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Hey everyone, hope everyone is having a great growing season! This is my annual NYC palm post. This palm just keeps growing. It grows all seasons (including winter) im guessing it's at least 15 feet? My daughter is 5'6. I've seen other windmills but they where in a greenhouse in the Bronx botanical garden. If anyone has some pics of there east coast palms please post.. thanks in advance... Bobby

I walked the Garden Lot around noon today and the heat and swelter were overbearing. I noticed my juvenile Tahina spectabilis has sent up several pristine leaves after growing little in summer 2023 or winter 2024. During Hurricane Ian in 2022 it was crushed by falling Livistonas and Bismarckias. I really thought it was a goner but gradually it produced leaves again from its underground meristem. Summer 2023 was hot and drought-stricken. We got less rain that rainy season than we got the previous winter. Winter 2024 was chilly, cloudy (94+ days of clouds) and wet - just what tropical palms hate and mine limped into spring with a lot of yellow cold-spotted leaves. But since the heat and normal rainfall have returned my beleaguered palms are happily growing again, my lone Tahina included Tahina spectabilis, Cape Coral, FL, July 2024

I have been selling palms online for almost 8 years and no longer have the time so I need to thin out my potted palm stock. Priced to sell quickly. Plants organized into several price categories. Pickup only, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida. No hold requests. Cash or check. PM for address. $5 - Mostly 3.5" x 5" Deep Pots (12) Arenga pinnata (8) Archontophoenix maxima (5) Calyptrocalyx elegans (2) Chambeyronia macrocarpa - Flamethrower var. 'watermelon' (7) Copernicia gigas (5) Copernicia hospita (4) Copernicia baileyana (15) Corypha utan (5) Cyphophoenix nucele (2) Dictyosperma album (3) Dictyosperma album var. conjugatum (20) Dypsis madagascariensis (Mahajanga form) x Dypsis cabadae F2 Hybrid (9) Kentiopsis olivformis (4) Rhapsis excelsia (3) Sabal bermudana (3) Sabal causiarum (2) Sabal maritima (2) Sabal miamiensis (25) Sabal palmetto (5) Sabal yapa (2) Thrinax radiata (4) Washingtonia filifera (4) Wodyetia bifurcata $7 - Mix of 5.5" x 5.5" Square and 1G (2) Baccariophoenix alfredii (2) Dypsis lastelliana "Red Neck" Cocothrinax argentata Coccothrinax miraguama havanensi Cocothrinax sp. (6) Copernicia macroglossa (5) Elaeis guineensis "African Oil Palm" (1) Latania lontaroides Sabal causiarum (3) Saribus rotundifolius var. black trunk Saribus rotundifolius (3) Schippia concolor (5) Pinanga adangensis Pinanga coronata (4) Roystonea regia $15 - Mix or 2G to 7G (3) Attalea cohune (8) Baccariophoenix alfredii (4) Borassus aethiopum (3) Chambeyronia macrocarpa (2) Cyrtostachys elegans (1) Coco nucefria Panama tall (6) Clinostigma savoryanum (1) Dypsis saintelucei (3) Dypsis lastelliana "Red Neck" (1) Howea belmoreana (1) Howea forsteriana (1) Hyophorbe lagenicaulis (2) Kentiopsis olivformis (5) Livistona saribus (2) Mauritia flexuosa (1) Pritchardia hillebrandii (1) Pritchardia thurstonii (1) Sabal causiarum (4) Sabal mauritiformis (2) Sabal lisa (2) Sabal yapa (1)Thrinax radiata $5 - Miscellaneous Plants (2) Cordia sebestena, Orange Geiger Tree (5) Bauhinia tomentosa Tree (3) Cananga odorata, Ylang Ylang Tree (2) Ensete Superbum, Musa Superba Banana (4) Colocasia gigantea, Thai Giant (4) Solandra longiflora Vine (2) Senna ligustrina

FORGETABOUTIT!!! Wild Pseudophoenix ekmanii are only located in the Juragua national park, SW corner of DR next to the Haiti border. It's a very dangerous area to be in due to the human and drug smugglers,and the unforgiving terrain. Closest visible trees are a 5 mile hike through a spiny forest from any roadway. The area is NOT a tourist destination,although Bahía de las Águilas is a beautiful beach nearby for the locals. The botanical garden in Santo Domingo is probably the only other spot in the country you will be able to see a living example of the species, that could be considered a family friendly destination. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Could you please give ID this palm? Thank you.

