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Two of my Kentiopsis oliviformis are getting ready to bloom for the first time

I didn't think this would open sky flowers but I was mistaken. It is a pleasant surprise to see them.

A few more new ones up this week. And even a few more joeys popping up!

Dypsis saintlucei in flower, Chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookerii both flowering together, dypsis rosea and a archontophoenix Cunninghamiana with that rare orange leaf for a bit of colour!

I found this photo from March 2016 with a description of Dypsis robusta in the ground. I'm not sure if I had just planted it or if it was a little before this that it went into the ground. The growth over a decade from this picture to the current is accurate though.

A few more across the bench. A nice little Geonoma interupta from @tim_brissy_13 that’s still doing well. And a couple of basselina pseudovelitina growing well. And a hundred percent strike rate on a few Cham Metallica palms from home grown seeds.

A nifty diminutive palm from New Guinea, Hydriastele rheophytica. Loves water hence, the name, and sparsely clumping. I remember Brad posting a photo of one in his garden not too long ago. Tim

Found five Nubium a in the back of the greenhouse, it’s great having so many plants. You forget what you have until you see them again. So a quick repot and we have great chamaedoreas underway ready for next springs plantings.

I have what seems to me, a very strange situation. I have a 4 year old Sabal seedling that has shot up an inflorescence. Im not sure how this is possible at this age, and I have confirmed that the flower stalk is not from some rando weed seed in the pot. I wonder if it can set seed, and if so if the seed would be viable. Seems weird

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C nubium is such a great palm to grow from seed. Very robust, I’ve never lost one and relatively quick too. The one I planted in the ground in Spring is now flowering and producing clean trunk and it’s only a bit over 3 years old. Got a bit burnt from our extreme heat days this summer when this photo was taken but it’s just superficial and still growing well. This species has absolutely no problem with long cool winters; I suspect it would do well down in Tassie (and cool parts of SF Bay, etc)

A nice lepidozamia hopei flush with a beautiful plant in cone! A lovely pair sitting together!

That’s my understanding too. This one is definitely either a dwarf or what they call a semi dwarf.

With winter approaching, fingers crossed for this one. It’s the hot dry low humidity that they dislike!

Merlyn, I totally respect Tim's expert opinion on this palm. Many years ago I inquired and was told that it was a Macaw palm. Many of these older Carribean palms have spines but seem to lose them with age. All pictures on Palmpedia or elsewhere show spines but as you can see none on this trunk. It cracks me up about the dwarf, semi-dwarf or standard A. catchetu! Who knows! I am most interested in identifying the "what in the world" palm. I will get better pictures that will hopefully assist the experts with identification. Thank you and everyone for their help.

Yep I’m very confident it’s C loucoubensis. Here’s the description on palmpedia which is taken from the palms of Madagascar description of D ampasindavae. Short to absent petiole, pale green crownshaft with some wax and pendulous leaflets are the traits that stand out to me.

Hmmm interesting! FWIW droopy onilahensis do well for me and seem to take drier conditions than “upright” onilahensis. I’m in northern Orange County California, near Los Angeles county.

My wife was walking one of our cat on a leash outside (they are indoor cats) and she knocked over my nice tall ceramic pot with a Dendrobium speciosum ssp Pedunculatum in it. The original tiny plastic 3" pot was undamaged and the roots filled the ceramic pot encircling the cobblestones I used to hold the plastic pot at the top. It's new pot will be short and stout when I finish replanting it. I think it will handle the move fine.

🙏 You're gonna have leaves the size of your head in a month. Appreciate you! We use the finest reused Amazon packing material and the best tape Dollar General has to offer because we care about our customers. Thanks homey!

Not an expert on Sabal but that seems very unusual. Harry

I don't remember what @Scott W said this was hybridized with but I swear it's half sago half pothos.

Oh theres a lot I can’t grow successfully, water and cold with cold being the biggest drawback challenge!

