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Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

Calyptrogyne.

Prestoea acuminata var montana inflorescence would catch anyone's eye. In two weeks it will be pink, then red. The bees are having a party.

The Wooly Wine Wonder palm?

Looking pretty good for a chamaedorea seed harvest this season. Might have to put a few adscendens and metallica seeds up for grabs on palmtalk, stay tuned!

This year will be more of a work-in-progress year. A lot of stuff has been removed, a lot of stuff will be added. This year might be the year of the Brahea and Livistona plantings. The success of Brahea edulis here has been a motivator to bring more species from this gorgeous genus in for a try. The bed was condensed to a circular scallop bed to make room for a path in this area. Due to the success of Brahea edulis thus far, the former desert bed is getting an expansion with copious trials of Brahea aculeata, Brahea brandegeei, and a few Brahea 'Icy Blue'. All but one of the plantings was grown from RPS seeds picked up last year at this time. About half of the bed is still empty, but there are more Brahea armata, Brahea dulcis, and Brahea 'Icy Blue' waiting for their turn. There might even be a Nannorrhops ritchiana here at a later date. Start of desod - notice how un-Florida-like the soil is here A few views of the first plantings in this area. More to come.

Dypsis plumosa loaded up with seeds!

I would call it a big Bertha!!!

A beautiful palm that would be welcome in a large space to be enjoyed . Harry

Absolute Beast! Bravo!

Flowering now after taking a few years off

Found this poor little fella I found on the understory floor, still alive throwing out aerial roots, completely out of the ground. Most likely a scrub turkey victim being scratched out in some turkey festival looking for grubs the dam thing. Curse the turkey I say digging up me palms. But alas the Cham has survived for gosh knows how long being a victim of some turkey festival!

Looks like Trachycarpus to me.

Nice. Last picture I took of mine was 2023. Bad me. LOL Will get a new one as soon as the rains stop, maybe 3 days from now as we getting "another" Kona Low. This was a 1 gal in 2020.

Nothing like a bit of garden bling to liven things up!

Keep up the good work, the world needs more palms!

Indeed why not grow some orchids. This little stunner caught my eye.

Thornless, more resilient Canary? Nice cross. Please keep the pics coming Alberto 👍

@bubba I had a 1 gallon Syagrus Schizophylla for about 3 years . The growth was hardly noticeable. That example is amazing . Even if the gopher didn’t eat mine , I don’t think I would be on this planet long enough to see any kind of height like the example you posted . Not here in Southern California , that’s for sure . Thank you for posting. Harry R.I.P. My little Syagrus just before becoming gopher food! As planted 3 years prior! Yea …. I know!

Everything in the picture was planted by hand circa 2018-2019. New zoysia sod just went in a month ago. Love my little tropical garden! (SW Florida Zone 10b) JD

Greetings! Just a reminder this weekend is the Spring Fever plant show and sale in Winter Garden, FL. The CFPACS will be hosting a booth and will be offering a variety of palms for sale. Here is a list of available palms for sale on Saturday. Hope to see y’all there! Price List April 2026.pdf

Marius, it is supposed by many that Brahea 'Super Silver' is a more silvery morph of Brahea calcarea. Here are two photos of Brahea calcarea green form in two locations in the San Francisco Bay Area: the two plants in shade are at the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park; the close-up shows a plant in Edith Bergstrom's garden near Stanford University in a sunnier location. Both keep the glossy green adaxial surface of the leaf and droopier leaf segments. Pietro Pucci, Brahea clara was once described and published legitimately by L.H. Bailey, only to be subsumed into synonymy with B. armata later. Its horticultural performance (faster, more tolerant of humid and cooler conditions) and characteristics (leaf form, inflorescence, even trunk thickness), as well as its geographical separation, set it apart from Brahea armata. Its population is completely disjunct from that of Brahea armata, as is its climate, in which summer rainfall is dependable, if spotty.

Has anyone tried B. lunarioides in Florida? I'm intrigued by a US native Bauhinia and it looks like a pretty little tree. I might have to order some seeds.

Yes, I planted some shade loving plants like 5 groups of Clivia's of different collors, an Anthurium pedatum, all seed grown plants. Also a Rhapidophillum hystrix and a Lanonia dasiantha alongside.

It looks like you have plenty of room for such a palm. With the canopy it provides , room for understory palms too. Harry

I do my best! Unfortunately this particular Botanical Garden lies in a frost pocket and therefore it is suitable only for selected, cold hardy palms. And most unfortunately there is no other Botanical Garden in strict sense in Attica, only parks. Parks are not safe for palms for various reasons. Most crucial one is, that care takers do not keep an inventory of existing spp and are not interested at all in the well being or even survival of unique exemplaries, instead they are concerned only about the general outlook and the functionality of existing plants. Hopefully the planned new park in Hellenikon (southern suburbs) will keep a more botanical character, as I have still more tropical palms to dispose of (Rhopalostylis sapida and baueri, Chambeyronia, Howea, Archontophoenix).

