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Here’s one for the hybrid fans. This one was identified a while back on palm talk.

Yeah they've got some fun stuff over there. That area is such a great microclimate. There are some MASSIVE mango trees over there in NW Bradenton too, especially along the river. Like big grandfather live oak size, but in mangos. Sorry it's "somewhat" off topic, but a cool picture I took a few days ago over there at Palma sola botanical park.. royal poincianas going off!

Indeed they are a wonderful palm!

Been MIA from here for a while (you know life got busy), but I'm really excited for my Brahea Aramata to be blooming for the first time ever. I bought it almost 20 years ago as a tiny plant from Lowe's and I know how dramatic the flowering can get on these. Finally I see some flower stalks forming. Not as exciting to my friends and family so I thought I'd share with fellow palm enthusiasts 😆

Today I received a superlative 1 gallon, magnificently grown by the incomparable @Darold Petty Best Mother’s Day present ever😂

Areca is still one of the best hedging palms around. Individual trunks are not crazy heavy either, so if you do get a 25-28F cold snap that kills a few trunks it's not too tough to clean up...and they'll grow back reasonably quick. Caryota Mitis have noticeably heavier trunks when they die. In FL the frost is the big issue with Lutescens. Frost-free nights in the low 30s didn't seem to affect them too much.

Yes apart from a million dollar climate controled environment my odds are pretty slim in my climate, I do know of a couple of cool climate growers so they may destined for those places. Wait and see how many I get I may keep a few to try and the rest shipped out to a much better climate that would suite them. They were originally purchased due to a request from another grower who consequently later purchased their own seeds. The cool climate growers got pretty excited when they were released from rps.

Hey y’all. I recently moved to Northwest Florida from coastal North Carolina, and with that, I can finally plant out my potted palms. To start off this thread, here’s the Needle Palm finally in the ground this morning…

Great in Atlanta, or Pittsburgh or Cleveland. Not so much in inland so cal.

I can’t believe I managed to get these ceroxylon seeds to germinat. I wasnt doubting the quality of seeds. I was more worried about my climate being to warm for once, pretty well much sown at the start of summer so my fear was was that I wasn’t going to be able to keep them cool enough to germinate. It was a long hot summer, so the seeds were kept inside on tile floor in the coolest part of the house. So nearly 6 months later they are a popping. Not sure what I will do with them I might have to send them to the polar bear growers down south!

My favourite at the moment is lepidozamia peroffskyana, a plant that’s native to my location. Here’s both male and female cones being pollinated by the weevil that is so important for pollination with this species.

Ptychosperma nicolai

@epicure3 there's a really nice one over at Palma sola botanical Park if you drive over there. One of the nicest and biggest orange geigers I've seen in the area. It's flowering really well right now too.

I have had 2/8 pop from same batch. They are in my germination box - a plastic ice cream box with barely damp vermiculite/perlite that sits behind an arm chair in my sitting room. It gets some sun in the cooler months so it probably quite warm for a few hours some days but mostly room temperature. If I had lots I would have just put them in a pot in the shadehouse but these are too precious to risk hungry rodents.

The Howea belmoreana presents well from the street outside my garden now too. It is above the wall with its foliage, visible in the center behind the two trunks of Chrysalidocarpus pembanus in this photo. The 5 gallon bucket from the big orange box provides perspective. I need to borrow Tim's shovel for future garden shoots.

