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The FIRST “Weekend-Biennial”: Rio Grande Valley
by IPS President- 1 follower
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I am super excited to announce a new travel concept from the International Palm Society. Introducing the “Weekend Biennial”! And our first will be in the Rio Grande Valley this December: Friday night December 12 - Sunday afternoon, December 14, 2025 We’re equally thrilled to partner with the Palm Society of South Texas and their indefatigable president @Chuck M PSST This will be an unequaled opportunity to mingle with fellow Palm-talkers, view palms in habitat, visit private gardens, enjoy lectures by noted botanical experts, and we are particularly proud of the included meals featuring local specialties. Of course there is much more to follow and I …
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Don’t Miss This!
by Cindy Adair- 1 follower
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Planting a few Ernest augustii Chams
by happypalms- 1 reply
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With a couple of Chams to spare why not plant a row of them along the path to the greenhouse. Germinated these few from a RPS batch of 200 seeds and lucked up in the Chamaedorea department. A nice row will make for a nice casual walk to the greenhouse sort of the driveway of driveways only to the greenhouse!
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A couple of lovely caudescens ready for planting out. I have some lovely specimens in the garden already and shade growing seems to be what they like not deep shade but bright shade at least in my climate. I have two that are in sunny positions that just don’t perform as good the shade grown cousins. They do like any amount of water you give them. And they are quite cool tolerant along with being quite tough. Another lovely palm well worth growing in any garden. And iam sure there is a nice spot somewhere in the garden!
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A lovely Cocothrinax Alta in the garden
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A trio of Alta to make the garden a bit special. While not planted in a group they look just as good as singles planted on their own. All are 23 years old so slow and in dry part of the garden, with irrigation having been installed 2 years ago. And there is a slight difference in growth with a little extra water. One beautiful palm well worth growing in any collection.
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Coconut rhinoceros beetle 1 2
by WaianaeCrider- 3 followers
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I have two royals that have been in the ground around 22 years. I treated the first today for Coconut rhinoceros beetle prevention (I hope). with Imicide capsules containing 3 mg each. Hope I drilled deep enough for the liquid to get absorbed and taken up to the crown. Will probably do the next tomorrow as I'm fighting a hernia and bending over hurts. The cost for 24 capsules was $175.95 plus tax. I have 7 pritchardias which will also need treatment. At this price I sure hope I save these. There are at least 16 more large palms, 22 year old palms but so far I don't see damage The one on the right is a Roystonea regia and the one on the left is Roystonea olerac…
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Trachycarpus fortunei crashing down
by palmtreesforpleasure- 2 replies
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30 minutes ago a large crashing noise had us running outside in the wind and rain to see what happened. For only the second time in 33 years a palm blew down at home. A 40 year old 5m trunking Trachycarpus fortunei came crashing down A few old Chamaedorea sartorii are not to happy either under the fallen trunk. The Clivea's are not happy either. for the next 2 days the wind and rain are increasing so hopefully nothing else will come down. Very lucky not to live in extreme storms zones like many others. Such is life...... regards Colin
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CRB
by Brad52- 3 replies
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Yesterday I saw YouTube video that was a feed of a local news program about coconut rhinoceros beetle. The story was mainly about a product that was being promoted that for one individual had eradicated the beetles on his property and he had lost 1000 palms prior to using this product. He now is a vendor of the treatment method so take that with a grain of salt of course. Apparently the beetles here are from Guam and I think the product was created in Guam perhaps but basically they have an auger and they drill holes around the base of the plant and put in this product which is supposed to be safe you can eat the coconuts, not harmful to bees, pets blah blah blah. It …
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washintonia 🌴 My first ever outdoor planting 🌴
by JohnAndSancho- 13 replies
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Volunteer Washies from @Fusca, who I have tagged in 196 posts this week. I didn't sleep, so I figured I'd sweat less if I went out at 7am. NOPE. Anybody who does this for a living has my utmost respect. I broke up lots of grass and gravel, found the brick barrier and started digging along that before I said screw it and just laid the landscape timber down to mark it. I dug my holes way too deep, and they're in a mix of good organic soil and native soil after I shook out inches of grass roots out of it, then drenched everything. It drains. They didn't fall over. They're not under the eaves of the roof to catch condensation and rain, they'll get plenty of sun, and I w…
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Brahea brandegeei blue, natural variation or hybrid?
by Phoenikakias- 4 replies
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It originates from an batch of seeds produced by my own specimen. It used to have more blue tinges that other seedlings in the community pot, but this summer with more sun exposure It is really standing out! What do you think it more probable, natural variation or hybrid?
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Veitcha Joannis gets planted
by happypalms- 1 follower
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An easy palm to grow the joannis. I collected these seeds in my home town of Grafton. I was very surprised find one that planted in Grafton it was in a business premises so the landscaper knew his stuff. It gets cold in winter in Grafton down to minus one or two degrees Celsius on rare occasions, another surprise to me I thought it would be a palm that was not cool tolerant. So a bit of asking the office lady and the seeds were mine free to a good home. So that’s this palm came to be in my collection. I gave most of the seeds away and germinated around 30 for myself to plant in my garden.
