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My second order this season from Floribunda arrived this afternoon and all are new trials for me. They all are BIG in their respective containers as is usual from this excellent vender. Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii Chamaedorea arenbergiana Chrysalidocarpus ‘Baby Red Stems’ Pinanga ‘Maroon Crown Shaft’ Anyone with personal experience with any of these, please comment.

I know folks who grow bamboo that cut the bottom out of large containers to contain the “runners” . I was told that the barrier should be a minimum of 18” deep. If you have a pipe supply company near you , you can get remnant cuts of PVC pipe in very large diameters and use that. The problem is the larger the pipe , the bigger the hole you have to dig. On the other hand , I have two Rhapis palms that have been in the ground for over 20 years and I just divide them when they send out runners . I let the runner grow for a while and then divide and pot. They make great gifts or potted plants for around the outside of the house. This is one that is controlled by division , been there over 20 years. Harry

In addition to some mentioned above I'm growing Ravenea glauca, Chrysalidocarpus ambrositae, onilahensis and baronii, Geonoma undata and Syagrus weddelliana. Howea belmoreana is nice and would take forever to get large. And maybe Chamaerops humilis. I'm also on a small lot with some overhead wires.

Nice smallish garden palm, great scale, color, and lightly clumping. These have been in the ground about ten years and produce viable BB size seed off and on. Have a few Basselinia species and they are all handsome little palms. Tim

Kentiopsis Oliviformis opened a new leaf today. Compared to some others on here, it looks to be more stretched out. It has no rings of trunk yet but it’s 10ft+ to the top of the frond. -dale

Last post was in October when it opened a leaf and it just opened another yesterday. It does seem to be getting faster as the last leaf took a whole year. It’s a super slow palm for me but it’s not dead so I’m stoked. The leaves holding look perfect too so that’s good. Not too impressive tho. -dale

With bamboo , depending on the variety , you are talking about something that can grow several inches a day (up to a foot in the tropics) . I have Black Bamboo in a pot that sent out a culm a month ago . The culm is now over 6’ tall and still growing . Rhapis palms are very slow growers so you have plenty of time to react to errant runners. My experience has been that they are fine , both of them are next to pathways and manageable . Then again , I like to garden so ….. Harry

Yes, they both appear to be rostrata. Not all Yucca rostrata are silver, it’s just the preferred cultivar.

Jim absolutely right about the size of plants from Flouibunda their 1 gal would pass as a 5 from a lot of nurseries!!!

Hi all, It’s that time of year again and I need to make room for incoming plants and potting up plants so I’m gonna run a sale for a limited time to try and thin the herd. Basically I still have alot of what is on this post unless it says sold. I am however dropping the prices on a few plants that I will post updated pics of. I get really busy this time of year but I will be around alot of the time. Sale starts tomorrow 5/15 at 3:30 sat. Antime after 9:00 am. Sun. after 9:00 until noon. 619-453-1240 text or pm best. Same deal local pickup cash only! Thanks for looking🤙 Steve

P.roebellini at St Augustine x I95

I acquired two of these back in May of 2017 thanks to @Ken Johnson Just wanted to show how great they look. Flanking a Pritchardia Pacifica. Only planted 3 months before hurricane Irma but did quite well. One was tilted a bit and slowed it's growth but is just fine. The bottom 2 photos show this one. It was the taller of the 2 at the time. They were planted as trunking specimens. I would say their growth rate is slow to moderate. Look closely and you can see how close the rings on the trunk are compared to the older rings. Planted in mostly full sun on the north side of my house. Just some extra Winter shade as the sun is more southerly. Not fast growing by any means but are a very attractive, different palm than the usual. Faster than the Chambeyronia palm. I am enjoying their height right where they are, so glad they're not too fast growing. I fertilize 2x a year and as you can see, haven't mulched them recently. Regular 2x per week waterings and Summer rainy season. Easy palm to grow. Enjoy the pics and show yours if you got them.

