Texas Palms

June 11

On 6/8/2025 at 8:58 AM, KPoff said:

@OC2Texaspalmlvr are those chamaerops right past it in the first picture? They look great!

They are , actually the neighbors tho not palm people at all haha they get zero love

T J

June 12

Webster area today lots and lots of new robustas planted along 45 south 👀👀👀👀👀 . And some skyscraper robsuta I found there is another one but I’d have to go trespassing basically to see it in full view lol

June 12

10 hours ago, Robert Cade Ross said:

Webster area today lots and lots of new robustas planted along 45 south 👀👀👀👀👀 . And some skyscraper robsuta I found there is another one but I’d have to go trespassing basically to see it in full view lol

Some of those are indeed skyscrapers.

June 14

One of my Chamaedorea radicalis is flowering! Wasn't expecting this in only 3 years from seed lol. It's a great little filler palm

Livistona nítida is growing really fast

Tiny Archontophoenix alexandrae seedling survived unprotected. The ground is always warm even if the air temp is below 20F

June 14

9 minutes ago, Xenon said:

One of my Chamaedorea radicalis is flowering! Wasn't expecting this in only 3 years from seed lol. It's a great little filler palm

That's when mine started flowering, but I only had males the first year. I lost all of my first batch of fruits in the freeze at the start of the year, but I have 10 or so flowering now and several setting fruit again. Easily one of best palms for Houston.

June 14

2 hours ago, thyerr01 said:

Easily one of best palms for Houston.

Not just Houston but all of East and South Texas (most of the state)!

2 hours ago, Xenon said:

One of my Chamaedorea radicalis is flowering! Wasn't expecting this in only 3 years from seed lol. It's a great little filler palm

Yours looks like a female. This female non-trunking radicalis of mine flowered less than 2 years after it germinated in San Antonio shortly before Palmageddon surviving 9°F without protection. Then survived the transplant here with no males to pollinate it until new seedlings matured! Now I've got a bunch of seeds from this one and other females are producing too.

June 14

2 hours ago, thyerr01 said:

That's when mine started flowering, but I only had males the first year. I lost all of my first batch of fruits in the freeze at the start of the year, but I have 10 or so flowering now and several setting fruit again. Easily one of best palms for Houston.

Agree:) I’ve got 3 Tall form radicalis and one dwarf . And 200 Microspadix germinating currently. I’ll have plenty to share if anyone is interested next year:)

June 14

1 minute ago, Fusca said:

Not just Houston but all of East and South Texas!

Yours looks like a female. This female non-trunking radicalis of mine flowered less than 2 years after it germinated in San Antonio shortly before Palmageddon surviving 9°F without protection. Then survived the transplant here with no males to pollinate it until new seedlings matured! Now I've got a bunch of seeds from this one and other females are producing too.

I have another dozen or so around the yard so it should work out eventually. I don't find it to be a particularly exciting palm...but it is pinnate I guess 🤷‍♂️🌴

June 14

Here is my Cham - Metallica hidden in the corner in Alvin it’s in a pot for obvious reasons lol . And some Hawaii Ti plant action for yall 🥰

Edited June 14 by Robert Cade Ross
Typo

June 14

2 minutes ago, Xenon said:

I have another dozen or so around the yard so it should work out eventually. I don't find it to be a particularly exciting palm...but it is pinnate I guess 🤷‍♂️🌴

Yes, you're bound to get lots of seeds! It's not exciting, agreed, but it's super tough! Your Archontophoenix alexandrae is impressive - how much sun does it get? I have two that are not tiny but not that big either. I might go ahead and plant them out anyway.

June 14

8 minutes ago, Fusca said:

Yes, you're bound to get lots of seeds! It's not exciting, agreed, but it's super tough! Your Archontophoenix alexandrae is impressive - how much sun does it get? I have two that are not tiny but not that big either. I might go ahead and plant them out anyway.

I have a slightly bigger one that got some protection that is recovering. This one gets more sun but still only maybe 3-4 hours of morning sun and then mostly shade. But I have to place things in more shade than optimal so I can minimize the amount of protection I do in the winter.

There are some large pre-2021 alexander and maxima(?) in McAllen and Brownsville.

