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The latys are coming alive!….

A couple plants/palms I saw today in London specifically at zsl.

I made it back over there and grabbed 3 inflorescences.

Just thought I would share photos of this Mexican fan palm that I have been tracking for a couple years. Self seeded right up in the rocks along a bayou here in Northwestern Florida. Very tough palm, has survived some flooding and a rare Florida snow with a few inches.

Not mine. Located at Ann Norton:

Last but not least my favorite Cycad Trappes valley Latifrons. This is my second biggest at 5” and has thrown every single year since I bought it as a seedling! This one has very stacked leaves.

This one is E. Arenarius x Latifrons. I harvested a pup about 3 years ago you can see behind it and there is another pup on it right now. All 3 flushed at the same time almost like they were talking to each other and said LETS GOOOO!!

Iam not stopping now, I’ve come this far! Richard

@Eric in Orlando had a quote that summed it up pretty well. Paraphrased: In 2010 (and 2026), tender stuff died. In 1989, hardy stuff died.

Good information. But the reference is very weak. And it doesn't appear in all books. They are few or nonexistent. Or they play a minor role. It only exists in the minds of people who know about palms. And those people know more than the botanists, academics, or researchers themselves, or publishing houses. And even less prominence is given to Attalea, Iriartea, and many other South American palms hidden deep in the jungle. Only Floribunda in Hawaii loves these palms and treasures them all in a single display. It contains them very well in one place. And no other place can compare. Who can compare to Floribunda? Only the Singapore Botanical Garden can boast such wonders as Floribunda. The owner of Floribunda in Hawaii wants to buy hundreds of Juania australis seeds from me. He is truly an experienced person, and the head of these palm kingdoms. He is the master and lord of containing such great exotic luxury. Hugo Aravena Chile

In regard to the thread title, Juania australis is recorded in The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms 2nd Edition.

That’s the one understory dream palm, so easy to grow and work with, you dont need 50 acres to grow them. A small courtyard you could pack a couple of dozen varieties in easily. Elegans goes great as mass planting, I get that many seeds of my ones they soon create there own ground cover.

Those are F2 natwoods. I have not posted any of the trans yet. Was waiting for the current flushes to extend a little more l

This Spring’s annual order from Floribunda has arrived! Three one gallon Basselinia glabrata, two Pinanga coronata, two Cyphophoenix alba, and three 4” container Prestoea montana. Are are robust and big for container size as is usual.

Mr. Jim, you have a paradise. I hope you reap seeds to confirm that you have a paradise. And expand it even further. Because it's not New York. It's a complete paradise. 🌴🌴🌴🦜🦜

Gentlemen, Richard's jungle is magnificent. It's truly awe-inspiring and inspires awe. It's pure Hawaiian jungle.

Part of the title of this is "progress" for stuff i have gotten since moving in, and its been overdue for a while. So its time to update with a video of the plants in the greenhouse. There are a lot of plants now, and many have grown quite a lot since they arrived. More alive and well than have died, and i leave the imperfect leaves as reminders of oppsies made and lessons learned. The rest of the yard is looking not so happy; the drought and hot weather are making even irrigated plants slow or stop. no need for sound its just fans running. VID_20260425_185334794.mp4

Yes, it came from GreenLife nursery. Finally took a drive out there to see if he had imported anything interesting this spring, when I stumbled across this tree name I recognized. Also, I had just removed a couple palms from the yard, so had some open space to work with. I guess we'll all see together how well they can adapt to the Arizona extremes. 🤞 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

https://eureka-farms.com/products/phoenix-reclinata-single-roebelinii-date-palm-hybrid?variant=49427836109081 This site seems to have some, but I dont have any personal experience ordering from them. I have actually been meaning to make a post to see if anyone has bought from them in the past becasue i too would like one of these hybrids

Wow, what a brutal climate. It offers so much promise for a few years, then pulls the carpet out from under you in a couple of nights. I hope you have better luck at the new place and that the poor old Cocos gets a new lease on life...always nice to see a bit of sentimental optimism take precedence over cold hard pragmatism!

New frond on my smaller one.

azalea flowers!

Thank you all for the tips and insight! As far as the palm is concerned, I’m gonna give it a go. I know it’s easy to get coconuts further south (I lived in Fort Lauderdale for 10 years) but the new owners of this place will 100% rip it out so I’ve got nothing to lose by giving it a shot other than time, and with 90% of my palms now being dead after this winter, I’ve got plenty to spare. Lost half a dozen archies, a teddy bear, arecas, a foxtail, and countless other plants, both palms and otherwise. Before/After photos of my yard below so you can share in my sorrow. 🫠 And for what it’s worth, definitely not moving just for palms! I’d probably say that’s not even in the top 15 reasons we’re moving, but what happened to the yard this year certainly helped make the decision easier. The area we’re looking at making an offer on a house is south of Veterans BLVD and west of 75, so it’s pretty close to the harbor. There were coconuts at several houses immediately adjacent to it that had minimal damage from this past cold snap, and many were entirely healthy based on micro climate. Also tons of very healthy royals right across the street, though I know they’re not as sensitive. I looked up weather station data from weather underground that was literally just a few houses over, and it got down to 33°F for an hour this past nightmare of a cold snap. Meanwhile, I was sitting below 25°F for several hours, with sub freezing temps for almost 6-8 multiple nights in a row. I know every cold snap is different, but I’ll take whatever improvement I can get lol.

