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This small Ceroxylon amazonicum was planted out as a 4” liner up here in Northern CA a few years ago. Seems happy enough but so slow. Who else is growing this species and please post photos. My fastest growing Ceroxylon is C. alpinum and looks close to showing some real trunk soon. C. amazonicum C. amazonicum

Pinanga baviensis I think it’s spelled that way . I love this palm

My Coccothrinax borhidiana hybrid really stood out to me yesterday and this morning.

Parajubaea totallyi next to Queen palm trunks Archontophoenix ‘Illawara’ Brahea edulis

I also did finally build that patio cover. It took 4 days but well worth it and the kiddos like it too. It sure does spice up the backyard as opposed to how open it was when I tore down the old one. Hope it lasts at least 5 years. Fingers crossed on that too. Also a great pic of not a palm but cycad. My bluest of my blue showing excellent contrast against all the green. Wife is actually starting to really like how the garden is coming along with all the mature palms and cycads.

Great topic! There is a place just outside Key Largo that got into Copernicia’s and Borassus’s almost contemporaneously with Fairchild. Some of these palms have been posted in previous threads:

I finally the trip to @DoomsDave to see his place and bring home some palms that I really wasn’t looking for but really wanted once I saw. Thank you Dave for showing us around your incredible collection and being so patient with all my questions , my wife and I had a great time. Dave’s place is as close to a Southern California jungle that I have ever seen. I went there with no real expectations as far as what I was going to come home with I just wandered through while I looked some examples and made my choices. He has various sizes for just about any budget with many , many varieties. I did not take any pictures , unfortunately , as it was my first trip down there. I plan to return with a fellow palm collector and maybe I will take some pics then. There are some very nice mature palms that are just monsters , including a very large Licuala that was very happy! So on my first trip I ended up with a few different Dypsis / Chrysalidocarpus, Kentiopsis , Pyroformis , Rhopalostylus Baueri var. Cheesemania , a small Arenga Engleri for a friend and a couple Chamaedorea Ernesto Augusti. Some pics of my acquisitions. Harry

Full photo of the palm posted earlier. The biggest I've seen. I think it would have garden potential. Growing at 950m. Back to Miri tomorrow. Lambir Hills NP on my agenda...

A few more. Quite the haul , Harry

I have a Brahea armata I grew from seed with a rather robust trunk. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Allagoptera arenaria: Syagrus comosa (PalmatierMeg)

I've been waiting a couple of years to plant this one out. It's been in the greenhouse for a couple of years and I received it pretty small. In any case, this Kentiopsis (still sounds weird) 'Houailou' is in a very deep spot in my canopy. Ironically, there is a Kentiopsis Oiviformis right next to it as you can see from the first photo. Fingers crossed that it makes it. The great thing about an older garden is all the canopy I have created and now I can try to push the zones even more in my 9b garden.

Stealing @Xenon's idea here though it is truly summer now! 😇 Excited about the planting of a Sabal Causiarum x Palmetto hybrid (off-spring of the 'Megatron' palm, as I understand). Thanks to @Sabal King for helping spread these genetics. Here's to a long life!

A tiny fraction of what was growing in this amazing garden, but that’s it for now folks, hope you enjoy the thread.

The tallest examples of Linospadix monostachyos I’ve ever come across. I didn’t takes pictures of the largest specimens as my IPhone just wasn’t up to the job, but I’d say some of them were at least 6-7 metres tall, and they were everywhere. Also an abundance of Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, Calamus muelleri, and a small stand of Lepidozamia peroffskyana. Brush-tailed Rock Wallabies all over the joint, but too quick for me to get a shot.

This washingtonia (I presume?) is from streetview as some absolute turkeys removed this beast recently! And the delicious naan wrap shop behind it is gone too.

A few plants in the garden

I don't have many cycads in my yard but this one is my bluest of my blues. It just contrast so well with the greenery around it.

so i had to tear down my old patio cover and so with that, my backyard has never seen so much sunlight. this will be short-lived since a new patio cover is going up next week but just had to post a pic of our palmy oasis in the desert. please excuse the dirty patio concrete slab ... that will be power-washed next week as well. 😁

Some trunks come out nice and smooth and dont have a taper or bulge down low. Copernicia fallaensis is one of those palms: Mine has a 28* diameter trunk based on ~ 88" perimeter(88/pi). Sorry about the crooked pic in #2, sometimes the moire-like leaflet patterns tend to be distracting when I take a pic. This is the leeward side so not so much damage from IAN. It had at least a 12-14 more leaves in the crown prior to IAN. Its out there unprotected from wind with no nearby palms to buffer so it will get damaged in wind. Fortunately its growing out pretty quickly with 10+ new leaves this year. Another 2 summers without a hurricaneand it will be holding bluish green leaves to the horizontal as before.

Copernicia baileyana.

In addition to the suggestion from @PalmatierMeg , you could try Neem Oil spray. Again, the intent being to suffocate the mites.

Targeted miticides (insecticides don't kill mites) are expensive and toxic (mask & gloves). I suggest you make a soap & water spray using Ivory soap chips mixed with water (never use detergents on plants). Spray the whole banana plant with that solution. Wait a few days and if you see more mites (they reproduce all the time) hit it again. The soapy water will suffocate the mites.

By chance I found this Dendrobium Oriental Smile. It is one of the Yamamoto hybrids, but unfortunately these are very difficult to source here in Europe, maybe beacause they are big nad vigorous plants.

