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Well if that’s the case, your post @Harry’s Palms has been inspirational to post a nice picture of a couple of chamaedoreas! Cham sartori Cham elatior

Latania opening a new frond

A nice young chamaedorea graminifolia juvenile, and one heck of a palm collection!

Hey there everyone. Its been a while. Had a rough NYC winter this year. Lots of snow and cold wet weather. Windmill Palm took a little beating!! But still thriving! 16ft to top of crown, 12ft to top of trunk. Just gave her a prunning. Unfertlized seeds avaliable.. not sure if you can pollinate them? Good luck to all this winter!! Bobby

Yes me too!! I would need to dig again those pictures from my old hard drive! Here are some of them: Such a wonderful and colorful palmtree 🌴😀 JB

Most problematic trim Ive ever done with half dead leaves hanging on and no not the lower ones necessarily. I also cut off many succors or it would have had 20 trunks. Looked great green, but the cold made it a big ugly headache and I knew that 7' from the house was too close. more like 20'. I only had so many spots in my yard and this thing sucked up the space of 3 palms. I replaced it with a archontophoenix purpurea which grows very slowly and a satakentia which now has 8 1/2 feet of trunk. Too many palms I like and not enough room for them all in the outdoor garden. Shady or even half day shade spots are especially scarce in my yard.

People flying into England will be caught off guard by just how dry it is here right now. Latest images… London only had 63 wildfires yesterday. Videos should play if you click the blue ‘play’ button in middle of post… 45 days since it last rained here now…

Apical. Once the root tip is damaged or snapped off, you're done.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Shouldn't the people who planted it for you have known the site wouldn't drain properly? With the lack of drainage you have seen, I dare say most palms would not have succeeded... With the proper soil amendments and drainage, I still think Becarriophoenix alfredi is your best choice. I'm really sorry you went through this bad experience. You certainly deserved better... I still think the people you had install this palm should have known better than to just stick it in the ground and leave you like that.

Just one question: does the radicle grow deeper from apical point or from the cotyledonary petiole?

In a country such as Australia with some of the deadliest snakes in the world, and with 4 of the deadliest snakes in the world in my area I fully understand the snake thing well, and having great big piles of palm mulch lying around is not a good practice for sure. Another danger factor for me is the fire threat from such a pile of palm leaves, a mound 8 feet tall of palm leaves waiting to explode in flames in bushfire conditions in my area is a serious threat so I have to burn those leaves in winter as part of a fire management protection in summer. Which is an interesting issue who would have thought about a palm garden creating a fire danger threat! I also live in a very large area of national parks and state. Have a google for Yuragir national park NSW Australia, with my property at Halfway creek Grays road and there’s no shortage of eucalyptus trees that’s for sure, and you will see how large of an area, and when it comes to the critters I live in their habitat so all creatures great and small are welcome @happypalms And I got some more mulch, and iam in mulch heaven, loving life in the bush with my garden, where the world alone doesn’t bother me!

That’s exactly what they can become, monsters out of control going on a rampage in the garden. And they are definitely best kept away from none gardening people who just want a palm by the pool or in that tiny courtyard. With no real knowledge of palms they can be a disaster in the wrong hands!

There best kept in check that’s for sure. Richard

Will look into it for you, the seed was supplied by our dear friend @palmtreesforpleasure so he has the actual answer to what the true variety is in question!

Got a photo of the C elatior stem Richard? Very young to have fully pinnate fronds like that. Might be C tacanensis.

This can happen following heavy rainfall events and very wet soils. It is usually not serious unless it is followed by a second or third malformed leaf.

I've been growing this Adonidia that i germinated 3 years ago here in Mallorca (Spain). I have it indoors on a pot and in winter I put a heat mat below the pot to keep the soil warm and always over 21ºc (70ºf). I'ts doing pretty well, and I'm wondering if anyone else is growing a christmas palm indoors just like me, if anyone does, share a photo of yours! Any tips to make mine grow faster? because I'm not really sure if its too small to be a 3 year old palm.

