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And here's a trio, rousselii is the big one, crinita front right, and rubra in back

Been pleasantly surprised by my one and only to sprout from a small seed batch last year. Hasn’t been fully exposed to the elements yet but has coped with the cool. Suchan interesting and colourful little seedling. Very rewarding from seed.

This one is in a prime spot. Trunk is almost a foot across at the base, much more robust than the others, but hard to tell in photos.

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.

A couple of common palms got a bit of attention this afternoon! Dypsis lutescens Howea fosteriana rhapis loaensis wodyetia bifurcata dypsis plumosa

I will be as soon as I can get these three in the ground, but for now they are quite fast growing and have cool tolerance, another year of growing them and see how I go planting them in the garden.

Acquired from Floribunda and planted January 2019, this palm is looking really lovely at the moment. It has always been a very spiny thing, but yesterday I did a double take -- it's as smooth as a fine suede jacket! And such color! No evidence of the "rubra" (red) for which it is named, but beautiful all the same. Still young, and has only a few spines on one side of the trunk. I'm interested to see yours -- please share photos if you are growing this species.

Walt's wife just posted on the main forum on an Elaeis guineensis post that he passed away in June 2025. I don't know if she is aware of this subforum so figured I would post here. I never met Walt, however, have been following his posts on his garden since approximately 2003. He was one of the first contributors who regularly posted photos in posts, which I always appreciated because I lived in Seattle, WA at the time and loved seeing palm photos. It was fascinating learning about the difference between USDA zones in CA and FL because of him, as he would "famously" grow coconuts in USDA zone 9b! He also would share photos of his trees that would recover from seasonal frosts. Anyways, his posts will be missed!

Here’s a nice container grown Bismarckia I spotted while travelling in India!

These are awesome looking. Used to be my holy grail palm. but South Florida was not k8nd to these. Not sure why more people don’t grow these… maybe those spines when young. I picked up a couple of babies from Floribunda a few years back. At first they grew like crazy, then (like so many tropicals) when the summer nighttime heat really picked up, they got miserable. They went back and forth like this for a couple of years, then I decided to it was cruel and unusual punishment. They looked terrible. I took the loss. They kind of have thin, soft leaflets, like teddies, or a R rivularis.

My biggest Hedyscepe canterburyana that I grew from seed from the beauty in pogobob old garden is finally setting seed. Last summer when Tim from Hawaii was visiting it flowered but the seed aborted.

Yeah, the rousselii produces viable seed. Last year, probably 5-6000. Its crazy. But germination is really slow and sporadic, starting almost a year after harvesting. And the eophyll is like 1/2" long. I have some seedlings doing well and a bag in my germination box with a few thousand seed.

Wow! Awesome idea to have all 3 to compare differences. The A rousellii crownshaft is eye catching! Has it produced viable seed? Nice Tahina photobomb too!

This is in the coldest and most exposed part of my garden

Hello Cathy, Condolences on Walt's passing. The forum members posted a memorial thread for him here: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/93162-rip-walt-in-lake-placid/

Came out true...I just had one seed I left sprouted to see if it would come true and it did. Picture attached...

Three proven winners in ease of growing and exotic ornamental look a must have! Richard

There’s always room for one more palm (somewhere) Iam tucking them in anywhere I can!

A gift from a palm talk member @Harry’s Palms sent me some decipens seeds. They have germinated quite well and apparently they came from a well know palm growers collection. Which makes them even more special to me. I put some seeds in and the rest got disturbed to a few other fellow palm talk members in Australia. And it seems none of there ones have germinated yet, so if those couple of growers need a lesson on germinater palm seeds iam running a online course just for those couple of members 🤣 so they can’t blame the seeds! But jokes aside thank you Harry for the lovely gift of seeds, they have become rather special now! Richard

Yes chrysaslidocarpus Pauleenemsis var cali Harry?

Now all I have to do is convince you to climb up that ladder and get those Hedyscepe seeds 🤣 Richard

Once again thank you for such a lovely gift. It’s a nice thing having a story with a plant, to the general public they would have no idea about the growers background or where they came from. But for people in the plant world it’s recognition of a grower and a great remembrance of a great grower or gardener. A great legacy to have Richard

I just got back from a brief road trip to Bahia de Los Angeles to see the northernmost red mangroves on an island in the Gulf of California! It is a tiny coastal village in the middle of nowhere with no cell service and only satellite internet. Nevertheless, I stumbled upon some incredibly rare palms in a random garden! Anyone know any information about this garden? I tried knocking on the doors nearby but nobody was home, but there was a house pipe with wet ground beneath it so it looks like someone is tending to these palms. Click here if you want to see ALL the photos from the road trip First is the trip's purpose: the colony of red mangroves with the second pic being the particular northernmost mangrove in the colony. I'm guessing palms are Medemia argun, Bismarckia nobilis, Copernicia baileyana, Hyphaene coriacea, Cocos nucifera (only one in the village), Sabal riverside, Brahea armata (native), and Chamaerops humilis var. cerifera.