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Down in North Largo:

Moving towards heavy:

Close up:

Upskirt to show seeds:

Dang! Looking good Dale, your patience is being rewarded. It’s definitely picking up speed. Prepare for some long fronds. Tim

Obscenities screamed loudly.

Yellow Poinciana starting after looking like a stick tree:

Cassia fistula has had an underwhelming year. It did not lose its leaves:

Lagerstroemia speciosa or Queen's Crepe Myrtle:

Newest leaf on my very, very slow growing Caryota. It was sold as C. ochlandra from a SoCal grower (though not Phil at JM), but I have my doubts. Will have to wait a few more years to see what develops.

It’s a female, and as far as I know it’s the only one that Ive heard of that has bifurcated

San Diego is the best but Southern California is very friendly to a lot of palms . I have been at this house in Santa Paula , on the south facing hill for about 30 years . Our climate zone has officially changed from 9b to 10a . I have never had frost in my garden , only on the car , in the north side a couple of times . What makes San Diego so much better is a bit more humidity than I get , and a bit more warmth. Harry

13 years in the ground from a 5 gallon. It split into two about 6 years ago

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.

In My large one only ever holds 4 leaves and a spear,. A few more years and will get there!

6 years between the before and after shots of my larger C oliviformis.

Looking good Richard. They’re pretty fast down here. Maybe there’s not enough warmth for them up there 🤣 Here’s 8 years of growth from a very nearly dead seedling I managed to transplant from a garden before it died. Glad I did.

Once it gets to trunking it definitely picks up speed. You'll see.

I have one nice one in the garden and a recent purchase from pacsoa. Slow growing I know that much.

Here is one of mine with fruits. Just took the pictures. Sorry, it's a bit dark.

Not mine. Located at Ann Norton:

I am curious if other SoCal gardens have had their KO’s bloom and/or set viable seed? This is by far the biggest and best flower mine has set.

How deep does the rhizome go? I understand for bamboo they need a barrier at least 24" deep, I wonder what that depth is for Rhapis excelsa. There is a product which is a 60 mil HDPE that you can buy in various length, they come in 24", 30", 36" depths.

I take it that you can corroborate the tales of toil and pain then 😃 I searched on the internet a bit but I couldn't find much of anything about it. The only mention of it being slightly invasive came from post here on Palmtalk. I want to put this guy pretty close to the property line and I don't want to wear out my welcome with the neighbor.

I wish I had at least tried that!

Mate, Garrett, a couple of things. First I took out the Cypho nucele on its left because it looked so bad due to the wind there, so now it is less protected, and two, we cut it back a bit (2 leaves half off) so that those Cyprus will grow better and ultimately make a higher/better protective hedge against the Southerlies for the rest of the garden. The Cyprus were being shaded by the Oli and are only half the size of others that have full sun. I have restored it from the recycle bin so you can see, although the plant, the camera and the photography are not something that I am proud of. I am googling 'best camera phones' now. This stupid thing always washes out the sky as well as making everything milky and blurry. Also it is not apparent but I could not get back any further and get a better shot.

I just went out and took a pic for you Cape but It looks so ratty now that I dug out a better one from a few years ago to show you instead.

My wife hates that the fronds hang over into our walkway, but she’s agreed to be nice to them. I love this palm. The leaves open blue but wash out to green over time. This one is from Kevin Weaver. Planted this out 4 1/2 years ago from a 5 gallon. In

Love the upright fronds on this palm. And the deep green, almost blue green color. This should be more widely planted and available.

Mine are just youngsters but are growing almost as fast as A. cunninghamiana in my yard. Here’s one in the front yard. It was a one gallon plant four years ago.

I agree. They really take off once they have some trunk here but can take some time to get to that stage. My oldest is the one in the back, with the trunk a little obscured (first photo). One of the others (second photo) is getting close to forming trunk, either by the end of this summer or sometime early in 2021 is my guess. Forgive the Veitchia spriralis burned leaflets in the foreground of the second photo, it didn't like one of our cold Santa Ana nights.

That's really sweet. I put one in about 5 years ago as an "annual" & it's still going strong. -Randy