I find Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus to be thinner trunked and a bit more delicate of the three. It’s also the only one that has lost stems due to rot. My Chrysalidocarpus cabadae was originally planted in the shade house but has since way outgrown it. It’s a bit more robust with fewer trunks. Finally my Chrysalidocarpus pembanus is the most robust of the three.

Hello folks... I live in Salem Oregon, USDA Zone 8b. I made my first trip to Raintree tropical nursery this morning. I took some cash and my checkbook. I was not sure what I wanted, but I hoped that I could buy some larger palms, rather than some in one gallon pots. I am 73 years old, so I don't have thirty or forty years to plant a smaller palm and watch it grow. I met Steve and what a nice person he is. I ended up with a 5 gallon Trachycarpus wagnerianus, and a five gallon Sabal minor. I told Steve I would be back when I had more money. I wanted to buy a larger Jubaea chilensis & maybe a Butia odorata/capitata. But the size of palms that I wanted were a bit more than I had to spend. I hope to go back to see him. He is very knowledgeable, and a polite person. I bought two T. fortunei about three years ago from a palm nursery someplace between Salem and Portland. I was not impressed with the owner who sold them to me. Maybe he was just having a bad day. Both T. fortunei are doing well, and one looks to be a female. This is the first year either has developed any sexual signs. The other one appears to not be as robust as the female, and it may not develop this year. Both looked about the same when I bought them. I should have picked up a needle palm from Steve today, but I will when I go back with more palm money. I forgot to ask if he delivers. Does anyone know? I only have a small Honda. I guess I could rent a pickup from UHaul. All in all, it was a great experience. I will for sure give Steve my business in the future. mraroid

A picture taken yesterday of the Howea forsteriana in Central London. These are looking better than lots of other Kentias kept indoor. There are six pots in total, two of them are hidden on the right.

A 50 foot thick Royal ( far left) is about the same size as two pictured smaller Copernicia’s than the premier pictured big one’s (Copernicia and Borassus):

Good to see you and your wife too! Come visit again when you can. Conan the kitty liked you - bet he’ll be glad to see you again! Any questions just shoot me a text!

@Manalto Mine also came from MPOP, but is potted. This past winter we had an ultimate low of 10F here, and it remained outside, no supplemental heat. I just laid mine on the ground, and threw a bedsheet/frostcloth over it. Tip burn, no spear pull, no other damage. SO, just goes to show how variable the mules really are. I KNOW that duration of cold is the #1 factor in their winter survivability/extent of damage. Just likely was a bad season. Here's to better winters!

I know the feeling. There was a grower that lived about 40 miles south of me. I would go down to see him and buy one plant, but always came home with a half dozen.

C amazonicum grows well here even in the colder spot in Melbourne like up in the Dandenong Ranges where freezing temperatures are common. It seems C amazonicum borrows its hardiness from its close relatives and doesn’t necessarily follow with those with common habitat.

I cut the suckers off mine to keep a solitary look. Much easier to do as they appear and still small. Sounds like yours might already have several suckers (photos are always helpful). It's possible for suckers to survive as new plants but from what I understand the sucker needs to be the width of a 1-liter bottle or larger and already have roots attached to have success. I've tried a couple times unsuccessfully with smaller suckers. If your suckers are somewhat large I would recommend dusting the wounds with powdered sulfur after removing the suckers to prevent any damage to the main trunk.

I have all coconuts removed to prevent a volley ball sized projectile at 150mph. Other than that just a general trim of trees and palms especially trees to let more air pass through.

Here’s my Archontophoenix Slapsie Maxie

Not a monster, but trunk vs height these guys do well... Butch

This Jubaea at the Auckland Botanic Gardens was particularly chunky. Wish I used some kind of scale.

The garden at the back of the house was in need of renovating with a good prune and some bromeliads removed giving more room for a few more plants giving it a good top dress of soil and good gardening eye certainly helped it out this area of the garden was some of the first gardens that where planted on top of a rock shelf with pockets for soil so basically one big container garden it is a dry area and hot in summer making a good place for cycads and some common tough plants the bromeliads where starting to take over plus a good opportunity to get some garden space for new plants in the collection they say what makes a true is they are always renovating their garden well that never ends in my garden 🪴

With so many photos it’s always fun to go back through and have a look and compare the changes in the garden over time there is always something different in the garden over the seasons.

You guys like 'em thick, eh?

That's a cool-looking palm, Jim, even though it may still be pokey, and wonderful that you have one alive...am I wrong in remembering that some people have still had some trouble with this species being temperamental despite its much warmer native environment compared to its "head in the clouds" brethren? The most recent revision of the genus says it has a very restricted altitude range of 800-1200masl. That elevation in Ecuador sounds like it would still be quite warm so it seems to point to quite a bit of flexibility if you're growing it in Los Altos Hills. Maybe it will speed up very soon, I am personally a big fan of this genus but now live in a place where it could scarcely be considered methinks. Please keep us posted with photos of this as well as your almost-trunking C. alpinum as they develop!

Ftond

Here’s Jayne Mansfield my last remaining Roystonea oleracea. Roystonea borenquenia in the background.

Here’s big Alfie my biggest Beccariophoenix alfredii. Next to a Roystonea borenquenia

Some may already be familiar with my sabal causiarum, over 30' tall up there somewhere ... This was a 7 gallon seedling with strap leaves in 2011 when it was planted out. The causiarum has a swollen trunkbase of near 40" thick. This is my fastest growing palm, a "jack in the beanstalk" type palm. Yeah its a monster, cant have more than one of these in my yard. The good thing is its self shedding after 7-8 years of hanging on to leafbases it decides to drop them when I cant reach without a ladder anymore.