All Activity

I also have a Dioon Edule to plant. Not sure which form. Got a little sunburnt, so I’ll probably acclimate it and plant it next year.

I’m new to cycads. Probably won’t have room to plant all of these. Most of these are hybrids. Will probably plant the big E. Arenarus, soon. Was curious is anyone had tried these crosses, or anything similar? I’m thinking about planting maybe 3-4 for the time being. Recommendations? I think I got the tags right. E. Arenarus E. Lehmanii x (blue) E. Longifolious E. Middelburgiensis x Dyerianus x (back crossed) Dyerianus E. Munchii E. Horrida E. Horrida x E Arenarus Giant Nubimontanus x Spiny Cupidis

Great space you have. The plants look happy. Harry

My biggest Lati is 11” in a 25 gal. as well. When I potted mine up from a 15 gal. It was completely rootbound!

Looks like a portion of the show followed you home , great score! Harry

Looks like it took a bit of a hit . The new growth is still healthy but keep an eye on it . I haven’t tested cold hardiness on mine but they do seem to be pretty tough palms . The bummer , at least for me , would be slow growth = slow to come back. Harry

Yep , and at least one gardener took some paradise home! Harry

Hello. I’m worried about my Chinese fan palm (livistona chinensis). I’m near San Antonio TX. It survived the winter freeze (we covered it) but then recently, most fronds started turning brown. There’s still green growth coming out of the bulb but it still seems weird. Ideas? Thank you!

Okay thank you I actually had a king palm and a kentia palm survive with me with zero protection and no damaged it handle 25 degrees

Hopefully those hybrids are as cold hardy as the regular decipiens (wishful thinking!). I know @JEFF IN MODESTO had a gorgeous decipiens if that's who you're referring to. That's a good palm for you but maybe a little tricky getting them going from a small size. I don't believe the coco queen can handle temps below 25°F but maybe you can get one to survive for awhile anyway. Could be an expensive trial. @OC2Texaspalmlvr tried a couple nice large ones in a warm 9a Houston but a wet freeze killed them. I don't recall the ultimate low that nailed them (maybe 23°?) but maybe TJ can give you more details.

Looking good! That C. Decaryi sure took on some size ….as did the others. Harry

If you had told me what the weather would be like and the location I would’ve never thought there would be this damage. I don’t know what to say about it really, just reporting what I’m seeing. I thought I had some damage to the Bismarckia fronds and the Sabal causiarums only. I felt good and then this last week I started seeing damage on so many palms. I forgot to mention I also lost a Brahea moorei. That one showed damage right away and went downhill quick, even though it survived 19F last year. I also saw Katy got like a tenth of an inch from the storm on Saturday night and I got 4.5” with the additional rain on Sunday. Totally opposite. I expect next year most of these palms will be established enough that I won’t be seeing this again. But who knows I feel you can never predict how palms will do over winter. Further to your point all the palms around me and Houston for the most part look great. It’s only when I get up to Tomball that I see damage from this past winter.

How tall and old is this Copernicia? Do the fronds take the heat and sun and monsoon well? It looks amazing!

Looks like my 2 good Washingtonias might just make a steady recovery, almost certain the first one will but iffy about the second one as it has white at the bottom of the spears but won’t pull. Replaced the dead windmills in new spots with better holes this time. Good luck to everyone else, apparently we will be seeing the 30s again later this week hopefully not below freezing though.

These are my dypsis decipens f2 hybrids and one normal dypsis decipens that I’m gonna grow in Lancaster California zone 9a I got them from floribunda palms I hope they are going to survive we almost only get to low to mid 20s in winter only 1 -2 times a year I hope they do well any tips I know I guy from Modesto grew them so I’m confident I’m also gonna try the coco queen palm next

I am growing a couple of different Puya species, but not the one you have. As Jonathon mentioned, give them room; like other bromeliads they want to form a colony. The genus is known for having very aggressively armed leaves. Weeding around them is dangerous, particularly the larger growing species. Flowers on some species can be spectacular, but require years of patience in between flowering. Mine are grown without direct irrigation, they get water from adjacent plants on drip, rain (we get about 10" /year here on average) and a little hose squirt once in a while. I grow with Aloes, Encephalartos genus Cycads and other drought tolerant plants. I'm growing in fast draining soil too, so water doesn't stick around long when they do get a drink. Here is a little background on some different Puya species I'm growing and their blooming history: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/74913-puya-bloom-after-12-years-in-the-ground/#comment-1076416 You can see a little about Puya Yakespala on iNaturalist too: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/847372-Puya-yakespala Good luck and get some welding gloves if you ever plan to weed around it... my wife has me get out my safety glasses too.

I was searching for something and this thread popped up. I decided to update this phot of the entryway, since it has changed a bit during the intervening period from March of 2018 to March of 2026. 8 years will do that... to gardens and people. This is the Leucadia house. I will have to get some updated photos of the garden in Carlsbad at another time.

It's like we live in alternate realities. I'm not seeing anything remotely like the damage you're describing. I drive by tons of mostly abandoned Chamaerops and Butia every day and there isn't a scratch on any of them. Maybe the frost cloth is hurting your palms? All no protection: Livistona nitida - zero 0.0% burn on all leaves except for spear pull on 2 newest leaves, already pushing up growth. Livistona decora - 16-18 inch high seedlings, slight tip burn on a few Livistona chinensis - mostly undamaged Sabal rosei - no damage Sabal causiarum - no damage Sabal guatemalensis - tip burn to 30% burn on older leaves Bismarckia - mostly defoliated but pushing growth Queens x2 - one is only 30% burned, another is mostly defoliated but pushing growth Chuniophoenix nana - defoliated but pushing growth Bonus Lytocaryum hoehnei covered with a cardboard box (no heat) - no damage

A true gardeners paradise!

Our daytime highs were well above freezing, sunny and dry. No way I could take them all off and put them back on, it took 8 hours with my wife helping so I left them on. We had one cold day at 36 and the rest were in the 60s and 70s with only two nights below freezing at 23 and 26. Next year I'm not protecting anything other than the Bismarckia and newly planted small ones. Some of the palms will be going into their 3rd winter, and if they can't handle a brief dip to mid 20s then too bad for them. Aside from the Bismarckia all of my palms are rated for growing well below my zone. I'm trying to be conservative and still getting burned. The good news is that beside the one Chamaerops it looks like all will survive and have plenty of time to put on some good growth. The period between our average first and last frost date is 2 months, but each year I've had about 330 growing days.

Clinostigma samoense Clinostigma with Astrocaryum, Pritcharia, and Attalea in the foreground. Tim

It was actually by my Sabals that’s what I thought it was probably 200’ from my Butia!!

Right now, it's 78° tomorrow it will be in the 80s i'm not complaining at all! lol

No kidding!!! The area in the 3rd picture looks like great mulch, until you kneel down on it. Then you discover that it's all Encephalartos Whitelockii leaves, which are covered in thorns. It'll be fine by the summer when the rains help break down the stabbiness.

@Merlyn Don't drop a match unless you want to start from scratch LOL. Glad some of the stuff made it and/or is coming back.