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For those who did not know. I've grown this Chamaedorea Elegans directly in the top of my aquarium for a couple of years now. It's done great! It's a great way to grow out those small grass tuffts they sell for cheap at the box store.

Trying this again in the correct post about palm trunks. Chrysalidocarpus pembanus Chrysalidocarpus robustus (2 photos) Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos Cyphophoenix elegans Cyphophoenix nucele

12 years ago I planted this palm and for some odd reason it bifurcated about 5 years ago

Troy’s Ropalostylis thread got me thinking about the Chatham Island form. The photo of me with the huge one is from back in 2010 or thereabouts. The next one is taken today with my 2nd generation offspring grown from seed at my home. I planted it in 2012 from one gallon pot.

Here are some of the more colorful palm trunks in my Northern California garden. Post yours please! Howea forsteriana Rhopostylis baueri Archontophoenix purpurea Chambeyronea macrocarpa Archontophoenix myolensis Chanaerops costaricana Rbopalostylis sapida ‘Chatham Island’ Rhopalostylis baueri Rhopalostylis baueri Chrysalidocarpus decipiens Wodyetia x Veitchia Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti Howea forsteriana Chambeyronia hookeri Euterpe edulis Archotophoenix alexandrae Phoenix roebelenii Caryota urens R. sapida Hedescepe canterburyana Chamaedoea tepejelote Bentickua condapanna Dypsis rosea Chamaedorea species Euteroe edulis ‘Orange Crownshaft’ Chamaedorea elegans C. radicalis Livistona australis

It had sped up a bit only after I had buried next to it a mastiff dog🙄! If it were a Caribbean sp, I'd say it needed some dose of voodoo magic, but it is actualy from the West Coast. I like the bright reddish fiber around leaf bases.

This season in NZ. Chathams have flowered once or twice but the kermadecs haven't started yet. Last seasons seed is just maturing on the kermadecs

A couple of nice ones ready to get planted in autumn after the summer heat. I could plant them now but the watering for new palms and a busy lifestyle would not suit them. Autumn, winter and spring are the best planting times for my climate, summer can be brutal living in the bush especially for newly planted panted palms and a trees!

Couple of nice Zamia skinneri to add to the collection. Both a male and female so fingers crossed a few seeds!

Thanks Darold , I have replaced it recently with a R. Baueri Cheesmania . This time in shade on the cool side of the house. Live and learn. Harry

This is an old image of mine, grown from a 1-gallon start.

Sabals are TOUGH. We here in the Land O’LaLa tend to discount them, and forget how beautiful they are. @Phoenikakias thanks for re-educating us about that. @Than try some where you are!

Last night I cut down a Caryota acquired as no, but was probably a urens. It was too large for the space and about to get too tall for me to remove myself. The new real estate was already committed to planting one of the Meryta balansae I got from Matt a couple of years back. It had roots outside the small pot it was in. Here is the initial result. I staked it on two sides while it gets established. My wife likes it being in a prominent position along the walkway to the entrance to our home.

I got mine yesterday.

In the very first photo are Clivia Lilies. Not exactly ground cover though. They love a cool to mild climate and will tolerate an occasional hot spell. Bloom time is early Spring.

Almost all except those with subterranean trunk and palmetto can live in my garden. I am sure, that if I had a sandy soil, there would be absolutely no exception. Hmm, I have caught me wrong, I do have also a dwarf minor surviving in a slope.

Actually dog was mine, but ... as @DoomsDave can testify, bring more corpses!

@Phoenikakias that is a beauty! Harry

Hard to say with confidence, but it might be Chrysalidocarpus arenarum. Even the crownshaft and trunk colour look a little off for C lutescens but that could be growing conditions - looks like quite deep shade?

Only in NZ does Hedyscepe get relegated to the background of a shot without mention. Amazing!

C pembana from 2 gal? 4 years was eye catching today.

I washed out the old substrate and put it in lava rock (to support the plant). The roots are just in the water. The roots over time have actually grown down to the Aquarium's substrate.

