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A rather fast growing majestic Syagrus with stiff dark green leaves. Ripe fruit is yellow and the size of golf balls. These have got to be in the 30 foot range. (10m) Always loaded with seed. Tim

Hey all, Got invited up to Beaumont to see fellow palm geeks Randall (inland palms) & Eric (Beaumont tropics), along with Bill (Cardiff palms). Beaumont is about 2,800 feet in elevation (I believe) and we had great weather. Both have wonderful gardens. We started at Randall’s. Yes, there is a house back there. He must have 150 palms and cycads packed in there. First up, the nerds congregate. Followed by a nice, fast growing Nanorropes richiana, and an awesome Phoenix rupicola.

A few pics from the far north coast of NSW. Apart from South West Rocks, these could be the most southerly. Covering Brunswick Heads to Yamba.

Next, the best Trachycarpus princeps I’ve ever seen. Interestingly, they won’t grow very well here near the coast. But a slam dunk in the dryer air where he lives. Followed by a canopy view with a Livistona decora poking its head out. As his canopy has expanded, what used to be impossible for him to grow, is no longer out of the question. Case in point, Becarriophoenix alfredii.

Calyptrogyne.

He was a busy host.. Notice how he seamlessly folded the mule palm into his deck!

Next up is a nice stout Brahea armata, followed by a great Phoenix rupicola & finally Dr. Randall explaining the characteristics of a Cycas hybrid.

The lantzeana would have to be one of my favourite little dypsis species around. Cool tolerant a little dry tolerant and absolutely beautiful. A nice rosey red colour to the new leaf. And it makes a great little container palm. You gotta love the lantzeana.

There’s a few planted around Woolgoolga,Mullaway and Red rock. I tried to grow them only 10 minutes drive away further north inland but no luck. Definitely a coastal palm for this area!

Approx 15 years at the Santa Fé mall NE of Atlanta.

And a volunteer.

Prestoea acuminata var montana inflorescence would catch anyone's eye. In two weeks it will be pink, then red. The bees are having a party.

jubea chiliensis stenocarpus sinuatisdypsis pinnatafrons maroon crown dioon spinolosum A few more easy growers for the garden.

Yes marine parks. The best part of the world naturally. Yuragir nature park.

Thanks for looking!!

Lastly, and a bit off-topic, Randall told me several months ago that he was relocating some palms in his backyard so that he could make a tiki hut. I’m thinking of something like maybe an outdoor barbecue/ bar area, open air, with a thatched roof. Ah no.. His attention to detail was absolutely unbelievable. Beyond words, enjoy..

Theres more growing around but only right on the coastal towns, most are pretty well on the beach or headlands.

Those are beautiful coconuts. I have New South Wales at 32° latitude south. Can they grow further south in Australia? Best

Sabinara magnifica, nenga banaensis and a Calyptrocalyx hollrungii, looking pretty for a subtropical climate.

@SeanK They look great! Edit: Google maps shows them still there in 2008. Wow!

There’s a few planted around Woolgoolga,Mullaway and Red rock. I tried to grow them only 10 minutes drive away further north inland but no luck. Definitely a coastal palm for this area!

Have they not grown much? Looking great though. Are there any old pics?

Not exactly today, but....

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

Beautiful stunning tree, unfortunately it’s not one for my area, the native bees get stuck inside the flower and die.

Yeah. We got 80mm of rain in 24hrs. Not bad at all. Just steady non stop rain. Nothing too heavy and no wind in it really. We had strong easterlies before it then a day later strong westerlies. It brought the water tank for the house right up. Now the weeds have gone ballistic. We’ve got a sunny 28C today and warm weather for most of the week, so with soil moisture up and warm soil the garden will be growing weeds like nobodies business. We had a few cool nights this week just gone so I lit the fire for the first time on Tuesday for a few days. No need for it now though.

Non event here apart from 40mm of rain at a low steady rate. Some coastal areas getting hit inline with expectations.

Thanks. I always wondered if any were around that area.

