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I have visited Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami FL many times but always enjoy seeing new additions and checking on “old friends”. This Sabinaria caught my attention especially since it looks untouched planted outside despite the recent cold spell here. I eagerly await mine growing big enough to show off the gorgeous leaf shape and color! Below are two different Kerriodoxa elegans. Rhino beetles in Puerto Rico love these so not sure if I will get any to trunking size. I am really looking forward to seeing them in habitat in Phuket Island.Thailand on the soon to start IPS post tour. Calyptrocalyx albertisianus is a fairly new addition to my own farm after I saw a beauty at Dean Ouer’s place in HI a few years ago. Here is one at FTG reminding me that they are likely to be much taller than my other more shrub size Calyptrocalyx. I am including a striking cycad that I wish I grew. Microcycas calocoma.

White triangle

I was able to force this color with 23 degrees but i don't think I’ll be able to maintain this look.

Nice double roebelenii! I almost bought one too - $70 at the orange store, right? I settled instead for a $35 foxtail and a $10 Dypsis lutescens. I managed to get both in my Nissan (somehow).

I gave this palm a fresh haircut and trim - i have to say that it looks amazing that way

Chrysalidocarpus Basilongus

My experience I don’t have a green thumb like Scott royals grow great here you don’t need to worry about cold so much what you need to remember is we live in hell the heat and intense sun are much more of a problem than cold I have 2 Chambyronia they are on deep shade they don’t like heat I rarely get a red frond and they are Sloooooow so if they get any damage they are probably toast I haven’t had any luck with Beccariophoenix in full sun I have 4 in the ground in shade I have lost 3 that I had in sun a palm that I have been amazed at is the teddy bear it is in more sun than any of my tropical palms and grows quite fast!! I know you didn’t ask about it but mangoes grow great here just make sure you don’t get one that is grafted because if they do freeze grafted ones are usually toast ones that aren’t grafted come back from the roots!!

Here are some Sabal Mexicanas(?) in Austin. I wanted to show how crazy long the petioles are. Much longer then the 35"-47" that wikipedia states, more like 144++" They seem to be most impressive at this size and perspective. I put the camera on a timer and added some fuzzy Doofus in the photos for scale. These are all from the Laguna Gloria Sculpture Park where they are growing near oaks and cypress. I have many of these growing from seed along with S. Uresana and S. Causiarum too. - thanks Joseph! I can only imagine what those will look like size-wise in the future. The sunny shot of the flowers is a week earlier than the shady one.

I like it. You're staying on topic rather than graphs, charts, statistical analysis and week long forecasts. Spring isn't far off. "What is your current yard temperature?"

What recent event would cause above average predicted temperatures there?

Maybe they could have sold them and had them removed intact. This seems like a stupid loss of a species that is slow growing... not 'invasive' material at all.

Upland or lowland form? One ..the upland form.. is supposedly easier to bloom / more adaptable than the form that grows at lower elevations ( Lowland form = Likes the same constantly warm / humid conditions that many other Catts from that elevation range in S.A. prefer ). Upland form is grown w/out too much trouble in the milder parts of CA, even in moderate amounts of sun, and can take temps down to about 38, if completely dry.

Did you cut them open? I have had seed sink, I cut them open, and no embryo. Some even hollow.

Wow, thanks for the ‘bump’ Richard. Well, an update. The sessifolia got tired of being frail and checked out. The simulans, which was acquired later, died of thirst. The rest of the Veitchia have done well. The metiti, IMO, is a rather unremarkable palm and better planted in a group. I find it interesting that a grouping planted close together can have such a large variation in stature. Anyway, here’s a photo of V. metiti. Tim

Amazing to get such great germination with a rare and exciting palm like this.

Thank you for all the great pics! I’m glad to see others with the same attraction to this palm. I hope to see more grown in my area. A hospital in Ventura installed some mature specimens a few years ago . Harry

When considering my available options for a rain event, I decided the best thing I could do is use Banrot on any species that appeared to be struggling with post-cold fungal growth.

Sounds perfectly fine to me. This stuff happens in nature all of the time and nature has it's own way of sorting this stuff out.

So here in Florida we had that cold front that did a number on all my Clusia plants and my two Christmas palms which are babies and were just put in the ground. The Sylvester palm is thriving great. what can I do to speed up the growth process? the Christmas palms have all turned brown and the new frond sprouting looks brown as well. They do seem to be alive, just need a lot of love. I have been watering them. Anything I can give them to help them.