That is beautiful, and a palm you don’t encounter much on this forum or, come to think of it, in gardens either. Tim

Here are a couple of pics from the garden and the parent to your babies! Harry One of two that produce copious amounts of fruit . This is the smaller one of the two. A Ceroxyline ( spelling?) at the Sullivan garden. Hedyscape that is doing quite well in Ventura at their apartment building by Ventura College. Looking up at the SECOND STORY of the building ( to give scale).

The palm didn’t miss a beat with the move… Seems equally happy in its new location. Both the old and new locations see a lot of sun (the new location slightly more sun than the old). I haven’t tried it in either of my two “worst of the worst” spots for sun, but it seems fairly sun tolerant to me (within reason). Likely similar to lutescens in that regard, but more cold tolerant (as in fewer “fried” looking fronds coming out of winter). Here’s a snap I just took at 9:30am this morning…

Still going strong, thanks to our mild winter. I'm curious to see how it does above the roof!

I think that's the key for sure, figuring a not too unreasonable climate match. Cloud forest palms, Ceroxylon, Chamaedoreas, etc do well here, so I've been looking for broms from the Andes or high altitude Central America, which is fun! SE Brazil seems promising too...a slippery slope, lol!

These three varieties of palms are a must have for any palm collection. All easy to grow and all have that exotic look so desired by gardeners and collectors. So if your climate is good enough these ones are a must have. I should know they are my best selling palms I have, proof enough they are popular! lanonia dasyantha kerriodoxa elegans Johannesteijsmannia altifrons

… you end up finding one more spot 🤣 Old man palm. Perfect for small areas.

Not enough water gyuseppe my one survives my summer in the ground!

This sunrise caught my eye as I venture out onto our deck . Harry Sunrise over the palms….

Oh, and I forgot to mrntion... This 42" pot isn't too heavy on it's own, when full of potting soil and a decent palm tree, I wouldn't try to move it... It's very heavy and awkward... Butch

A few more exotics going in again! It’s not only rare palms but the exotics accent the palms and the palms accent the exotics! Draceana surcullosa zingiber sp from Borneo cycas deboansis x multipinata

In an area full of Copernicia's:

They get rather tall at least 5 meters on this one and still growing!

After a week away from home, I found that one of my two Sabal mexicanas was pushing new growth. Both (disappointingly) spear pulled after 20F and freezing rain. The other still showed now sign of a new spear. The fronds also looked to be slightly yellowed compared to the other one. So, I bit the bullet and performed surgery to try to save it... hopefully before it is too late. Fingers crossed I will see some growth in the next few days. 🤞

A couple of nice chamaedoreas chose to stand out for a moment in the garden.

A few more red fronds , anyone? Finally some blue sky to show off the colors. IMG_5250.mov …and a backlit Chrysalidocarpus ‘Dark Mealybug.’

You learn to know you’re garden, and you’re garden knows who you are!

March 23, 2026 It’s been extremely hot like late summer. The yellow one is looking very nice. It’s extremely difficult to move around. I wonder how much longer it can stay in that pot.

Some orchids are blooming! Even with an extended , unseasonal heat wave they are doing good so far . They have been outdoors , next to the house for a couple of years now . They only get a couple of hours of early morning sun. Harry

Hello I have an old saribus rotundifolius with, what I think, are flowers. It has never bloomed before and I would like to know how long the process will take for it to blossom? One of the flowerstalks is turning brown. Is that normal? The other one is still green and looks more healthy.

At it again planting more plants.Calpytrocalyx spicatusptychosperma wotoboho rothmania longifoliapandanus sp

They seem to handle my climate well. I give them some good soil amendment and they are good to go from a 140mm container.

This may sound a bit awkward but you have to change what you’re doing, as you say you can grow other varieties not a problem, this is because you are using the same technique. Look at what your doing, and do it differently too what you normally do. This could mean less water or fertiliser, more air or light, perhaps more shade, even your soil mix . Whatever your doing change it, look at your climatic conditions low humidity high humidity, cool conditions. Also a change is as good as a holiday. Bit without change you’re not going to make difference, only get the same results failure. Think like a plant!

They're in midseason form.

A couple of nice plants for the garden, potting up in stages is the key to growing!

we're very good friends! I have a coupe of other surprises germinating now for next year..... Sabal bermudana (Augusta, GA) \ More to come.....