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This is published due to the efforts of Dr. Donald Hodel. Effusive gratitude to him ! I have hand pollinated this plant and distributed the offspring as Anthurium sp. 'Loja'. so now the lucky recipients has a true name for the plant. Please don't ask about availability. I have none, however I do plan to hand pollinate again, and the resultant offspring will be ready in 5 or 6 years ! https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2025-11/New Anthurium sp Loja Ecuador Croat and Hodel PALMARBOR September 2025.pdf

I keep forgetting that the name was changed back to Veillonia from Cyphophoenix…..old habits. Planted out from a 5 gallon back in mid 2017. Been a rather slow grower, but seems to be picking up speed lately. Takes forever for the leaf sheath abscission to occur but it’s worth the wait. Tim

This has been a fun palm to watch grow. I planted it in 2012 as a solid dark green 1 gallon. Slowly it became more and more silver on the bottom of the leaves and then started to turn silver on the tops. Now I have to climb on the roof to shoot a pic of the tops of the leaves and they are solid silver only loosing some their color as the leaf ages. Sorry for the Bigfoot quality photo on the first shot.

I’ll be 75 next June and immigrated from the Netherlands in 1956 at 5yrs old. Been into surfing all over the world, road racing bicycles on and off until 65 years old. Been a Palm society member since 1977, and now I’m on my second go round with my 13 years old garden in the hills of Vista/ Bonsall area of San Diego. I just finished spreading 36 cubic yards of mulch this week myself. I’m growing cycads, aloes, agaves, plumerias, protea, boojums, and of course palms. The world keeps on changing but I’m still the same cantankerous beast that I’ve always been 😎

Spent yesterday planting a few LHI palms down here in the sub-subtropics: H belmoreana ×3, Hedyscepe x 4, Lepidorrachis x 8. A few H forsteriana to come later. Weather was perfect for planting, still, overcast, humid and mild - my only regret is that I'm a bit sore this morning!

It's been a bit since I posted any photos, figured I'd share a few today since I spent some time cleaning up the yard. Our city's trash service does a once-a-year trash haul where you can dispose of as much green waste as you can pile out in front of your house along the street. It's the perfect opportunity to tidy things up, and convenient in that it's also when sunlight becomes a rare commodity with the low angle of the sun, so pruning (sorry, overpruning) overhead palms like my phoenix and syagrus is permissable 😆 Cycas revoluta x deboaensis up front. Ravenea glauca in the tall pot, sabal mauritiformis in the center back, and beccariophoenix alfredii to its left. Ravenea glauca is in the tall pot here Sabal mauritiformis, and the culprit that is causing those chunks of leaves to be missing. This week I also swung by Dave's fantastic garden in La Habra. A few shots from that visit. Thanks for the good time Dave! An oddball Chrysalidocarpus lutescens A big-o seed off of syagrus oleracea, if i recall A forest of Chambeyronia Of course, I couldn't leave without a few goodies. Here's the lineup: Archontophoenix maxima with the copper leaf genes From left to right: an oddball Chrysalidocarpus lutescens, wallichia disticha (in the tall liner), a syagrus (either oleracea or picrophylla), bismarckia nobilis & Gaussia gomez-pompae. A better look at the gaussia, and roystonea. The smaller palm is a chambeyronia. Of course, I picked up a few mangoes, which have become my most recent addiction lol they are Sugar Loaf, Harvest Moon and Sweet Tart. Finally, what seems like the last plumeria of the season at my place: Kaneohe Sunburst

This was a small 1 gallon palm I bought from Jeff Searle in 2006. Keeps on moving albeit slowly. 30” of trunk now.

Chrysalidocarpus Lutescens Solitary Form and a dwarf Areca catechu happy with all these recent rain.

I see now why I love my garden so much just like the test of us all. I see the hidden beauty in photographs I take. It always amazes me. it’s a beautiful gift a garden, one that is treasured. Just look at the gardener behind the garden and you see them in the garden style.

@kinzyjr sure, I was just making a suggestion. It doesn't help grow PalmTalk when a new member joins and post a desperate request for help...and then that post is immediately buried several pages deep by a single PT member. I've seen it happen several times recently. Of course, there's a fine line between "stifling discussion" and "preventing spam." But when people start posting threads about "where's the regulars?" then maybe it's time to address the root cause with a simple fix?

