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A few more seeds of a few interesting varieties. Starting to get into a few cycas species they always are winner for any palm grower, just set and forget and wait while the palms grow, a great sideline plant cycas!

15 gallon Brahea Edulis 125.00 15 gallon Brahea Super Silver 125.00 1 gallon Butia Eriospatha 60.00 can ship 3 gallon Chamaedoria Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship

Chambeyronia macrocarpa, Calyptrocalyx benga dawn noda

A nice duo of licuala fordiana!

This is the second time this has happened to this Geonoma, once I can understand, perhaps a grower mistake. But twice now so what am I doing wrong. It has recovered both times. But what’s going on?

I wonder if this is the one they moved last year. I was wondering if that palm survived , they are very root sensitive . I know they have more than one Bizmarkia down there . Harry

I do believe your climate is temperate correct? If so try to avoid rock mineral based substrate, it’s too cold in winter especially when wet. Go for a warmer substrate mix like coco coir perlite and a little good quality potting soil. A much warmer substrate mix. If you want to grow subtropicals and tropicals in cold climates.

Some red beauty

Ptychosperma wotoboho tucked in for the coming winter!

Throwing a few in the ground, tried and tested for my climate, I know they grow easily so get a few more exotics in the ground. I know my garden and the dry spots to the wet areas, and choosing what tolerates a little dry is the key. Which makes it a lot easier for planting out saving all those wet areas for the good stuff. Chuniophoenix nana Japanese variegated rhapis darumashinikiarenga hookerianakerriodoxa elegans

A neglected Hyophorbe lagencaulis (bottle palm) at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA. It’s amazing it’s still alive considering how neglected this palm has been. I believe it was planted in 2021 or 2022.

Bismarckia

I have had this happen before on other varieties of palms, but not twice like this one. It just does it out the blue for no apparent reason, growing great then it just flips out, this is the only geonoma that does this in my collection! Richard

I can see why you bring them indoors, in a cold climate like that with ptychosperma elegans!

Here’s a beautiful full Bismarckia nobilis, Pandanus utilis and Royal palms in the background at Balboa Park, San Dieg, CA.

I do believe it’s a gaggle of geese and a grove of palms!

Yes, while surprising, I find coralloid roots all over my garden at a similar distance from any Cycads. Some are isolated by paver walkways about 3 feet wide from the closest Cycad. I have drip irrigation and find coralloid roots near the emitters of palms and other non Cycad plants. If you search for posts with "coralloid" in the title, you will find a string I started a few years back with some examples of stray coralloid clumps.

I am enjoying the color of this unknown species id Anthurium's flower spadix.

Houston botanic garden yesterday and a yard with a fairly large pindo in Pearland towards 45 South . peep the new washys along the freeway under planted with sabal minors @Xenon your favorite 😹😹😹dead Jubaea…. As expected lol

Oh. I misread the topic.

A gaggle of Hyophorbe lagenicaulis at Four Arts:

Probablemente llegamos a 0 grados este invierno ,cuando lo plante en la tierra espero que aguante mejor y no se sequen las ramas o nunca florecerá . Hablo en español por qué mi inglés no es muy bueno y mi navegador automáticamente me traduce al español , espero que el vuestro también

Dypsis decaryi looking fantastic.

Caryota kirriwongensis

Dypsis faneva

flash sale Take extra 10.00 of each of these overgrown palms thank you Costaricana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaedoria Hooperiana 60.00 3 gallon Chamaerops Humilis Cerifera 75.00 can ship

A very special hakea all the way from Western Australia, the other side of Australia 5000 kms away. It doesn’t mind my climate but a lot of Western Australia plants can be tricky in my wet season, growing successfully until a big wet season hits. Great for growing palms but not dry climate plants from WA. So @Tyrone this ones for you!

It has been 4 years since the first inflorescence emerged on this Puya alpestris ssp zoellnarii. This is the first time since then that it has bloomed. I am getting excited for the most spectacular display my garden gives. Neighbor's periodically ask me when it will flower again and I finally can answer with something other than "patience", since I never know until it happens.

