58 minutes ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Apparently my alocasia is gonna flower. 

Very nice, John 🤗

On 12/14/2025 at 7:06 AM, Husain said:

Brahea new spear 

 

Wonderful, Husain 🤗

A small Christmas present in a figurative sense

Burretiokentia vieillardii.

Tim

Some nice flowers on the dypsis minuta in the summer heat!

Brahea in the rain 

 

Today’s catch features Licuala, Licuala, Pinanga & Associates.

One of my Royals 

 

A nice lytocarum and a fallen flower spathe of a Dypsis plumosa 

When the light radiates through a palm frond 

 

A group Trachycarpus fortunei near Grow Room.

Just a few palms that weathered the heavy winds overnight. They're getting some sun before the next surge. 

A nice little dypsis paludosa, and a nice little Chuniophoenix nana with a few seeds maturing! 

On 12/26/2025 at 6:20 AM, BayAndroid said:

Just a few palms that weathered the heavy winds overnight. They're getting some sun before the next surge. 

Nice cocothrinax alta! 

Today I noticed a coleus hitching a tide on L rupicola I believe this is?

Sabal Yapa

 

On Christmas Eve , in Ventura , we were walking around and my wife took this picture of the ground around some Washingtonia palms . We have had a lot of rain and wind . Some very nice coloring on the debris and leaf bases of the palms . Harry

A nice bit of new leaf colour on the kentiopsis oliviformis! 

3 hours ago, happypalms said:

A nice bit of new leaf colour on the kentiopsis oliviformis! 

Richard, this species is very beautiful, I can't grow it here

(Richard I sent a message to you)

Chambeyronia piersoniorum with a nice new frond - a blue/silver that appears more vibrant in real life than I can capture in photo. Similar colour to its relative C oliviformis but perhaps even more striking. 

1 hour ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Chambeyronia piersoniorum with a nice new frond - a blue/silver that appears more vibrant in real life than I can capture in photo. Similar colour to its relative C oliviformis but perhaps even more striking. 

I have about 40 of them and even as seedlings they are special!

Look at how hairy this guy's arm is. 

 

Anyway I think I'm gonna have to end up putting some of these bananas on the floor pretty soon. I think they're pretty happy in here. 

Pembana and friend sharing a blue day.

3 more of my mangos have sprouted. For real don't know where I'm gonna put all of them. Building another table and buying more lights feels inevitable. 

This view 

 

13 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Look at how hairy this guy's arm is. 

 

Anyway I think I'm gonna have to end up putting some of these bananas on the floor pretty soon. I think they're pretty happy in here. 

When did the yeti move in?🤣

Living the dream! 

Caught my eye that albeit 1/3 the size as when originally obtained, my Joey appears to have adjusted to frequent very dry periods.  Perhaps it will still eventually bump into the adjacent K elegans.

Chrysalidocarpus Leucomalla dropped another leaf and features a unique yellow that is almost glowing. 
 

Checking out my garden in between rain storms. Picking up debris from all the wind , I noticed the coloring on my Rhopalostylus Bauri Cheesemania. The green of a newly opened frond and the pinkish red of the petiole really caught my eye. It seems to be luvin it’s home here in Santa Paula . This one is from @DoomsDave about a year and a half ago. Harry

Bismarkia new frond 

 

Uh I haven't even had these things 3 months yet. Just a 19" tall boat oar leaf on a 4 foot (from the soil) Blue Java banana pup. 

Latania new spear 

 

Lacospadix, kerriodoxa and a nice little dypsis lantzeana all seem to get my attention! 

Planted 3 L weddellianum together about 4 years ago and they caught my eye today.

This is a little different. 

 

Fedex was dropping some more lights off and it turns out the FedEx girl wants to set up a plant room, so I showed her my chaos jungle, all while telling her this is absolutely not a level you want to get to.... You do not want to do this in an apartment! We can start easy with some spider plants and a snake plant and some philodendrons and some parlor palms or something but you don't wanna do this!!! 

 

Anyway I got her number and gonna see what I can do. If I'm the voice of reason or your source of info you're kinda screwed 😂

Nice new Lepidorrachis leaf, always eye catching.

A large clump of Acoelorraphe wrightii

Chambeyronia oliviformis powering on and opening a new frond yesterday despite a maximum of 44C/111F with 75km/h (46mph) winds. Tough palm. 

 

The nearby Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus which also decided to open up a frond in the oven wasn’t so lucky. The heat and wind sucked the moisture from the frond and it wilted quickly. 

5 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Chambeyronia oliviformis powering on and opening a new frond yesterday despite a maximum of 44C/111F with 75km/h (46mph) winds. Tough palm. 

 

The nearby Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus which also decided to open up a frond in the oven wasn’t so lucky. The heat and wind sucked the moisture from the frond and it wilted quickly. 

You southern growers, if you’re not freezing your palms your cooking them! 
Such a hard environment at times and the difficulty’s in growing exotics out of there preferred zones. It’s one thing growing in a subtropical climate, but it’s another story in temperate climates with tropicals, I admire the resilience of southern growers! 

A nice batch of kerriodoxas looking good!