June 14

24 minutes ago, Xenon said:

There are some large pre-2021 alexander and maxima(?) in McAllen and Brownsville.

Yes, I just got a good sized maxima from guy in Harlingen who still has a couple of massive maxima in front of his house that produce seeds. I remember seeing them in 2017 so they survived 2021.

June 15

6 hours ago, Fusca said:

Yes, I just got a good sized maxima from guy in Harlingen who still has a couple of massive maxima in front of his house that produce seeds. I remember seeing them in 2017 so they survived 2021.

I need seeds ! Lol

June 15

7 hours ago, Fusca said:

Not just Houston but all of East and South Texas (most of the state)!

Yours looks like a female. This female non-trunking radicalis of mine flowered less than 2 years after it germinated in San Antonio shortly before Palmageddon surviving 9°F without protection. Then survived the transplant here with no males to pollinate it until new seedlings matured! Now I've got a bunch of seeds from this one and other females are producing too.

Less than two years is fast. Mine definitely flowered within 3 years though as well. These seem to mature very quickly.

June 15

$14.00 sabal minors for local Houston area people lol 😉. Wholesale prices great looking plants throughout the place and friendly workers @Riveras next to Kemah

June 15

1 hour ago, Ben G. said:

Less than two years is fast. Mine definitely flowered within 3 years though as well. These seem to mature very quickly.

This was where I got seeds and I documented my shock of such quick flowering! None of the other palms I germinated from that batch flowered prior to the big freeze and it's the only one that I transplanted.

June 16

I’ll have some 1 gal ribbons available in a few weeks if anyone local to the greater Houston area wants one

June 16

1 hour ago, Robert Cade Ross said:

I’ll have some 1 gal ribbons available in a few weeks if anyone local to the greater Houston area wants one

Me!

Out of all of my newly planted palms (36) last year, all 4 Chamaedorea radicalis took zero damage with zero protection. They outperformed every palm I had except for palmetto. And yes they do flower at about three years, I'm hoping I start getting some seed from mine, I want to do a mass planting of them.

June 16

On 4/26/2025 at 12:06 PM, Ben G. said:

I had a little time to look around a couple nurseries this morning I saw some huge and expensive specimen palms for sale, including a few you don't see commonly around here. I had to take a couple of pics of their Jubaeas though, since I have only ever seen one or two in person before:

They also had Brahea armata and edulis, it was kind of cool to see those too.

Was this moon valley?

June 16

3 hours ago, ahosey01 said:

Was this moon valley?

Yes it was. I knew going in that they have high prices, but what I leaned was that there was no rhyme or reason to the prices. A trachycarpus with 10 ft of trunk my be priced the same as a mule palm with 10 ft of trunk.

I can't recall the exact details but it was things like that. I was surprised that faster growing, more common palms were often priced the same as slow growing and/or rare palms.

June 16

9 minutes ago, Ben G. said:

Yes it was. I knew going in that they have high prices, but what I leaned was that there was no rhyme or reason to the prices. A trachycarpus with 10 ft of trunk my be priced the same as a mule palm with 10 ft of trunk.

I can't recall the exact details but it was things like that. I was surprised that faster growing, more common palms were often priced the same as slow growing and/or rare palms.

Yeah I think they truck all these Jubaeas in from California or something.

Ask them for the wholesale price, tell them you don't want any guarantees, and tell them you don't need it delivered or planted, and a lot of times they'll give you a reasonable price. It helps that often they have no clue what they're looking at. I bought a Majesty palm with a foot of trunk there that was already sun-adapted last year for like $200. I saw a 100g Need Palm (biggest one I've ever seen for sale) for like $1500 which isn't insane considering the size of the plant. Years back they sold me a 5ft ponytail palm with a base like 3ft across at a Phoenix location for $150 lol

Sometimes you can find some cool stuff there, most times not. Waiting for the day I find an accidental Jubaea x Syagrus cross. lol

June 16

12 minutes ago, Ben G. said:

Yes it was. I knew going in that they have high prices, but what I leaned was that there was no rhyme or reason to the prices. A trachycarpus with 10 ft of trunk my be priced the same as a mule palm with 10 ft of trunk.

