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The garden is 15 years old and my climate is cool humid oceanic and frost free with little extremes of temperature. All the Lord Howe Island palms and cloud forest palms grow like escapees in the ground.

Trimming some overgrown accent plants and weeds, I noticed a loose leaf base. A little tug, and I screamed! 😱 An actual ring on the trunk was revealed. Just have to share. These palms survived toxic gasses from volcanic eruption, as well as the neglect of an absentee gardener. Oh! My heart be still! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

One of my Beccariophoenix alfredii (16 years old since germination) growing in Tibagi , 2nd tableland of Paraná, southern Brazil

I sold Palmpedia several months ago to someone who has the resources and passion to keep it going. It became too much for me alone to continue and provide the time and expense to do it justice. The new owner is an IPS Member, and a long time lurker on PalmTalk. He is a terrific guy, capable businessman, and a palm/plant lover. I think it is a good fit, and the future of the site is in better hands now that he is involved. Give him time, and I expect many more improvements. Thanks to all those who provided financial and emotional support during its creation and almost 20 year run so far. I too use the site often, and hope to for another 20 years.

Got an opportunity to stop by Jim's garden over the weekend. I enjoyed taking some of these photos, despite the difficult lighting conditions (bright highlights, dark shadows). Did a little post processing work to bring these photos to life. Hope you like them. Click the link to view the album. https://photos.app.goo.gl/GneVpq1VwwjRpdYr8

But I noticed it has "earned" the pet name I gave to Jubeas years ago when I first saw large trunking ones... Mine today.

Here is my Hedyscepe canturburyana Grown from seed germinated in 2010 collected from Pogobob garden in San Clemente Ca. It's an easy grow in my cool humid oceanic climate record low in the garden 31f record high 96f

Today is the Sunday before Easter, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and people hailed his arrival by cutting leaves off palm trees and dropping them in the roadway. Hence Palm Sunday. I remember when I was a kid going to church and we'd get these little crosses made of what looked like leaflets from Sabal leaves, tied into a neat bow. But, here, every Sunday is Palm Sunday and wishing all of you a happy Easter. And a happy palmy Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And, show us some palm pictures! We won't say too many palms, or palms're ugly . . .

Just letting leafbases fall off, this one went into the ground august 2010 as a just going pinnate 3 gallon and was burned just about to the ground in the 2010 dec cold event with heavy frost(28Fx2 plus frost). The adirondack chair is 30" wide at the handrests. The distance from house to black fence at the border is 35'. that is about the width of the palm. This is one year out from hurricane IAN which spread out the previous more upright form. By comparison my 30' bismarckia is about 25' wide. I have two others planted same size same time in less than full sun and the are no more than 2/3rds the size of this one in all day sun. They do grow notably slower/smaller in shade it seems.

This is me in front of @Matt in SD’s fat and happy Parajubaea torallyi torallyi and an even fatter Sabal.

Was meandering through the garden today when I noticed the Dictyocaryum had shed a leaf and was almost glowing blue.

And today…

Hi everyone ! Since I get precious advices and great pictures from old post I though I should introduce myself. I live in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. I have bought my house 3 years ago with a totally virgin garden, and have been planting since. I am lucky to have nice weather for palm tree, and have been able to have 40+ species. Most of them a young, started from seedling, or even from the seeds. Here are some pictures of my garden, hope you like it.

C. hovomantsina revealed the pale yellow band that will eventually turn green. The very next day, Lemurophoenix halleuxii dropped a frond to spectacular effect. Photos were taken within an hour or two of the event, allowing capture of the saturated colors. Got some color? Show it off here!

I’m wondering when this leaf will be green. It emerged in mid November and here we are the second week of February and it’s still red! Getting close to three months! This is a young C. macrocarpa. Nov. 18 Nov. 27 Dec. 22 Dec. 28 Jan. 8 Jan. 18 Jan. 30 Feb. 8 Starting to show some green.

I was overseas for a month and returned to a pleasant surprise !

Today, a new palm genus from Vitenam,Truongsonia lecongkietii, was published. This new palm is so peculiar that it required not only a new genus, but also a new tribe in the classification of palms (Truongsonieae) to accommodate it. Most extrpardinarily, its closest relative is the African genus Podococcus! It may be diminutive and unspectacular, but botanically it is even more remarkable than the discovery of Tahina (personal opinion, of course - I realise that this is heresy!) Unfortunately, only 10-15 plants are known in the wild, rendering it Critically Endangered. You can follow the link below to freely download the full article pdf, which is heavily illustrated for photographs. https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.613.3.1

The late Richard Douglas, past president of the IPS.

