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My biggest Hedyscepe canterburyana gettin its first ring.

Gaussia...? G. princeps?

Gaussia princeps.

Here’s a current look at the famous Bottle Palm in Adventureland at Magic Kingdom. Credit to YouTuber ROPE DROP II for these screenshots from livestream today. Current look at a portion of the Jungle Cruise landscaping at Magic Kingdom I think the tree is a pink Tabebuia, leaves look all brown. Brown vegetation in planter near entrance to Adventureland Jacaranda foliage looks damaged in Tomorrowland

Finally my long awaited decipiens seeds are germinating, they have come the long way around to Australia, so a big thank you goes out to @Harry’s Palms in sunny California. He went to all the trouble of collecting them and seeing them on their way to sunny Australia. From there they were distributed to a few local growers. And the rest down by myself. There has also been a few others still germinating on the heat mats. Lanonia dasyantha large form another batch I had are coming up. The decipens where not placed on the heat mats just the warm summer temperatures got them going!

It’s hard to look at but going to wait a few weeks before i start trimming. In addition to wrapping to the extent possible, treated with copper fungicide before and after the 3 straight 25 degree (not including wind) day freezes.

This is what you need, they are made to keep pipes from freezing. It's called heat tape or heat cable, and it looks just like an extension cord that heats up. Amazon, lowes, and home deport usually carry them. There is an inline thermostat built in that clicks on at 38 deg clicks off around 45. If you wrap up the thermostat right up against the palm then it does a really good job of limiting the heat. I found then can get a hot spot where you have two parts of the cable crossing over and touching itself. I been adding a few wraps of frost fabric over the first layer if I plan on making a second layer of cable. thermostat package

That should be called “wilthestiltensis”!

I have a Chrysalidocarpus Leptocheillos hybrid that was just never real happy and it was in a prime spot. So I decided to dig it up and move it to a more sheltered area in my Madagascar planter. I replaced it with a Chrysalidocarpus Prestonianus hybrid that was recently made available on the Floribunda price list. These are fast palms and will quickly fill in this area: And here’s the Leptocheillos hybrid in its new spot. Fingers crossed it survives the move:

A few more new plantings went in recently with hopes that the rains would finally show up. And looks like they have. It’s raining now as I post this and looks like some good rain is coming this weekend finally. We’ve been off to a dry start for the year so far here in Hawaii so this is a welcome relief. Up first is one I am very happy about - Chrysalidocarpus Ifanadianae. I lost my trunking one of these this past year and didn’t think I’d be able to find a replacement. Jeff and Suchin at floribunda found me the last one they had there, in a 5 gallon pot. in the ground, close to where the original one was planted: up next was Dictyosperma Album Var. Aureum:

These newly planted palm trees near me are approx 12' to 14', from ground to top of fronds. The base looks like a bottle palm, however the fronds are much more vertical (which is what I want), rather than outward growing like a typical bottle palm.

Sabal mexicana at different sized plants and brahea decumbens. It’s been a week since the article blast and we have had several days in the 60°F and 70°Fs and so far no signs of cold or frozen precipitation damage 2.4 inches. In Dallas zone 8a low of 15°F and 50 consecutive hours below 32°F.

West Palm Beach airport (KPBI) seems to have briefly dropped to 30 F actually, on the second night of the cold snap.

Additional photos of telephone pole palms at Epcot. Credit to YouTuber Theme Park Giant Satakentia by Guardians of the Galaxy, row of foxtails farther back (compare to photo of same view earlier in this thread) More denuded foxtails

Looks like they wasted no time cutting the brown fronds off the foxtails at Epcot. lot of brown shrubbery

Update almost a year later! They recovered beautifully. Hoping for another recovery after the freeze expected this weekend. Good luck to all bracing for the storm!! 🌴❤️

Looks like quite a few of my palms will be getting the ring this growing season. Here’s a couple: Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus hybrid (consensus is likely x pembanus or cabadae). I believe this is originally from Floribunda seed. It definitely has hybrid vigour just in the fact it is growing here in Melbourne. Next up Chrysalidocarpus baronii Black Petiole/Vokona Lodge. Got a batch of 10 seeds from RPS back in 2018 and all germinated 2019. This is the largest of the bunch but also the least colourful. I’ve got 5 left now and the others are all quite striking in the range from red to black leaf bases and petioles. Always thought they’ve been quite slow, but considering it’s been 6-7 years from seed to producing clean trunk, I’d say that’s not bad.

Two things: They hate soil drying out and they don’t like being frozen. Yours looks both frozen and dried out. Keep it warm and well watered. There needs to be a drain hole in the pot as well. Keep it by a bright window or under a grow light. You can trim off anything brown. If it recovers, it’s going to take some time to do so.

No rest for the weary…

Would Cerotazamia and Zamias grow well for you, such a beautiful garden deserves a bit more eye candy?

@Almisa Good to see things are overall doing OK there, even with the damage in spots.

I don't know what happened today. It was colder here in Atlanta at 11:30 than at 07:30 and we had very fine sleet. An unexpectedly miserable day.

February 5,2026 was 71°F

I have some Howea seedlings I germinated over 2 years ago and they are still hanging on to their seed. They have not been fertilized at all and look fine. Harry

Here is the I-drive coconut. Sun was setting but it's 100% brown from what I could tell. It also looked this way in 2018 from my recollection. . Note the foxtail with mostly green fonds against the building and sheltered by the larger foxtail.

