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Yeah. Never go back to your old property I reckon. It’s torture. On a brighter note by Beccariophoenix alfredii are doing well. They’re a great species for down here. I’ve got plans to plant more. I’ve got some bursting out of 45L pots waiting for me to get the soil levels right in new areas. I hope I can get my Roystonea regia to take. Maybe I’ll put rocks around the base to soak up the summer heat and radiate back at night to try and keep soil temps high.

Think I planted 3 in 2005 not realizing they were clumping. One clump died some years ago. Growing NICELY here and even some seedlings popping up. Pictures are from 2009 and 2022

This one is a native Floridian orchid growing on one of my Christmas palms. It always sends out a huge display mid May through June. Mixed in is a bromeliad compacta which self attached to the tree from the ground. It's all at eye level so maybe 5 feet from the soil. I always look forward to the display. Gets bigger every year.

Hanging leaf base leftover from a hurricane snapped frond. Also growing out of a little frost/freeze damage from this winter. Probably one of my favorite palms for sure. Photo taken this evening.

I got one too. This one is 2 years from germination. I planted it last fall. I collected the seed in Phoenix, AZ in Jan 2024.

After trimming some tall fan palms day before yesterday I was greeted with a boom late last night as the rain came down. Its more like w whumpff! One of my mature royals decided to release a leaf with a wet crownshaft. The leaf stem and leaflets were completely dry, but the massive crownshaft was quite wet and heavy. Seeing it there on the ground I was grateful I didn't have to trim that sucker from below! So I went out to see it in the morning and took a pic with Adirondack chair for scale The palm is a fattie for a royal and is approaching full recovery from hurricane Milton in oct 2024. The older these royals get the more I appreciate the self shedding, saves me being on a ladder underneath. These royals cost me $160 each with delivery and 90 for planting (each) with a bobcat. They had 3-4' trunk in late 2011 as delivered. We are aware when a leaf dries out or even looks half dried out and avoid being under them at that time. Credit florida weather and a popup automatic irrigation system for its appearance, I don't really put too much care into them! Its nice to have something bullet proof and low maintenance. Most of the time they dont drop with a heavy wet crownshaft but when they do its like what I imagine a big dinosaur sound like with the heavy footfall. I have two large royals, this is the smaller of the two and they are enough for me. Warning! You should be able to see why you should not have these in a place where you walk (or sit) regularly like a front yard path to the front door. And if you park a car under one like this, expect a big body shop repair bill as it is about 50-60 lbs falling frm 25+ feet.

8 Zamia inermis seedlings- hand pollinated, completely unarmed, my large plants survived 27F here with no damage. $60 for all 8 plus Shipping, Box, & Spaghum moss.Beachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Only had 2 out of 3 planted Washingtonias survive over the winter. Here is the growth difference from a year and two months ago. Palms are thriving even after almost complete defoliation. The last picture shows the one that died in the front with the other two that lived behind it, picture taken after winter ended. I was very impressed with the resiliance and growth speed of these palms. They grew back almost full frond heads after a few months of freezing weather going away.

Can you identify the gender of those flowers? Petals seem still closed but I am not sure if I will be nearby during actual anthesis.

Pembanas get big. These were planted about 15 years ago from 1 or 2 gallon pots.

I saw one but stayed away, I tried but it started pouring rain and thundering so much I couldn’t see more then 15 feet so we turned back. I will be back and am not giving up. lol it was nice to see the palms around atleast and found a wild patch of thrachys and some other cool plants. Sorry about that.

The Roystonia Oleracae is a better alternative to the Regia , in areas that can grow them . The fronds are no more deadly than a large Archontophoenix. True , not quite the statement as a Regia , but very nice looking palm with a more slender trunk . They are , as our friend @DoomsDave says , “swamp things” . Meaning they love tons of water . Harry

Paging @happypalms ! He , as well as others , can tell you instantly . Harry

I am so happy for you ! It is rewarding to bring palms back from distress. I hope that white tissue turns to new growth . I have learned a lot from reading your posts , in particular , about nutrients . You have helped several of us through our growing maladies. Thank you . Harry

Off topic …but now that you bring it up , it is cool to have “the world at our fingertips tips” but it comes with responsibility . I like having a camera with me at all times with no film to mess with . I also see the dark side to it all. My daughter can’t imagine how we survived without technology!! Having things like Palm Talk to communicate with people like you is worth the negative side of tech. Frond friends , Harry

The local government councils put large cable ties on the ones in public parks and gardens, too avoid any law suits and for public safety.

With the electric companies doing vegetation removal around the powerlines, it was time for a talk to the contractors on getting a bit of mulch from them. With winter almost upon the southern hemisphere it’s time for a winter blanket. This should help keep the roots warm and retain some moisture and give the new palms a bit of a feed. A handful of chicken pellets and a good top dressing of mulch this should help the new plantings get set up for summer.

