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Your welcome to drop in down under, only problem with Australia is you won’t want to leave. Just buy a plane ticket and travel the world, I did that and 27 countries later and I still want to travel! Oh and we got plenty of blue sky’s!

I have it on good authority that pigs taste much better than gophers.

I learned real quick that growing palms is a huge commitment. It's not like you plant something and call it a day. Here in Texas I can't even fully enjoy the winter because my nose is glued to the NWS screen just hoping that we don't get a 2021 Palmageddon winter. It's the uncertainty that bothers me. Every hobby costs money. I'm someone that can easily let go. I don't need to live at a place where I can grow palms. I also don't have the time and willpower to build structures around zone pushed palms just to keep it alive. I see some of our members doing that every year I'm like there's no way I'm going to do that. I work many hours, physically I don't have time for that kind of stuff. I also have my wife . She's maintenance too lol. I'm just a simple palm grower and I'm cool with that.

A few of the more tender things at Naples Botanic Garden today. Not sure what the low temps were there but the vast majority of the collection seems to have avoided major damage. Areca catechu: Nypa fruticans: Pritchardia pacifica: And a few Pritchardia thurstonii for comparison, proving much more tolerant of cold compared to pacifica (as advertised)

This Butia has been through single digits in Dec 2022 plus our recent ice and snow. Suwanee, GA.

I deactivated when Meta started up. It started asking me extra security questions at every login. I think Zuckerberg was just phishing for more user personal information.

Welcome to palmtalk, may the world of palms bring you great joy. You have as others above stated a golden cane also know as Chrysalidocarpus lutescens.

I’ve planted a few Sabals this year but our temps have been in the 70s and 80s for a while. Aside from one cold week we haven’t had a winter.

Yours is a very nice size . The trunks on these do get pretty fat and after a while , mine self cleaned . Now it has smooth trunk . Harry

I was mostly surprised by how badly so many bismarkia were damaged, I drove up i75 until I hit 17. Then took it to i4. Things looked decent till around Arcadia driving East on 17, then things got worse exponentially. By Wachula, nearly everything that should not have been there was completely fried. Just some photos this morning from Universals Endless Summer Surfside. Around Disney most of the giant birds of paradise were completely fried, some had green but many were toast. Here, they faired better depending on placement and proximity to buildings.

You will love that palm . They grow very well here in Southern California , even in direct sun. Yours is a nice size so the growth will be moderately slow instead of very slow when they are young. I planted a wee baby one and had to wait years for it to get any size . In the last five years or so it has picked up speed . Harry ‘This one gets a bit of shade mixed with direct sun throughout the day . I’ve had it for over 20 years. I planted it towards the bottom of my hill where it is the coldest part of our property in the winter . No problem at all , no fertilizer , just water and sun. Harry

Hello everyone!!! I am very confused about what type of palm this is. I went to the nursery today looking for my first plant to set on my western-facing lanai. Originally, I did NOT want a palm because I am a Florida native who wanted more variety, but I was still open to them as long as the leaves weren’t waxy or sharp. My research led me to find the Areca palm, which turned out to be mostly what I was looking for. I asked one of the workers at the nursery where I could find one, and she told me they were all out!! I continued to look around and stumbled on the tree I ended up purchasing. It was labeled as a cat palm, but it still had the look I wanted, so I didn’t care much about the name. The guy at checkout asked if it was the Areca palm since they don’t label the plants themselves. I knew he would ask, so I showed him the picture labeling it as a cat palm. I took the palm home and downloaded the plant parent app to help me understand what is needed to care for it. The app told me that my palm was actually an Areca, and so did 3 other websites I tried to use to help clear the confusion. Long story short, I am now a proud owner of whatever the heck this is and wanted to ask the experts, not the AI. Feel free to add all the advice you can to care for her. It seems I get mixed answers around every corner. She is currently in the 3-gallon nursery pot I bought it in, which is inside of a clay decorative pot. Both pots have drains. Like I said, I have her situated on a west-facing screened/roofed porch lanai thing. The direct sunlight only lasts for maybe 2-3 hours if that before the other buildings block the direct rays. The porch is always indirectly bright and breezy. I was told not to cut the brown spots and that it’s a fungal infection from overhead water at the nursery. Anyway, thank you for your time! - Lisa Rinna the mystery palm

You forgot head lice treatment 🤣

A few more goodies across the bench! It will be interesting to see what the dasyantha turn out to be. And I know the diospyros are a pretty rare tree around my area!

Yer I think he’s @palmtreesforpleasure body guard, you know those mafia gang members!

I was cleaning bananas for spider mites - I mean there's just nothing I can do, there's 10 butted up against each other under the better lights - anyway, I hack off any dusty leaves or wherever I see webbing cuz who cares? It'll grow back in like 3 days. Anyway, I missed and decapitated this Mekong Giant and I guess I hit it in the exact right spot, because within literally hours it was pushing this new leaf.