They are more solid and robust looking and a different colour new leaf in comparison to macrocarpa, a good healthy macrocarpa you can’t go past though for the glory they are known for! Here’s a nice pic of a macrocarpa. Richard

Dypsis louvelli showing up the rest of the garden.

They are water hogs and love almost swampy conditions. The ones in metropolitan garden in Athens are huge, because they are benefited by the replaced water of the nearby duck pond.

@pj_orlando_z9b + @Kiplin + @PalmBossTampa + @gyuseppe These are my Phoenix reclinata hybrids with a juvenile coconut that got 100% defoliated for comparison. My best guess is that they are crossed with Phoenix canariensis since that was the closest other species, but they don't have enough trunk to say for sure. Guest appearances from Livistona chinensis, Syagrus romanzoffiana, and Washingtonia robusta as well.

I love them too Harry, I've got a dozen or so in the ground in a big group, which should look pretty cool in a few years. I collected the seeds from a little patch of bush in Southern NSW, which is pretty close to their southern native limit, and I've got another batch from Eungella in Nth Qld, 1600km further north near their northern limit. Both lots grow equally happily here, so they’re clearly very adaptable palms! They love water!!

A stroll around the slope today… mild winter and warm days between drizzle never hurt anyone…

Never get tired of Chambeyronia macrocarpa var hookeri new growth.

Dypsis basilonga seedlings looking good, somewhat a few years behind @Hilo Jason but they will get there.

I was able to stop by my old garden today and got these pictures of the parent plant. Much taller than it was about 18 months ago.

After a few months : dictyocarium lamarkianum first leaf !

Calyptrocalyx hollrungii!

My verschaffeltia splendida gaining size and opening a new leaf. and my Areca macrocalyx starting to show some nice colour.

I know this is not warm for a lot of people , but this is a very warm winter night for us in february its currently. 48f at 12:02 here in needmore Pennsylvania

Interesting flowers on the Chambeyronia Macrocarpa . This is the first inflorescence so I’m not sure fruit will happen . Previous spathes would not open at all. Harry By the look of the crown shaft swelling , maybe more on the way.

The Aliens 👾 did it when they landed!

Took Sancho for a hike through the woods today and we saw some interesting tree growth --- I have no idea what would cause them to grow like this. Maybe they were wrapped around something years and years ago? Anyway, cool stuff.

Sharing the lowest temps my home station recorded. Just SE of Raleigh. 12.9F maximum low A few nights right at 15F (probably 3 in 2026)? And the December 15th low of 14.8 - I would argue to say this did more damage than anything. that low started burning Washingtonias, and they just have gone downhill since. My windmills, butias, chamaerops, and most all sabals are fine. I had a few small ones get burned up (I think) S. palmetto pictured on Feb 4th - 48 hours after 13F. The matches the lowest temp seen last year as well.

Here's a hybrid Phoenix reclinata x roebelenii that I just germinated. Going into a 12" liner for the winter - after that we'll see...

looks like a star, impressive

Will I have better luck with germination this time?

Some can be thicker than others. Several growing here in my neighborhood with most having narrower trunks than this one in my yard. I have a second one that is in a more shaded position and it's trunk is narrower than this too.

I am not in Cali but have a similar climate. My teddy bear has taken 2 heat waves and a few below 0c nights and nothing seems to bother it. Mine came in a 13cm wide pot and was only 30cm high when I planted it 2 years ago. The one in my old garden took 6 years to reach a metre in height. I think my furry baby is looking pretty good, apart from the lowest leaf which is about to fall off anyhow. Peachy

I am in Orange County.

Not a great pic unfortunately, only one I got =/

2018 to 3/3/2020

This will be my new setting. White pine, red spruce, and Frasier fir are pretty common there.

I was thinking I would share mine. It really just put on some size over the last year but now seems to be cranking out leaves. I plan on clearing out some plants in this area soon to add Chameadoria since there's more shade.

Couple of mine.. still kinda small but have been solid growers. Only have 3 total but they are nice

Those leaflets are soooo long

I got a Chamaedorea falcifera from a San Jose Nursery. It looks like a multi-trunked Ch. Oblongata with darker leaves.