Just picked up some great palms, plenty left!

Looks like Aiphanes minima.

New growth! Around when I posted here I trimmed some clearly dead fronds leaving some that maybe had a little green - this was pretty ugly as the ones with potential were lower or in the middle. A couple weeks after posting here the spear pulled. I poured more hydrogen peroxide down the center and nothing bubbled up. Most of the barely greenish fronds not trimmed before continued to turn browner, and it seemed that all but one had no greenish at all. It’s been looking sadder. The pics in first post here don’t do it justice as brown and droopy it had become. But it was looking even worse. So surprised to see some new growth,

Trithrinax acanthocoma is a rare palm in nature in southern Brazil. In my state Paraná it appears wild only in a few municipalities, like Laranjeiras do Sul. It is also a very rare sight in parks and gardens and years ago, even totally absent in nurseries. Nowadays you can find them easier wit a bit of luck. On the other side, the chinese Trachycarpus fortunei, that here are also called "buriti" in nurseries, are one of the the most common palms. Both palms show some superficial similarities, but my humble opinion is that Trithrinax acanhocoma are a A LOT more beatifull then the commonly grown Trachycarpus fortunei palms. The bigger, stiffer and round leaves are a lot more attractive. Depending on the provenance they can be green or more silver green, specially the abaxial side of the leaves. My first buriti-palito palm I saved from the chainsaw 24 years ago. It was growing in a garden in the neighbouring city of Ponta Grossa and where it would be removed because of new construction. The owner gave it to me. Later I cultivated palms from seeds, bought several others from different origins. Now I have +- 25 buriti-palito growing in the garden and in and the side of my araucaria forest.

A friend came by and hooked me up for my birthday. Iguanura speciosa

Butia archeri Diamantina are greener. I saw them in habitat in 2010. They look like my cultivated B. archeri

Some great books worth having as a resource for reference are worth it in any library with vast knowledge from Authors all around the globe who are passionate about the field they work in most of my collection of books I purchased way before I was using the internet and I still go through them for that extra reference point on a certain plant you can learn a lot from a book.

Correct, I've been dealing with this issue for the past 10 years one thing I have learned is there is no cure,the tree dies no matter what! We have lost all of our canary trees but have had success with Bismark palms they are more hearty.

A Phalaenopsis that moved outside last winter is reblooming in the garden right now. Behind it I have a Meiracyllium trinasutum var album on a stick in bloom. It is hanging from the boot of a Pritchardia facing east to provide sun protection.

The baby N°2401 looks exactly like its parent N°1603 eight years ago: 😁

The only surviver not germinating so far … The pollen from N°1401 were quite old.

Recovering from storm damages last winter:

The first baby of my L itapebiense N°1603:

Plumeria obtusa, AKA Singapore Plumeria. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/167075-Plumeria-obtusa

But those are predominantly Washingtonia robusta. I see a couple of Syagrus way in the background in a couple of the photos, mainly in picture #3, but all those tall palms are Washingtonia.

A well-grown Syagrus romanzoffiana is a thing of beauty. Iconic photos of San Diego: Just sayin'... Photos borrowed from various sources on the web, the only credit I found was for the Newport Avenue sunset: Brian McClean

I’m well aware of my local temperatures. I know what I’m getting into with having a few 9b plantings. I have at least 11 palms in the ground that I would consider to be hardy to my zone, with about 10 zone pushers. Granted, some of these zone pushers are now considered hardy to my zone according to the newest USDA map. Im not afraid to lose something like a majesty or cat palm, they’re easily replaceable. My 10a+ stuff stays in pots except the foxtail which is solely experimental anyways.

