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A couple of vonitra perrieri hidden away in the collection. I have no idea where I got them, perhaps RPS. But either way it’s a nice bonus finding a new variety you had no idea you had!

Just got back last night after a memorable month of travel. It will take awhile to get caught up here in PR as well as reading and posting on PT. However, I would first love help naming this palm near the lake at the Singapore Botanic Garden which shows seedlings still attached to the infructescence. Thanks so much!

It doesn’t look good, bottles can take a bit of cold, but that looks frozen to me. If it makes you feel any better i planted one yesterday, so all is not lost they will survive in cultivation. Such a shame it was a nice size one at that, if it has spear pull, then that is a pretty good sign it has suffered quite a bit of a substantial freeze. That cold blast even made the news in Australia!

Chuniophoenix hainanensis. One of my favourites. I saw this specimen last year, it’s a beauty!

A few chamaedorea adscendens to pot up, such a lovely palm to grow very rewarding. A few large form dasyanthas and the very slow to do anything masoala Madagascariensis, the date on the tag says it all, iam a slow grower, even had a few still germinating so dont give up on them. Treat them like Howea species my advice!

A beautiful Cham adscendens that’s about 4 years old and flowering, so it seems they take 4 years to become mature. Then two licuala triphylla both with seeds got my attention again today! Chamaedorea adscendens 4 years old. Licuala triphylla var stenophylla licuala triphylla

Then you better get your order in @happypalms I got a couple couple growing good!

@BumGardener I'm pretty sure this one has a future in the mulch pile. Unfortunate, but this cold snap was a little more than they can typically handle.

Double flames?

For the collectors here that are interested in hybrid palm trees, I have an online mail-order store with a few of my rare crosses. I'm certified to ship in-container to all lower 48 states and also internationally with phyto (extra fee). https://seabreezenurseries.com

Yellow Latania

Another little stash on there way!

A hundred orania sylvicola seeds, on the table double or nothing!

Another afternoon gardening, planting away. Some more garden eye candy! licuala triphyllajapanesese rhapis hakusetsuntakhara anthurium hookerii Ernest augustii Pinanga sarawakensis cycas deboensis x multipinata Calyptrocalyx yummutumune

Your temperatures look good next to ours in Phoenix in my experience if your weather is anything close to ours the only thing you are planting in full sun that will survive is the calla lily very tough grows in full sun with lots of water but they do go dormant in the summer but as soon as fall comes around they comeback with vengeance!!! Will be interested in future updates to see how things survive!!!

Ok that makes me feel alot better. That looks as big as the ones planted 15 years ago. That would have been depressing to see no growth in such a long time. That’s good growth for less than 10 years. Heres what I plan on planting around the palm. Some dipledanias, cordyline, verigated ti and a calla lilly.

@SCVpalmenthusiast I'll retract my earlier comment about Alfredii being a bad choice so close to the house. For some reason I thought you were putting it up right next to the house, like the spot with the Teddy Bear. You'll have to chop a few fronds off early next to the driveway, but I think that will work great! I have Blue Glow underneath a big Bismarck, with rain runoff from the driveway feeding it too. As Silas said, that one is pretty tolerant of moisture. For some color you could look at "Ripple Effect" if you can find one. As far as growth rate, 15 years to 1-2' of trunk seems...er...way too long. 4 of mine went from 3g in June 2018 (smaller than yours) to more trunk than the Mounts ones now. The 5th one is a bit smaller, but I transplanted it in March 2019 because I planted it about 5 feet from my well's control box and water retention tank. This one is the smallest of the bigger 4, just after a "hurricane cut" to reduce the crown last summer. So that photo is almost exactly 7 years from a 3 gallon. And here it is in June 2018 when I planted it:

