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Here's one in La Quinta, CA! Apparently it's from a coconut brought from Maui, HI!

I’m growing a few of these out here, in central San Diego. They are D. Album var. Conjugatum. I believe they came as small liners from John Light, in Florida, maybe around 2017. Planted them about two years ago, and they’ll get more sun this coming year, with some changes to the yard. Southwest/Western exposure, mostly. They’ve been slower, but steady growers. There is a patio overhang without a gutter, so there’s have gotten a decent amount of roof runoff. Still working out the placement of the rocks.

Dictyosperma album first flowering: Only male flowers in the inflorescence, this can happen at the first flowering. For other information on this species: https://www.monaconatureencyclopedia.com/dictyosperma-album/?lang=en

Cocothrinax Alta looking good!

I tucked my ones in today on a nice warm toasty heat mat!

My spindle is growing a new frond. 2 fronds were lost to roommates abusing it. 1 to spidetmites.

Here is my parvifrons, finally speeding up a bit. 3 leaves in the past year. But a long way from trunking.

Will post some seeds to you tomorrow.

Red Latania

Are rocks only decorative or serve also to heat storage?

Another grower in Rhodos island gets his Dictyospma rubrum for the first time blooming.

It was flowered many times but has yet to fruit. There was a fruiting one in Palm Desert, CA, however it was cut down by the new owners They left the two queens palms though 🙄

. Sexton Historic Grove (5490 Hollister Avenue) in Santa Barbara is the former site of the nursery of Joseph Sexton. The nursery commenced operation at this location in 1869, and, by 1877, Sexton offered Jubaea chilensis for sale in his catalog. Stately, old specimens of Jubaea can still be found throughout the city, such as those at 2044 Garden Street; the oldest are likely the legacy of Sexton’s horticultural activities. Sadly one of the original Sexton Jubaea’s was trimmed with dirty sheers and has succumbed. There is another still doing well at Josheph Sexton’s old nursery site , a couple blocks from the dead one by the Goleta hospital. There are two more at Stowe House in Goleta and some in downtown Santa Barbara also from plantings over 125 years ago. re: pollen I will try to see if I can get some pollen . I have collected pollen from a date palm but they have male or female blooms. I assume getting pollen is best attempted as soon as the spathe opens. I guess if I ever got a chance I would love to see a Jubaea x Jubaeopsis . There are lots and lots of viable Jubaea seed available in SB. I think germinating them is more important than hybrids but in spite of over 125 years of availability there are very few that ever seem to show up in peoples yards. I have five in the ground and I have been growing them for friends who can give them a nice home. I also have lots of luck growing Parajubaea Cocodies, maybe someday I will try a Cocoides x Jubaea but plenty happy with just germinating the seeds add getting them a home somewhere.

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38° 12' N Thanks!

Exactly what I was thinking when I first read it. I was going to offer to send @bruce Steele some rare Syagrus romanzoffiana pollen in exchange for a seedling!

They thrive in Sydney, but Melbourne is a stretch. There was a decent enough one for years at a nursery here in a prime position near a pond and with plenty of shelter around it. I’ve got a few advanced seedlings on trial in the greenhouse and whilst they all survived through last winter, they all spotted up a bit with temps down to 2C or so quite regularly. To put it in perspective, I’d say they seem less hardy than Kerriodoxa elegans, Licuala peltata var sumawongii and Areca triandra which were all untouched in the same conditions.

Interesting thread and one which I also missed. Thanks richnorm for the pdf link, outstanding! Although a bit off topic, it seemed like a good place to post a few photos of C. alpinum. Planted out as a small seedling 15 years ago, the going has been oh so slow. Zone pushing in reverse, but it’s still alive. It seems to be coming out of suspended animation and showing some obvious growth. Thanks for the ‘bump’, it provided a bit of inspiration. Tim

Tucked the atrovirens away for winter, see how she goes, we will see how cool tolerant they are. And the old kangaroo hopping around the garden!

Same Jubaea about five years ago.

Magic Kingdom. The Pirates Satakentia looks like it will be fine. I didn’t notice the Skipper Canteen bottle palm, it’s either gone or I was just being pulled in too many directions to keep my mind straight.