I can't recall the exact details but it was things like that. I was surprised that faster growing, more common palms were often priced the same as slow growing and/or rare palms.

How big were the edulis and do you remember the price?

June 17

2 hours ago, ahosey01 said:

Yeah I think they truck all these Jubaeas in from California or something.

Ask them for the wholesale price, tell them you don't want any guarantees, and tell them you don't need it delivered or planted, and a lot of times they'll give you a reasonable price. It helps that often they have no clue what they're looking at. I bought a Majesty palm with a foot of trunk there that was already sun-adapted last year for like $200. I saw a 100g Need Palm (biggest one I've ever seen for sale) for like $1500 which isn't insane considering the size of the plant. Years back they sold me a 5ft ponytail palm with a base like 3ft across at a Phoenix location for $150 lol

Sometimes you can find some cool stuff there, most times not. Waiting for the day I find an accidental Jubaea x Syagrus cross. lol

Holy grail hybrid I’m dying for lol

June 17

15 hours ago, ahosey01 said:

How big were the edulis and do you remember the price?

The edulis were in boxes like the jubaea in the photo. They were a bit taller than the jubaea, but obviously not as large in total mass.

Unfortunately, I do not recall what they were asking for any of the braheas now. I just remember thinking that the price for the armatas seemed reasonable compared to things like windmills and washingtonias, which were priced around the same for similar sizes.

Based on what I can remember, I would guess they had them marked for $2500 to $4500 depending on size. Not cheap by any means, but considering how slow am armata grows, seems like a steal when they were asking the same for the windmills and washingtonias.

June 17

1 hour ago, Ben G. said:

The edulis were in boxes like the jubaea in the photo. They were a bit taller than the jubaea, but obviously not as large in total mass.

Unfortunately, I do not recall what they were asking for any of the braheas now. I just remember thinking that the price for the armatas seemed reasonable compared to things like windmills and washingtonias, which were priced around the same for similar sizes.

Based on what I can remember, I would guess they had them marked for $2500 to $4500 depending on size. Not cheap by any means, but considering how slow am armata grows, seems like a steal when they were asking the same for the windmills and washingtonias.

Their prices are just downright insane. You would probably be better off paying for shipping from Florida or California for a big palm and save a ton of cash. I bet if you went into a local palm nursery and asked them to special order in a Brahea it would be half that If you have ever been to palm nurseries on the West Coast you would understand my disgust at their prices.

I went in to the one in Conroe and they had Trachy's for $1800 that you could buy at Home Depot or Houston Garden Center for about $70. I saw Dactylifera for $18,000, they were tall but they weren't made of gold. And the the staff are like used car salesman. Do they have nice palms in stock? Definitely, but the prices are just so unreasonable.

June 17

1 hour ago, Chester B said:

Their prices are just downright insane. You would probably be better off paying for shipping from Florida or California for a big palm and save a ton of cash. I bet if you went into a local palm nursery and asked them to special order in a Brahea it would be half that If you have ever been to palm nurseries on the West Coast you would understand my disgust at their prices.

Exactly. This 15-gal Brahea armata with about 1' of trunk set me back a whole $70 at a nursery in Riverside, CA! I can only imagine what one a similar size costs at that place.

June 17

On 6/14/2025 at 7:51 PM, Robert Cade Ross said:

I need seeds ! Lol

Next time I go over there I'll see if he has any.

June 17

7 hours ago, Ben G. said:

The edulis were in boxes like the jubaea in the photo. They were a bit taller than the jubaea, but obviously not as large in total mass.

Unfortunately, I do not recall what they were asking for any of the braheas now. I just remember thinking that the price for the armatas seemed reasonable compared to things like windmills and washingtonias, which were priced around the same for similar sizes.

Based on what I can remember, I would guess they had them marked for $2500 to $4500 depending on size. Not cheap by any means, but considering how slow am armata grows, seems like a steal when they were asking the same for the windmills and washingtonias.

Lol when I planted my garden in Arizona I bought two Brahea armata with 10ft of trunk each and had them delivered to my house 100mi from the grower for like $1200.