Last Friday, this Iriartea deltoidea dropped a flower sheath with a loud "thwop!" and shook itself out like a wet mop. A day or two later I finally returned with the camera to capture the glowing flowers. Now on the fourth day, the bees are still buzzing around it. These stately palms are a favorite.* I first saw them in Costa Rica, looking down on the fluffy crowns from hanging bridges, mesmerizing. These individuals were planted in July of 2011. IMG_5346.MOV *(All my palms are favorites.)

I wonder how much is based on genetics vs care. The only Butia I've grown were big, and the ones in the PNW are all big, so to me that is an environmental factor. I do have two standard Butias in my yard and I like to think that I take better care of my palms then the average person. Aside from providing the right place I try to ensure water requirements and nutritional needs are met. The one thing that I do that I think most others don't is that I don't remove fronds until absolutely necessary. With my Butias they all have many fronds still completely green laying perfectly flat on the ground. If they turn brown I will remove them, otherwise I generally leave them. 99.9% of immature Butias I see in people's yards and on YouTube are more manicured or overpruned. Tough to see from the photo but there are 6-8 frond laying flat in the mulch.

In Florida, absolutely. In Texas north of the RGV - not so much. Even here Adonidia isn't easy to find. The blue big box store just started selling Hyophorbe lagenicaulis here again this past year after several years. I wouldn't mind trying one of those coconuts if it's mature enough to be viable. ☺️

I’m no expert in these, but isn’t the “dwarfism” for these, kind of on a spectrum? I think there is regular, dwarf, and in-between types.

@DoomsDave Nice to meet you too! I'll be moving close by, just with a shorter greenhouse that can't quite fit these guys...for now. Even so, they have just about outgrown this 22 foot tall greenhouse and are starting to poke holes in the plastic film!

Maybe it's the extremely rare Tall Dwarf?

First photo definitely Aiphanes sp. The what in the world palm I can’t quite put my finger on but definitely not Howea. I’m nearly certain not Laccospadix either. The fronds and petioles remind me a lot of Carpoxylon, but I’ve never seen one with dead leaf bases attached and all the debris hanging on give me the impression it’s not a crownshafted palm. That could just be the way old bases are hanging on though - would be interesting to see what it looks like cleaned up a bit.

Agree. I tried the "weepy" form and it completely bombed out. This is a palm for SOCAL not FL. They don't take kindly to months of swelter and humidity. I believe they require a significant night time cooldown to survive long term. I've come to the conclusion that the genus Chrysalodocarpus prefers the Cali mediterranean climate over the FL tropical climate. I've tried a number of species, i.e., robusta, piulifera, yadda, yadda and succeeded with none of them.

Have met his nephew and wife who are in Bochum in his apartment right now ... his last words were for his Lytos and me ... And now? Have loaded 3 larger and one really large L. weddelianum + 2 L. itapebiense (one mid-sized, 1 seedling) and a L. hoehnei into my car ... this was the last promise I gave him; to take care on his "babies", as long as I am alive. Heaven was crying on my way back, much of rain came down ... 😪

Stangeria eriopus with a new frond coming

I have a lot of affection for this elegant palm. And the seeds are so pretty, too!

@RiverCityRichard I tried Onilahensis here twice, once from Floribunda and the other from another source I don't recall at the moment. They grew great in pots and in the ground here. The frost killed all of them with temps in the upper 20s, generally 27-30ish. I think Orlando and South would be an easy grow, just not on the NW side of Orlando with frequent heavy frosts. Mine were all very small in the ground, no more than 2 feet tall. Bigger ones might have a better chance.

First one is Aiphanes minima, second one a Hyophorbe lagenicaulis and your 3rd ID seems to be right.

Bauhinia variegata 'rubra' blooming in a 5g pot at a friend's house yesterday-from seed from my tree. Mine lagging behind this year so no blooms yet.

I have sandy soil here in SoCal, so I always amend with compost & a thick layer of mulch. When I water my non desert palms, I set my timer for 45 mins, & let her rip (the drip line that is !). I have a tree soaker ring on my bismarckia, & then 2 other separate drip lines on the other palms that are elsehwhere on my property. If it's in the 90's (which we had a VERY hot spell a couple weeks back, I would do this every day). However now it's about 1-2 times a week. Here in SoCal, it NEVER rains. Last year, we went 9 months without rain !! I have a section of the garden that are understory palms, so trying to imitate rainforest conditions with faking humidity.