Tim , thank you for the clarity . So this is a derivative of the Lanceollatus as I understand it. The link / article took me down the rabbit hole to a much better understanding . I couldn’t find any info through my normal sources , although Dave did tell me about the palms in Orange County . I was very happy that I got my hands on a few seeds, even happier that I was successful in germinating them. Thanks again to my good friend @DoomsDave. Harry

Got a stack of microspadix seeds ready to pick!

Pinanga sarawakensis looking good!

I've expanded and have maybe a dozen alocssias, several varieties of colocasia, a couple begonias, and everything is cool except the Ensete bananas. The big one I bought keeps getting holes in the leaves, the last one I bought I had to cut down to solid flesh just like the last one - so fortunately Wellspring sent me a free one. They do videos of order packing and chose me this week and even gave a shout out to my wall of bananas so that's cool. On the palm level the Causarium and hybrid seeds I got from @Bigfish are popping like crazy. I had 2 of the Paupau bananas sprout and quickly die off but banana seeds are like such a gamble anyway. I'm branching out into tissue culture growing, I've started a pink Musa and ordered a white and yellow one along with some more philodendron. Also salvaged some more colocasia alocasia and a black Cardinal philodendron from the Blue Cart of Death, and I've got maybe 20 alocasia corms rooting out. Time for me to mix up another stink bucket of Bokashi compost, I cheaper out on my coco coir and tried another brand this last time and probably the hardest substance known to man. Papayas are taking off, and I've got some sprouts in mystery pots I didn't label. That's what happens when I go.in the grow.room after taking my night night meds - caladiums? Colocasia chunks from cleaned up rotten bulbs? We'll find out in a few weeks. A few bananas are throwing pups. So despite a lack of posts on here I've been busy. I joined the dark side and went back to that other social media site, I'm under Sancho B Plants and ofc Sanchosgreenpaws on Instagram and YouTube.

I’m still calling them C lanceolatus. Most fronds have ramenta on the abaxial surface of leaflets and the red fuzz extends slightly up the petiole. But weirdly some other fronds and certain leaflets on each frond don’t have ramenta. The ends of most fronds have leaflets arranged at a very acute angle (C blackii trait) whereas the leaflets closer to the petiole are more flatly arranged. Some fronds have leaflets which are slightly irregularly arranged (C lanceolatus trait) while other fronds are nearly perfectly regularly arranged (C blackii). Figure all that out! 🤣).

It is white, latex paint, used to protect plant trunks from sunburn. Like putting on SPF 50 sunscreen when you go to the beach. Very good protection in areas where lifted foliage would allow sun to directly strike a trunk, burning it. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Chamaedorea liebmannii is a girl (I think)!

Rhapis is the second palm that I fell in love with, first was Howea then rhapis and finally Chambeyronia. Now there are so many to fall in love with there are no favourites anymore!

And a few chamaedorea seeds on a nice tenella!

And a couple of Geonoma atrovirens seedlings!

Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana a couple of nice seedlings!

It’s safe to say that Royals have visibly outperformed Foxtails by quite a wide margin. Having said that, the amount of devastation was worse than I expected. Animal Kingdom will take many years(if ever) to look like its former glorious, sprawling self. Many of my favorite tropicals and trees in the area have been reduced to rubble. I can’t even begin to fathom what would have happened if 1980’s type cold events would have hit…

Those look very nice! Keep up the good work. Harry

Just buy that plot of land the sooner the better, and plant as many palms as you can. Iam happy with my block of land, 28 years living on my land and love it. Buy your plot of land and build your dream garden. It does take a long time for a palm garden to grow so the sooner you start the better, and if you need more time before you buy, start growing your collection in pots so when you get your land, you will have a head start on the palm collection and palms to plant good luck. But never stop growing and collecting palms and one day your dream garden will appear!

The only coconuts I have found that are still alive in my Orlando stomping grounds are the coconuts adjacent to the Sapphire Falls hotel by the man-made lagoon. Basically every other zone 10b palms are dead. Most foxtails are dead, kings all dead.

I am curious if other SoCal gardens have had their KO’s bloom and/or set viable seed? This is by far the biggest and best flower mine has set.

Juvenile at Ann Norton:

Recovery has been good so far, this fiji dwarf is on its way back with its second frond opening up with a 3rd spear behind it and some pics of what it previously looked like before this freeze.

Sad - the end of an era. 🙏 It looks like it is up to us and the other I-4 denizens like @Plantking165 to keep the dream alive. We still have the former Smashburger coconuts too, at this point. I took a short ride to see if any of our long-term Adonidia merrillii are making a comeback. I did spot a few, but some of the other larger ones in the area are in doubt. It's hard to make out the new, half damaged fronds, but they have a shot. The bottle palm on the left and the Traveler's Palm on the right next to them is recovering as well.

Couple more coming in. Encephalartos Green Arenarius is always a great grower for me. Encephalartos Princeps from another grower is the 2nd. -dale

Its a cross with Silver Queen, I think it was from RPS.

Ouch that’s gotta hurt, no gardener wants that to happen to there plants. Iam glad I don’t get frosts!

I'm about to sow them now, they look to have ripened fast idk but like they started to get darker just five hours from picking them

I don't know exactly but from my understanding it is near Portsmouth in Hampshire on the south coast. It seems there are a fair few more Juania in the British Isles than first thought. I saw another on google maps at Kells Bay Gardens in Ireland. I knew one was growing there, but I thought it was much smaller. This one has been there longer than I thought. The first image is from 7 years ago back in March 2018... I believe these two Juania in Northern Ireland are the furthest ones from the equator... The one at Tremenheere in Cornwall... Glendurgan Juania in Cornwall last year... Also I visited the Juania in Salcombe, Devon last month... Just seen this private garden in Essex as well on the eastern coast of England... the amount of exotics growing there...