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This sunrise caught my eye as I venture out onto our deck . Harry Sunrise over the palms….

Oh, and I forgot to mrntion... This 42" pot isn't too heavy on it's own, when full of potting soil and a decent palm tree, I wouldn't try to move it... It's very heavy and awkward... Butch

Beautiful Gyuseppe 🤗

Walt's wife just posted on the main forum on an Elaeis guineensis post that he passed away in June 2025. I don't know if she is aware of this subforum so figured I would post here. I never met Walt, however, have been following his posts on his garden since approximately 2003. He was one of the first contributors who regularly posted photos in posts, which I always appreciated because I lived in Seattle, WA at the time and loved seeing palm photos. It was fascinating learning about the difference between USDA zones in CA and FL because of him, as he would "famously" grow coconuts in USDA zone 9b! He also would share photos of his trees that would recover from seasonal frosts. Anyways, his posts will be missed!

I am so sorry to hear about Walter! I have been following photos of his garden in Lake Placid since approximately 2003! He taught so many people about growing palms in central Florida. Thank you for letting us know.

Hi Carlos, This is Walter's wife, Walter passed away in June. I haven't seen any seeds from oil palm yet. Lots of (teddy bear) seeds Dypsis leptocheilos . Cathy

Nice choices. There are so many palms that grow very well here , it would be hard to choose three . Harry

@Harry’s Palms @Butch Thank you both very much, I will work to get this palm in a larger pot.

Sure looks nice there . I am so glad it handled the move so well. There is something about successful transplants that rewards the gardener. Planting a palm and watching it grow is great , digging one up and transplanting it , then seeing it thrive is awesome! I have been gifted palms from people who no longer wanted them , “ just dig ‘em up and you can have them” , it’s truly gratifying. I have dug up and moved volunteers , same feeling. Harry

some of my ALSTROEMERIA in bloom, called lily of the Andes of Peru

Here are a couple of pics from the garden and the parent to your babies! Harry One of two that produce copious amounts of fruit . This is the smaller one of the two. A Ceroxyline ( spelling?) at the Sullivan garden. Hedyscape that is doing quite well in Ventura at their apartment building by Ventura College. Looking up at the SECOND STORY of the building ( to give scale).

Zamia inermis- Hand-Pollinated, only an extra 20 seeds this year. $35($1.75 each). Plus Shipping. Beachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Good going mate! I am still holding out hope for some here . Terry Sullivan ( his family is the owner of the parent palms) told me it takes quite some time to germinate and are tricky here. I have had a few success messages from folks I distributed to . If only one palm grows from my efforts , it will have been worth the effort. The parent palms are such lovely examples that it seems only right that the seeds are germinated for others. Terry told me the back story of the palms . His mother and father had a tropical nursery in Ventura in about 1951 ( the year Terry was born) and they had only 3 seeds which became the two palms that are gifting the world with all these seeds! When I first saw the palms , about 1990 , they were such a statement that I had to ask what they were . My mentor at the time was very familiar with the garden and told me . I would ride my bicycle by there occasionally just to see the collection. A few years later I met Terry at a coffee bar and after a brief conversation realized he was Pauline’s son! We are still friends to this day . A very nice family and super generous. Harry

a constant delight to the eye, Richard, that's exactly what my twin sister says while she's here and we thougt 🤗

I would love to get some plants or seeds of the oil palm if you had them. I am just a bit north of you.

Seedlings are impossible from Europe in to the USA. Because I am in that respect fortunate to live in a region with clearly distinct 4 seasons and reclinata and roebelenii have overlapping blooming times apart from any other Phoenix sp, and because there is no other reclinata growing perhaps in the whole region, I may be able to gather some odd naturally pollinated fruits from my female reclinata, which surely will result from cross pollination with roebelenii.

If I get a sick palm in my garden or spear pull even runt palms, depending on how rare it is. I just dig them out. Not wasting precious grow time on something that’s most likely going to struggle all its life or eventually die. Only the toughest for this garden. The same for cold protection, nothing in the way of cold protection if it lives it lives, you save a lot of heartache and you also make way for new palms not wasting your time on struggling palms!

tried many times, but always dead in summer

A few more exotics going in again! It’s not only rare palms but the exotics accent the palms and the palms accent the exotics! Draceana surcullosa zingiber sp from Borneo cycas deboansis x multipinata

crysophilla warscewizianus Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons Chuniophoenix nana All looking rather good! And they catch my eye continually!

I can see a palm in there, that’s all we need!

A gift from a palm talk member @Harry’s Palms sent me some decipens seeds. They have germinated quite well and apparently they came from a well know palm growers collection. Which makes them even more special to me. I put some seeds in and the rest got disturbed to a few other fellow palm talk members in Australia. And it seems none of there ones have germinated yet, so if those couple of growers need a lesson on germinater palm seeds iam running a online course just for those couple of members 🤣 so they can’t blame the seeds! But jokes aside thank you Harry for the lovely gift of seeds, they have become rather special now! Richard

All sold ,Thanks.

Awesome! Random Medemia and Hyphaene in the middle of nowhere is wild

A good question...possibly a missionary? I imagine some of them were probably amateur botanists or at least keen gardeners.