I went into the Spider Mite Factory© today to deep water everything and oh my god this hybrid cycad. It feels like just yesterday I potted it up and it had such a tiny little rootball and now it's busting out of this bottle! I'm literally having a big pot crisis. I need like 30 5 gallons and like pallets of soil. 

56 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

The west side of Oʻahu is no palm paradise.  I average using about 68,000 gallons of water a month.  Last few months were very dry and cost about $700 to keep them alive.

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

56 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

The west side of Oʻahu is no palm paradise.  I average using about 68,000 gallons of water a month.  Last few months were very dry and cost about $700 to keep them alive.

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

 

26 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Richard, my friend, listen to me. I think you should flood the land more. Make it wetter. With ground-level sprinklers. Bring everything to the habitat of those Hawaiian growers.

Oh iam doing just that, trying to make a rainforest! 

5 minutes ago, happypalms said:

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

 

Oh iam doing just that, trying to make a rainforest! 

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

Of course, my friend, you said it. You must create a deep underground system, where the pipes or tubes carry the water, and then it comes out onto the surface with sprinklers or the water running out of control, and floods the entire land where you'll have your palm trees. (Tropical Garden. You must throw leaves and organic leaf material there. That land must be moist and soft with water. It's Hawaii in Australia, my friend. It's Hawaii in Australia, gentlemen.)

3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

A few monkeys as well. The side of my house , by my neighbors with two small children ,they keep looking up into the canopy after I told them not to feed the monkeys! 🙄 Harry

3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

Polly wanna cracker, and I hear @Harry’s Palms he has monkeys, so they will live in a palm garden. I might hook up a few Tarzan jungle swings! And start swinging through the jungle in me undies looking for Jane. That’ll scare the neighbours, remembering they will only look once! 

I really think , for a lot of us growing up visiting Disneyland as kids , The Jungle Cruise ride was an inspiration. Either consciously or unconsciously we fantasize about having our very own jungle cruise….nuthin wrong with that! Harry

Our private botanical tour of Disneyland , Anaheim. Jungle Cruise on a small boat modeled after the African Queen

Richard, my friend, you made me laugh. It was a good joke and comment. Those monkeys are interesting too, my friend.

2 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I really think , for a lot of us growing up visiting Disneyland as kids , The Jungle Cruise ride was an inspiration. Either consciously or unconsciously we fantasize about having our very own jungle cruise….nuthin wrong with that! Harry

Our private botanical tour of Disneyland , Anaheim. Jungle Cruise on a small boat modeled after the African Queen

I thought gor a minute you had a new garden Harry. Disneyland one of those childhood memories old Walt was a brilliant man. 
Richard 

New new leaves on some young Livistona saribus caught my eye.  Some are in the shade and one is colored from the sunshine.

I had not walked on this street recently until this morning.   As my dog and I walked by, It was a Reunion of sorts...  a Hyophorbe verschaffeltii.

3 hours ago, MikeB said:

New new leaves on some young Livistona saribus caught my eye.  Some are in the shade and one is colored from the sunshine.

Beautiful Mike.

Tim

A nice yellow chamaedorea adscendens flower gets my attention. 

Chunnighamiana trunk colour 😍

Lepidozamia peroffskyana with a Pinanga coronata. 

My Latania caught my eye today

 

On Friday , I walked by my wee Kentiopsis (Chambeyronia) Pyroformis and the little guy opened a new frond after a year and a half. Honestly , I planted it perhaps too young but after seeing @DoomsDave ‘s I wanted to get it going. Dave assured me it will pick up speed , and I trust this is a sign🤞. The new frond , not quite red , but bronze looking. It is hard to see from the poor pic I took. It seems to like it’s home near my Chambeyronia Macrocarpa, plenty of shade and a bit of fractured sun.  Harry

I never thought I would get so excited about such little growth! I feel like Christmas, yay!

