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My second order this season from Floribunda arrived this afternoon and all are new trials for me. They all are BIG in their respective containers as is usual from this excellent vender. Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii Chamaedorea arenbergiana Chrysalidocarpus ‘Baby Red Stems’ Pinanga ‘Maroon Crown Shaft’ Anyone with personal experience with any of these, please comment.

Kentiopsis Oliviformis opened a new leaf today. Compared to some others on here, it looks to be more stretched out. It has no rings of trunk yet but it’s 10ft+ to the top of the frond. -dale

lilium yellow bruse

Last post was in October when it opened a leaf and it just opened another yesterday. It does seem to be getting faster as the last leaf took a whole year. It’s a super slow palm for me but it’s not dead so I’m stoked. The leaves holding look perfect too so that’s good. Not too impressive tho. -dale

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Chamaedorea elaitor

My (4) Kentiopsis are fruiting for 3-6 years now and some spots under them are wet and shady enough for volunteers. Overall height I estimate at 22-32' tall. They still are a few leaves short(~3-4) of a full crown(10-12 leaves) after Milton stripped them 18 months ago. Some have currently green fruits that will turn red in a couple months if restrictions are lifted and we can get them watered. They are water lovers, maybe its better they have less leaves in a drought. Trouble free palms that add the dark green crownshafts and leaves for a complementary look to the other crownshafts. These do like their Mg, K to stay that darker green color. I dust them along with my cuban copernicias with langbeinite every year and fertilize with florikan palm osmotic release fertilizer. They are so tall, I have to crank my neck to look at the crowns these days. They do provide some good filtered shade for the C. macrocarpas I have under them.

Moving towards heavy:

Livistona rigida, thanks @Jonathan👍🎁

Why not let volunteer orchids grow

Yellow Poinciana starting after looking like a stick tree:

Pseudophoenix vinifera at Mounts:

As a pioneer in the zone push department, I shall put another palm to the happypalms test. Having survived one winter already it’s had it’s fair share of cool weather temps down to 2 degrees celsius. So this little taker is set to change our views on how cool tolerant are orbicularis. Having already pushed the boundaries in zone pushing and finding new palms that are cool tolerant no matter what you read or hear. We shall see if it lives 🥶

Appreciate that, I was thinking the gravel would be a good way to go since it's seemed to work on all my other plants out here that need well draining soil. Everything you say about it is definitely true. Every desert plant I had that didn't have gravel died off while all of the ones that did grew huge and healthy over the years. Just finished putting gravel in all of them now. Thanks again for reaffirming I thought I was going crazy. Also went and marked them all with a marker to watch the growth.

Congratulations on your new digs. Looking forward to watching your progress over time.

Caryota mitis

An absolute perfect chamaedorea adscendans. They don’t get any better than this beauty!

Here’s a cross from Kevin Weaver I’ve never seen before. Should be pretty cool when older. Encephalartos Natalensis x Middelburgensis -dale

All will be good growers, the only one I have not grown is the pritchardia. And as for the rest they all have seen temperatures at 2 degrees celcius, so the zone pushing has been tested on all but the pritchardia. I have lost so many palms to cold weather over the years I have been pushing the boundaries in relation to cool weather, don’t look at as a experiment but as a win for your garden!

Obscenities screamed loudly.

None whatsoever on those. They are very nice looking palms and I’m sure , with your expertise , have a very good chance. You have the perfect environment in your garden . Now that my garden has matured a bit , I am venturing out as well. When my friend gets back from Japan , I will be getting my first FB order in . We are going in together on an order. Harry

Nice ones Jim! Have had an Aylmer-Robinsonii for a number of years. I sort of ignored that species name after reading Hodel’s Pritchardia book, in which he rolls it into remota. I was curious when FB resurrected that name, so I’m not sure what the latest genetic info shows. Anyway, for me it’s grown pretty well, with a very upright growth habit. I can’t tell you how many times I walked by it and think that it has a similar shape as as the “double coconut “, whose Latin name escapes me at the moment. Lovely palm, whatever it is, however. The Chamaedorea grows well here, as does the “baby red stems“. Would love to hear your experience with Pinanga maroon; would be great to have another one of that genus that actually survives here.

I got out the tape measure to see how long the inflorescence is. It was 54" long with only a few buds open.

A nice row of hookeri with almost three in a row putting on show.

Lagerstroemia speciosa or Queen's Crepe Myrtle:

When my large Wodyetia failed , I waited and it was tough to watch such a beautiful palm go through that. No identifiable reason for the failure . No frost , well draining soil , and 7-8 years of solid growth . Other palms in that area of the garden were fine . The Foxtail just decided to die , about 7’ of smooth trunk plus the crown. It looked pathetic for the last year but I thought I could save it. I tried different treatments over a 12 month period , nothing helped. By the time it was cut down , I was so frustrated . A few blocks away , a friend has a huge one is his front yard producing copious amounts of fruit with viable seeds. Nice palms , but finicky here. Harry

Great night to plant the clearance rack Washy…

Not the big island, only getting one leaf a year, and it's worth the wait....