Sabal uresana and two individuals of Brahea decumbens on a warm December day in Central Texas

These photos are from 2024 but here is the Washingtonia Robusta at the Lost Garden of Heligan in Cornwall… And one of the biggest Filifera’s in the UK in north London (greenhouse below for scale)… I’ve only just seen these updates, even if they are from over a year ago. It’s a shame that I can’t get more recent photos from this year!!!

Bob when you posted about the SAPW attack on your neighbor's CIDP, I remembered seeing your posts of this spectacular specimen of Ravenea. I have heard the SAPW like Ravenea but hope they never develop a taste for this species or some of the other less common ones. I am in the same boat as Brett. I don't think I have the heat this species wants. I tried one in my front planter with all the Aloes, Aloidendron and Cycads, but failed. Grub hunting skunks contributed to its decline. I can live vicariously through your post. A truly prized and spectacular plant.

Mine is planted in a very exposed spot. This is the best it has looked. I have battled scale on it since before it was put in the ground.

You’re gonna love that thing no matter how big it gets!

Well, I'm only just getting started with my new garden, but here's a few starters. Chrysalidocarpus Baronii - greenish, yellow with a hint of white trunk, juxtaposed with late fall leaves. Chrysalidocarpus Ambositrae Chrysalidocarpus Decipiens

See the video

Yes they are more robust and seem more durable. Here’s another photo of the one in my former home

This species does seem to enjoy the heat, and is also very drought tolerant. There are several planted around in Phoenix, Arizona palm gardens. Here's mine. Slow but steady... Each frond is about 12 feet tall, but the plant still looks like a giant carrot. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

I'm looking at my cat in a different way now! Btw what Sabal species can live in your garden unprotected? I may get myself one but uresana is not my taste.

Whoa! Damn, that thing is a beauty! There’s a trunking specimen at the Big H in San Marino, about 40 feet tall. Keep us apprised of the progress of yours! 😍

And here are a couple of gratuitous pics of our new pup playing by the dam, to make up for the charred remains exhibited above!

Added a few more, um, er, palms? You could maybe call them that at a stretch, although these resemble more some stricken survivors of a dystopian apocalypse...which in fact they virtually are, having been ravaged by rabbits (two down to the spear alone), dug out of the dry South Arm sand, and finally a year later transplanted to a better place, in what is now I guess the SW Pacific bed, rather than just LHI. These are of course, as any three year old could tell, Rhopalostylis baueri cheesemanii, or hopefully, will be some day! So now it's cheesemanii in the foreground in the green hats and baueri in the back in black.

The shovel makes this shot. I don't think the size would come through without it or perhaps a person for perspective. Your dense jungle and canyon must provide protection from damaging wind. Nothing pseudo about this spectacular species or your specimen.

I will say at this point how cool is that, well done, theres a few popping up around the world in different locations now!

Chamaedorea adscendens spike potted up The seed was a gift from Mr. Richard, thank you brother @happypalms

Hopefully I can produce a few seeds! They would grow for you as well in your climate just put them in your grow room each winter, and with them being a small palm easily done!

Couldn’t resist, A. pseudospectabile growing in a C. lutescens stump. Tim

I have to say I agree with Billy, that the specimen in your photos looks more like Cyphophoenix elegans than nucele. The first is color on a C elegans young trunk and the second is C nucele.

Incredible palm Bob, thanks for sharing the pictures

Picked up some Sabal uresana from @Josue Diaz. If anyone’s looking, he still has some available for sale too

Treat it like a tropical and not like a temperate palm. Ain't similar to a Brahea.

Wonderful, Konstantinos 🤗

Gaussia maya is very tender to any kind of freeze. Nevertheless it has been surviving in this spot since 2020.

One more Cyprian cocos planted by a little old Asian lady. Ten years in the ground - purchased at Ikea. 35 degrees North lattitude.

They are not very easy to find for some reason. Seems like they were a one time seed dispersal around 15-20 years ago

These are in Golden Bay, not Auckland, but it shows the difference when they're under the canopy VS exposed

A couple of nice acanthophoenix rubra popped up and said what about us today!