There are several areas where tropical and subtropical palms are planted in this area. Boasting a shoreline that transitions to steep hills on all sides with a variety of microclimate conditions. This thread begins with the survivors of the 2026 February Freeze, but many of the palms were previously posted in the Remarkable Palms of Tampa Bay thread. The coldest parts of the lake in the lowest spots near the north shore recorded 21oF; a tie with December 1989. The mild side of the Lake near the Country Club recorded numbers at or near 24oF. This first set of photos is from the Boat Ramp near the country club and a short walk down the hill from Common Ground. Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos - in recovery mode Coccothrinax crinita - Recovery and flowering both in progress Zombia antillarum - surprisingly little damage and still flowering Thrinax radiata - lost some foliage but does not look bad at all Allagoptera caudescens - no serious setbacks, perhaps due to being low to the ground for this one. Unfortunately, the Chambeyronia macrocarpa and Carpoxylon macrospermum at this location succumbed to the cold. An Archontophoenix cunninghamiana is 50/50 on recovery as it is pushing green, but not out of the woods. The Beccariophoenix alfredii is OK, but a lot of wind desiccation. My picture didn't come out that well, so I'll post a photo once I get a better one.

i agree with aztropic. the roots look like they rotted in transit. you can try to salvage them whatever way you can though. i'd try soaking them in peroxide after cutting the rotten ends off. but even the top one looks pretty bad and it has spots of possible rot even near where it started sprouting. chances are the rot already spread all the way down.

I don't think either of the sprouted ones will make it. Pot them up, sure, but don't expect anything to happen. If you don't see any sign of a leaf after a month, root has probably rotted.🤷‍♂️ aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Yea spelling wrong. To hard to look up on phone. Any way growing nice under shower tree

I already have huge piles of palm leaves around my garden I mulch what I can, but with a garden the size of mine it’s easier to pick them up and use mulch that I bring in. I don’t mind the critters, it’s the big leaf sheaths that look unsightly and take forever to break down. The mulch I get is from the electrical company’s that do vegetation maintenance for the power lines at a bargain price, so I just get it whenever they have it. Eventually I will have enough to make soil and use that as good layer of mulch. My sandy soil eats it up like it’s going out of fashion (the e weigh calls it the sand monster that eats anything) just look at any permaculture garden and you can see the difference with mulch or any bare patch of earth once mulched it transforms the soil. If you want your plants to grow with little effort mulch is the way to go!

Your post caught my eye!! O. K . where’s my shovel . Time to plant some palms at @happypalms . I’m in for a palm fix. I have a nice Dypsis Cabadae that needs planting , you just motivated me. Harry I have a nice , shady spot for this guy ! “Be free , spread your roots little palm.”

They can get a bit more than anticipated , like Arenga Engleri . Sometimes that’s what we want , privacy or natural screen. They do a bit of self thinning when they flower . I cut the flowering stems out and that keeps them controlled. Harry

They do love a bit of water, and shade. A big clump is a bit difficult to keep in order. I thin out the suckers on my one so it doesn’t get out of control. Richard

You need monostachya, I hear that’s cool tolerant!

That’s the one, and it’s free!

One top ornamental palm, you won’t regret planting that one!

Dypsis rivularis and a nice Corypha umbellatum, waiting there turn to get planted in the garden!

A nice selection of chamaedorea adscendens for the garden, when I get around to planting them!

A few more gardening years and she will be a focal point in the garden, plant it in the ground!

My Chambeyronia macrocarpa is putting out a new red frond. Pic taken July 27, 2026.

I have 5 extra seedlings, with 3-4 leaves. 5/$40, plus shipping, Spaghum, & box. Or pick up in Satellite BeachBeachpalms@cfl.rr.com

Full sun right from the start. Here’s a photo of it about a year after planting. A very fast grower!

Brahea clara on the right, grown from seed. About 5 years old.

currently good rain here! puddles all around in streets and yard

Back to the Fayetteville topic. Here's one that's wintered for 2 years, Vancouver Island, Canada. July 2024 July 2026

@JLM Looks like it is on the mend for the foreseeable future. Let us all hope we don't get double-tapped this winter like we did in 2010.

Looks like some sort of infection in the crown that has now completely pushed out. Growth should be normal from this point forward.

A natural JxS hybrid I grew from seed. Grows about 4 times as fast as its standard Jubaea brethren. I had 2 of these hybrids come up from a batch of seeds I collected from the 1 blue Jubaea at mission beach. Gotta love it's very upright growth pattern when planted in close quarters.🌴 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I can vouch for this vendor as well. I purchased one 8 years ago and have been very impressed, both with the color and growth rate. Eric does offer smaller, shippable sizes as well. And yes, it does have Jubaea blood in it's DNA, I confirmed this with mine when it flowered this year, as many of the flowers had more than six stamens.

Here’s my big monster with The Shoe for scale.

Here’s some pictures from back in July 2022 Yeah, could stand a trim. Once it trunked it picked up speed.