Growing up in Florida I was always surrounded by palms but never really appreciated them til I saw this beauty at Fairchild botanical garden. 

A few thingzz found while wandering around at 6:30AM.

Tiny Pindo  (  ..Dancer..  ...Couldn't resist  🙃 )



Chunky Pygmys



And their bigger friends a few houses up..  Continuing the tradition of Perfect Pygmys,  in the desert. 


How bout them beauty Queens in the background of Shot #1 ayh?       ..Yeahhh, we're headed there next..








A closer look at the mysterious BDT = ..Bizzare Desert  Triangle < ...An Obvious play on something else  > 







Where did it come from?  Mars?  a trip to S.D.?  The truth is out there.. Somewhere..   

Odd that it's planted in front of an apartment, rather than a private home..



Mule at dawn.   ....Now that's a beauty Queen

Morning checkup showed this frond popped open overnight.  Stunning and now i can see how long they last red in summer heat. 

Ol Metallica at it again, not sure if its male or female. What I do know is there all the same go figure .... 

T J 

Sun grown so not quite as dramatic, but fun just the same. My Chambroynia just starting to openThis was this afternoon. Harry

While walking out of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum after attending a graduation ceremony,  this unique, uber rare cross species hybrid caught my eye...a Coconut cycad!!!  🤣🤣🤣

Seriously though...I don't understand what some people are thinking when they create fake plants....

59 minutes ago, Scott W said:Seriously though...I don't understand what some people are thinking when they create fake plants....

I think there are a few reasons , cold hardy , they take full sun , drought tolerant, no trimming or fertilizing , no repotting, and not too many pests . Harry

@Harry’s Palms true, but at least stick to one and not merge several types into one 🤣

Traffic,  Full Moon,  and some " City "  Mex Fans..  


Might have to take an evening stroll down to the mall / freeway overpass  this weekend to do some more test shots..

First flower on this Chrysalidocarpus Hovomantsina Hybrid

 

The bizzy is showing off this afternoon. The bright silver/blue caught my eye from inside the house! As you can see it is recovering well from defoliation back in January.

These Bismarck palms in Home Depot...I wish they could grow in my area. 😢

Mature J altifrons smashed by treeloppers taking out a Bismarkia. Rotted grow point. Surgery done and a definite maybe...

4 hours ago, sgvcns said:

Mature J altifrons smashed by treeloppers taking out a Bismarkia. Rotted grow point. Surgery done and a definite maybe...

I am so sorry about the damage!
 

However, I look forward to more resilience photos.
 

I hope this individual of such a great species survives!

Not sure if variegation or mottling due to shade, but organizing the shade house today this small Licuala Spinosa caught my eye.

A 50 foot plus Bismarckia next to a similarly tall African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) at Four Arts:

Drymophleous olivioformis in seed hopeful stage. Struttin. But not moving. 

This Ravenea hildebrandtii caught my eye as I was watering today and I started to wonder why we don’t see more of these. 
 

Satakentia liukiuensis:

Large Bismarkia next to a large Royal:

Today this Licuala spinosa caught my eye. I never imagined it would get this big. 
 

A palm I purchased as  Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis at the time) "Jurassic Park", which is opening a new frond drew my attention the last couple of days.

 

Tracy, What species is that beauty?

15 hours ago, Tracy said:

A palm I purchased as  Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis at the time) "Jurassic Park", which is opening a new frond drew my attention the last couple of days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, bubba said:

Tracy, What species is that beauty?

Looks like Dypsis Pilulifera to me!  😂

(the forever argument about Jurassic Park continues…..)

Looks good @Tracy. what kind of sun exposure does this guy see? I’ve got a FB plant I give bright indirect sun but not direct and it seems to like it.
 

-dale

Ahhh Tracy, that is nice. Looks terrific.

Tim

9 hours ago, Billeb said:

 

Looks like Dypsis Pilulifera to me!  😂

(the forever argument about Jurassic Park continues…..)

Looks good @Tracy. what kind of sun exposure does this guy see? I’ve got a FB plant I give bright indirect sun but not direct and it seems to like it.
 

-dale

Thank you Dale.  The palm in question gets full sun from early am through mid afternoon with some filtering in late afternoon due to taller palms to the west.  I think I planted it in 2015 and know it was a 1 gallon when planted. 

Fifteen foot Pygmy Date at ANSG:

 

This caught my eye today, a photo I took about 18 months ago, but forgot to actually post it....it just shows how damaging a bushfire can be to palms...if you look closely, you will see maybe a hundred or more Livistona victoriae growing...some in healthy shape and others burnt to  a crisp!

A gaggle of Carpentaria acuminata at ANSG:

The flower on this pinanga speciosa 

Today it caught my attention that my Bismarckia nobilis “Mayotte” is in serious need of maintenance. I keep a lot of potted plants below it so when a frond falls there’s always the risk of it smashing something. It’s a difficult job cleaning him up but I got to get on it before the tropical storms start.

 

 

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The rain brings out the orange on my bottle palm.

Still can't tell if this is Koghiensis or Dumasii,  whatever it is i love it.  It was bought as a hapala, but clearly not

1 hour ago, Palmiz said:

Still can't tell if this is Koghiensis or Dumasii,  whatever it is i love it.  It was bought as a hapala, but clearly not

Woah! That’s a serious bonus buying a palm already as nice as hapala and ending up with an even more stunning and rare palm! Just my two cents, doesn’t quite look like koghiensis in form to me. I don’t have any experience with dumasii but could be based on photos I’ve seen.  

2 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Woah! That’s a serious bonus buying a palm already as nice as hapala and ending up with an even more stunning and rare palm! Just my two cents, doesn’t quite look like koghiensis in form to me. I don’t have any experience with dumasii but could be based on photos I’ve seen.  

If it is a dumasii, I might just have to dig up the small one I bought as a dumasii and search for a real Koghiensis

This Calyptrocalyx elegans caught my eye today.