I ordered a couple extra per interest. May go quick. These 3's are overgrown could be 7's. 120.00 for the JUBAUITA and 95.00 for the Trachycarpus both are rare and hard to find in this size. Willing to ship to most US states. The Butia x Jubaea (sometimes called "Jubutia") is a highly prized hybrid palm that crosses Butia odorata (Pindo Palm) with Jubaea chilensis (Chilean Wine Palm), combining the extreme cold hardiness of both parents. It features a massive, thick trunk and faster growth (hybrid vigor) than either parent, making it ideal for temperate climates, with hardiness often reaching down to \(10^{\circ }F\) Considered by Gibbons and Spanner to be the most elegant species of windmill palm, this Himalayan native will eventually reach 30' tall when very happy. Our offering is the Nepal Form of the species which has slightly smaller leaves and is far more cold hardy than normal. If you enjoy experimenting with new, possibly hardy palms, then this fast-growing windmill is a must.

Some decent rain after a dry spell is always welcome. You can water all day long with a hose, but the difference good rain makes you just can’t beat!

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A few more rhapis in the collection.chojuayahme ahyame kannonchikushima

Get your mate who’s in Japan to get you two of them for you. Unfortunately no seeds will be available with this variety of palm. Richard

Licuala pelata var sumowongii, super sun tolerant! Richard

To me all the hose does is keep them alive, but the nitrogen in the rainwater is the best fertigate system one can have. Richard

Would you like to know where to send your check?

Cassia fistula has had an underwhelming year. It did not lose its leaves:

Some of my Encephalartos growing in the front are pushing flushes, finally catching up with the rest of you in Southern California.

Simply spectacular. Plus new orange paint on the shovel. Ryan

Thought I’d throw in a couple of updated photos. Looking good as ever. They are now all over the garden. Tim

LOL I am currently watching a neighbor who had a broken irrigation system in sand. 4 royals are wasteing away even with our (NOT THIS YEARS) rains. They shrivel up from the grow point down. It takes a few years for them to come down. If you think aobut it and use Google AI's estimate of 63-64% water from an oil palm, it means 2/3rds of the weight can be lost in dessication. And it occurs from the top down so the tendency to topple shrinks with dessication/time. Ive also seen abandoned field nurseries where some royals waste away. The guy up the street has 3of 4 where the crownshafts are gone and the trunk is continuing to dry up and dissappear top down. I walk my dog by there everyday. As the thing dries out and loses height there will be less of a damage risk dropping it. I have thought about this a lot as I do have a fat royal with 25' of clear trunk. Its not a coke bottle so much. I'd say 28 in ch minimum trunk diameter with a max probably 5" more than that. A simple calculation on water weight is using water alone based on 64lb ft3 says that tree is 8000 lbs of water in the trunk with one third of that wood which is not counted in the weight. I would estimate 10,000 lbs for the trunk overall if wood is 0.8 the density of water and 33% the volume of the trunk. Who wants to chop down such a tree and then have to carry those 5 tons of wet trunk away? It could easily be 1/3rd of that weight and if you let it dry out and crumble you have mulch you can spread, and not have to carry away at all. Im still thinking about it for the day if it comes in my lifetime.

Looks like they are loving life in the shade. Here is one of my hookeri that popped two days ago. light passing through the leaf is flame Light back reflecting off the leaf transits different chemophore compartments(mostly epidermis) and is dark red

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 😆

As one would be aware of I just can’t get enough of this palm. An absolutely gorgeous palm. If I see one for sale, the dollars are thrown at it!

I finally planted this one out in August of 24 so just about 7 months in the ground. This area can flood so I mounded it up more than a foot, surrounded it with a liner I cut down and topped of with turface. It took a lot of sun last summer and didn’t hate it but it didn’t love it. Still has a lime green instead of the dark green it had in the pot.

Just like @TomJ says, this palm is painfully slow here in SoCal. It’s been slightly over a year since last post and I’m just getting a new spear. It doesn’t look good either but it’s not dead so I’m going to roll with it. -dale

Missed the latest posts in this thread, looking good everyone. Dale, back in the early 2000’s I had never even heard of this palm, available species were a bit limited, at least for a newbie like me. Yours looks like the type, with the new colored leaf. You know, mine used to throw the new red/orange leaf, but it’s been awhile since it’s done that. I wonder if I’ve just missed it or if the palm grows out of that stage. I’ve posted these photos before, somewhere on PT, but here they are again. Tim