On thursday we took a day trip down to washington DC to the botanical gardens and a few museums. One disappointing thing is the jungle room in the botanical garden was closed for maintenance which it's one of the main rooms, Either way it was still a fun trip. I didn't take as many photos as I thought but I did post a Youtube tour of it if anyone wants to watch it The needle palms at the US Botanical Garden sign They are surprisingly damaged it was a very cold winter in DC but still very surprising how damaged they are Here's a close up look, very surprising how damaged they are, downtown DC is realistically a z8a here are some Sabal minor In the courtyard Completely undamaged Here's a big giant coconut palm! Here's some cactus in the World Desert Room I really like this agave I forget the name of it Some really big barrel cactus! There's some Hardy barrel cactus varieties but I would like to grow a massive one like this I love these palms at the Botanical garden! I believe there's some sort of Phoenix Species if anyone knows let me know I love these cactus! This orchid is so beautiful! I would love to grow it An orchid growing on some Spanish Moss A big saw Palmetto! I wish I could grow one like this unprotected I never looked at the name of this agave but it's so beautiful! I don't know why I never looked at the name of this plant I wish I did i'm guessing it's some sort of cycad Species if someone knows let me know A nice view of the capital with some Forsythia Blooming in the corner \ Downtown DC has such a great microclimate almost every single tree I saw was leafed out or leafing out Here's a big southern Magnolia they're everywhere! some of them were planted in the 1800s I love these mini daffodils they're everywhere! Here's a nice star Magnolia in Bloom We went to the annual Orchid show in DC I don't know the names of most of the species but they are beautiful I love this flower it's so unique looking! I love this one! This one has such cool looking flowers! This has to be one of my favorite orchids I saw this is my favorite one! I love this one! \ I'm not sure the exact variety on this Magnolia but I love it!

That and some of @Bigfish's babies

With some good rain in the garden and a spot of irrigation, has the chamaedoreas loving autumn!

The rhizomatosa I purchased at last years pacsoa show certainly has enjoyed the short time it’s been planted in the garden. Quite a beautiful palm and easy to propagate! The leaf sheaths get a nice yellow green colour and you can certainly tell the rhizomatosa is indeed a different chamaedorea to its cousins. Quite an ornamental palm.

Thanks Harry!

Couple of dypsis species basilonga and prestonia

I wanted to share this cool looking and vigorous growing hybrid Cycas. I've not seen Cycas cupida available here in Southern California, so can't compare my hybrid to that parent, but I do have several Cycas thouarsii, so have a good sense of what they should look like and how they perform over time. Cycas thouarsii x cupida has an attractive upward V shape in the way that the leaflets are held as opposed to the normally flatter or sometimes even a little droopy ends to the leaflets on some C thouarsii. The color of the hybrid is also a bonus, being more bluish than the greens of its mother plant. Final observation on my hybrid is that the leaflets seem narrower when compared to the leaflets of the mother plant. The previous flush began in January, and the new flush is about to unfurl as you can see. Bottom line, its a hybrid I would recommend.

They look amazing at any size.

Hope everyone on the island is OK.