We did talk about eating them gophers remember! Richard

Things were looking bleak for these Foxtails at Lake Miriam Square. These were newly planted only months before the freeze and were totally brown only a few weeks ago. They're coming back now. Here at the homestead, a Veitchia X Carpentaria that was marked as dead on my spreadsheet may make me a liar. It has a long way to go, but it was totally brown and dead only a few weeks ago. Tropical hardwoods like Delonix regia and Bursera simaruba are coming back.

There moss on commercially grown blueberry plants. So it doesn’t seem to be an issue for this commercial nursery. And iam sure ifbit was an issue they would be doing something about it as these plants are tissue culture grown. So we are talking about big money in this investment!

Bring a trailer! By trying new things and changing things up as you try you learn. I have seen a few people on palmtalk be inspired to do things differently and give things a try, iam no expert by any means and the things I myself have learned on palmtalk have been an inspiration for me as well! Richard

That is a beauty! So is the C. hookeri!

Free Areca vestria I suppose! Just doing for a trial and to share the knowledge. Richard

The next step in this flush. It clearly has a tilt toward the southwest sky, which is where it gets the fullest sun exposure.

impressive Jim, simply impressive 🤗

Good question, with a few different answers. A couple of ways around that one, bare rooted is another method for larger plants, courier is another choice. But the way the cost of things are going, when a plant is $5 for sale and postage is going to cost $25 you’re not going to sell many plants. At the moment what Iam selling is paying for itself in getting my investment back. As the stock grows I will transition to the local community markets and still supply a certain local family owed hardware store mitre 10. And as for the rest of sales word of mouth and contacts that visit the nursery is my main goal. I get a couple of growers coming down from Gold Coast area and for now that’s fine. Ultimately I will still have small stock coming through so those sales will pay for themselves. And after that it’s a unique market I will target, but by ten years time if they want it they come and get it. Doing the markets will increase sales by word of mouth. But hey if it doesnt sell iam quite happy to plant out the best of the best in my garden, that’s one advantage as a grower I get to choose the best strongest and healthiest plants for my garden and that’s what my main goal was, I did that about 30 years ago and look at the garden I got, so round two now with that many new palms available it’s going to be one heck of a ride into the garden for my retirement!

Regarding the non- black / purple or red Jaboticaba varieties / species, All are distinctly different. Yellow, Myrciaria glazioviana, tastes like Apricots or Peaches and is a steady grower, White, Plinia aureana, taste similar to the " standard " Jabo. types, but with addtnl. " Mango / Papaya / or Pineapple -like " notes.. Slow -ish and burns easier than others. Blue, Myrciaria vexator, tastes like Grape and Blueberry.. Seemed to handle the most sun out of all of them.. Grown all of 'em here in the desert w/ few issues, ..except that they must stay moist, in pots esp. ..and should never be grown in anything but high, bright shade. Neighbor's in- ground specimens seem to handle the dry breaks between their " lawn -esque " watering schedule.

Here's my Bauhinia lunarioides, raised from seed, now in bloom too!

Well done my friend, I too have donated plants to the botanical garden of Naples in the past, I also donated the very common chamaedorea radicalis, an easy to find plant, but they didn't have it, I saw lately that they were male and female and they produced seeds.

Visited the motherland this week. The smaller fruiting coconut is from a ditch that was collected by a lady in homestead Fl 5 years ago . receives no love from the owner . second the largest coconut that has managed to evade the 2021 Texas palm massacre lol over on port Isabel if anyone wants the exact address message me . across the same street I found a yard with 3-4 young cocos that looked really great the lady who lives there mentioned her husband collected all the cocos that washed ashore and they sprouted! other pics are of various parts of the valley for whatever reason palm talk won’t let me insert individual Info per pick so if yall have questions I’ll answer what I can haha . #Zone10A-BTexas IMG_9409.mov

It’s about 20 feet to the top of the taller leaf tip

Crotons sprouting, foxtail trying to recover, Christmas palms now sprouting green from the center, bottle 2nd spear looks good. Coconut shooting up new growth mostly green but dead fronds all snapped jn the wind storms. Lawn guy cutting them off this weekend. I see no growth on shrubs like clusia.

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

Beautiful Dave! I have a few sprouts from the seeds you gave me

Awwww. Our Lizzie Norwegian Forest Cat mix is 12 now but doesn't look a day over 8. If she understood geography she'd take over the world. Tough girl. Dave, that hookeri is gorgeous. Do you plan to sell seeds from it?

Glad to see kitty is alright! That’s BIG Chambeyronia!

It’s worth the risks!

I see Conan missed severe injury from that frond . That is a gorgeous palm , Dave . Thank you for sharing! Harry

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.