Garret, yours an excellent looking example of copernicia baileyana! Mine started growing faster once it trunked. They are not fast for sure but the slower growth at that height is desirable, its a better view than looking up there. These are great palms for florida, but as they get tall, the hurricane damage is greater. Milton hit my yard at 100-110mph, the damage increased with height seemingly regardless of species. My bailey was spared some as it was about 15-16 feet tall, as tall as the house. My C. Fallaense was not so lucky at 25' overall, about 70% damage to the crown. Palms taller than the house saw the worst winds. My neighbor said my 40' royal was bent horizontal in the wind and it lost all 18-20 leaves, just a spear left. My bailey is still in recovery mode, it lost half the leaves to wind damage, lowest first. At this time 3/4ths of the crown is back, though it still holds 6-8 leaves that saw some damage in Milton. Milton seems to have stimulated trunk growth some as it has for several other palms of mine. This palm was planted in this time of year in 2011 about so 5 years older from a 3 gallon. The trunk, from ground to the last dead leafbase is 10' first, 6months in the ground sept 2011. New growth had smaller leaves since it was grown in shade and I put it in full sun. Next 15 months later Dec 2012 it was pumping out leaves at a good rate. Then it started to go vertical and carry more leaves by june 2015. Then it was hit by a hurricane IRMA in 2017 and suffered a spear bundle infection (caused by spear fracture) that persisted for two growing seasons till I managed to kill off the fungus with repeat treatments of daconil. Just when I was wondering if it the fungus was still present, it started to grow faster. This was a period of slow growth for 2 seasons as the infected spears grew out. In sept 2020 about 10 years in the ground, it was trunking and looking fully recovered with a good growth rate. Here it is with a full crown sept 2020, pictured with my larger Fallaensis. Frankly, I wish they both stopped growing at that size as the colors are best when you can see into the crown. Then it was hit by two hurricanes the next 4 years. The sharp thorns on petioles of the newer leaves shred the leaflets on the older ones in the hurricanes. Now here it is 20 months after Milton damage, still recovering. It is 16 years in the ground. I am hoping for a full crown late this summer. Trunk is about 6 1/2-7' clear and 10' including the dead leafbases waiting to fall off in the wet season. Let it rain please!

Finally starting to get some of the seedlings into the ground. A few additional Livistona species start the perilous trek to adulthood. @Plantking165 pointed me in the correct direction for a true Dwarf coconut. That coconut is going to attempt life opposite of the Atlantic Tall for best survival chances. You can also see the new Adeniums from GreenThumb resting on the rocks. The next couple of photos are plants from the CFPACS Spring Sale at SJBGNP. This Bismarckia nobilis will start life in the ground this year. Hopefully, I was gentle enough with the roots while cutting the pot apart. Thank you, @CodyM The first Chrysalidocarpus decipiens seemed to do pretty well during the heat last summer. I had an opportunity to add two more to the garden. Thank you @STLOUISPALMGUY! Clay Porch had 3G Phoenix theophrasti for sale. I've had trouble with these getting a fatal leaf spot in the past, but as tough as they are, I'll roll the dice again. Let's all hope we actually have a rainy season this year.

The solitary one I have in Leucadia is getting more light now that I removed a Guava tree to its west and a little north. The top of the wall is 6 feet high for perspective.

You either love em or dislike em. Each to there own on this palm, but it’s a proven winner regardless with its yellow colour and it’s predictable landscaping growth. It’s hear to stay, no wonder it’s been around so long. I even grow a few for that question got any golden canes?

Hey palmtalkers. Just wanted to share the progress of my bailey palm. I planted this one from an overgrown, rooted in the ground, 1 gallon baby palm back in May 2016. A picture of that at first planting is shown as well with it being the tiny palm, center of the pictures. It has about an overall height of 9 to 10 feet now to the top of the leaf. Has been slower growing for me than I would like. It gets way to much shade from the surrounding palms now that they outgrew the bailey. It's hard to show in the photos, but this one has that blue-green color. One I prefer. Has been through 3 major hurricanes. Irma, Ian, and Milton. Some winds from Helene as well. It still holds damaged leaves from Milton, but I didn't want to over trim. Took some leaves off and left the others. Hopefully now that it's getting larger and a bit more sun, it will start to grow a bit faster.

Dare I say, arborvitae would give you cheap, solid screening for decades. Move the palms forward.

It is a lovely example, I was at the mother in laws house and spotted it in her garden. I then proceeded to explain to her what the palm was and how it got to be in her garden. It has no trunk yet and its about 4 meters to 5 meters.