Hi everybody. A long time since I posted here, but I always remember you all ( thanks Jeff) and the nice and sometimes deep level " talks" on this fora. Yes, I'm still in palms. 😀. Posting sometimes on Facebook. Inspired by the Huntingtons Garden, that I saw years ago, I'm working hard to finish my garden with succulents, cactus, bromeliads , cycads and others. Still looking for some palms like Brahea decumbens, the real Ravenea glauca, Ravenea cycadifolia, etc. Some pics of the garden this week ( it''s dry lately)

Palms around San Diego, CA! Highlight was definitely the Corypha umbraculifera. The owner was kind enough to investigate the strangers outside admiring his garden, and he states that he bought it as a seedling 25 years ago at Huntington Botanical Gardens and that he treats it against weevils every 4 months, as the weevils have unfortunately claimed a few of his palms already, including a 40 foot Bismarckia.

Going into it's 7th year with over 60 palms in relatively cold 7A! Here is some transformation photos/video 2018 (Front corner) 2022 (Front corner) 2017 (Back side) 2022 (Back side) 2017 (Side corner) 2022 (Side corner) 2019 (House edge) 2022 (House edge) 2020 (Rear side) 2022 (Rear side) 2019 (Side path) 2022 (Side path) 2016 2022

Gathered up a quick hunard nutz

Back in late 2022 Hurricane Ian tore all our gardens apart. We lost dozens and dozens of palms and tropical trees and continue to lose others almost two years later. Members of PT generously donated replacement palms for which I will be eternally grateful. We lost 80%+ of our shade canopy - it's returning, but slowly. Early in 2023, my husband's lymphoma returned but this time did not respond to chemo. He became very sick and we were unable lay mulch, fertilize or plant. Our usual rainy season was replaced by record heat and drought. By midsummer he was accepted into Moffitt Cancer Center for CART treatment using his own engineered cells. We spent most of last fall living in Airbnbs while he was hospitalized for weeks.When we finally moved home I was his sole caretaker for the following 6 months. The winter was wet, sunless and chilly and I couldn't work in the yard until April. But starting a few weeks ago we were well enough to contemplate whether we could tackle yard work again. We bought multiple pallets of mulch and paid several people to spread it. We also bought about a dozen bags of time release fertilizer and managed to spread it before the mulch. I have also been repotting Aspidistras and investigating potted philodendrons. It's still something of a struggle finding shady areas to place them. We have palm seedlings we germinated as replacements for the many dead/dying palms. But the weather has turned hot and dry so we don't dare plant anything outside the irrigation zone for fear it will be burned to a crisp by sun and lack of rain. Planting will have to wait until at least mid-June. As I have posted few, perhaps no, yard photos for the past year +, yesterday I snapped some shots of our back yard jungle and part of the Garden Lot. First up: A few background photos Back Yard Jungle from the East Back Yard Jungle & Rhapis laosensis looking east Cocos nucifera looking SE in Back Yard Jungle Back Yard Jungle looking east Jungle Palms Areca catechu Semi-Dwarf Hydriastele beguinii 'Obi Island' Howea belmoreana Attalea butyracea 'Mutant Leaf' Howea forsteriana Ravenea julietiae Golden Adonidia merrillii Chambeyronia houailou Carpoxylon macrospermum Syagrus schizophylla Licuala rumphii i Large Cocos nucifera in Back Yard Jungle More photos tomorrow. Enjoy

Last summer I visited the northern part of Lake Norman, and was surprised at the large number of palms in the area. I always thought north of Charlotte and you might see occasional windmills, but I found a surprising number of other palms too. These are all in Western Mooresville (near where 150 goes to the bridge) and Sherrills Ford. Heres a video i made showing some of these, as well as more I couldn't get good photographs of. By far the most popular was windmills, on some roads they were the sole palm used, some look like they've been there a while. Next up, the Sabals. Surprisingly I found a fair number of mature established Sabal Palmetto, Across the street, some naturalizing Palmetto left to grow. Mixture of a Palmetto, Needle palm and Trachycarpus Sabal minor while less popular, was present including some large specamins, Needles, also not so common though I happened upon a very large double clump mixed with Musa Basjoo Among other palms, I only happened upon a single, small Butia. A single small European Fan Palm Few Sagos mixed in, More Windmills, Saw a fair amount of Cordylines in the area, none very big this a typical sized one Interesting assortment of Prickly Pear, and trunking Yucca species Hope you all enjoyed

Like the title says I’m posting these as dypsis jurassic park and dypsis decipiens despite the name change . Jurassic park came from jd andersen as jurassic park had it in a 55 gallon trash can for the last 2 years . Dypsis decipiens came from Perry glen . Planted these today man it feels good to get these in the ground

This is the first area that was planted out about 2 - 2.5 years ago. Filling in nicely and several palms are now seeding. Last picture for now is of an incredible sunset from a couple of weeks ago. Thanks for looking.

