for some nice rains this year for all of florida. RIght now my yard is parched, once a week watering is awful in sandy soil. Let it rain!

Working in the jungle and looked up and saw a bloom on my Spathodea the first time it has ever bloomed maybe our unusual weather had something to do with it!!!yes it’s in there!!yes it’s in there!!

That's quite a compliment! ☺️

Beautiful stunning tree, unfortunately it’s not one for my area, the native bees get stuck inside the flower and die.

jubea chiliensis stenocarpus sinuatisdypsis pinnatafrons maroon crown dioon spinolosum A few more easy growers for the garden.

Yes marine parks. The best part of the world naturally. Yuragir nature park.

Those are beautiful coconuts. I have New South Wales at 32° latitude south. Can they grow further south in Australia? Best

Sabinara magnifica, nenga banaensis and a Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, looking pretty for a subtropical climate.

@SeanK They look great! Edit: Google maps shows them still there in 2008. Wow!

There’s a few planted around Woolgoolga,Mullaway and Red rock. I tried to grow them only 10 minutes drive away further north inland but no luck. Definitely a coastal palm for this area!

In response to Harry's kind comment regarding the wild Ss, I will repost the ancient Ss's at the Breaker's in PB:

Have they not grown much? Looking great though. Are there any old pics?

Conan was never in any danger! He just loves to meet and greet palms and palm people including me.

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

Things were looking bleak for these Foxtails at Lake Miriam Square. These were newly planted only months before the freeze and were totally brown only a few weeks ago. They're coming back now. Here at the homestead, a Veitchia X Carpentaria that was marked as dead on my spreadsheet may make me a liar. It has a long way to go, but it was totally brown and dead only a few weeks ago. Tropical hardwoods like Delonix regia and Bursera simaruba are coming back.

Crotons sprouting, foxtail trying to recover, Christmas palms now sprouting green from the center, bottle 2nd spear looks good. Coconut shooting up new growth mostly green but dead fronds all snapped jn the wind storms. Lawn guy cutting them off this weekend. I see no growth on shrubs like clusia.

He is! I really like his new website too! https://allensvisions.wixsite.com/tntropics

I remember hearing that and then seeing the Brahea armata at Lake Wire. While they aren't as easy as something native, they handle drought well and don't mind our few nights of arctic weather after record heat.

Update 4/10/26: The newest spear that was starting to emerge pulled. Poured some H2O2 in the crown and dried it out as good as I could. Will continue to monitor. No rain in the forecast for the next 7 days and likely beyond, so little to no risk of water getting into the crown aside from H2O2 if I decide to do that again. Might do the H2O2 + Daconil next time.

Foxtails seem pretty tough overall, especially once they have some trunk.

Update from Oviedo. All 400 clumps of areca’s are gone. Undergrowth is coming in strong but 10-15ft stalks breaking off dead. 😢. Bismarck burned but ok. 12or so fronds dead. 3 3 headed clusters of Christmas likely dead. A couple heads pushing green but don’t work without the others so no good. Bottle got burned inside garage. One coconut gone. 3 royals, 2 pushing green for now but one not moving. Most underlying gone. Aboricolas are coming back slowly even cut to dang near ground level. Crotons, ginger, ti, gone. Worst part of it all, knowing this would happen eventually, is I moved my nursery back out last weekend. Bottles, Bismarcks, kings, mangos, and the dang squirrels tore out and ate all the kings, ate the spear on the bottles, and generally ruined my appetite to continue on with this.

The bigger one

This is what royals in the area look like. All seem to be pushing green. I've actually see a couple of coconuts that looked like they are recovering too.

I have two Normanbyas growing in SW Florida in St. James City on Pine Island. I have one in a 15g pot , that has been growing in this exact 15g pot since it was a 1g seedling. As I was about to put move them up into 3g (typical pot up) @PalmatierMeg suggested keeping them in a 15g so I would not need to touch the roots in future pot ups. Pictured below is my 15g that has been in my shade house. It has been through Hurricane Ian out there, Milton, Helene, as well as some chilly nights (lowest we got was 35 degrees). So, the weather isn’t the problem in growing these, I believe it to be the aphids. My one that is in the ground has a fatter trunk, but the leaves do not look as nice as my potted. The aphids like to get into the crown and under the leaves which is too much for this species in our climate. I am hopeful that these two Normanbya will keep on growing and hopefully produce some seed in the future.