I'd like to share some information and photos of the eight full days IPS'ers spent in Viet Nam. These include palms and a few shots of the cities and countryside. The hotels were super, people friendly and helpful, and the streets swarmed with tourists, many probably Americans, Europeans, or Australians. Many shops in the streets had signs in English below the Vietnamese text - I'm told that English is taught in the schools. The tour started in Hanoi and ended in Hoi An, sister city to Da Nang. Nights were spent is six separate cities. I was told that it never freezes in Viet Nam, and this permits landscapers to use many palms. Everywhere, one of the most prominent was the royal palm (Roystonea regia). There were tremendous numbers pf betelnuts (Areca catechu). Another very common sight was the coconut (Cocos nucifera). I also saw a few plantings of the Manila or Christmas palm (Adonidia merrilli) and Chinese fans (Livistona chinensis). Overall, the selection for landscaping was pretty predictable and not highly interesting. Hours of sitting by bus windows made possible many pictures of unique aspects of the environment. Here is a typical city street in Hanoi: Here is a gathering of ladies at some sort of gathering. The long dresses are an anomaly, where women dress in traditional forms to celebrate a religious holiday. Normally, men and women dress just like we do. Photo number 3 is either from Hanoi or Ninh Binh, and shows an aspect of city travel that is unlike the USA, where even the poorest person drives a car. In Viet Nam motor scooters are much more common than motor vehicles and often used by young people of both genders. Quite often, there is a passenger (friend, wife, girl friend, child) clinging to waist of the driver. Masks are more common than not - I am told (but not convinced) that it is due to air pollution in cities like Hanoi (estimated population 10 million). Crossing the countryside, the lower elevation land devoted to rice paddies, usually with a country village in the background. Occasionally, the villagers decide to sacrifice a little rice growing land to have a graveyard. These are usually filled with elaborate structures to mark the resting places that are products of the peoples real tradition and skill at monument making. I was told that the lotus is considered to be a symbol of Viet Nam (I was also told that it was a heron, also a bull).But here is a city monument, probably in Ha Tinh. The hammer and sickle to the upper left are, of course, a symbol the the Vietnamese Communist party. The government of Viet Nam has an explicit symbol in its flag, red with a yellow star. The next pic is from our tour of the Forbidden City in Hue, showing one of many elaborate monuments from Viet Nams ancient past: Now, let's turn our attention to palms. Rain, slippery mud, huge rocks to climb over, laziness, and advancing age caused me to turn back or avoid several of the field excursions. Here's yours truly with a Lanonia species on the first day, in Cuc Phuong NP. Most of my best photos are from Bach Ma NP, where we were transported to the top of a hill on a concrete road and left to walk down and look at palms in the vegetation on either side. when we had done all we wanted to we could flag down one of the minibuses going back down the hill. My first shot was of what may be Pinanga ammanensis or possibly a Nenga species - Bill Baker wasn't yet sure. His photo in Facebook several days ago is much better than mine, but the same palm. My next photo is of a palm that I think is what Dr. Baker entered in Facebook as Licuala dakrongensis. We saw many Plectocomia elongata, which I am told is the tallest rattan. Everyone got a picture of this Caryota no (Bill Baker's is best). Here are two pics of Calamus walkeri, which was highly abundant everywhere. the second vividly illustrates the thorns. Finally, I will end with a shot of Da Nang, taken from a hillside in the Son Tra Nature Reserve. Hope you enjoyed this, as I did in posting.

The palm you identify as "some sort of Phoenix" may actually be Queen Sagos. Not actually palms but cycads. Really good looking specimens. Just my opinion. I may be wrong and I am sure someone will correct me if I am...

In reading the available scientific literature on these species, the description focuses on separating them from Sabal causiarum. However, given the great geographical distance between Puerto Rico and Bonaire, and the fact that Sabal is not present in the Lesser Antilles, it would seem logical to think that these recently described species are more closely related to Sabal mauritiiformis, which is present in nearby South America. Does anyone know more about this?

Do you have this paper? I think this is the latest publication about the genetics for these two species, but I am not sure that it resolves their relationships to other Sabal definitively. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379943813_Genomic_patterns_of_native_palms_from_the_Leeward_Antilles_confirm_single-island_endemism_and_guide_conservation_priorities

That is quite a hit that your garden took. That would be devastating , but you gotta keep going . I hope most come back and start growing once again . I think the growth rate where you are is better than here in our coastal desert . We don’t usually deal with cold but we have a very arid climate . As Spring and Summer progress , keep us updated. Harry

Chambeyronia pyriformis finally.... opening its first new leaf since planting 6 months ago. I'm impressed by how much sun it has taken here in seq.

I lost 5 alfredii’s in Harlingen, TX to a low of 22* in the Feb, 2021 cold blast.

@peachy I was not going to let this one pass this time, I regretted not purchasing it last year, well this year it was up for grabs and grab I did! It was even in flower so there may be hope a seed or two if the palm gods are watching!

A few more palms to go in, a couple of the pacsoa show purchases. No need to overwinter these ones they a tried and tested winners in my garden. Dypsis procera 3 out of 5, 2 more to plant Dypsis ambositrae grown by Lyn Crehan a quality grower of exotic plants. Schippia concolor chamearops humillis

Sabal Yapa new frond

Copernicias seem to like the desert a lot better than the beach out here.