Yep , I have one! Harry

These are far from the big spectacular flushes that members normally post but it is a huge milestone for me. Around 7 years ago I managed to get some seeds from the E. Poggei complex. Now after dealing with meager one leaf flushes for like 7 years, I’m finally starting to get two leaf flushes and I can actually see them start to grow. Also, during the first 7 years, the one leaf flush would quickly fall over and die off several months before the next flush so the plants never looked good and most of the time looked dead. A few of these plants have flushed recently and are starting to look better. E. marunguensis with two leaf flush E. schmitzii also started putting out two leaf flushes E. schaijesii E. delucanus still on one leaf flush but looking more robust. Next flush will probably be two leafs. Here is an overview shot showing some of the new flushes from plants within this complex.

Thanks for the pix. I've never seen Queens so tall.

Craft & Riffle?

As always, my submissions. To this thread are a little on the lame side compared to the many amazing palms posted here. But anyway, here are some random shots from around the yard today.

I also cultivated a Brahea clara from seed a lot of years ago. It is a slow growing palm, like Brahea armata is for me..Tomorrow I' ll take a pic. The parent plant was this one, growing in France:

It’s always nice when Zamia splendens start flushing.

I love my native palm, the "jerivá" that I know so well since childhood. As a young boy, my cousins and I sometimes took our horses for a whole day excursion on our "campos" and forests, and when our supply of food had finished we ate some of the very sweet and "snotloud" fruits of the jerivá palms. It is our most common native palm in my ( 9a ) - 9b region of Paraná, 1030m altitude, southern Brazil, so much it' s also very commonly called "palmeira" ( palm) here. Other names of the jerivá (Syagrus romanzoffiana), are: baba-de-boi, coco-catarro, coqueiro, coquinho-de-cachorro, coquinho meleca, jeribá, pindoba, coco-juvena, coqueiro-pindó, juruvá, jiruvá, jurubá.

Similar posts with some other members' libraries: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/81167-palm-books/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/31399-must-have-books/ A good addition to your library for Floridians or those interested in Citrus: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/65175-recommended-reading-a-history-of-florida-citrus-freezes/

It' s sunny today after two weeks of cold and rain, so I ' ll take some new pictures of my C. decipiens after arriving home.

?? None of the David L Jones books?

great stuff, these all seem fantastic! I'd also recommend Designing with Palms by Jason Dewees. Great book for display and reference, with tons of great photos, planting and care information, and inspiration for palms in any type of garden.

I am clearly not from the area ofcourse, but coincidentally yesterday i noticed some very tall queens on Melrose avenue (near Paramamount pictures studio tour) in a Columbo episode from 1973. So yes, in LA they seemed to have been around as streetplantings for quite some time.

I'll have to second Realarch's comments. When given comfy growing conditions 365 days a year plus Biblical amounts of rain, this is not all that slow and eventually gets some size. This came from Floribunda as a 5 gallon plant. It's been in the ground about seven years. The first three years or so were quite slow, but once it developed a good root system, it has been steady. It is about nine feet tall with five foot wide fronds. This photo used a flash to accentuate the silver undersides of the fronds. It is growing mostly in shade in the winter, but the summer sun moves overhead. This occasionally leads to a little sunburn around the tips, especially if we hit a dry spell. I'm not sure why the petioles are so erect. Most Kerridoxa I see in other gardens seem to spread more horizontally so the upper green surfaces are easier to see. It is just beginning to show a bit of a trunk., maybe a foot wide. I don't think it will ever get tall, but it still has a way to go. This is a female that was hand pollinated a few months ago using an inflorescence taken from my only male plant. It's easy to tell when the male flowers are producing pollen (it's yellow), but for me it is a bit of guesswork to tell when the female flowers are open. Maybe I should invest in a magnifying glass. I should find out if these seeds are fertile by the end of the year. Last year's pollination attempt was successful and the seeds are in pots now.

Here are some pictures I took of more palms in the Raleigh-Durham area. I will add more in the coming days.

You need to put cardboard down over the grass before you mulch, otherwise it will just come through like you have seen. The thicker the better. Cut out rings around the plant bases. Not touching the trunks but pretty close.

