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First new leaf since planting out our Lepidorrachis mooreana, obtained from @Darold Petty last autumn.

After about 2 years i waited, finally its getting pinnate😄

This Dioon caught my eye . Actually it happens every year about this time! Harry Bought this in a 10” pot many years ago.

Areca vestaria, looks like it might be the red form.

Buenas días, tengo está plántula de pseudophoenix ekmanni, que transplante a tierra a sol directo. En 3 semanas se puso color amarilla como seca, se le daba los riegos cada 2 días a 3 días, decidí sacarlo y volver poner en maceta para darle cuidado. Que tendrá mi palmera? Cómo le puedo ayudar a que no se muera? Será alguna clase de hongo? Anexo foto antes y después. Lo blanco que se ve es bicarbonato de sodio. Saludos.

Love the glossy leaves on these

Did you ever pull the trigger and grow one? They get big over time. I am in a different climate zone but do have experience growing a couple of Caryota species including gigas now lumped in as obtusa. I would not underestimate the project it will be to remove it someday. The one I acquired as gigas is well over 20 years old. The trunk is massive in diameter but it hasn't gained the height of some around town in Encinitas and adjacent communities.

Just planted this lipstick queen hybrid palm In zone 10b Whittier California ( So Cal ) Los Angeles County It has two suckers growing on it Filtered sun Wish me luck 6/9/26

I have one sargentii in a container and I just can’t get it to grow. What is it Iam doing wrong. To much water not enough light do they like to be on the dry side. Leaf condition is fine, what’s the trick please!

More heat and sun for better growth (Considering this palm is very slow growing) For watering not dry and not too wet I would love to have one and try my chance but can't get any (sargentii or ekmanii)

For reference, I am in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8A. We've had these palms for over a year now and moved them inside to winter as it was getting too cold for them. During this time, they were mostly healthy except for the dreaded spider mites which we tried our best to handle/remove. A combination of removing completely dead/infested fronds and spraying with water seemed to do the trick, and they went back to being healthy. We moved them back outside a few days ago once the weather was consistently warm and humid, but they appear to be struggling again. I'm suspecting some sort of overwatering/drainage issue. The pots they are in have drainage holes at the bottom and I've been told there is a rock layer at the bottom about 1" in depth. The rest of the pot is filled with your average semi-fancy potting soil. Before moving the palms outside, their drainage pans were routinely being filled. Now, they are essentially empty. I know that majesty palms are notorious for being cheap and frail, but we really do enjoy having these around and would like to know if there's anything we can do to help them survive. Attached are photos of both palms and their fronds.

The flush on my Chunky Monkey Encephalartos longifolius has stretched out and is beginning to harden. It looked stunning in the low summer setting sunlight.

My one with the trunk is at least 27 years in the ground and about 6 feet tall, so I guess after 30 years 7 to 8 feet perhaps.

That’s palm growing for you, I guess it is rocket science after all sometimes.

Brahea edulis, or the Guadalupe palm, is a slow-growing, hardy palm native to Mexico's Guadalupe Island, known for its large, fan-shaped, green leaves and edible black fruit. It's highly tolerant of drought, wind, and poor soils, making it a popular ornamental plant in warm climates, though it's considered rare in the wild due to habitat threats like feral goats. This self-cleaning palm grows to about 30-45 feet tall and is suitable for full sun and well-drained soil.

Getting back to the original palms in the yard, would everyone agree that those are Washingtonia filifera, as opposed to robusta? Definitely less common than robusta, but just look better in dry heat with plenty of water. The one true California native palm.

They are so odd as seedlings. Robust and fast to push out the first frond, then they are just so touchy for a couple of years after that. I suspect they have some unique nutritional requirement so once they run out of seed reserves the seedlings can struggle.

Nicely grown one there Tracy. Seems like near the coast, they don't suffer much brown tipping. Mine is going nowhere fast fortunately. Probably 15 years old & still has held onto all its leaf bases. Looks like a giant fern at this point, as does yours.

Es una palmera muy sensible, incluso los jardines botánicos tienen dificultad en cultivarlo. Es muy probable que tú palmera ya se haya muerto.

You are great botanists. You know about exotic things.

My first impression with the 20-25 jubaeas in containers and hybrids Ive seen is that it looks like JxB, the jubaea mother. These are great hybrids if they can be happy, and they grow much faster than jubaea. If its a pure jube, I haven't seen one like that in my limited experience. Its surely not a J x B which tend to be much more recurved in the petiole. It also doesnt look like any pure butia species I have seen.

My latest success in germinating . Chambeyronia Hookeri . This sat in my garden all winter , one of two seeds gathered from Sullivan’s palm. Harry Sort of a “Where’s Waldo” situation . I only noticed it a few days ago. Just to the right of the perlite chunks. The seed was very large , almost filling this wee container . Harry

The direction I took the pics from provides the best overall ground to crown visual. But it has the least reflective sunlight to show off the grey colors at that time of day(AM). If you want get a better white grey view, you put the sun at your back, this would be the opposite direction in the AM. This is optical physics applied to plant reflectance and diffuse transmission. I placed these palms so that I had the better view from my yard, not the street view. Here is the opposite view where the sun is at the obvservers back. So consider the view you want with either uresana or bismarckia. I try not to give the street the best view.

I finally see a sprout from one of two seeds I got from Sullivan’s gorgeous Hookeri . I was talking to Terry while admiring the palm full of fruit when I looked down and saw two red fruit on the ground . Terry said to take them , but be patient. They are slow to germinate . Harry I will have to swing by to see if there is any more fruit on the ground . Unfortunately it is too tall to reach .

Variegated rhapis, iguanura broad leaf and a nice Dypsis species for a bit of colour floating around the garden!

Red Latania

Chambeyronia hookeri doing its best cyphophoenix impersonation.

Cyphophoenix elegans doing its best flamethrower impersonation.

L rupicola and friends…

Carpentaria

Bismarkia

Red Latania

Areca macrocalyx. Crown shaft color really varies throughout the year, but today it’s looking great. Tim

I have always loved chatting about palms/cycads and plants in general with Maria. I've known her and her sons for the better part of 10 years, and she has always been so kind. Maria was the owner of Sago Rey Palms in Fresno, where she continued the business after the passing of her husband Thomas Wash. I was very saddened to hear of a horrible incident at the nursery over Easter weekend, and further saddened to learn of her passing. She will live on in the memory of many of us here in the area (and out of the immediate area) who have crossed paths with her. My garden is full of plants she cared for and nurtured. If any of you got those really blue Sabal uresana seedlings, they came from Maria. A few photos from her obituary: https://kmph.com/news/local/nursery-owner-dies-after-easter-machete-attack-nephew-faces-murder-charge

I think this the Eophyll (First leaf)

I would say about 6 years from a Jeff Marcus order. They were 1gals. Yeah they can be bushy-but not a very big palm.

Mine is slow but steady. Recently started flowering too.