Definitely Chrysalidocarpus lutescens (formerly Dypsis lutescens), aka Areca or Golden Cane palm. As far as care goes, I cant really help with that. I have one, but it gets neglected all to hell, and yet still somehow looks good/decent. Your palm does look quite healthy though!

That is That is incredible the right one has that much green in the middle. I drove through Jupiter farms and the majority of coconut trees looked just like that, which is 150 miles south. I have about 10 mature coconut trees in southern Palm beach county and only my yellow Malayan is showing some browning on the bottom fronds.

There’s a lot I did do, but dont do anymore even by my standards, even the long hair got cut off, something about getting older and just living life to the purest form of happiness!

Cerotazamia latifolia showing what one day will be a spectacular ornamental plant!

I don’t mind growing zingiber, there is a saying if you see a plant you have always wanted, buy it no matter the cost of it, because you may never see that plant again gor sale. I don’t hesitate in buying rare exotics spending $300 on just one seedling or small plant, if you want it buy it. I have a nursery and I know what it takes in time, energy and costs involved in growing, I respect what the grower wants in price for there plants because I know what it takes to invest in stock plants.

We typically have with us on the IPS biennial several officers from other plant societies. One of my besties is the president of the Ti Plant Society in SoCal. So this is in his honor: “Hanoi Candycane”

Well that’s true it’s palm city around my garden. Love the spot where your dog is, there are many pets in my garden

I actually managed to find a picture of what I brought the bragg blvd sabals home in when I first got them, crazy where they started.

Always inspiring to see you doing so much work. With so many different and rare species. I try to do so but on much smaller scale. Today was licuala lautherback and Basselinia favieri

I have short drive out each morning @ daybreak and read those by car thermostat. My digital was in my greenhouse tent and thought id power through without buying more thermometers. My friend in Keysville 4 miles away has 17 and 16 on my 25/23 nights so maybe it DID get lower and i missed it

To the north side of the house. C. lutescens, foxtail and Pygmy date. Less damage than my southern exposed backyard behind a two story house…

Papaya, dragon tree and canna lilly in a pot

Pathetic Adonidia that was starting to die before the cold this year, Roystonea regia

Ptychosperma elegans, Ravenea rivularis, C. lutescens, W. bifurcata, bottle palm

This area is wind sheltered from the north and northwest by my 2 story house. I think the wind sheltering just let more frost from and caused more damage. The zone 10 palms on the north side of my house look better as you will see later in this thread. I noticed that same pattern all around my neighborhood. I guess it just goes to show things don’t always go the way that we think it will. closeups of the previous two.

Just added this guy to a shady part of my yard. Hes been in a pot in the sun too long so I can't wait to see what it does in the ground under a tree.

I like the forum format a lot more, it's too bad they're mostly dying in favor of places like facebook and instagram. It makes looking up old threads and posts a lot easier too.

I have some Butia seeds that are 2+ years old and still sprouting. Stored in a ziplock bag and all fruit cleaned off. Hope that helps some.

An inland WPB Coconut looks unhappy but will pull through:

Chambeyronia hookeri, variegated rhapis ayanishiki.

Here are the 2 mature Coconuts growing across from Fashion Square Mall at the former smashburger restaurant. The one on the left is totally brown but the petioles are still green. The one on the right actually has a couple leaves in the center with green. These palms are less than a mile from the Executive Airport which has an official NWS station and recorded 24F. If both or one survives it will be the new I Drive coconut.

White triangle

Currently 70F with a high of 72F and low of 40F this morning here in the east valley of AZ. Definitely chilly this morning but looking forward to the warm days ahead. Looks like I'll be turning on the AC for the first time very soon.

Oh so you did partake, had a mate who once took peyote I said to him you’re a braver man than me, he did recover well from such activities. But every now and then he talks about a rainbow………

The things you do to collect a few maxima seeds, climbing ladders for ips members!

I would let them recover a bit first. Water and afternoon shade. What sort of nighttime temps do you expect the next 3 nights? Maybe bring them in. In May, you could look for a place to plant them in-ground.

Stange bloomers:

Good news! the new growth is coming up and its green so I'm just keeping it dry until its fully out and back to normal! 🤠

The one is gonna survive for sure, right? At least the cold unless it gets a disease or falls over with those thin spots in the trunk.

A real winner the dysis louvelii a true collectors palm being a must have in any collection i only hope they are monoecious so I can populate Australia with little dypsis.

Here's mine if you can make it out. It gets hard these days to get any decent photos of anything since everything has grown together into a canopy...

Amen. Common names are beyond annoying. Latin binomials are irrefutable.