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This is my solitary Chamaerops grown from a 1 gallon seedling . Planted over 25 years ago and never developed any pups. Harry

I almost forgot I planted this calyptrocalyx back there I seen the red leaf and had to go investigate and the iguanura always looks good

Have some fresh palm seeds for sale: Archontophoenix maxima $18/100 Burretiokentia koghiensis $25/100 Chamaedorea tepejilote $15/100 Chambeyronia (Kentiopsis) oliviformis $25/100 Chambeyronia macrocarpa $12/20 Chambeyronia macrocarpa "watermelon" $1ea Rhopalostylis baueri v. "cheesemanii" $20/100 Rhopalostylis sapida v. "oceana" or "Chatham Island" $20/100 Flat rate priority shipping $8 I'll have more types available soon.... Thanks -Joe (760)300-7339

A new chamaedorea in the collection I purchased from the annual pacsoa plant sale about 12 months ago. From my understanding it was Colin Wilson who introduced it into cultivation in Australia. So if you’re in for any new palms get along to the pacsoa plant sales coming up.

I found this 15g baby tucked away in my bamboo, I had forgotten to plant it. Our intern helped plant it. This is a very forgiving plant, I neglected it for 4 years, I had bought it during the pandemic shut down, no water no fertilizer and it's no worse off for the wear.

I have a few kerriodoxa floating around the garden in various locations. My one time absolutely favourite palm. I also have around another 600 in pots doing well in the hothouse. Some n deep forest tubes and others in 140 mm containers. What’s not to love about them there spectacular palms. Some what cool tolerant as well taking temperatures as low as 2 degrees Celsius in my garden and quite tough I have planted seedlings and they are doing fine. But a palm that will drink whatever water you give it provided there is good drainage.

Here comes a new leaf. Super red too. 7th leaf. Usually holds six. The crownshaft has some watermelon features to it as well. Can hookeri have this? Is this normal?

Kerriodoxa elegans is great for covering areas that you don’t want people to see. I have some that I use to cover a power transformer and a few others that I randomly planted throughout the garden.

After a very lengthy application process, the volunteer team caring for the Botanical Gardens at the University of Hawaii Hilo recently received accreditation from BGCI Botanic Gardens International. This required cataloging the hundreds of species of palms, cycads, and bromeliads with currently accepted names, creating a searchable digital database and detailed map of the gardens, and setting up collaborative research projects with other institutions around the world. The garden was created by UHH professor Don Hemmes decades ago. Many volunteers have helped nurture the gardens over the years. The current crew includes Deb Beaty, JR Miles (HIPS president), Bill Nelson, Ken Beilstein (cycad specialist), and Rob Talbert, the computer guy who took the lead preparing the application and setting up the digital database. The garden is located along a stream that runs through campus. Although today it is not prime real estate for building more parking lots or structures, the unofficial, volunteer nature of the gardens left them vulnerable to the whims of future university administrators. The goal of gaining the BGCI accreditation is to communicate to the university and wider public the value of the collection and hopefully protect it in perpetuity. Plus, it gives me a good excuse to post some current photos of a few of the star residents. This photo was taken from roughly the same spot as the one at the beginning of this thread, 3.5 years ago. This Tahina is definitely in high gear. It might not be the largest one on the island, but it is right up there with the best. Immediately to the left of the guy posing for scale is a poor Lemurophoenix halleuxii about to be swallowed by the Tahina. Lots of hobbyists in Hawaii planted Tahina in their residential gardens 15 years ago when they first became available. Not everyone left enough room around to accommodate the massive size of these palms. Tahina have this odd habit of crawling sideways the first several years until they sink down a mature root system and take off growing vertically. You can see where the palm began off to the left and slid about three feet to the right before making a trunk. And of course, every East Hawaii Island palm garden has to have at least one Marojejya. This garden is a must see for any palm grower visiting the Big Island. It's easy to find in the middle of Hilo, and it's free!

With the tropical heat we are getting it’s a wonderful time for the garden. Having a lot of tropical plant species in the garden it’s now that they look there best, enjoying the heat that they are accustomed to all I have to do is add water.

Just planted a Vachellia robusta. Not a palm... but African scrubland stuff is cool.

I've planted in January and February for the past two winters for the thrill and fomo (haven't failed yet). One queen palm was planted early February 2023 and two more in late January 2024. Gotta squeeze out every drop of the growing season, every day counts!!! 🌴🤪 Dallas I'd probably wait until at least the second week of March

Started a couple days ago. Some cool and weird shit going in the ground at my house in the next week or two. Plus a coma tree for the birds.

I have a couple of 2 year old seedlings. In the house. Great palms!!! Very forgiving. I water a lot. They even handle dry heating air.

They don’t come any better than the kerriodoxa, one of my favourites.