Three great originals for any garden! kerriodoxa elegans ptychosperma sanderianum dypsis cabadae

Did Tim send one down to you express postage, whos a cropping now 🌱

A touch of colour in paradise!

@Merlyn Yeah, I'd get rid of the Foxtails if their close. They might look fine for a while and then collapse. Hollis had that happen with a Bismarckia out of the blue. Thankfully, no one was standing anywhere near it at the time. It is good to see some green coming back in your garden and in the area, in general.

Oh it will live here, Australia has a very unique climate all in one day it can be snowing, bushfires drought and flooding all 4 seasons in one day just pick which location you want to be in!

Here's a few more flushes turning my garden back from brown to green! In the upper right both Pygmy Dates appear to be growing back fine, with complete sets of fronds. On the left middle an unknown "big green Encephalartos" is flushing. It could be an Equatorialis or just natural variation of Ituriensis/Whitelockii. Just behind it the big one is a Gratus x Laurentianus. Common Zamia Furfuracea are flushing bronze in the middle. In the foreground a Sclavoi x Ituriensis has 5 leaves going, and in the bottom center a Natalensis x Horridus has 5 finished leaves. Just to the bottom right is a Horridus x Natalensis with 3 new fronds in process. Not really visible behind the Pygmy Dates are a couple of Zamia Vasquezii and Picta also flushing. Also not really visible is a double-coning Cycas Simplicipinna on the other side of the path from the Gratus x Laurentianus. So this is sort of a 10-fer flush! In the center rear bed a few more are going gangbusters! The middle is a big Dioon Spinulosum with a pup flushing too. Just behind is to the left is a 2-headed Cycas Revoluta flushing just one of the two heads. Just below it is a single frond growing up on a tiny Encephalartos Umbeluziensis. Bottom left corner is a "fasciated" Zamia Furfuracea. The lower right cone is an unfortunate timing on a male Cycas Multipinnata that was completely defoliated. To the right behind the Spinulosum is a solid flush on an Encephalartos Ferox. In the background left of the Spinulosum is one of the triple Encephalartos Whitelockii/Ituriensis with a solid 8 leaf flush. The other two in the triple are thinking about it...but not quite yet! At the arch on my E pathway I planted some Mandevilla vines. There's a red and white on one corner and a pink Dipladenia on the other corner. The pink is supposed to be more bushy and less viney, we'll see what happens. I should be able to "train" the Dipladenia to grow up the side of the arch anyway, it just might not climb up and over. A bunch of other stuff is pushing new fronds, even if they are a bit distorted. A couple of Attalea Brejinhoensis, Phalerata, Speciosa and Butyracea are looking good, though a strap leaf Butyracea is probably toast. Two of the three Arenga Pinnata have opened new fronds, all the big Alfredii are growing well, and the Fallaensis and Baileyana are pushing new spears. The Triangle is opening up a horrendously ugly frond but making good progress. All of my Bamboo are sending up new shoots except for a Dendrocalamus Tsiangii...it might be a goner. My solo Foxtail with ~10ft of trunk is opening up a frond, but the triple looks pretty sad. I'll start culling the herd in a few weeks after our daily thunderstorms start. At that point it should be obvious what's alive and d-e-d. I didn't go to the Leu Gardens spring sale, the MB Palms open house, or the St. John's sale because I really had no idea what I might need...

The first thing that caught my eye today is the fact that despite me having been unable to work in the yard for months, plants are growing but some sure need mowing. I see my volunteer palms that hitched a ride from Floribunda are keeping pace with my remaining stilt palms - I had one cycad pot that had two volunteer palm seeds in it and another with one.