I hand water everything but my hill . The gardens around the house are manageable but it still takes the better part of an hour to do it right. The hill gets irrigation a few times a week . Harry

There a beautiful palm, look after your one and the rewards of growing is a gorgeous palm!

Mid to upper 90s across the valley at 2:42PM under haze and high clouds.. Looking at the early afternoon T.C. Sat. picture, as expected, some storms starting to break out across S.AZ atm with more lighting up the spine of the Sierra Madre further south.. Note the " spinny, " Mesoscale Convective Vortex ( MCV ) thing approaching the borderlands from interior, northern Sonora, and how thunderstorm activity is enhanced on it's left side as it progresses north northwest ward.. We'll see how that plays into any further expansion of shower / storm activity closer to the valley / rest of Cen. AZ thru the rest of the afternoon / evening.. Some " popcorn -y " buildups starting to flare up near the Maricopa /Pinal /Pima county line, and near the I -8 west of Casa Grande also. If any of that stuff can get itself up ..and sustain itself over the coming hours as it tries to get closer to town ..then the chances are higher for us seeing more than just increased cloud cover from it. Passing, hit and miss sprinkles, a burst of dusty breezes, or nothing, expect one of those warm ..and slightly humid.. evenings as dew points jump from around 40 currently to near 50 by midnight ..per the current forecast..

77F at 11:08PM with some lingering haze from this mornings easterly wind event, and some scattered high clouds roaming the area atm.. Extended, afternoon / evening Sat view = is it early June ..or the end of March.. Not that often you see ..a respectable deg. of storm activity firing over the Sierra Madre Occidental this time of year, let alone that activity lasting well beyond sunset, reaching lower elevation areas in Sonora, and sending an easy to see surge of mid / upper level moisture north into AZ.. What does that mean for any storm potential tomorrow, and / or on Monday? Essentially, ..we'll have to wait and see.. Most likely scenario would be high based convection that might drop a few sprinkles ..and a weak thunderstorm or two, esp. anywhere north of ~ roughly a line from Casa Grande to Kearney.. Better terrain - driven dynamics = better chances for slightly stronger / longer lasting storms up in the mountains and south / southeast of Tucson, esp. on Monday once a forecast low level moisture surge from Mexico and the Gulf of CA arrives. Same low level moisture surge will briefly raise dew point readings into the " slightly monsoon season -ish mid / upper 40s / low 50s for about 18 -24 hours before our typically dry spring air returns. Regardless, this isn't mid - June ..or July, so, ..don't expect July - type storm activity.. Still, ..interesting that the SPC has hoisted a " minimal " category storm risk for tomorrow ..Mainly geared toward any wind - related issues from outflow boundaries that might reach the valley / other areas w/ some dust.. While still expected to hang in the 90s, temps will continue to shave off a deg or two tomorrow, and again on both Monday and Tuesday.. We'll see when the trough anticipated to drop us back into the 80s ..at least temporarily, arrives as we reach Wednesday next week..

Also in my transitional from BSh to BSk climate (Köppen classification), artificial irrigation is absolutely necessary. Look what happened to a potted Livistona of mine during mid March , while irrigation still remained shut off.

An afternoon potting up a few germinated seeds. Along with a couple tubes of chamaedorea adscendens, syagrus picrophylla. And one lone pholidiocarpus.

Another easy palm to grow in containers. Joeys like a substrate thay is very free draining, almost a hydroponic soilless mix coco coir perlite with a bit of good quality potting mix, and lots of liquid fertiliser. There that easy.

I was there yesterday and got some fruit . The thing is massive . One trunk was cut off years ago but still three healthy trunks. Terry and Sevan gave me permission to take all the seeds I want . Harry

A second Jubaeopsis has come up.

My Jubaeopsis caffra today. With the warmer weather its growth is speeding up and the plant is becoming more upright. Almost as big as Josue's now! I guess because it's shaded, the orange/yellow color of the petioles is subdued.