My last property update was in 2021, so I thought it was time to do a recent update, which I made last month (October). There's nothing special about my palm garden, nothing really exotic as I'm limited by my zone 9b climate. The past two winters it dipped to about 30 degrees F for one night each winter, so in essence I'm right on the 9b/10a border. But three winters ago it dipped to 27 degrees at sun up for one day. My coconut palm got some burn that winter. I don't think my garden saw anything lower than 27 degrees F since December of 2010 when I recorded my all-time lowest temperature of 20.7 degrees on a radiational cooling night. I don't think my garden (in the past 25 years) had ever been damaged by an advective freeze, as the lowest advective freeze I had, my open yard temperature was just above 29 degrees F with no frost (no frost is the key). Without exception all my devastating freezes were radiational with heavy frost. During the above devastating freezes I used to protect (to at least some degree) my most cold/frost sensitive palms. Because of my age (75-years-old) and suffering from an aggressive form of prostate cancer -- and just recently came down with Rheumatoid arthritis in both shoulder and hands -- it's become too difficult to protect my cold sensitive palms like I once did. Even if I were younger and in better shape it would be hard to protect many of my palms because they are now too tall. Hopefully, I will have another relatively mild winter and my palms will receive little or no damage. In any event, click on the link and check things out. I'm located 2 miles N.E. of the small town of Lake Placid, Florida.

My parajubaea cocoides was grown from seed in 2010 seed from Darold Petty garden San Francisco. Once it developed fully pinnate leaves the growth rate increased exponentially

“She’s” been very productive lately.

I thought I’d start this thread to document the growth of my palms/trees. Some are flourishing and I think it’s worth recording their progress over time. My Archontophoenix are in this photo. The one on the left was purchased from Frank Tintera that at he grew from seed. The parent palm was one of his fastest growing and he believed it was an A myolensis. It’s was planted as a 3g 3 years ago and has flourished. The archontophoenix on the right was just planted as a 7g a couple months ago. It’s some sort of alexandrae x cunninghamiana hybrid I purchased from @eaperture67, and he purchased the parent palms from @Mike Evans. The Hong Kong orchid is killing it. Planted as a 3g about 3yrs ago and it’s just thriving here. Below is my lytocaryum hoenie, planted about 2yrs ago as a 3g. It’s hanging in there, but not a good performer this far. It probably needs more water than it’s getting. Beccariophoenix alfredii is killing it, as expected. 3yrs in ground from a 7g. Also from Frank. My two majesties are flourishing too. They were planted 1 year ago as 3g palms. Tipuana tipu doing amazing. It came in the mail as a 5’ 1g. After 3yrs in ground it’s about 20ft tall; simply amazing. It’s been zero fuss, I highly recommend them. Lady Palm, just planted. Thrinax radiata, 3yrs in ground from a 2g. It took awhile to get established, but it’s doing great now.

This catches my eye everyday. Big smiley face. Tim

Some nice colors this morning on these guys.

Pinangas like my growing conditions and after a few years in the ground I am getting flowers. Pinanga sp. Thai mottled showed some beauty rivaling my orchids today and so nice low to the ground. Please add your favorite palm flower portraits.

I planted 24 Jubaea seeds in 1982, two of which finally made it from sprouts to pots to planting outdoors next to my driveway. For 35 years they slowly grew into big bushes and finally in 2011 starting showing signs of what I hoped to be a trunk emerging. Then in 2012 a trunk began to appear, first picture. Then in 2015 while visiting a nursery I saw up on their photo board a picture of my home and the two palms. Four years later when searching on the web for Palms in Brookings I saw the same picture from the Nursery posted in Palm Society where discussion circulated as to where these two palms were. There was speculation but many wanted to know so I took some pictures, joined Palm Socieity and posted new pictures of same two Jubaea. Today the two I planted from seed are second Picture taken Jan 6, 2024.

As of today, the Buticocos nathanii is growing well. Looking forward to seeing it develop.

Boy, that’s a tough ask! My all time favorite Madagascar palm is by far, Lemurophoenix, but as far as Crysalidocarpus, (Dypsis), I’m currently amazed by C. hovomantsina. As it matures, it’s becoming a magnificent palm particularly when it drops a leaf sheath. After sulking silently for awhile, it lost a sheath in mid September and then another yesterday. What a sight. Tim

Lady’s crystalline voice: “What’s it all about, Alfie?” Booming macho basso: “It’s about getting enormous across the base and taking forever to make a trunk.” The shoe is 13” long, 30 cm.

A rose is a rose is a rose. A Mealy Bug is a Dypsis is a Chrysalidocarpus. This C. mananjarensis making a nice addition to the garden.