It's very important to have patience while the damage is stacking up from this event. To give an example from here, there is a pair of Chrysalidocarpus pembanus here in the corner of the yard. Both looked fine two days ago. Today, one was completely light brown and the spear pulled out with nearly no effort. There's no reason not to expect more to spear pull or collapse as temperatures warm up gradually and we (might) get rain.

I couldn't chance it (the thermo-cube) not being accurate since I was using it in my Ensete ventricosum enclosure. There's scarcely been any cold weather anyway to this point, and the plant is already growing to a point were I will likely have to cut it back before removing the shelter. Yes, all electrical connection points are kept dry.

For me this was the worst damage I have seen while here in Merritt Island. The cold was bad but the wind was worse. I watered well a few days prior but the combo was too much. The tall stuff got it worse than the low. Fried Jamaicans Thrinax Radiata TR seedlings look ok Seagrape KO tall only the spear is green KO small slightly better Tomatoes that looked fantastic days prior

You may already be doing this but they need to be kept dry. They sometimes take a few degrees below 35F to come on

the 6th to last picture on page 5, the baby red stems?

Here are a few of many palms that are at the Rio Grande Zoo. Sabal and Trachycarpus are what they have planted throughout the grounds.

You guys get a few more points in California for Rhopalostylis, Ceroxylon, Hesyscepe, etc. hah! Here’s my Blue Decipiens. Still a ways off from trunking when they seem to speed up. I’m guessing this one is 8-9 feet tall from ground to tip of newest leaf.

Beautifull garden and collection, indeed eye candy 😍

So nice to start the new year with some serious EYE CANDY. 🍬🍬🍬 And unlike my holiday indulgences, no diet resolution required. 📝 Your photos motivate me to restart my own garden efforts (once it dries out a bit after recent rainstorms). Thanks for the mega dose of inspiration! 🌴

Chrysalidocarpus Robustus with shoe for scale.

I planted our Caribbean Garden in our north-facing front lot. The palm selection leans heavily on genus Coccothrinax, one of my favorites. It does include a few interlopers such as Phoenix roebelenii and Hyophorbe lagencaulis but is overall true to the Caribbean vibe. My world famous Sabal Row used to be on the east side of our property until the builders of the Early-21st-Century modern unsold monstrosity of a black/White House was built. Fortunately, @C Bigler rescued all the Sabals and took them back to his nursery. Anyway, I have some pretty cool palms in a small space, most, you will note, are palmate. These are tough palms worth growing if you aren't blinded by crown shafted tropical pinnate darlings. Coccothrinax leaves dance in the breeze on warm sunny days. I would not plant any tropical palms on the north side of my house - those W and NW winds howl across the Cape's flat landscape in winter. Caribbean Garden canopy Latania loddigesii Latania lontaroides Sabal miamiensis (R) from a Pine Island Pier and Sabal miamiensis x mexicqnq? from Leu Gardens: Study both palms carefully and you will see the miamiensis x Mexican hybrid has much thinner leaflets than the miamiensis. It also grows faster (germinated 2015 vs. approx. 2008/2009) and its huge seeds ripen late summer vs. fall. Hyophorbe verschaffelrii Native Florida Stopper (Simpson's? red? other?) (center), Silk Floss Tree/Ceibus speciiciosa (rear) Hyophorbe lagencaulis (L), Phoenix roebelenii (C) Hyophorbe lagencaulis Ravenea rivularis Kerriodoxa elegans

Cleaned off some boots from the pembana

Norton Sculpture Garden - Had no chance to get away from my group. Will have to return.

this is in the top 3 of my favorite photos i have managed to capture, thank you Jeff and Suchin

Jeff is back so we did a golden hour walkaround Pigafetta elata, and Clinostigma haerestigma in between two Tahinas Attalea cohune

Mr. Tahina, mate, please don't eat meeeee. . . .

Nothing special today ..Just a random, fly by Triangle ...randomly planted ..in front of an Apartment complex. Only one i have seen anywhere in Chandler, In nearly 8 years here. No big deal, right? 🤔 🤷‍♂️

Not something you see everyday, a Trachycarpus next to a lipstick palm.

As a photographer I wouldnt be able to resist either haha!

Caught a peeping Tom photographing one of my children.

Two things caught my eye after our many days of rain. First was checking on the flower spathe which has begun to crack open on my Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus . As I approached it to get a better look, I also noticed the great backlighting on an Encephalartos planted adjacent to it. So here is what I saw last night as the sun was getting low in the sky.

Areca catechu ‘dwarf’. Not so dwarfish anymore. Tim

I'm just going to leave this one here... the first of the UK crownshaft palms that I will be posting. This particular one is a mature Juania Australis on the south coast of England in Salcombe, Devon. This was planted as a very small palm many years ago around the mid 2000's. Clearly it has been thriving since then and grown an additional 20 feet or so since. There will be many UK crownshafts to come... The Salcombe beaches are absolutely gorgeous. Hard to believe it is the UK mainland lol...

I have a couple really nice ravenea xerophila available. These are very old plants and are priced to sell fast. Originally they were all sold but two of my customers had to back out due to financial reasons, opening up these two beauties for grabs. 15 gall fior 250.00 25 gallon 395.00 call or text me at 626-278-6388 or send me a PM. Thanks for looking Cheers!! Josh