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If you want a palm that’s easy to grow and fit into any reasonable small space, the feather palm, wedding palm or the lytocarum weddlianum is the one. Easy to grow and germinate, single plants will set viable seeds. Quite cool and dry tolerant. Perfect understory or bright light palm. An absolute beauty of a great palm that’s gives a lot of effect for little work!

I salvaged one with more than two meters of trunk from a defunct palm garden. Sadly, it did not survive.

A good root ball and not having the soil fall off would make all the difference, I do knowcwithe seedlings break there roots and they will die especially the first tap root not that palms have a tap root. I nice matted root ball should hold together well in heavy soil, as for my sandy soil to risky for me to attempt.

Chambeyronia macrocarpa var flavopicta on a rare sunny Melbourne winter day - this show never gets old. It produces exactly 2 new fronds per year for the last few years. Every late July it will open a frond which stays red longer in the cooler weather than the one that opens in summer.

I’ve been observing this palm for probably 50 years now. It was planted at Two Harbors Catalina island around 1920-28. Its looking better now than a few years ago due to the drought ending. It gets only rain, no irrigation.

Here’s a few unpollinated chamaedorea plumosa, there was 4 seeds that did get pollinated but alas the rats got them!

Female Encephalartos horridus is skipping a flush and going for another cone after finishing last season with a cone. My Lepidozamia peroffskyana male did the same thing earlier this spring/summer. In that it's cones came earlier in the season, I am still hopeful for a flush on the Lepidozamia.

I am not sure what varieties they are as there are so many hybrids in Florida , but I think your best bet would be to buy a more mature palm with some trunk that has distinctly dwarfed characteristics (not unhealthy). I have observed some beautiful dwarfs that seem to be a mix of types with trunks only 13 to 16 cm in diameter and leaves that are about 2.5 to 3 meters in length at most.

Encephalartos eugene-maraisii female cone emerging. The cone has a guest, protecting it from any undesirable bugs.

Now what is it they say, when is the best time to plant a grove of palms, 30 years ago! Seeds are yours next batch!

@Xenon Those are the kinds of days that make me realize a few weeds in the garden beds aren't as big a deal as heat stroke.

It's good to see and hear about so many coming back. My Maypan and Atlantic Tall made it, but a few of the smaller coconut palms I had fizzled out. A few of my neighbors had coconut palms that lived and are recovering, but others decided to remove them. There are a few that were bearing fruit near Lake Parker that are still fighting the good fight. I've still got a Panama Tall and one of @redant 's Atlantic Tall seedlings in pots. They'll likely end up in the ground before too long. The removal of the I-Drive coconut near Charley's was heartbreaking. It was fun to watch it fully mature and survive countless cold fronts with minor or no damage.

Crazy HOT today, look at that dew point still holding in the triple digits 🔥🔥🔥

Areca vestiaria new red emergent leaf. When I bought it a few years ago it was solitary, now it seems to be clustering instead. to the left of the Areca vestiaria is a variegated Caryota mitis. it was quite variegated a few months ago, but the newer leaflets are mostly green. I wonder if they will become more variegated later, or this is a sign that the palm as it matures will have less variegation?

well, finally, the other side leaflets made an appearance. I have never had one that one side was tucked in for a whole week after the other side exhibited.

I’ll never say no to Lytocaryum seeds. I want to get a grove of them going. Awesome little palm.

I remember back in my landscaping days a client had planted about 6 and wanted them moved to the area I was constructing for them. I said they would likely die but if you want to risk it I will do my best. They were trunking plants probably a metre tall over all. I dug them up carefully and expected them to die. To my surprise none died or set back. They took off in their new area. I was very careful and took as much of a root ball as I could fit into a wheel barrow.

Yeah in late 2024 I went to the zoo hoping to see it and it was gone. The whole place has changed. Many of the big old things that made the zoo interesting are gone now. They used to have WAs tallest Syagrus probably planted in the 50s. All gone. The rainforest walk which used to have misters and some interesting palms a little bit different to the norm is not much of a rainforest anymore. The shot hole borer took out a few huge Moreton Bay figs so it’s an open dry area and the interesting palms are gone probably with multiple years of water wise non irrigation of the area. It used to be the best botanic park in WA, but now it’s kind of ruined in my eyes. It was awesome 30 years ago when it had different management and staff. It’s what got me into tropical plants. I was really quite sad to see they removed that Jubaea which was probably germinated around 1900. 🙁

Tom, my thought and hope when I saw Bob's photo was exactly what you said. We can only hope that a Santa Ana doesn't blow one across the channel someday.

That's a great idea Alan I've done it many times with my palm trees home I have an award-winning Trachycarpus https://oak.conncoll.edu/notabletrees/ViewTreeData.jsp?selected=226222 that's in the Connecticut notable tree Association so that's a great idea. I could use some straw or leaves [I do that with at my home with the trachy]and it works out great. the only thing is it sometimes it locks the cold in there as well ,but as long as it stays relatively warm compared to the ambient temperature I think it would be fine. I think the swings of the temperature is really bad for the palm tree [the highs and lows ] and usually in a leaf cage, the temperature is fairly stable; so I don't know what you think about that but I think that's a great idea thanks for helping I watch your Channel all the time best, DrZnaturally

Richard, when a Chanaedorea infructescence carries overwhelmingly unpollinated duds, then it is not uncommon that the few normally sized fruits are actually bubbles with no seed inside. As for the reasons for their normal size I am largely still in the dark.

I went to “waytogopalms” mark and he had sold them all.

This female Chamaedorea oblongata which is only sort of an understory palm these days. I was a bit worried as to how it would handle increased sunlight as it grew and the palms around it grew. It has managed well.

You may notice the year you get fruit it’s dry around flowering. Anthracnose fungus is the culprit, when they are flowering any amount of rainfall triggers this on the flowers. The usual fungicide treatments work well. But there’s nothing better than an organic mango. And if you give that mango to wife she won’t be so chainsaw happy to cut down your tree. I get the same with my tree, and i finally get fruit only to have the fruit bats get them. 30 year old mango tree and only ever gotten 7 mangoes to eat over all those years!

Bit of a push on the seedlings mid winter. But I had the chance to pick 50 Calyptrocalyx pollyphylus, at a very reasonable price for 75mm tube stock so I grabbed them. I have a few porphyllus in trays in the greenhouse already doing well over winter, so this batch should be ok. And while I was ordering a few palms I grabbed a few cordylines rubra and kaui beauty, along with some plumeria cuttings for the garden.

Alogoptrea arenaria throwing a new flower, viable seeds have been collected from this single plant, and germinating them was easy provided it was a constant 30 degrees celcius.

Dioon edule x argenteum

More fell afterwards, but its just not summer on the escarpment without at least one major flood event.

My neighbor, who is a negligent gardener at best, has these flourishing in his yard: These are the only caladium I have seen in the Mobile area that survive winter and extended droughts with no attention whatsoever. Can you identify the cultivar? Are there other caladiums you can recommend for their cold hardiness? [I asked a version of this question a while back and got an answer, but a search didn’t bring up the discussion for some reason, so forgive the repetition.]

Gorgeous palms and flowers @edbrown_III + @gyuseppe !

It is really a treat to find these where 90%+ of the palms are CIDP or robustas. Some folks are more adventurous than the norm.

Nice. I am digging the blank canvas threads on here. I'm feeling inspired. I need to get more cold hardy stuff since my indoor space is getting full.