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

@oroenpaz Ditto that info, my seedlings are erratic growers withing the seed crop. My smaller diameter Hedyscepe in the back yard is a better parent than the heavy bodied one in the front yard.

just secured another 5 -1 gallon Butia Eriospatha sale will end Sunday thank you

Could it be a genetic flaw or something? Do you have others of this species that do not display this malady? Harry

Just a prank. Visited his garden during after hours and replaced the ptycho with a tor tor!

I think we need a new updated thread for these palms... Starting with the big one at Overcliffe Gardens near Dublin in Ireland. This is probably the largest Juania in the British Isles. The Earlscliffe Juania was planted very small back i 1995, so it has been in the ground for 30 years now. The earliest photos I can find are from 2002 and 2003. The third photo below shows it in 2009... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up we have the Juania specimen at Overbeck's Garden in Salcome, Devon. The Overbecks Juania was apparently planted in 1995 as well, but it was a very small seedling back then. the earliest photos I can find for it are from 2011 and 2013. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next up we have another legendary Juania at Glendurgan Gardens in Cornwall that has been in the ground about 25 years as well, alongside Dr Kevin Spence for scale... Here is a grainy photo of the Glendurgan Juania from 2012 before it had properly started trunking... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are other decent specimens in southern England and Ireland, which I will update on in due course...

Late last year I attempted this cross and got a grand total of 3 viable seeds for my effort. Fortunately though one of them has germinated. Could those of you that have this hybrid post a picture of it? There must be some sizable ones by now, although I've heard they can be pretty slow to get going. Butia odorata "mother: Syagrus schizophylla "father". Not a great example as it has been quite neglected. Resulting viable seed. First to pop.

It was planted in City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane last year. I’ll have to pop back there soon to check on it and post a picture update. Here is the link to the latest photos of it. https://www.palmtalk.org/forum/topic/91289-palm-donations-to-brisbane’s-botanical-gardens/

This plant was acquired as an Encephalartos arenarius blue form hybrid. The male cones look like horridus cones in color. Right now it is pushing flushes on the main caudex plus two pups, one of which is a new pup. It's largest pup was my last Encephalartos flush of the 2025 autumn season, so it is probably building energy still.

My (4) Kentiopsis are fruiting for 3-6 years now and some spots under them are wet and shady enough for volunteers. Overall height I estimate at 22-32' tall. They still are a few leaves short(~3-4) of a full crown(10-12 leaves) after Milton stripped them 18 months ago. Some have currently green fruits that will turn red in a couple months if restrictions are lifted and we can get them watered. They are water lovers, maybe its better they have less leaves in a drought. Trouble free palms that add the dark green crownshafts and leaves for a complementary look to the other crownshafts. These do like their Mg, K to stay that darker green color. I dust them along with my cuban copernicias with langbeinite every year and fertilize with florikan palm osmotic release fertilizer. They are so tall, I have to crank my neck to look at the crowns these days. They do provide some good filtered shade for the C. macrocarpas I have under them.

First three donated plants (all Sabal), already plugged in.

Chrysalidocarpus robustus. Monster!

A before and after showing what once was, and hopefully what will be, its permanent replacement. If the Colvillea freezes this coming winter, I will have to find something else to replace it with. I am already considering a spanish lime, or maybe a chico sapote if it comes down to that... 😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Licuala poonsaki

Talking to myself here I think, but we seem to be having a second summer right now...very weird, but I'll take it! These temps could be any week between December and March but unusual at the end of April.

Three for the price of one, archontophoenix Cunninghamiana, dypsis saintlucei and Arenga engleri.

Bees are a welcome addition in getting attention! IMG_1608.mov

Three rare ones getting my attention today. Pinanga sp BorneoAreca ahmada licuala sallehana var incisifolia

A nice dypsis plumosa in the sandstone countryside and a Areca vestria not wanting to miss out on any attention!