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I have finally been able to bring the three main species of Beccariophoenix together in my Oakland CA garden. B. Alfredii has been growing well from 1 gallon and has really picked up speed this past year (prob close to 4 ft or so of frond length. B. fenestralis has been slow but solid from a 1 gallon as well for the past 3 years (hard to see this palm as its protected and covered by other plants). B. madagascariensis has proven to be very hard for me to track down until this past week in San Clemente! I was able to get a masterfully grown 15 gallon and drove it back to Oakland in my car with palm fronds slapping my son in the face in the passenger seat! B. fenestralis with nice windows! 3 years in the ground. B. madagascariensis with Acanthophoenix rubra in the ground for 2 days lol. Looking good with the recent rains! B. alfredii with beautiful purple petioles and fast growth.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWprkBLDd1d/?igsh=MTBoc2JrZWY4dDQ3NQ== Alocasia Polly split. Got 12 corms out of it before my dumb ass threw the old soil in the yard. Guess who went digging with a flashlight? I found 10, I figured that's enough. I'll find the others in the morning. Or I'll have alocasia growing in the yard, whatever.

I live in Southern California about 20 miles from the ocean . With our soil , I have never found the need to fertilize Phoenix Roebelini. They do like a lot of water , especially when it is hot out . As @Kim said , it was a very warm , extended heat pattern early this year. That could’ve had something to do with what is going on with yours. I would continue with regular watering and it should grow out of it . Harry

It’s a beauty this Livistona, I remember buying it at the markets, even the guy selling it said mate that’s a rare one, I said I know and you’re doing well selling me a palm! Richard

Super cool for you to assemble the avengers. I have always wanted to plant fenestralis but have been wary of it being "less hardy". Not sure how it would do with occasional frost/prolonged cool/wet. Alfredii just grows right through our winter in Fresno, seems to be the easiest to grow maybe?

Thought I'd share a few pics from my yard after a rather chilly winter - the Central Valley of California had a record-breaking fog event from late November through about the end of 2025. Temps stayed in the 40s for 360+ consecutive hours - no freezing, no frosts, just consistently cold and wet with next to no sunshine for nearly a month. Most palms grew right through it, but a few of the more tropical species really hated this - I rehomed a few to warmer (drier/sunnier) climates down south. Here are a few shots from today - everything in growth mode as we're getting 80s and 90s consistently - racing toward the 100s too! In just a matter of weeks winter will be a far memory as we bake in the 100s until we cool again in October. Archontophoenix tuckeri - grown from seed from @DoomsDave. I'm pretty sure you threw a handful of seeds at me during one of my visits to your place. Trunking archontophoenix cunninghamia in the back. Seed-grown howea forsteriana & allagoptera peeking in behind tuckeri. Syagrus rommanzoffiana - nothing special, but I recently did clean up the trunk, which makes it look 10x nicer. A shot of my front yard - the pink Handroanthus is just about done blooming. Below it I have Brahea Super Silver, Brahea Pimo, and closest to the bottom is a Jubaeopsis affra, recoving from an irrigation mishap in summer of 2024. The irrigation timer went offline mid June while we were out of the country traveling, and this whole area went without water for 2 weeks. Jubaeopsis took that personally. It's been slowly recovering from that 'drought' event. Handroanthus umbellatus was in bloom just a few weeks ago. This is Livistona speciosa. I grew this from seed, and gave the rest to folks in Southern California. Does anyone have any still growing? I think some of them may have gone at palm society auctions. Chamaedorea hooperiana - The ficus roxburghii looks so pretttyyyyy in the back with all that new growth Sabal uresana - looking stretched. This thing is slowwwwwwww This is the view out our back door. Arcontophoenix tuckeri on the left. The red amaryllis is an heirloom passed down from a neighbor before she passed. Phoenix rupicola. You can spot the Brahea Super Silver in the background. The silver-ish palm below it is Chamaerops humilis var. argentea. There's a Cycas deboaensis on the bottom right that will need to find a permanent spot. I have a habit of putting plants in temporary spots, then moving them when I decide on a permanent spot. I feel like plants develop much better in the ground than in pots. They also benefit from regular irrigation being in the ground, and I don't have to worry about forgetting to water them in pots. This little corner area is filling in so nicely, and will become very thick with vegetation as plants keep growing. Beccariophoenix alfredii is in the far back. Ravenea glauca is center toward the left. Sabal mauritiformis is off to the right. Cycas revoluta x deboaensis is front and center. Lastly, a shot of a Clytostoma callistegioides flower, and a Dendrobium chrysotoxum which I have in bloom. The Dendrobium is grown inside a greenhouse. The last photo is of my plumerias waking up after a chilly nap. I had lots of rot to deal with this winter. BONUS - see if you can spot the Chrysalidocarps prestonianus... It went into the ground directly as a 4-inch plant from Floribunda some 5 or 6 years ago. Almost forgot the Chrysalidocarpus decaryi as well. Decaryi doesn't like the prolonged cold/wet conditions, but it grows out of damage fairly quickly - and we don't always get those particularly cold/wet winters. Some years we are dry and sunny like the rest of Southern CA.

Selling 2 Archontophoenix Myolensis I have that are outgrowing some 5gal pots and would love to be planted in the ground. These are the last of a group that I started from seed of the mature specimens that I have in my yard. Asking $30 ea. Local pick up in Huntington Beach, Ca. only. Direct message me if you are interested in purchasing either one of them.