Tip of the iceberg…

If the wife is onboard that’s the hardest d part done with🤣 Iam sure a weekend of potting up and a good dose of Harry’s love will soon see them being planted in the ground. The new updates are great, palmmod iam sure has enough bombshells of this is not working we’re is this and this is too slow. There doing a great job, iam no computer boffin and what is copy and paste! I know I can grow palms and that’s all need to know for now, the computer world has been forced onto us by governments so they can save money. I appreciate saving a tree from the paper pulp mill, but not everyone has the skills for computers, yes you can learn and everything I do learn about a computer I forget if iam not doing it to remember. We never had computers at school like a lot of us. Richard

I germinated some at room temperature, never stratified. They took a long time and germination was sporadic. The seedlings grew incredibly slowly and eventually I ended up with no plants but only started with a very few seeds - less than 10 of which maybe 4 germinated.

@Harry’s Palms there are a few surviving Foxtails in the area. I've been watching a bunch in nearby neighborhoods. Some were chopped down in March and April, but a few others appear to be growing new spears. It sure looks like the cold death threshold is somewhere around 25 or so. Speaking of that, my mutant Whole Leaf/Idolatrica Elaeis Guineensis has pushed two stubs and two new fronds! These are small and a little damaged, but a good start on what (hopefully) will be a recovery in the summer. I hadn't trunk cut my front yard Beccariophoenix Fenestralis, but over the past 2 weeks the remaining green in the inner crown turned brown. So today I trunk cut the top to expose some white tissue. Here's before: And afterwards: There's white bits of what looks like 3 spears, but surrounded by the rotten remains of three other dead stubs. I did a couple of BIG pours of hydrogen peroxide with the expected bubbling up into a foamy mess. It doesn't smell rotten like a McDonalds dumpster, so I'm hoping it has a chance too. I'm going to keep up the H2O2 and Daconil and see if anything moves.

Looks like a nasty case of boron deficiency to me. I have no idea how you would treat it, but maybe @Merlynwould know. Good luck, and welcome to Palmtalk!

Interesting reading about everyone's experiences in different locales, and also the differences between the species. Here in San Diego, I have a couple of borinquenas that are glorious. Although they're big palms, the base's don't seem to get those massive proportions that I've seen on regia. On the other hand my neighbor & I got a couple of princeps from Floribunda years ago because we'd heard that they have more slender proportions. Ah, no; at least assuming that they are the real deal. They're much thicker palms from top to bottom.

I have some pictures that I took a few days ago. I'm growing 3 Filiferas. The two in the backyard seem to finally grow faster after being in the ground for three years. The one in front, I grew from seed, grows way faster and has been in the ground only for two years.

So get things moving heres a tray of Adonidia dransfeildia! in pots

Purchased this as pembana years ago as a one gallon. Probably in ground for 10 years. Trunk height about 7 to 8 feet to bottom of tallest crownshaft. OA maybe 12 feet. Almost a teal color trunk. Flared base. Size 11 shoe for scale. Tristichous growth pattern to leaves. Small red fruits when ripe. Which is it? Cabadae or pembana? I heard that pembana is larger in all aspects and faster growing with less trunks. Just want to be sure. I don't have a cabadae to compare it to. Just doesn't seem as overly large to me being pembana as I would assume. Thanks for any help. Garrett

Before I had my land I was renting, so I learnt how to container garden. I used to arrange my container plants around like a miniature tropical garden. It was fun and helped me learn about growing. For containers soil is the key!

I figured that most of your cycads would come back. Most green Encephalartos and Macrozamia survive here in Austin, but I’ve found them too slow to flush to keep in ground. Atleast with our recent winters they never achieve a normal looking appearance . Cycas taitungensis and panzihuaensis are fast enough though . I’ve tested just about every Dioon and it’s pretty much angustfolium and certain localities edule that will handle mid teens and lower. I’ve had half my merolae and surprisingly one holmgrenii recover . I had high hopes for vovidisii but all 3 I tested died. Too expensive to try again. Every other species is 9A or 9B at best . I impressed by the hardiness of your Copernicia , that’s got to be good feeling after an apocalyptic winter.

The entire I-4 corridor is running their yards on natural selection this year. Hope the Beccariophoenix fenestralis makes it.

I’d say that’s a pembana, @Cape Garrett ! They kinda sit awhile then EXPLODE in height. Here’s some of mine after about 10-15 years in the ground.

