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The yard was FULL of Clivia flowers but due to the unprecedented heat in March, I didn’t have much time to snap photos before the flowers began falling off.

Ours just bloomed! I had to move it under the Chrysalidiocarpus Decaryi , it started to get sun burned . The courtyard is now getting a lot more after noon sun. Harry I love the blooms of these . We will probably get more at some point.

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.

It is that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Mostly a variety with orange flowers here in my garden. They make a nice green ground cover when not in bloom.

The title is appropriate. This is like palm nut porn. Maybe a video tour of your full yard would be a good idea, à la Walt from FL?? 😉

This Latania from several latanias collection

It’s the season for these Clivia blooms and the palms are “waking up” from winter’s slumber.

I see Conan missed severe injury from that frond . That is a gorgeous palm , Dave . Thank you for sharing! Harry

Obscenities screamed.

Thanks to everyone on these palms and particularly Eric. I agree with mnorell that Reinhardtia p was not in my wheelhouse. The picture may be misleading. This is not a small fragile palm. I will attempt to get some closer shots that give perspective on the size and depth of this specimen. Looking at Palmpedia, I do see resemblance and the pictures show that it is grown in this area. More to come!

Dave it looks healthy so hopefully the spathe will open normally and you will actually get a flower bract. My largest has produced the flower spathes for years, only to abort them before opening. It is currently holding two, but I have learned not to expect much from them.

Beautiful, Richard! It’s too bad they only bloom in the springtime though. Luckily they have colorful berries that hang on quite a while.

I know the feeling to well jim 👍

Much of the garden is 20 years old but it’s evolved. A lot is significantly younger and a few of the palms are older than 20. None of my backyard is pictured in this thread however.

So I put in an order with Floribunda early in the month, and it came the other day 2-day shipping. Everyone arrived reasonably happy, being well packed and secured. The box weighed 70lbs and cost about $90 to ship. UPS made sure to drop-kick the package 600 times enroute, but still the palms arrived in decent shape from half way around the world. Yippie! Many of the Palms are potted in tiny, jagged lava rock stones. So I made sure, in my haste and excitement, to fling a bunch here and there, sporadically around my place. I managed to get a few right outside the doorway, so that they could greet the full weight of my bare heel as I take my first step out the door in bare feet. I’m sure they will forever be with me now. I got some B Alfredii.. Cyphophoenix elegans.... Chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookeri... this is the type of Palm-crack they send to get you hooked. Areca vestiaria reds... Ravenea hildebrandtii... Dypsis orange crush... and Dypsis lafazamanga sprouts... Wish me luck....

Planted this palm years ago, tag is long gone. Can someone please ID?

Yes, you are correct. Dave was just persisting in old habits.

Not yet, but I’ve got a few seedlings not too far behind my largest so I’m hoping I’ll have at least one of each sex in time. I still don’t know which sex the one pictured is, the spadix is still immature. Hopefully soon I’ll be enabling your JOMS!

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

Looking great, Dave! I have nearly a dozen seedlings in 1g pots. Took their time getting some size. Question: Wasn't Kentiopsis subsumed in Chambeyronia , i.e., Chambeyronia oliviformis?

other alstroemeria in bloom

The palm in the lower two pictures is sending out three inflorescences at once.

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.

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Dypsis lucubensis is an old name for the solitary form of Chrysalidocarpus madagascarensis. I have one and the trunk looks similar but fronds look different than that one.

Thank you so much for your kindness. It’s wonderful to be here, to have this opportunity, and to grow every day—even though we all face our own challenges. I wish each and every one of you strength, faith in the good, and the knowledge that even the smallest joys of the day can help us walk this path. The journey is the destination.

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

Bubba, at first I thought it might be Livistona, but honestly that’s just a guess. Other than that, I haven’t a clue. Tim

Some form of Cocothrinax in front of a cluster of MacArthur palms. Please help me with ID's and corrections.

What in the world is this:

Satakentia liukiuensis:

Florida Thatch Palm:

Bottle Palm that DoomsDave may recall:

Mislabeled maybe? The palm in the photo is palmate, Cyphophoenix nucele is not. Tim

Those will all rot I think.

Yes @Hu Palmeras, it is a very beautiful island. But we did have a little weather after my arrival. I arrived on March 10, then lots of rain. Lots! Saturday, March 14 at 8:30 am the power went out as winds picked up to very intense gusts and rain fell in sideways-blown sheets. We wisely decided to skip our usual trip into Hilo for lunch and grocery shopping. Friends brought a small generator to keep the refrigerator going and we had dinners by candle light.. This lasted through Sunday and finally Monday at 2:30 in the afternoon the power came back on -- but not for everyone. Sleeping at night during the storm sounded like an oceanfront condo with storm waves crashing. The interminable wind and rain had quickly become exhuasting. When things finally calmed, I walked the garden to find big dead, very heavy! ohi'a logs had fallen and broken up into pieces in several places in the garden, but amazingly no real damage. I have a lot of cleanup to do, but am so grateful for friends and neighbors pulling together here to make sure everyone is safe and not stressing too much. I realize how addicted I have become to my devices for weather reports, news, and virtually every kind of information. With no power and no internet we were cut off from the world -- but we could drive into town, buy a delicious coffee from Kohala Coffee Company, and catch up on the essentials, then vacate the table for others in the same situation. Our area had more than 20 inches of rain from Saturday through Sunday but some areas of the island had in excess of 45 inches, and damage from rain was worse on Maui and Oahu. This kind of storm is known as a Kona Low, for you weather buffs out there. 😉 A friend on the Kailua-Kona side said it was the worst storm she had experienced in her 33 years here!

There needs to be found a natural enemy like the various parasites that afflict other monster bugs, including Eugenia psyllid, and wooly whitefly.

Shoot me a PM! I work out of home, though weekends are still best.

Moss growing on trees is just part of the ecosystem and will not harm the plant. Here in East Hawaii with it’s warm, humid, and wet climate, moss covers everything. I mean everything. Some people don’t like the moss look, but on this side of the island trying to keep the palm trunks clean would be a continual and, most likely, losing battle. Tim

I'm hooked on hookeri...

Lava rock works best in deluge conditions like in Hawaii where Floribunda is located. I’d recommend shifting to a more conventional medium like regular potting soil.

Thanks! I'm in love with Borneo Giants. I've tried a few different varieties and these have withstood strong wind with minimal leaf damage compared to all of the other varities I've tried. I do have about maybe a 20 x 8 ft area of unused space to block the neighbor's house. My concern was more about the stuff I've already planted. The Michelia and Inga Edulis are going to get big.

Tom: Rip out that pool, and: (a) you won't have to worry about people falling in it and getting brain-damaged; and (b) you'll have more room for palms.

Velez . . . And, I concur whoo-ee And, I guess I'm a near-Velezian myself.

Reinhardtias rock! Yours, especially. More more more!

Whatchootalkin' about Willis!? I actually watched those shows the first time they ran. It was a part of my childhood. I started going to an integrated performing arts school (I was nine) so it was kind of a relevant show for me. Poor Gary, what a way to go... he was so young.