June 17

7 hours ago, Chester B said:

Their prices are just downright insane. You would probably be better off paying for shipping from Florida or California for a big palm and save a ton of cash. I bet if you went into a local palm nursery and asked them to special order in a Brahea it would be half that If you have ever been to palm nurseries on the West Coast you would understand my disgust at their prices.

I went in to the one in Conroe and they had Trachy's for $1800 that you could buy at Home Depot or Houston Garden Center for about $70. I saw Dactylifera for $18,000, they were tall but they weren't made of gold. And the the staff are like used car salesman. Do they have nice palms in stock? Definitely, but the prices are just so unreasonable.

Agree 100% that their prices aren't realistic.

I have never lived anywhere (in the US) that had palms more available than my current location in the San Antonio area. So, I can't speak to exactly how much less expensive palms are in other areas...though I have been well aware that they are almost always less expensive in areas where they are more common (FL, CA, AZ, RGV, etc.)

I also understand and expect to pay more here... within reason. The farther you have to ship any product, the higher the price.

It just didn't make any sense to me that slower growing palms like Jubaea and Brahea armata would be sold for similar prices to palmettos, washingtonias, or trachycarpus.

June 18

15 hours ago, Ben G. said:

It just didn't make any sense to me that slower growing palms like Jubaea and Brahea armata would be sold for similar prices to palmettos, washingtonias, or trachycarpus.

Sometimes its just that way. Jubaea and Mules were the same price back in Oregon.

June 19

Got a nice Robusta growing next to NB City Hall.

June 19

Some Sabal Minor. Found a seeding one.

June 23

Pearland , Texas . June2025Phoenix sylvestris, Livistona decora, Ravenea rivularis, and an Archontophoenix(King) on bottom right.Phoenix theophrastii ‘Golkoy’Sabal uresanaButiaArchontophoenixCopernicia albaMedemia argun in rearHyphaene petersiana Beccariophoenix alfrediiAcrocomia totaiParajubaea torallyi x ButiaMule Palm

June 23

@Meangreen94z everything is looking pretty good. That's a pretty nice Butia too

Is that Hyphaene petersiana the same species as the one you gave me? The pot only said Hyphaene.

June 23

53 minutes ago, Chester B said:

@Meangreen94z everything is looking pretty good. That's a pretty nice Butia too

Is that Hyphaene petersiana the same species as the one you gave me? The pot only said Hyphaene.

It was either Hyphaene thebaica or coriacea. Most likely coriacea. You probably will have to look closely, it may have faded. I plan on growing more from seed but petersiana is hard to come by the in the U.S. .I bought them probably 6 years ago from RPS.

June 23

Baby rupicola hopefully it starts to take off this summer. From a friend in Devers Tx he has about 35 more if they start to establish nicely I can share them with anyone local the Houston area . They seem pretty resilient since the 3 in Webster have survived everything since being planted in 2019 Florida plant example lol 🤷‍♂️

June 23

2 hours ago, Meangreen94z said:

It was either Hyphaene thebaica or coriacea. Most likely coriacea. You probably will have to look closely, it may have faded. I plan on growing more from seed but petersiana is hard to come by the in the U.S. .I bought them probably 6 years ago from RPS.

I thought it was coriacea but after seeing your post you got me thinking I might have been mistaken.

June 23

On 9/10/2008 at 10:39 PM, palmdudetx said:

A nice CIDP, a couple of foxtails and a nice grouping of A. Cunninghamianas.

Marvin

Some inspirational blasts from the past! Yes full northen exposure unprotected in the arctic tundra of far west Houston/Katy. These were planted in the early 2000s and lived to see 2010. I'd pass by these palms all the time as a kid and gawked through the window lol

June 23

1 hour ago, Xenon said:

Some inspirational blasts from the past! Yes full northen exposure unprotected in the arctic tundra of far west Houston/Katy. These were planted in the early 2000s and lived to see 2010. I'd pass by these palms all the time as a kid and gawked through the window lol

This trio was noiceeeee 😍

June 23

7 minutes ago, Robert Cade Ross said:

This trio was noiceeeee 😍

@Robert Cade Ross what's the weather there...full sun in summer?

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