So What Caught Your Eye Today?

Thursday at 05:45 PM

Juvenile at Ann Norton:

Thursday at 05:54 PM

Thursday at 11:09 PM

A bit small but i call it a victory, my freeze damaged spindle i thought was a goner has survived the trunk cut and started a new spear! the white petiole seen above it is about 4 inches tall with no leaves, and was at the cut a week or so ago. hopefully it survives summer and a few fronds so it gets strength before winter🤞

Friday at 10:37 AM

Lanonia dasyantha, never a dull moment with dasyanthas!

Friday at 10:40 AM

A nice solid Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons seedling!

Friday at 01:14 PM

Is this really a Palm?

Friday at 01:15 PM

Friday at 03:40 PM

No, it's a succulent, as it says on the plaque. Common names are often misleading.

Friday at 11:32 PM

Yes , like pony tail palm , nick name only . They are cool though! Harry

Friday at 11:38 PM

I posted on another thread how I did a walk about the garden after watering . Then I ventured down “the hill” where I don’t go very often because it is steep and sometimes I slip and end up on my butt. I had planted a Rhapis Excelsia that was divided from one of my large Rhapis clumps and growing nicely in a pot …..until a huge frond fell and smashed it . Bummer , I stuck it under a Butia Oderata in almost full shade . Looks like it survived! Harry

Friday at 11:43 PM

3 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I posted on another thread how I did a walk about the garden after watering . Then I ventured down “the hill” where I don’t go very often because it is steep and sometimes I slip and end up on my butt. I had planted a Rhapis Excelsia that was divided from one of my large Rhapis clumps and growing nicely in a pot …..until a huge frond fell and smashed it . Bummer , I stuck it under a Butia Oderata in almost full shade . Looks like it survived! Harry

Rhapis are as tough as bamboo, when you want to get rid off them it one heck of a job, they just keep on coming up. You’re one is a testament to how tough they really are!
Richard

2026-04-25T01:48:11Z

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

Rhapis are as tough as bamboo, when you want to get rid off them it one heck of a job, they just keep on coming up. You’re one is a testament to how tough they really are!
Richard

The funny paradox with Rhapis being that, considering the number of complaints bandied about in re its multiplication...it probably fetches one of the highest prices in the palm-market. So maybe the thing is to look at it as a nice money machine! Bamboo certainly wouldn't qualify in that department...

2026-04-25T03:34:04Z

1 hour ago, mnorell said:

The funny paradox with Rhapis being that, considering the number of complaints bandied about in re its multiplication...it probably fetches one of the highest prices in the palm-market. So maybe the thing is to look at it as a nice money machine! Bamboo certainly wouldn't qualify in that department...

An easy seller rhapis, indoors, patio and even the office, shopping centres. It has a well earned reputation for good reason. Just not in my garden anymore, especially in a landscape setting near a house. I much prefer the variegated varieties near the house garden, the green one can take a back of the garden situation. Where it can get out of control and do no harm in taking over small understory palms. But that said a few small individual canes work a treat when thinned out and even a single stem can fool many a palm nut as to what licuala variety is that in the understory!

2026-04-25T04:09:52Z

32 minutes ago, happypalms said:

An easy seller rhapis, indoors, patio and even the office, shopping centres. It has a well earned reputation for good reason. Just not in my garden anymore, especially in a landscape setting near a house. I much prefer the variegated varieties near the house garden, the green one can take a back of the garden situation. Where it can get out of control and do no harm in taking over small understory palms. But that said a few small individual canes work a treat when thinned out and even a single stem can fool many a palm nut as to what licuala variety is that in the understory!

Yes, Richard, it's a great idea, I've been doing that with R. multifida, cut up a pot full of them recently, and now have a couple of delicate little "lollipops" and a few groups of 3 stems each, and you're right, they may cause some head-scratching to visitors...I actually love this genus...and there are some really wonderful species (including R. excelsa and all of its wonderful cultivars. I think this species is unfairly poo-pooed by people due to its cold-hardiness, which is a major plus of course). Most importantly, they're beautiful, easy and always seem to have a place in the garden, even if you have to think about the best spot a little harder than with other palms...

2026-04-25T05:30:07Z

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana a couple of nice seedlings!

2026-04-25T05:31:20Z

And a couple of Geonoma atrovirens seedlings!

2026-04-25T05:32:46Z

And a few chamaedorea seeds on a nice tenella!

2026-04-25T05:37:19Z

1 hour ago, mnorell said:

Yes, Richard, it's a great idea, I've been doing that with R. multifida, cut up a pot full of them recently, and now have a couple of delicate little "lollipops" and a few groups of 3 stems each, and you're right, they may cause some head-scratching to visitors...I actually love this genus...and there are some really wonderful species (including R. excelsa and all of its wonderful cultivars. I think this species is unfairly poo-pooed by people due to its cold-hardiness, which is a major plus of course). Most importantly, they're beautiful, easy and always seem to have a place in the garden, even if you have to think about the best spot a little harder than with other palms...

Rhapis is the second palm that I fell in love with, first was Howea then rhapis and finally Chambeyronia. Now there are so many to fall in love with there are no favourites anymore!