I've been away for a couple of weeks to a place with lots of palms and a lot of desert but uneven internet connections.

One of my hookeris exhibits a dark red from one direction and brilliant flame from the other. Sun at your back is not nearly as stunning as palm between you and the sun. I was advised here that the macrocarpa hookeri was a deeper from red than the regular macrocarpas by those with experience here. Last sunday the leaf opened and a 5 days later its seen 39 degrees 2 nights and is looking great. WInter and shade seem to make these palms stay red longer in my yard, even more true for the regular macrocarpa which for me turns fast to salmon green in 4 days or less. sun at my back its a dark red/maroon leaf seconds later the 180 degree view shows the "flame" the palm is known for with a transmitted light that is a brighter red.

Once the Hedyscepe starts to trunk they speed up a fair bit.

This is the 5th winter in the ground. The " Love Palm" (there's a story there) was purchased as a juvenile at a Home Depot in 2012. It has lived in two apartments, a town house, an office, briefly in a storage unit and in a garage before putting down roots five years ago. On nights below 29 or so it gets the Christmas lights and blankets treatment. Last winter we had snow on the ground for about three days and since the fronds are now way up there and too high for my ladder, I was unable to protect them. It experienced about 80% defoliation. But here we are in November and looking pretty good. The Washingtonia next to it was two feet tall five years ago. I can't protect it because it's so covered with thorns that any fabric would come off in shreds but it's been fine against that south facing wall.

Here's a few pics of one of my two Dypsis sp "dark mealy bugs" The first was taken in December 2015 which was probably two years after I originally planted it. ( planted in 2013 ) The remaining pics were taken today.

Still here and just posting less frequently. That's partially due to "finishing" my yard and moving on to other big tasks, and partially because a certain member keeps "spamming the board" with 20 or so new and yet somehow highly repetitive topics per day.

Anyone else with a Ravenea julietiae which has reached reproduction age? My male is just now pushing out a spathe which won't open for weeks. Share photos if you have them.

Another one of my all time favorites. Although in saying that, this particular Dypsis Carlsmithii has been an extremely slow grower. Started out from 8" pot and planted around 12 years now.

OK, sorry for the delay. Here are some Parajubaea palms in my neighborhood. Based on their massive size I assume that they are P. torrallyi, rather than P. cocoides. The middle image palm has started to flower. The last image palm is more than three feet in diameter. This garden is somewhat a mystery, just two palms species and some agave plants. ( The fan palms are Chamaerops.) It is possible that these palms were sourced from Flora Grubb Nursery. T

Last night the old leaf on this Rhopalostylis came off and I couldn't help noticing the spathe and spadix this morning. The spathe must have popped open and dropped overnight.

Sunrise on a pair of Chrysalidocarpus was captivating this morning. The Chrysalidocarpus onilahensis weepy form in the foreground and taller Chrysalidocarpus pembanus behind it.

Evening sun hitting this 2 headed Chrysalidocarpus Prestonianus Hybrid

I was doing some trimming this weekend and thought I would share my variegated parajubaea. It’s tall enough that I don’t get to really see it that much until I take a leaf down. Here’s a few pics.

L weddelianum today.

Skippy the bush kangaroo in amongst the palms.

Add my voice to those supporting a limit on number of new threads a single poster can make in a day. 🌱🌱🌱 I consider many of you to be great friends and have hesitated saying anything since I don’t want to hurt feelings, but it really is excessive! I do enjoy the photos, but I also enjoy seeing what’s going on in EVERYONE’s gardens (not just one person’s nursery). Seeing how fast new posts get buried is discouraging and makes me less likely to post than in the past. 😶 To be clear, I’m not saying anyone should stop posting! But do we really want one person to be the author of half of the posts on here? Especially when the posts are so similar. For example, can we perhaps have a single “my Joey palm collection” post and add to it (rather than a daily Joey palm update post)?