Melbourne officially hit a low of 25F, and it got down to 25.4F where I'm at. Most of the readings were also 25F, with 26F-ish along the Indian River and some 24F readings west of I-95

Thanks, but it's all about the climate .

You really have many treasure plants there! Congratulations

Thanks! - TomJ, the palm is 21 years old and has been on the ground, in full sun, since 2005. In the last 30 years only twice a station alone in the city has recorded negative temperatures (-4 and -5 °C).

Congratulations!

32 deg here. Thankfully no frost since it was a little windy. Threw blankets over my flower bed of Kalanchoe's I had recently planted, as well as some perennials with new growth, also 2 rose bushes that had tender new growth and flower buds coming out. 2 more nights of this (tonight being more the concern with forecast at 31, last night more just for frost with low of 34).

These are sensitive to wet feet ( overwatering) especially when they get bigger. I lost two , the only two I had , due to something else . When I removed the trunks they were not rotted as the ones in the pictures . I have really good drainage in my garden . The one pic shows that this has going on for a while , meaning maybe not enough drainage for the amount of water. Harry

Years ago I had a glorious triangle palm planted on the hillside. Over the years, mulch and soil piled up on one side and resulted in trunk rot which brought it down. But I never noticed since it was below the soil line. So I agree with the postings above.

Holy smokes that’s the largest ive seen bigger than the del mar one.

Hello Jack, please reach out to Jeff directly to discuss orders and shipping, the contact details are in the signature and on the website. Thank you for your interest!

Time to fill out the score card for the year so far: January: 0.80-1.00 in. of rain (Average is 2.99 inches) February: 1.40-1.60 in. of rain (Average is 2.33 inches) March (halfway): 1.00-1.15 in. of rain (Average is 3.06 inches) Yep, we're off to a stellar start.

Thanks Colin. Useful to have your input on this. I’m still a bit confused about C graminifolia vs C schippii. In Hodel’s 2013 paper (see below), he distinguishes C graminifolia from C schippi based on its solitary habit and one nerved thin leaflets. When I dig into previous history, it seems they were lumped into synonymy based on the study that all C schippii in cultivation were hybridised with C potchutlensis (C x Irving Cantor). Is it possible that C graminifolia and C schippii are one and the same (the solitary or open clump forming palm you describe) and those that are now thought of as C schippii (the large clustering palm you describe) is actually C x Irving Cantor or Irving Cantor backcrossed with the parents? Interestingly, both species are currently accepted on Kew’s checklist and described as caespitose. Photos of seen of C ‘schippii’ are very nice large clumps, but I find it hard to believe that Schipp would’ve described it as one of the most beautiful and elegant palms especially considering there are many other visually similar Chamaedorea (C costaricana, potchutlensis etc). I’d have thought that description would apply more to what I know as C graminifolia with the very dainty leaflets resulting in a unique looking palm. Not meaning to be provocative in any way and I definitely bow to the experts on this but I love a good palm mystery! I’d be curious to know whether the clumping forms of C graminifolia out there always send new stems up via rhizomes away from the main stems as described (like R rhizomatosa) and whether C schippii is any different. Photos I’ve seen of supposed C schippii look to be more traditional style clump forming like C costaricana, potchutlensis, hooperiana etc)

Very nice. I am glad winter was kind to you this year. I hope the growing season is good to you also.

Here’s a nice one for you, shade grown 26 years old, not flowering as of yet, a little tolerant of dry conditions, and taking temperatures around 2 degrees Celsius. They will drink as much water you give them, good drainage is the key to success for this palm!

Last year was its first bloom. No seeds set. There is a new spathe and yes it would be a handy donor , no ladder or scaffold necessary .

PM if you're interested in potentially selling at the CFPACS sale in Hastings on May 2nd.

