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I was searching for something and this thread popped up. I decided to update this phot of the entryway, since it has changed a bit during the intervening period from March of 2018 to March of 2026. 8 years will do that... to gardens and people. This is the Leucadia house. I will have to get some updated photos of the garden in Carlsbad at another time.
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Clinostigma samoense Clinostigma with Astrocaryum, Pritcharia, and Attalea in the foreground. Tim
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It's been exactly 4 years since my Copernicia berteroana last flowered. Looks like this year will be the year to start some more seeds. Seems to be a scarcely seen palm in peoples gardens for whatever reason. Maybe a 4 year flowering cycle has something to do with it?🤔😄 aztropic Mesa, Arizona
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Looks like my 2 good Washingtonias might just make a steady recovery, almost certain the first one will but iffy about the second one as it has white at the bottom of the spears but won’t pull. Replaced the dead windmills in new spots with better holes this time. Good luck to everyone else, apparently we will be seeing the 30s again later this week hopefully not below freezing though.
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Has anyone seen anything like this before? I can’t help but wonder which Rhopalostylis variety it might be. My first thought was Chatham Islands, but I’m starting to doubt that. It could possibly be a Great Barrier Island form instead. Or even a naturally occurring hybrid with archontophoenix cunninghamiana? It’s surrounded by them.. Anyway what caught my attention is the very open crown and the extremely dark crownshaft color. I was also looking through some older Rhopalostylis photos and I think Geoff Stein used to have a few similar plants in cultivation. Curious to hear what others think on the variety — what are your bets?
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@Mazat this is what your country needs a spectacular show of palms for sale, if one had the investment money a two acre climate controlled environment would be the place to start your business!2 points
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Too right. You would have done the same @DoomsDave, I know a palm nut when I see one Dave!2 points
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I run out of room in the car, I had offers other goodies, just no room to bring them home. Next time I suppose. And there where other beautiful palms there some I had already or missed out on them! Richard2 points
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I’m new to cycads. Probably won’t have room to plant all of these. Most of these are hybrids. Will probably plant the big E. Arenarus, soon. Was curious is anyone had tried these crosses, or anything similar? I’m thinking about planting maybe 3-4 for the time being. Recommendations? I think I got the tags right. E. Arenarus E. Lehmanii x (blue) E. Longifolious E. Middelburgiensis x Dyerianus x (back crossed) Dyerianus E. Munchii E. Horrida E. Horrida x E Arenarus Giant Nubimontanus x Spiny Cupidis
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I also have a Dioon Edule to plant. Not sure which form. Got a little sunburnt, so I’ll probably acclimate it and plant it next year.
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Looks like a portion of the show followed you home , great score! Harry2 points
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Looks like it took a bit of a hit . The new growth is still healthy but keep an eye on it . I haven’t tested cold hardiness on mine but they do seem to be pretty tough palms . The bummer , at least for me , would be slow growth = slow to come back. Harry2 points
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These are my dypsis decipens f2 hybrids and one normal dypsis decipens that I’m gonna grow in Lancaster California zone 9a I got them from floribunda palms I hope they are going to survive we almost only get to low to mid 20s in winter only 1 -2 times a year I hope they do well any tips I know I guy from Modesto grew them so I’m confident I’m also gonna try the coco queen palm next
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Looking good! That C. Decaryi sure took on some size ….as did the others. Harry2 points
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If you had told me what the weather would be like and the location I would’ve never thought there would be this damage. I don’t know what to say about it really, just reporting what I’m seeing. I thought I had some damage to the Bismarckia fronds and the Sabal causiarums only. I felt good and then this last week I started seeing damage on so many palms. I forgot to mention I also lost a Brahea moorei. That one showed damage right away and went downhill quick, even though it survived 19F last year. I also saw Katy got like a tenth of an inch from the storm on Saturday night and I got 4.5” with the additional rain on Sunday. Totally opposite. I expect next year most of these palms will be established enough that I won’t be seeing this again. But who knows I feel you can never predict how palms will do over winter. Further to your point all the palms around me and Houston for the most part look great. It’s only when I get up to Tomball that I see damage from this past winter.2 points