Check this one out. P. densiflora, which I have posted before, another beautilmeaux palm. 😄 Tim

the beautiful arenga engleri, I made it from seed in the early 2000s, the seeds took a year and a half to germinate! 5 years ago it flowered and produced a lot of seeds that were all lost, because I could not collect them, I was in bed

Not yet but I've got the windmills and butias uncovered from a 7 week nap and all my potted palms are getting some nice rays on the back deck with the exception of several because the nighttime lows are just a little to cool right now. But I have a major planting project soon

Chrysalidocarpus (Dypsis) lutescens

Couple of nice winners there.

For such a beautiful tropical looking palm they do take the cold well. I don’t think a frost would be there friend, they grow as far south as Sydney that I know of. A temperature as low as 0 degrees Celsius they would take my ones get 2 degrees Celsius possibly lower.

the seeds are fertile I found about 50 seedlings sprouted by themselves around the plant

I actually had a strap-leaf seedling survive 9°F (-13°C) in San Antonio with just being covered with mulch. I planted another seedling here and it was unfazed with 27°F (-3°C).

Today I brought out my Meyer lemon tree and my 2 sabal minors and my live oak seedling I will probably have to bring them in a couple more nights but otherwise they will be fine

Apart from volcano forms, that is. In first line I had in mind a solitary specimen, totally unarmed. Suckers can be removed. I have one such specimen, which produced only one offshoot in very young age, this offshoot was removed and it has remained since then strictly solitary. On the other hand another supper fast specimen was actually the only sucker of a dead main stem, and itself sucker's like crazy, I butcher with reciprocal saw all offshoots during spring and by next spring ground is again full of offshoots, maybe even more than the time before last trim. Both specimens are roughly same age. Ya never know with this sp!

We just had 3 inches of snow in Houston last week. Temps got down to 17. We had center fronds wrapped ( these are giant palms). Is there anything to out in soil to make sure they survive? Prior to freezing, i did water the palms and gave them moon juice. Worried about my trees. thank you

I planted it under two large oak trees as I wasn't sure what the true minimum temperature this would take, so figured it'd have some frost protection. Anyways, love the coloring still, and last year's culms are about 2 1/4". I ant on cutting two of the older culms out and trying my hand at propagating it.

You could do a preventative treatment of copper fungicide in the crown. Sometime in March if we continue to have warm weather a palm fertilizer well help them grow out of their funk if they're in one. That's about it I'd say. One other thing if the fronds start to brown off, don't cut them unless they are 100% dead including the petioles. If the palms are damaged they will rely on the nutrients in those damaged and older leaves to help them recover.

Yes, it did the worst, I hope it isn't dead. It was the smallest queen by a long shot, Still strap leaf, but about 4 feet tall, maybe more. I have another one in the garage that I held off on planting just for this type of scenario. And for the record I planted my first two palms on Feb 14 last year.

Just a little guy, but this Livistona rigida is blushing all over. More so than it's siblings for some reason!

The temperature bottomed off at 35F during the cold snap, with ~64 consecutive hours below 50F. Hopefully that ends up being the minimum for the winter, but we have a few months to go until actual spring. A comparison of the currently available records - subject to amendment by NOAA and/or Wunderground later: That temperature shouldn't bother much in a Central Florida garden on the I-4 Corridor. As such, this post will just be observations on a few cold-tender species. Coconuts: These have some burned leaflets and frost-spotting to various degrees throughout the yard. Most of the damage is on the lower fronds. No photos at this time. They take a while to show their true condition after long-cold. Pritchardia thurstonii: This palm was bought with the understanding that it was probably an annual since it goes below 35F with regularity here. Thus far, it handled everything really well. Areca catechu 'Dwarf': These handled the length of cold really well. Pritchardia (martii?): A little beat up on the lower fronds and outer edges, but it wasn't in the best of health before. Latania lontaroides: No damage. Performed as expected. There could be more reports or an updated report later. These were the most cold-sensitive species to observe in the area, and most stuff here in town is either bulletproof to 20F or suited for the 9b/10a transition zone winters.

Hibiscus sp. Barambah Creek, an outrageously pink Aussie native!

Honestly not bad for a 26f freeze! My Leptocheilos looks about the same from 33f with a very light frost. Glad to see Baronii has some toughness

Xenon Posted 3 hours ago Winter is over in Houston and south Texas guys, I'm calling it now. Its time Famous last words b4 disaster? At the very least tempting a jinx!

Best seeds I have been able to find and the cheapest as well. I got 100 Sabal Cherokee which I planted on 01/08/2025 and they are already germinating!