@Rtwilson8 welcome to Palmtalk! As @JLM mentioned, a Boron deficiency is a possibility. Transient or long-term deficiency does cause some bent crowns and distorted new growth. "Hook leaf" and "accordion leaf" are some of the early signs. It can kill a palm, but generally just makes it grow ugly and slow. You can see some photos and a good description here: Ask IFAS - Powered by EDISENH1012/EP264: Boron Deficiency in PalmsLosing a bunch of them to a disease quickly sounds like it might be something like Thielaviopsis. That's a disease generally in the upper trunk, and is easily spread by pruning tools and into any open wounds. I had some Christmas palms years ago and they caught it after a bad freeze. Over the summer they eventually quit growing and the top fell off one. When I cut them down the top part of the trunk was a dry-ish brown fungal mess inside: Sometimes the top half will look brown and rotted, but the lower part of the trunk is still white inside. This happened to me with some Queens a while back. This is about 3 feet below the crown on a ~15' tall queen, with discolored brown splotches. Another 2 feet down and it looked pristine white/tan in the trunk: Thielaviopsis can sometimes cause the upper trunk to "bleed" liquid/sap down the side of the trunk. If you saw "bleeding" or the top few feet disintegrated inside, then Thielaviopsis is a likely culprit: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP143 Another possibility is a bud rot, usually caused by Phytophthora. That can fairly quickly kill a palm, and can cause the top to just fall off on crownshafted palms like Christmas, Kings, Bottles, Spindles, etc. Bud rots are curable in some cases. You'd also see screwed up new fronds, with visible damage and really slow growth, if at all. A bud rot usually smells like the inside of a McDonald's dumpster during a nice hot summer. If there's a bud rot you'd be able to tell... :D https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/PP144 The last common disease is Ganoderma, a rot of the lower trunk. It's also incurable and fatal, and sometimes shows a mushroom conk on the side near ground level. https://idtools.org/palm_symptoms/index.cfm?packageID=1111&entityID=3320 Let us know if any of the above seem to fit your palm problems.

Wallichia densifolia new leaf, and the Chambeyronia off in the distance. And a nice bit of colour with the Chambeyronia, dypsis cabadae and archontophoenix purperea!

Beautiful royal, well done! The big crownshaft makes me think of some of my big Chyrsalidocarpus (Dypsis) but the bases of the fronds are hard, like wood. I move them out of sight, then let them dry up for a while before I can drag them away to the compost heap.

Wodyetia bifurcata, a new genus for my collection. I was able to germinate one seed. My friend and I germinated the rest. It's a subtribe of Ptychospermatinae. These palms have caryota-like leaves. I like them a lot, as their leaves are more feathery than those of Syagrus romanzoffiana, which is also a beautiful palm. And luckily, it's in my collection. 🌴🌴🌴🦜🦜

Just keep your eyes open for water moccasins.

You’re definitely warmer than my area! Great recovery!

While definitely not something that would get as large as say Bauhinia purpurata or variegata can, " More tree -like " vs " more large shrub -like " appearance is often influenced by factors like water availability and humidity < What i've noticed in all the specimens i've seen here anyway > ..and how it is trained of course < Held down by regular trimming, vs. encouraged to grow taller.. > Pink flowered specimen i see regularly enough seems to be naturally denser / shorter than the standard white form. " Patio -tree " -sized now though. ..If anything, the taller, tree -esque specimens would resemble something like a Western or AZ Redbud ( Yes, we have our own Cercis sp also ) .. ....Generally airy and not too dense of a canopy ..and generally topping out somewhere between 8 to 15ft, under ideal conditions / handling. Spectacular when in flower though obviously, just like Cercis. Ideal humidity and plentiful warm season rainfall = Imagine it would attain the taller end of the size spectrum in FL, much like TX. Olive can.

This is Bauhinia monandra which is native to Guatemala. My plant is just beginning to leaf out again after winter so the pics are from past years. It blooms from April to December and only grows to about 8'.

Such a nice palm. Seems underrated in cultivation and has a lot of desirable traits; not too large, neat habit and striking silver abaxial surfaces. I suspect slow growth put off many.

Dypsis cabadae planted 27 years ago in a 1 gallon container. 25 + ft looking down on the 🥭 mango tree 🌳

Mine was a pretty big group before my Silky Saw got involved. I bought it knowing I wanted to cut it up so I had no intention on saving anything besides a couple of the biggest “trunks”. I left a pretty big rootball and just cut the offspring off at the base and left the roots. This likely ensured the ones left had ample roots. If it was just planted, it’ll be able to dig pretty easy. I’ve moved things that were in the ground for nearly 6 months with no ill effect. If you don’t separate, it will continue to clump heavily. That’s not the look I wanted for that location. -dale

@EmarohlI think the leaves are too wide to be Lutescens. It looks like my young Pembana, but could also be Lanceolata. I really don't know how to tell them apart at this size.

I just purchased this dypsis pembana recently and I’m wondering whether that’s what this really is. The petioles on some of them look green like d. pembana but some of them look yellow like d. lutescens. Is it maybe a combination of the two in the same pot?

Dypsis pembana seedling goes outside...

Of the clumping Dypsis species I'm growing, Dypsis pembana has been both the fastest and largest in terms of trunk diameters and in overall height. I have one D onilahensis which has been faster in gaining height, but don't think it will ultimately get as large as tall as the pembanas and definitely has a narrower gauge trunk than any of the pembanas. The only thing that has been slow about the Dypsis pembanas I have grown is their size and age to flower. I have had stunted inflorescence but this year one of my solitary is actually producing flowers after a decade in the ground from a 7 gallon size.

Two pembana babies. One red one green. Same batch of seed from same mother. Ponder that.

They grow fast here in Florida, here is one of mine (far left). This is a years growth, it would have been even faster but I moved all my palms, including this one from Cape Coral to St Pete last summer so they had some transplant shock.

Yes. Pembana clusters less, gets larger and is much more robust and cold hardier than either cabadae or lanceolata.

Here on O`ahu's dry side planted back in 2005 from one gallon pots. I think I put two potted plants in the ground.