Your coconut palms are looking very good. Last year and this year so far has been very mild and warm in the urban areas of San Diego. I have a Licuala grandis which has been outside in a protected spot for two years, and is now growing a new frond. I find it pretty amazing! I know in the College Area where I live (on a south-facing hill) temps very rarely go below 43 degrees during winter.

its nice to see your palms still going on even with minor setbacks like pests and the cold. if your trees fruit i wonder if you could start a cultivar of california hardy coconuts. i've heard people say its not possible because they dont have cold tolerant traits as a ultra tropical plant yadda yadda. but howcome different coconut palms have more frost tolerance then? just because something doesnt live somewhere naturally doesnt mean it can't develop traits to better suit the location. did you know there are tropical apple trees? apple trees are from the fridgid cold steppe of central asia. basically the same climate as the midwest. they should not have the traits to be evergreen and have adaptations to the heat and latitude and yet they do. dorsett gold and king david are natural apples that are evergreen and need zero chill and they grew from random seeds they werent bred on purpose. i know apple trees arent coconut palms but still. i have some new nectaplum seedlings from a spice zee and they are evergreen even though the mother tree is deciduous the poor thing does struggle to loose its leaves every year lol . i have a two year old tree from the same plant from last year and it has not gone dormant this year or last year its evergreen and is currently pushing out new growth already with all the old leaves still on it like it has adapted to living in a climate with almost no dormancy. plants are more adaptable than we think. different cultivars get more tolerant to different locations and eventually they drift away. this is how you get other cultivars of crops. with trees its takes a bit more time than annuals but you see with annuals some of them naturalized in my yard despite needing to be babied on the first year! even some wheat and oats. same thing with beans i planted. they get more tolerant to the local climate and droughts the more they breed in it the more their genes are exposed to it they mutate.

Heating mats are here🤗, two 10 " × 20,75 " Let's see how it works.

They all are !

Hello everyone I have been following this interesting forum for some time now. You get a lot of important information and it is simply excellent for those interested. here i have some palm species from our community garden that were planted about 10 years ago like the chamaerops humilis and cerifera, trachycarpus fortunei. they have not been protected for the last five years. the cordyline australis is new since the beginning of september 2024. my wife and i have been dealing with palms and exotic plants for 15 years. best regards Tom

hello Eckhard It's a ficus carica. i just haven't pruned it yet. but yes it looks like yucca gloriosa 😀 kind regards from Lake constance Tom

Looks like I’m fated to dominate this thread….. Coccothrinax on the right, Chysalidocarpus saintluciei entangled with the crown, immediate left and Archontophoenix myolensis a bit further left (have to look closely to see the different leaves and textures), C. leptocheilos trunk and lower leaf far left and Archontophoenix Happy Hurricane Hybrid trunk in background. Towering Teddy Bears, Archontophoeix in back, Kentiopsis peeking above the roof in front.

Okay, that's good. now you have done everything and the protection is completely fine. so “the little beauty one” can continue to grow in the spring. much joy😄

Hello everyone we were this friday and saturday in montreux and visited the Christmas market and of course😃 the exotic plants that can be found in this wonderful place. we found a phoenix canariensis in good condition, as well as a washingtonia robusta. we asked a gardener of the city if the phoenix is protected. he said no, at least not last winter and this winter as he reported. with the washintonia (with leaf damage) he was no longer quite sure it was the filifera. what do you think? we also photographed other exotic species. the weather was partly sunny with a cold wind and around 5° celsius. once again, the whole atmosphere was breathtaking. best wishes and happy christmas and holidays to all and then a happy new year 2025 tom

Jack Lord: yes, that's what i thought. constance is a relatively large 😆city by local standards the island of mainau is a “little celebrity” and is well suited for some exotic plants due to the warming climate and offers wonderful plants to visit.

Swolte: thank you very much. Yes, we have been pricked several times like acupuncture ☹️, also from the yucca aliofolia - spanish dagger 😬( picture 2) Colin110082: Yes. SeanK: thank you very much. Yes, it is cylindropuntia imbricata. Allen: thank you very much. Las Palmas Norte: okay, these are not cordyline australis in this case. i rescued these 3 plants from the compost, where some people just threw them in. or did you mean the other one from picture 2 ?

Great ! The Chamaedorea that I have just cruise through winter . I just got my first Ernesti Augusti so it’s good to know they are hardy like the others. You have some very happy babies there. Harry