Some Vandas I got to take care of recently while I was in Florida.

Thanks! I've had them about 2 years. They've been through 2 winters each one bottoming out at 27°F unprotected with no damage. They started flowering last year but only got two fruits. Looks like this year will be more productive!

Orchid House at ANSG:

Not sure what this is. Located at ANSG without a tag!

Well just adding to my blog here. I had my first in person customer today. Sweet lady, home health care nurse. She and her daughter showed up looking for the elephant ears I have on FB marketplace, and they were just kind of in awe of all the stuff I've got growing _out here_. She told me she keeps killing her houseplants, I showed her how to mix coco coir and perlite and stop using potting soil, her daughter was fascinated with the kittens. Sancho didn't make an appearance, and she killed a bee that flew in after I told her I was allergic so I basically gave her the plants for half price and gave her a philodendron. I think she'll be back once more stuff sprouts up. I've got dozens more bulbs to sprout. And then there was a bunch of "ohhhh yeah that's not for sale" 😂

I guess it was time to update my Inkbird thermostat. Now the left side is named Colocasia Cooker and the right is Bulb and Palm cooker (character limited...blah) Anyway that's all I did today. That and chop up the colocasia stems I planted today. I mean, with all of those weeds my soil clearly needs more nitrogen, right? 😑

I love how nothing I've posted here in months is palm related. I had a yard thread somewhere but whatevs. This is my journey.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/sanchosgreenpaws/3855775357870401742?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=d3Z1ejc1cWtnMHA2 Welp. 2 of my colocasia bulbs went mushy. But I found a white Monstera at Wally World. I dunno when it got delivered, but it's literally never been watered since they put it in that stupid self watering pot, it apparently took a ride in a storm since half the dirt was gone, a few snapped stems, and it'll absolutely piss you off to hear how much I paid for it. You ready to get pissed? Lol yes. I just bought a White Monstera for less than a box of Pop Tarts. It's already in a 1g pot.....

I guess in theory I can throw the clip on grow lights where they belong - in the damn trash. The PPFD on those is an absolute joke. But it was 2020 and I didn't know any better and quality LEDs cost hundreds of dollars back then. If anybody cares, this is a a 30w 2 foot Freelicht tube and it absolutely kills the Barrina lights that flood Amazon with their ads as measured with Photone. I'm gonna throw more alocasias and philos in here, I've got so many big colocasia bulbs sprouting (SOOOO STOKED FOR THE REDEMPTION! The hot pink is gonna look so sick next to the hot pink crape myrtles and I got them literally the day before they went back to full price) and caladiums (spicy lizard, blaze, John something [the white 3 leaf ones] and candidum), thai giant colocasia (5! Bulbs), a shit ton of Black Magic, Hawaiian Punch, White Lava. One of the Thai giant bulbs was rotten - bought from Greenhouse PCA on Amazon, Phillip the Owner sent me 3 more (one is the size of my damn forearm), some of the caladium bulbs from Walmart went squish so I got a refund, and I ordered another 50 pack of 5 gallon pots off Amazon. FedEx put them someplace they've NEVER set a package before and yeah, we had some storms. I actually found the box in the woods. I don't know why people say it's hard to get a human rep with Amazon, it isn't. I know at least a couple of the pots got smashed. You think I'm gonna go through all 50? No. $35 courtesy credit. I'm sure the pots are fine but when they offered me an apology my inner Karen came out. And then they offered me $20? Dog these were $55 and cost $60 now. Anyway Buy stuff. Buy my Marge Simpson Playboy. Buy my Mr. T in your pocket. Buy this 2 foot philodendron. I wanna upgrade to big boy grow lights for this fall. I wanna buy insulation and paint. Maybe I wanna build a greenhouse. Maybe I wanna buy glucose monitors.

That's interesting. The Archontophoenix teracarpa (not an official species, and who knows what it might actually be) at Hollis Garden are in full sun as well, and don't seem to mind. Archontophoenix alexandrae are also at Hollis in full sun.

Here, it has to be directly overhead. You can literally map the canopy of the oak in the front yard when we have frost on the ground.

With Foxtails, similar situation - they can handle chill better than frost. Since Foxtails are easy to sprout from seed, look for some around your area that survived 2010 and try to grow from their seeds. That will give you a shot at getting one that is just a bit stronger. Definitely grow both under canopy to take frost out of the equation. They'll grow slower, but you'll also have a shot at them hitting maturity at some point. The portion of Sanford directly south of Lake Monroe is a pretty decent microclimate, so it's a case-by-case basis. Orlando and Lakeland are similar in that what is able to grow inside of the urban portion is different than just a few miles outside of town. The January 2022 freeze was primarily radiational, and you can see a very stark difference in the amount of damage in town vs. outside of the city limits: https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/72092-january-2022-florida-freeze-report/

In my yard, I have both. There are a lot of Archontophoenix species here, and a bunch of Archontophoenix cunninghamiana in front of City Hall in Orlando. @Merlyn's observations are much more salient for growing them in Deltona though. My recommendation is a yes under canopy so you can moderate the light levels and frost exposure.

Geia sou kosta , If you want we could arrange to come over here when you are in Pirgos and take a closer look to my garden ! So you can check closely my Archontophoenix and the other plants in my garden . The big cycad is Cycas circinalis , in its pot are some neoregelias , in front of it the most palms are Beccariophoenix alfredii , one Syagrus sancona , Dypsis leptocheilos , Allagoptera caudata and Arenga englerii .