Hello All This being my first post into this great forum, let me introduce myself Enrique Vega, located north of Sacramento Area in a city called Lincoln 9b. The Sacramento area in General is a little colder than most of South Ca but not that extreme, we do not get Snow but we do get very prolonged winters and extreme heat, that reduces drastically from species that would survive in San Diego, LA or even San Francisco Bay Area. But that did not stop me from trying and experimenting to see what can be grown in this area. So I decided to experiment a little with some Species that I know upfront will not survive in 9B Zone. The species I know will not have issues in my zone are the normal and common everywhere Queen Palms, Pindo Palms, Canary, King Palm, Robellini, Mexican Fan Palm, Windmill and some others. So after researching in the Forum and other sources I came to know that the species I wanted to try have zero chances of survival in this zone but I still wanted to try against all the odds, and there you have me trying alternative ways to plant and care Tropical Trees pushing the zone to the extreme. So far I was able to make a Coco Red Spicata Survive along with two Royals, and also got some other species that got too damaged in the winter but still survived. I will share my experience and findings on how to make tropical palm trees survive in this kind of zones. That will be shared in a different thread.

Finally got a little time to do some palm shopping….. went up to Caribbean Palms Nursery to pick up a few things. Got 3 Gaussia princeps with their massive roots busting out… Two more C. miraguama roseocarpa to make a little threesome out of the one I planted… A nice little Coccothrinax crinita ssp brevicus to plug in somewhere…. Along with a little macro glossy azul… Picked up another Allogapterra arenaria for out front…. He’s got many big ones in the ground there… Wasn’t planning on these, but got two nice little Leucothrinax morrisii. Was excited to grab these. Also got a trio of Coccothrinax miraguama ssp miraguama to make a little group. Grabbed two bigger Pseudophoenix Sargentii ssp saonea to add to me ever growing collection of Pseudophoenix…. Found a stumpy little silver Serenoa repans that I couldn’t resist also. And some mail order baby coonties arrived today from Etsy also….. Mike also had a lot of nice stuff to see around the property, so enjoy just a few shots…. Man, I’ve got a lot of holes to dig now…. And it’s hot and sunny out there….

@richtrav told me about an old/tall Brahea armata growing on the Southside of San Antonio, Texas. I had a meeting at Lackland AFB this morning, so I decided to stop by ahead of time and have a look for myself. It is nestled amongst a larger planting of tall Sabal mexicana. A very nice looking specimen with great color.

Driving Northward through Botswana from South Africa I started noticing the first Hypheane in Gaberone. The next sightings were further North at Francistown and from there regularly northward to Chobe where I am today.

I walked the Garden Lot around noon today and the heat and swelter were overbearing. I noticed my juvenile Tahina spectabilis has sent up several pristine leaves after growing little in summer 2023 or winter 2024. During Hurricane Ian in 2022 it was crushed by falling Livistonas and Bismarckias. I really thought it was a goner but gradually it produced leaves again from its underground meristem. Summer 2023 was hot and drought-stricken. We got less rain that rainy season than we got the previous winter. Winter 2024 was chilly, cloudy (94+ days of clouds) and wet - just what tropical palms hate and mine limped into spring with a lot of yellow cold-spotted leaves. But since the heat and normal rainfall have returned my beleaguered palms are happily growing again, my lone Tahina included Tahina spectabilis, Cape Coral, FL, July 2024

Well dreams come true and I finally got the chance to visit this legendary garden on the big island of Hawaii! I feel like the majority of the palms I saw were firsts for me! Click here for all of the photos with labels Sclerosperma walkers Masoala madagascriensis Ravenea musicalis Areca gurita Geonoma atrovirens Manicaria saccifera

I knew they were supposed to be slow, but after 12 years from a "small above the soil" 5 gallon my bailey has weathered 2 hurricane force wind events and a resulting spear mold infection that took 2 years to fully eradicate. IRMA had the worst hurricane damage by far, newer leaves cut the older ones up good with petiole thorns. It had half the leaves shredded on the windward side. Currently its 4-5 leaves short of a full crown but its growing quickly now. Three pics: august 2011 6 months after planting showing a new flush of leaves. Second pic 2017 just prior to iRMA and last pic today sept 4 2023. By comparison with the peak of the house roof of 16', it looks to be 2-3 foot taller overall so a few feet shy of 20', and just about 7' of trunk. I could tear the leafbases off with my hand but allowing them to fall off naturally leads to a more smooth trunk. The first 4 feet of leafbases are loosely held, a smooth trunk awaits in the near future. Annual growth in height and numbers of leaves increases as the palm matures so a slow start does not mean its slow in a 12 year scale. I'd say its a medium grower.