Red is the color of the day.

so there is hope that it can live in your country too, if so good luck, also because in the future you might have seeds of an uncommon species

I don't comment much but I was saying on a dozen Facebook forums that the damage was bad but less than the 2010 freeze, I think we can all see that now, at least for cocos, which would seem unusual, in my neighborhood in old eau gallie, almost every coconut palm is recovering, almost all the cocos at frigates (including others), the old talls at squidlips that survived 2010, even relative juveniles are recovering well. The bottom line, this was an extremely rare strong adjective freeze which we aren't used to here, 2010 was deadlier by far but a totally different animal, and the royals, we all know by now that relatively established robust royals are not nearly as sensitive to freezes as most think.

Sorry mate, kept all the good ones for myself 😉

Excuses excuses, you polar bears need a a germinating lesson! But honestly would Tim our president of the southern palm mafia chapter send you the floater iam shocked at such accusations! I reckon it’s the happypalms knack!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ps hopefully I can get a few to you

Well done I got some quindiuense to sprout from the last RPS batch, I checked a couple of the parvifrons and found they had no embryo.

I grow this in Jacksonville FL ----collected the seeds in 1988 from habitat in Northern Domincan Republic --- in my front yard ---

Im thinking of using arecas and the traveler palm combo. Its a bit risky given they’re firmly zone 10 and my zone was 9b until 2023. But I think it will look the best.

I have tried fertiliser with trace elements, Hydrogen Peroxide, topical fungicide and a heavy dose of Epsom salts (which is a good cure for similar problems in Parajubaea coccoides) but alas nothing works. The first photo is a plant that was in perfect condition six months ago but I knew it was just a matter of time before the misfiring spears would come. The second photo is where it is heading and likely remain between life and death for many years!

I think I found my solution, the travellers palm (ravenela madagascariensis) I may buy two 15 gallon and one 25 gallon and place them staggered so the smaller specimens have width and the taller one gives height. I think it should provide relatively good screening even when they grow taller.

A great palm for SoCal

You could go with what I have on the outside of my wall which was first to obscure the wall and later to create a privacy screen above the wall. Further down the wall, I have planted some Encephalartos species, both Encephalartos ituriensis and hybrid Encephalartos sclavoi x whitelockii. There are hybrids of Cycas revoluta x multifronidis which might also handle your conditions and grow both full and tall. Space them at intervals to achieve the desired coverage.

I’m surprised the utility company hasn’t cut that back. Harry

Who would put a peppercorn tree next to a pool 😐 I have a birch tree that I plan on removing. The Dypsis Lutescens look good, though I would plant them behind my pool wall. Thats why I am thinking the fern podocarpus might be mu best bet.

Yes, I have five of them in the ground...Three of what I'm fairly sure are Jamaican/Atlantic Talls; and two of what I purchased as Red Spicata, in both cases from mail-order nurseries in Miami. They do "fine" here (some other types, however, have collapsed in winter). "Fine" meaning if you find just the right amount of morning sun and dappled shade, in an east- or south-facing area under good canopy, they put out nice leaves...problems being at least when young, they only produce about three leaves per year under those conditions. Really not enough to have a great plant, I feel that five is the absolute minimum for a healthy specimen...though I suspect leaf-production will improve over time. Also some issues with blanching if the sun hits the leaves during the low-sun season, again, careful siting required! There are mature palms here in the desert, most of them now cut down by unwary home-buyers who didn't know or care what they had. The remaining one in La Quinta is impressive in size but the crown can look dry and kind of ratty at certain times of year, and old leaf-bases hold on since there's little rain or humidity to tease them off naturally. Nice to have it here, nonetheless! There are beautiful specimens growing a couple hundred miles southeast of here at Golfo de Santa Clara, but since it's on the Gulf it enjoys humidity and slightly milder highs in summer. The crazy case was an absolutely gorgeous one growing outside of the desert, in Corona of all places, it was beautiful, but when sold, the new owner chopped it down. There are plenty of threads on all of this, if you search, elsewhere on this forum. This topic has been drilled to death here...but ultimately I look at it as a somewhat marginal but fun thing to have around, but I keep it in the "semi-temporary" category. If they start trunking and looking great, so much the better, but I don't necessarily expect it.