We had our deck done a few years ago . The crew that Jack hammered the old deck moved a huge pot with my black bamboo into a dirt are beside my Arenga Engleri . It had been sitting there until a couple of months ago when I finally got the strength ( with my wife’s help) to pull it up onto the deck and I cleaned it up with new soil. That left an empty spot so I always wanted a King Palm there . I bought a 3 gallon 5’ Archontophoenix C. double for $35 on sale at a hardware store. It was wobbly in the pot but I thought it was a great price and it is doing OK. For mature or larger palms at a nursery that has a variety of palms , those prices that you posted are what they ask. I have bought smaller ones there but I can’t put $500- $600 down for a plant . I would rather visit private growers. Harry

It’s always fun wondering around looking at the plants winter ha# put a hold on my plant buying mail order from tropical Queensland even the suppliers have stopped during winter there are few sellers but if you buy anything bare rooted it’s not an ideal time to pot up.

I just went out and discovered 2 more suckers so now I have 6 growing. They all are just small sprouts besides that large sword one, I might remove a few so the plant focuses on maybe 3 suckers and the mother plant

Jim, yes they were around, but spending my early years in LA and Orange County, they were much less common than Washingtonias and the big Phoenix. I came to San Diego in the 71 and yes there were some Queens here, but not in the saturation like they began to be used in the 80's. Due to speed of growth, commercial growers and small backyard growers alike could make some cash off flipping them quickly, not something you can do quickly with Butias, Phoenix canariensis and some other species that were present going back to the 20's (ahh, yes the 1920's, not the current 20's).

Storm trying to push in.

@Jim in Los Altos love the 1926 pic and other pics of the Qeeens. Great stuff thank you so much! This does help solidify the Queen is a long time staple. Even though they are are ubiquitous here in zone 10b (zone 11 at immediate coast) it would be even cooler if every homeowner planted just one of these timeless elegant feathery pinnate beauties (please no closer than 10 to 15 from your house!!). It would even be more delightful than it all already is (IMO)! I know others love them too as we have seen in this forum, but perhaps don't like the maintenance and upkeep. Respect!

???? I can understand someone saying that Washingtonia robusta is synonymous with Southern California, but being a second generation native, I hardly think of Syagrus romanzoffiana as an iconic representation of Southern California, They didn't really burst onto the scene in the suburban sprawl until maybe 40 years ago. Washingtonia robusta's date back at least a century as street plantings in California and common yard plantings. My first home in the late 80's I opted for a couple of Rhopalostylis sapida rather than Queens even though at that time only a few people were planting Queens in my new Carlsbad subdivision... so much more elegant a palm are those Shaving brush palms. It wasn't until the 90's that every other lot being developed in southwest Carlsbad had a mix of Queens, Pygmy date palms and maybe a Sago "palm" or two (Cycas rovoluta). At about that time we said goodbye to all the regional hardware chains and shortly thereafter many of the regional nursery chains and Home Depot moved in. They were followed by Home Base, which later was acquired by Eagle Hardware and then gobbled up by Lowes, where most of these palms are now sold. Not to mention the many independent nurseries that have closed over the decades that had more eclectic buyers than the chains can claim. Perhaps that's why I don't want my yard to look like a Home Depot parking lot in the way of plantings. I miss Sackett and Peters, Builders Emporium, Stallings Ranch Nursery, my local Ace Hardwares where the owners were often behind the cash register. I don't miss not planting Queen palms that go with the new mass merchandise nationwide chain retailers.

I accidentally sprayed some small volunteer Trachys with Roundup . The Mugwort was so thick I didn't realize that I was spraying the volunteer Trachys too , which were under the leaves of the Mugwort . My idea was to cut off the Trachy fronds which contained most of the chemical and it worked . The palms are growing out nicely in just a few weeks . Will All the fronds were cut off of these small Trachys . Update on my Washy below too .

Pullen park in Raleigh, is famous for it's palms among cold hardy enthusiasts. Nice palm!

Hi, just a very short update excactly a month after my two K. elegans emerged... It looks good - it seems that they are doing fine! Thank's again for all those pieces of advice - Lars