22 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

El viernes, pasé junto a mi pequeña Kentiopsis (Chambeyronia) Pyroformis y la pequeña abrió una nueva fronda después de un año y medio. Honestamente, la planté quizás demasiado joven, pero después de ver...@DoomsDave Quería que creciera. Dave me aseguró que cogerá velocidad, y confío en que sea una señal 🤞 . La fronda nueva, no del todo roja, sino bronceada. Es difícil verla en la foto que tomé. Parece que le gusta estar cerca de mi Chambeyronia Macrocarpa, con mucha sombra y un poco de sol. Harry

¡Nunca pensé que me emocionaría tanto con tan poco crecimiento! ¡Me siento como si fuera Navidad, sí!

Very cool my Friend Harry

My Brahea

 

Couple of nice variegated rhapis pups recently taken and have tucked themselves in growing well. 

This Pseudophoenix sargentii 

These Hyophorbe verschaffeltii.

Not too much to look at for some but this Bentinkia caught my eye this early morning as the landscape lighting was still on illuminating. Bummer the Blood Leaf looks terrible at the base of the Bismarck behind. I just hacked it back. 
 

-dale 

Chrysalidocarpus leucomallus after a leaf drop 

My Bismarkia caught my eye today this morning 

 

Yes I have a hybrid palm silver lady catching my eye today. 

My Yapa caught my eye this morning 

 A nice little reindhartia simplex ready to plant. 

Not a palm this time, but my Musa Velutina is putting on a show. 

What caught my eye today was some pictures sent to me from an international mail order of some live plants I posted overseas, all arriving in perfect condition. 
Chuniophoenix nana, basselina  gracilis, dypsis saintlucei and a few others 

The leaflets on the Dypsis are very similar to the Basilonga I have . Those need protection from any wind gusts . Ask me how I know ! I have seen with my own dismay . I tied mine up until it gets older and the petiole can withstand nature. Harry

I know it’s just a plain ole Rhapis palm but this one is very special to me . About 28 years ago my wife was in the hospital and I was going through a rough patch . I would stop at this lovely nursery on the way in to visit , once to bring her an orchid . The lady who ran the nursery knew I was into palms because I bought a bunch of Chamaedorea Metallica from her. She showed me a pot with a bunch of 4-5’ stems , on death’s doorstep. She gave it to me to try to revive . It had been installed in a fancy design home and the owners thought it was a plastic palm ….until it died!! 
   So this morning I went to the courtyard to turn on the sprinklers for the hill and just noticed how that “dead” Rhapis palm has grown . Last year I doubled up on watering a lot of my palms and , now , it is very lush and full (hard to get to the valve!). Harry

‘Still dark out here!

Rhopalostylus Sapida taking off vertically. I also noticed a flower spathe emerging. Growing in Dana Point, CA.

Here’s another macrocarpa red flush. It’s extra colorful since the weather has been overcast the past week in California. I’m hoping that this hookeri will be a reverse watermellon because it’s always had a ton of green in the crownshaft and some pretty distinct striations/markings 🤞

11 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I know it’s just a plain ole Rhapis palm but this one is very special to me . About 28 years ago my wife was in the hospital and I was going through a rough patch . I would stop at this lovely nursery on the way in to visit , once to bring her an orchid . The lady who ran the nursery knew I was into palms because I bought a bunch of Chamaedorea Metallica from her. She showed me a pot with a bunch of 4-5’ stems , on death’s doorstep. She gave it to me to try to revive . It had been installed in a fancy design home and the owners thought it was a plastic palm ….until it died!! 
   So this morning I went to the courtyard to turn on the sprinklers for the hill and just noticed how that “dead” Rhapis palm has grown . Last year I doubled up on watering a lot of my palms and , now , it is very lush and full (hard to get to the valve!). Harry

‘Still dark out here!

They can be a plain old rhapis, but if you get just one single stem by itself they look like a beautiful licuala! 
Richard

On 10/4/2025 at 7:04 AM, happypalms said:

A nice yellow chamaedorea adscendens flower gets my attention. 

It looks as though your garden is off to a healthy springtime. A lot of flowers in bloom.

9 hours ago, SeanK said:

It looks as though your garden is off to a healthy springtime. A lot of flowers in bloom.

With all the good recent rainfall, the garden took of in spring with a bit of warmer weather. It’s starting to dry out a little more now, but iam just irrigating to keep the good growing happening.

One of my Coconut palms caught my eye today