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Is my King Palm a gonner?
by Clementyne- 1 follower
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UPDATE The arborist took 3 weeks to get here, but in the meantime I've been doing peroxide and copper fungicide every 2 or 3 days. I can definitely hear fizzing. They pulled on the middle spear and it came out, and they said its dead and won't survive. We picked out a new palm and had to buy the warranty. I think that's how they make their money.They don't care if your Palm tree dies.You just have to keep purchasing that warranty.Which covers the cost of the tree. The arborist seemed more interested in trying to get us to let them trim our big trees for $1800, HARD NOOO.!!! So here is what it looked like when they showed up last week, and what it look…
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A little AI debate
by happypalms- 13 replies
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Ok with AI apparently becoming the supreme being that is going to handle all the world’s problems and solve them. Well this little example is a contradiction to what they have big plans for us in mind coercion through the internet. One AI states not a palm misspelled, the other states you can propagate it. Who is feeding this machine of shear stupid nonsense. Yes AI has a place in the world for sure to a certain degree, but on the other hand a computer is only as good as the human brain behind it!
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Christmas palms are so popular but I don't really like them past their juvenile stage. And most adult specimens that I see around the neighborhood aren't that well taken care of. Can I see some well-maintained christmas palms so I can decide how I feel. Thanks!
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Pics of the crop @happypalms
by happypalms- 3 replies
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A few favourites from the past enjoy!
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Looking down lord Howe Island Alley
by Tassie_Troy1971- 11 replies
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Got this view last week of some of my Lord Howe Island 🏝 Palms from the upper deck.
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Hi all - I'm very new to this so apologize for the newb question. I bought a pair of nice looking r. regia from @Joe palma and planted them about 6 weeks ago. I planted them in full sun in my yard which is west-facing and on a big slope - I'm about 10 miles from the coast in San Diego. They look... fine. I've been watching the spear-growth since planting and it seems to have slowed down in the last few weeks, which is what worries me. Shortly after planting it was probably ~1 cm/day and it has since slowed to maybe 1mm/day. My question is: should I react and try to change anything? or is this just some combination of transplant shock or the fact that it just started …
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The Southernmost Cocos nucifera in Brazil
by Arnaud84- 2 replies
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Hello everyone, This is my first post on PalmTalk and I’d like to share with you some findings from my research. It’s often said that the southernmost coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) in Latin America are found in Brazil, just a bit further south than Florianópolis. And indeed, on the coast of the state of Santa Catarina, they are planted quite densely. South of there, plantings become more sporadic. Although it was a bit of a painstaking task, I had fun virtually exploring the streets of the coastal towns in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil’s southernmost state. I managed to spot about a dozen coconut palms along the coast near Porto Alegre. The coastline…
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King hybrid Palm (Mule Palm)
by Clementyne- 1 follower
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We have a King hybrid and it's been in the ground since last fall. We are in Goodyear AZ. It Was doing great! Now we just got back from a weekend away and see the new growth died. What do we do from here? The tree is under warranty. Can it still survive?
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Some pioneer palms for the new garden, they will help in creating a microclimate, planting them along with a few trees will help to start a canopy. And also break up the harder more difficult areas to garden in, once the ground has shade in my climate it completely changes, more moisture means better growing conditions. You just have to make that start with new plants sooner or later!
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PACSOA trip to Phil Redhead’s private garden and nursery: Sunshine Coast, Australia
by Jonathan Haycock- 2 followers
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What a privilege to visit Phil’s garden and wholesale nursery (Eumundi Palms) on the Sunshine Coast. It’s something I’ve been wanting to do since moving up to Queensland more than 3 years ago now!!!. The stand out for me was this incredible Cyrtostachys renda hybrid (C. renda x C. elegans). Hopefully one day it’ll produce viable seed, and there will be no shortage of customers for the resulting palms I’m sure, as they thrive in the sub-tropics.
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Coconut palm from Jamaica showing little growth in a pot in Ohio
by Dave near Akron- 12 replies
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I brought this back in February and although it's not dead it is showing VERY little growth. I had it in the house the rest of the winter. Any suggestions?
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It was planted June 2024 and it’s been doing great. It’s summer now in SoCal Zone 10b and it has been about 75 to 85 degrees these last few weeks. I’ve watered it twice a week since I had it and it’s been doing well until I noticed this frond started turning yellow two days ago. It gets PM sun and I haven had issues until this week. Does anyone have an idea what’s going on? Is it too much water, not enough, or is fertilizer missing? What I can I do help it ASAP. It has two pipes for deep watering and it has an irrigation drip underneath. The drip system waters every Monday and I do the manual watering every Thursday.
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Hello All, So a total newbie here. I am just really starting to get into gardening and, with so many conflicting things you find online, figured I'd join this site to see about getting the real low down. I live at a beach here in Florida, the Gulf side, on the intercoastal. My yard is all shell with dirt underneath the weed mat and, unfortunately, a large part of it is along the street on a corner and, over the years, I have had so many cars for whatever reason drive onto the shell, and it always crushes them and leaves tire tracks that I have to go out and rake flat. Suffice it to say, I'm over it! This has got me wanting to plant some palms along this …
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Cuban Copernicia sp ID, please.
by Alberto- 12 replies
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Would anyone know how to identify the species of these 3 Cuban Copernicia sp plants that I bought years ago in a nursery in Corupá, Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil? I forgot to protect these plants from frost and left them exposed to the sky (without a cover to avoid the formation of ice on the surfaces and the temperature of -1.05⁰C according to the agro-metereological station 500m from the house. Apparently without any damage.
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