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Dale it's seeding like crazy 🤪 now could be in the hundreds if they all stay on the 2 large inflorescence

Here’s my smallest one just slowly truckin along. Planted as a 1G about 4 yrs ago. Definitely getting more size in the trunk area. Hopefully it’s past the slow infant stage these things experience. -dale

The only Vanda species which has repeatedly flowered for me is Vanda tricolor. I have two slightly different variations. One has flatter flowers and the other has flowers that are less just in a single plane for lack of a better distinction.

The reason you don't see anything 40 years old is because there wasn't anything here 40 years ago. I was blown away by the lack of damage from this year's cold weather. I believe their new zone is 10a.

As @DoomsDavehas the right idea for you I say just plant it! They are super tough ernies I plant tube stock all over my garden and they grow not a problem!

The rest of the buds opened for this nice bouquet display.

15 gallon Brahea Edulis 125.00 15 gallon Brahea Super Silver 125.00 1 gallon Butia Eriospatha 60.00 can ship 3 gallon Chamaedoria Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship

This pretty little palm, planted right outside my front porch, just put out her first flowers. I think she’s happy to have not been burned back the past couple winters.

It’s a never end love of plants out in the garden!

Hey Bubba. Yes. Found myself in non palm land for years after Cali and now in Florida. Miss the old gang. Glad they're so many more enthusiasts here.

Epicure3, I agree with your learned opinion! It seems like it has been a long time since you have posted. Best.

My Puya venusta blooms are now opening! I suppose it was worth the multi-year wait to get them to this stage!

This is a Specimen acquired as possibly a Pritchardia hillebrandii. As it grew I don't think that was fulfilled. I don't have Don Hodel's book on Pritchardia to key this out. Given the prevalence of hybrid Pritchardia in the trade here in California, I might not be able to key it to a single species anyway. I don't recall it ever pushing out a successful inflorescence that resulted in flowers let alone fruit. Thoughts on it's id are welcome.

If you had to replace it, are they available locally as potted trees, or do you have to start over from seed? With these extremely fast growing species, it seems most people just start their trees from seed anyways ? aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Myself I would not use it in containers. And in the soil eventually you get a heap plastic looking gel all through the soil.

The wonderful world of plants!

The tropical look so desirable, deep green and fat broad leaves help create that look. I just planted them with that vision. Richard

What a coincidence @Meangreen94z This issue has become again of interest to me, because another grower suspects that seedlings from my bermudana may be hybrids with Sabal rosei, which also exists in my garden, and blooming times overlap. He claims the bermudana seedling from the first seed batch (when I had cut off all flower buds rosei before expanding) is greener and softer, while the seedlings from the second batch (when both palm were left blooming to the end) are bluer with a rougher texture. First picture shows on the left side seedlings from the second batch and on the right one seedling from the first batch. I have also grown seedlings from the first bermudana batch and kept also a seedling of rosei about one from seed set before blooming of bermudana. On the left bermudana seedlings and on the right rosei seedling. And another solitary bermudana seedling on the left compared to same rosei seedling

Here are photos you asked for thank you

Very tropical looking arrangement there @happypalms. That Latania looks like it has some age to it @bubba. Talk about a perfect palm . Well cared for and in the right environment. Harry👍

Look at all the wee Ernie’s !!! The more the merrier , I see. Harry

Chamaedorea Radicalis

You don’t want to spike a royal get a ladder or a pole saw and cut one off!!!

Still undecided Jim. If you see a news report about a dead older guy at the base of a palm tree, just remember that Steve made me do it..

A beautiful part of the world!

I’m guessing you’re joking about the climbing spikes! 🙂

Just snapped these pics just now. Seeding for the first time. Definitely faster in sun than shade. She gets sun all day now.

I had heard from a source and later verified through iNaturalist that Sabal uresana and rosei appear to hybridize in Sinaloa. South of where they overlap rosei is solely a green species, but blue ‘hybrids’ can be found in habitat overlap . Not definitive but definitely strong evidence.

sometimes it helps to climb up there and sniff the flowers. If they smell like Cheetos and Pepsi then that might be the problem. Please let us know what you discover.

Encephalartos Trispinosis 2-Leaf flush. Super cool how it starts yellowish / pink, then turns purple and finally blue when it gets its farina or sunscreen. -dale

Apparently there are two varieties as others have said, but I like the look of the Vietnam variety, but I will be happy with my Thai variety! They seem easy and very compact palm for a specific spot in the landscape. I like them. Richard

And an absolute perfect variegated rhapis!

Chamaedorea adscendens 27 years old in the garden and he is a beauty!

yellow Phaius

Yeah, a Royal Palm would have a long bright green crown shaft on its trunk beneath its canopy of fronds. $500 sounds reasonable for a Majesty that big but starting out with a vigorous younger one would probably make more sense.

Pleurothallis grobyi

Randall, I just had a thought.. you make another tiki hut, but mobile! Think about it; you roll up to every garden tour, pop the door open and start mixing! Imagine the uptick in enthusiasm. I mean, palms are awesome, but palms and cocktails.. next level stuff.. Thanks again for the invite!

Thank you all for keeping the thread going in my absence. I’m glad to see tropical palms continuing to flourish in Central Florida. 👍

Zephyrhills is identical to my area climate wise. Not surprised about these the last few years. New port richey has some huge mature fruiting coconuts now.

Happened across this lot in Zephyrhills today. There were a few coconuts that had mature leaves. They didn't look to be there all that long from what I could tell on Street View, but still commendable none the less. Zephyrhills - May 2025

my Pritchardia hillebrandii has been producing seed for several years now in Carlsbad. I was just cleaning up the trunk earlier, removing some old retained leaf bases and snapped a photo. I wonder if climate plays a factor in when they produce their first flowers?

Can someone please identify what kind of bromeliad this is:

Latania loddigesii at Four Arts:

I have that Vietnam dwarf. I'm getting the Thai dwarf in less than 2 weeks now. Now I'll have both varieties.

What the someone stole it. We all know what happens to a person who steals from a memorial garden……..

I planted some in my mother:s memorial garden with her ashes. Stolen! Go Cairns. #hometown

Next shipment I will chuck a pup in.

Wallisia cyanea now.

Thanks you know your broms a lot better than me!