@Mazat this is what your country needs a spectacular show of palms for sale, if one had the investment money a two acre climate controlled environment would be the place to start your business!

Looks like a portion of the show followed you home , great score! Harry

My one chance each year to buy rare palms of a decent size and without paying massive postal fees. Also the only time I get to catch up with people from far away. This year with the incredible heat and humidity I have just been too sick to go anywhere, even my eyesight went blurry this time (yet another complication with MS) so even going online has not been possible. Now I am back to whatever passes for normal, a bit more wobbly a lot more useless than before. Richard, I see you snavelled a lot of the palms I would have bought if I had been able to get there this year. Now I have a long long wait until next year. Peachy

a little bit of Italy in Australia, here they are everywhere

It's highly unlikely that a needle palm would be native to Tennessee. Their known native range is much further south. It's likely that someone scattered seeds or an animal transported the seeds from cultivated needle palms around that area. Or maybe someone just planted them there. What's far more likely to be native is sabal minor. Dwarf palmettos are native only around an hour and a half drive from Chattanooga in Cherokee County, Alabama. If you search sabal minor on inaturalist, people have taken pictures of them in Red Clay State Historic Park in southern Tennessee. That is probably the most likely area in Tennessee for having native dwarf palmettos in my opinion. The second most likely area in Tennessee to possibly have native dwarf palmettos would be along the Mississippi border in my opinion. On inaturalist, people have posted pictures of them close to the Tennessee border in Mississippi and one picture I saw in Tennessee but it is a bit farther north then I would imagine so I'm not fully sure about that one being native. In my experience, I think sabal minors are more cold hardy than needle palms when the plants are younger at least. I've never had a sabal minor spear pull on me but I've have it happen before with a needle palm. I know the needle palm is said to be the most cold hardy palm but I sometimes question that. I believe that palms can vary in cold tolerance even in the same species. A Florida needle palm should be less cold hardy than a Georgia needle palm for example. The sabal minor range extends very far north into northern Alabama. I wonder if a sabal minor from Cherokee County, Alabama would be more cold hardy than any needle palm? Either the Cherokee County sabal minor or the McCurtain county Oklahoma sabal minor should be the cold hardiest types of sabal minor in my opinion, or even the cold hardiest palms in the world. If Tennessee is ever proven to have native dwarf palmettos, then they would possibly be the cold hardiest palms in the world. I know it may be a little far fetched, but that area of Red Clay State Historic Park seems pretty similar in climate to northern Alabama and it doesn't seem too far away and pictures of dwarf palmettos have already been posted of them on inaturalist so I'm just connecting the dots here. That may be the very northern extent of their natural range where they are just very scattered and few and far between.

This B. alfredii was planted as a one gallon seedling roughly five and a half years ago. It’s shaded all day until late afternoon when it gets partial sun.

Been awhile since I posted an updated photo on this palm. Night time temperatures have finally been consistently in the 60 degrees F. range and the large overhead shade trees filled out entirely to provide filtered sunlight for this houseplant; time to move it outdoors for its summer vacation. Gusty winds always a concern though. Been holding off putting my Joey palm outdoors.

It's been 5 1/2 years since I posted the above photo. The plant has gotten bigger as you can see. A friend was over and we (he did all the work) just pulled a pup off mama that is about the same size as the original plant. This is a fast growing Cycas, probably driven by hybrid vigor. Anyone else that got one of these want to show what theirs look like today?

This is the smaller one that I had the problems with the mealy bug and scale on the emerging leaflets. It did ok as a result of my picking them off carefully and using a high pressure spray to blast them off. Still hardening off, so not showing the blue yet either, but it will.

Last Monday 4/30/2018 the larger of the two. I tried counting leaves on this flush when it was early in the push, but can't remember except that it was significantly more than the smaller one or the number of it's previous flush. You can see how green the emerging flush is, with the blue color yet to come after these leaflets harden.

No, but my little one is flushing right now.... looks like about 11 new leaves unless there are some wrapped up in the middle somewhere. It will be interesting to watch this one grow and see if it exhibits the same features as the other, larger one I have.