A nice looking palm the dwarf variety. They will never flower, the only way of propagating them is by cutting them up. This one you would get 4 clumps if you attacked it with a reciprocal saw. I might have to do just that!

In response to Harry's kind comment regarding the wild Ss, I will repost the ancient Ss's at the Breaker's in PB:

Wow Alberto! That is magnificent!

Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

I remember hearing that and then seeing the Brahea armata at Lake Wire. While they aren't as easy as something native, they handle drought well and don't mind our few nights of arctic weather after record heat.

Update 4/10/26: The newest spear that was starting to emerge pulled. Poured some H2O2 in the crown and dried it out as good as I could. Will continue to monitor. No rain in the forecast for the next 7 days and likely beyond, so little to no risk of water getting into the crown aside from H2O2 if I decide to do that again. Might do the H2O2 + Daconil next time.

Foxtails seem pretty tough overall, especially once they have some trunk.

Looking pretty good for a chamaedorea seed harvest this season. Might have to put a few adscendens and metallica seeds up for grabs on palmtalk, stay tuned!

The Wooly Wine Wonder palm?

Things were looking bleak for these Foxtails at Lake Miriam Square. These were newly planted only months before the freeze and were totally brown only a few weeks ago. They're coming back now. Here at the homestead, a Veitchia X Carpentaria that was marked as dead on my spreadsheet may make me a liar. It has a long way to go, but it was totally brown and dead only a few weeks ago. Tropical hardwoods like Delonix regia and Bursera simaruba are coming back.

Dypsis plumosa loaded up with seeds!

There moss on commercially grown blueberry plants. So it doesn’t seem to be an issue for this commercial nursery. And iam sure ifbit was an issue they would be doing something about it as these plants are tissue culture grown. So we are talking about big money in this investment!

A couple of great rare ones today in the palm department, along with an anthurium. Loxococcus rupicola dypsis pinnatafrons anthurium bakeri

A couple of chamaedoreas anyone!

A few more classics for the garden! Getting into stock plants now. Zamia standelyi anthurium claudiae Lanonia hainensis Geonoma pychnostachyszinginer black sp Rothmania longifolia Areca Warburgiana aka macrocalyx licuala triphylla var stenophylla

A few more exotic stock plants this week for the garden! Zamia variegata dypsis CLBSdypsis poiveana Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana Areca species tenom Calyptrocalyx pauciflorus dypsis lantptychococus paradoxusclaviga sp bolbitis sinuosa

Update from Oviedo. All 400 clumps of areca’s are gone. Undergrowth is coming in strong but 10-15ft stalks breaking off dead. 😢. Bismarck burned but ok. 12or so fronds dead. 3 3 headed clusters of Christmas likely dead. A couple heads pushing green but don’t work without the others so no good. Bottle got burned inside garage. One coconut gone. 3 royals, 2 pushing green for now but one not moving. Most underlying gone. Aboricolas are coming back slowly even cut to dang near ground level. Crotons, ginger, ti, gone. Worst part of it all, knowing this would happen eventually, is I moved my nursery back out last weekend. Bottles, Bismarcks, kings, mangos, and the dang squirrels tore out and ate all the kings, ate the spear on the bottles, and generally ruined my appetite to continue on with this.

I hear Rhopalistylus sapida will also grow in a swamp; true?

The bigger one

Starting to get a better feel for things now that some time and warmer weather has gone by. This rain we are getting will also help give a push. Everything already got a dose of granular fertilizer plus some liquid feeds here and there. Now it's mostly a waiting game. Of my 3 big Coconuts, I'm seeing some green on at least one of them which is encouraging. Satakentia is still an unknown. Royals seem to be putting some green out and same with my 3 big Foxtails, thank goodness. Archies are all doing well with a couple exceptions that are in limbo. Still not sure of my twin trunk Hurricane palm....and the single Adonidia next to it. My big Bottle might make it. My Pandamus is now done. Entire tip clusters just dropping right off. Riding it out....

This is what royals in the area look like. All seem to be pushing green. I've actually see a couple of coconuts that looked like they are recovering too.