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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.

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

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.

It’s amazing how they just show up in random little places and survive

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

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

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.

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!

It's amazing how you have a southern california garden in northern california! Incredible garden!

Juvenile at Ann Norton:

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