Winter is over in Houston and south Texas guys, I'm calling it now. Its time to get those plants in the ground !!! Looks to be a long streak of 80 degree days and nights in the 60s next week. That'll definitely wake everything up 😊

New leaf opening on this Burretiokentia. There was no tag on this when I bought it but I’m thinking it’s Koghiensis because of the red leaf? Can anyone confirm that? and here’s a picture of the base / crown of the palm if that can help anyone ID this for me:

Welcome back Kim, and nice to be greeted with such beauty. Here’s a hibiscus from my garden that always stands out to me

My chamaedoreas are loving the tropical heat we are getting at the moment. With a few good seeds setting from a successful hand pollination project. There such a beautiful little palm performing well in the deep shade a perfect understory palm. A group planting is the order of the day with a few seedlings I have.

I grew these from seeds. The first palms I ever grew from seed.

Well, my P. caesia’s have rocketed upward, but they are still beautlimeaux. (An invented description ) They are the two skinny palms with the orange crown shafts. Tim

Crysalidocarpus paucifolius. Growing in fractured solid rock keeps the scale of this palm in check…..perfect. Tim

Well lets say less than 5 gal size it 100% will die with maybe 25 or so if its half a year in the ground nevermind but yeah when young those things are a lot less hardy

Freeze Damage Data topics: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/3127-hyphaene-coriacea/ https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/21925-green-fronds-falling/ Cold Hardiness Observation Master Data: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/61358-0000-cold-hardiness-observation-master-data/?page=2#findComment-1168867

I have a large Chamaerops that I planted about 25 years ago as a very small seedling . It grew straight up and never developed any pups , just a single straight trunk. Harry

Here's a triple in an old comm pot! 😆 Hoping they're as cold hardy as reported - jury is still out ...

Yep classic trough on the west coast. There are examples of it going the other way. Roll the dice.

I would give them some water every couple weeks - once month. Watch fronds and make sure they don't fold up

Hi everyone, it's been a while since I last posted here. Today, I want to start a discussion about the diversity of palm trees across the entire country. Let's start with Porto Santo today, a little island located north of Madeira, known as the Golden island for its sandy beach and arid landscapes. In fact, the island has a hot semi-arid climate (BSh) with low precipitation values and mild temperatures all year round. Date palms (phoenix dactylifera) were the first cultivated palm trees on the island, probably introduced to the island with the first settlements since Porto Santo was in close contact with North Africa, more specifically with former Portuguese possessions in Morocco, from where the first plants might have come. Date palms were the most common palm trees on the island until the early 20th century. In fact, In 1894, date palms were categorized as subspontaneous on the island and dates were part of the local diet until the 19th century. Later in the 50s, Canary Island date palms started to become very popular as an ornamental plant and supplanted the date palms as the most common species on the island. After that, palm trees lost their primary agricultural purpose and became mostly ornamental as the island developed into a tourist destination. The Canary Island date palms' fruits aren't comestible, but its leaves are still used today in making hats, baskets or purses. Over the years, people planted them everywhere, there wasn't a square, a street or even a house that wouldn't have at least one CIDP. Porto Santo is perhaps the only place in Portugal where people have developped a special bond with palm trees. It became so common and omnipresent on the island that locals still think it is indigenous. Nowadays, the CIDP is by far the most common palm tree on the island. As you can guess, it also became subspontaneous and started colonizing abandoned agricultural lands, riverbanks or geographical crevices. A few years ago, the red palm weevil arrived on the island but didn't wreak havoc among the palms there. Actually, only a few CIDP were removed and that's because in 2012, during a political gathering/party, a tall and sick CIDP fell on the crowd and killed two people. The authorities, fearing reprisals, removed all the CIDP in that square (even though they were healthy). A few years have passed ant the locals, very discontented with the authorities' decision, pressured them to replant palm trees to substitute the ones missing. Here's a video where you can see how the little square looked like before the incident and now: Today, CIDP still proliferate along with date palms and more recent palm trees, also very common in the continent, such as washingtonia robusta, washingtonia filifera, chamaerops humilis and syagrus romanzoffiana. Palm trees are particularly abundant in hotels and resorts, just like the Algarve. Despite its numerous presence, there isn't a big diversity on the island as 90% of the palms there are phoenix or washingtonia species. Nonetheless, a few more tropical exemplars grow in some private gardens such as roystonea regia, archontophoenix cunninghamiana and alexandrae, bismarckia nobilis, dypsis lutescens, etc. But the most famous tropical palms of Porto Santo are definitely the three coconut trees growing by the beach. They are the most septentrional coconut trees of the world, which attests the mildness of the climate. Porto Santo has always cultivated palm trees and today, its presence still leaves a huge mark on the island's landscape and people. Unfortunately, in recent months, the palm weevil has once again been detected on the island, and this time the situation is much more concerning, as it seems that many palm trees have been infected and the situation is out of control. The local authorities have tried to contain the spread, but this time it hasn't worked. To this date, many large specimens have been affected and have already died, and if the local authorities do nothing, we could witness the extinction of the CIDP on the island, as it has happened on the neighboring island of Madeira or on the mainland.