In my own case, still pushing down on the grass instead of up. Between work, my own garden, the gym, CFPACS, and once in a while, sleep, time is at a premium nowadays. Some of the folks on here that were frequent fliers went to other platforms like Facebook, Twitter/X, WhatsApp, etc., with several citing the reasons similar to @Merlyn's.

This young macrocarpa just “popped” today. Color should last at least two weeks with the cooler weather. Last winter, one of my macrocarpa held a bright red leaf for two months.

My experience is the opposite. My several macrocarpa have the most intense ruby red new fronds and my four hookeri have a red that ranges from orangish to pink. Here’s my youngest macrocarpa last winter two top photos and one of my hookeri.

Well, well, well, first flowering for my Lemurophoenix. A few weak prior attempts but, finally. Planted as a 3 gallon back mid 2008 from Bo Lundkvist stock. That seventeen years has gone by like a rocket. Tim

Yesterday I managed to muster up the fortitude to go for a short walk on part of the property and see how the drought affected things, looks like the little Areca stilt palm died along with six or seven others out right but other things look pretty amazingly well considering what they’ve been through.

A flash of red in my shade garden

Fresh crownshafts and growth rings on Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus. Love the colours on the thing, and the fact it’s still alive down here!

This plant is about 23 years old .

I have been asked by Director Glenn Franklin to introduce the 2025 IPS Save the Species campaign. This program began with the successful Tahina fundraiser which ran on PalmTalk. It is now a very important part of our non profit mission statement (Education, Research, Conservation). “ Our December Save The Species fundraiser is coming up for this small palm. Photo by "Olivier Reilhes Ravenea louvellii is endemic to Madagascar. Our fundraiser will help finance efforts to document additional palms, involve the local community and start a propagation program. The team of botanists from Madagascar led by Dr. Mijoro Rakontoarinivo. Over his professional coreer he has previously worked side by side with our own Dr. John Dransfiel and Dr. Bill Baker at Kew.” More posts to come.

Hah! It's definitely a jungle already

I am 81- 1/2 year old. Joined this Forum in 2013 . Grew up in Daytona Beach , but only discovered the Palm Society in about 1964 , while spending time in one of the local Libraries looking for palm info , and in one of the books , it slowly dawned on me that many of the pictures looked like my town !! Further searching revealed the Palm Society , and the Dent Smith connection etc . Been hanging in there for all of this time . Still active , and occasionally adding a new palm , but my yard is limited in size , so.....

05.11.2025 Ålesund, Norway 🇳🇴 Palms and northern lights.

H rheophytica twas today.

Yeah, I regret wasting so much time endlessly scrolling the Book of Face. I have a friend who I swear spends 3/4 of his waking hours on some antisocial media site. I told him I'd rather spend my spare time tweezing nose hairs with a pair of rusty sporks.

Pritchardua ? And lipstick

Mr Latzias sent me these pictures of his V. alba the other day Tim. They really are cracking palms.

I've been nursing this underwatered tree back to health. I just had to share. Santa Barbara, CA

A beautiful palm the onilihanses, majestic and always standing proud in the garden. A nice flower has formed and with any luck a few seeds will set, it has produced viable seeds in the past so a good bit of water and I might get lucky.

Saw this Crysalidocarpus onilahensis ‘weeping form’ at Floribunda a few months back. Stopped me, and everyone else, in our tracks. Tim

I didn’t know I could grow Cyrtostachys renda but I guess I can. 😀

Great hobby to share with the children . I remember my little girl , then a toddler , following me around with her pink beach pail “helping “ me plant palms everywhere around our home . She would go with me to Jungle Music and different palm specialty nurseries around the north San Diego area on “ safari “ . Cherish the memories , as your palms grow , the child’s voices will echo after they have grown and left the nest . My favorite …” Why are you trying to hide our house , Dad ?” Now , at 71 it means so much. Once , while visiting us on holiday , she posted on social media a photo of the view from our deck with a one word caption “Home” ! Harry

Here is one of my macrocarpa, top photo is when the spear first split, and the second is maybe a week later. The last photo is a week after that.

Probably the genus I obsess over more than most. Got a nice husky P. forbesiana from floribunda several years ago. Followed by a becarriana I previously posted, but just is turning into a monster.