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How tall and old is this Copernicia? Do the fronds take the heat and sun and monsoon well? It looks amazing!2 points
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It's like we live in alternate realities. I'm not seeing anything remotely like the damage you're describing. I drive by tons of mostly abandoned Chamaerops and Butia every day and there isn't a scratch on any of them. Maybe the frost cloth is hurting your palms? All no protection: Livistona nitida - zero 0.0% burn on all leaves except for spear pull on 2 newest leaves, already pushing up growth. Livistona decora - 16-18 inch high seedlings, slight tip burn on a few Livistona chinensis - mostly undamaged Sabal rosei - no damage Sabal causiarum - no damage Sabal guatemalensis - tip burn to 30% burn on older leaves Bismarckia - mostly defoliated but pushing growth Queens x2 - one is only 30% burned, another is mostly defoliated but pushing growth Chuniophoenix nana - defoliated but pushing growth Bonus Lytocaryum hoehnei covered with a cardboard box (no heat) - no damage2 points
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My minimum temperature was 13F this year, accompanied by freezing rain. My results were as follows. Chamaerops humilis (unprotected): No damage, actively growing. Chamaedorea microspadix (unprotected): Burning where ice accumulated, but actively growing. No damage to leaves that did not ice over. Chamaedorea radicalis (unprotected): Burning where ice accumulated, but actively growing. No damage to leaves that did not ice over. Sabal minor (unprotected): No damage. Sabal miamiensis (unprotected): No damage. Sabal miamiensis Leu garden hybrid (unprotected): No damage. Sabal uresana highlands form (unprotected): No damage and actively growing. Sabal uresana green/silver form (tarp wrapped around the spear base): No damage and actively growing. Brahea dulcis (covered by a tarp): Minor discoloration, but actively growing. Cycas revoluta (unprotected): Exposed leaves are burned, normal for temperatures below 14F.2 points
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Dioon spinulosum finally getting its first frond. Took over 3 months
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Are we getting one last cold front? My 10 day shows a drop into the mid 40s next week. I’m hoping it doesn’t end up being anything too severe I already took a bunch of plants outside.2 points
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Bismarkia
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Everywhere you look it’s more plants!
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a little bit of Italy in Australia, here they are everywhere2 points
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I must have missed this thread when it was first posted, but the updates are pretty amazing! The history makes me even more appreciative of the beauty on display during the PSSC tour of your garden. Both the house and the garden have come a very long way over the years. Well done!2 points
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Dale, the triple Phoenix roebelenii was behind the Cycas thouarsii below, sandwiched between it and the E lebomboensis. It was getting squished on both sides. Editing from time to time is just part of having a garden.
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@Tracy, this example of how close things get when mature scares me. I can already see me editing my garden(s). @realarch, you won’t be disappointed. -dale2 points
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I just couldn’t pass up on some of the plants on offer at the pacsoa show this weekend. Just a couple more for the collection! satakentia liukiuensis kentiopsis oliviformis Dypsis ambositrae Geonoma atrovirens licuala sallehana Calyptrocalyx flabellata pinanga sarawakensis loxococcus rupicola calyptronoma occidentalisDypsis sp Bill Beattie Basselina glabrata Dypsis orange crush calmus muelleri polyandrococus caudescens Calyptrocalyx yummutumecalyptrocalyx flabellata cocothrinax guargruana Mapu for the wife you know how it is fellas you gotta get the wife a gift when you spend up! Zamia pictaDypsis hetromorphusDypsis avisonii Dypsis DrannsfieldiiDioon Rio verdeDioon holmgreniiSchippia concolor All set to go in the garden for a bit more of that tropical look chamearops humillis cocothrinax eckmanii licuala fractiflexavietcha montgomerianadypsis procera
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A few pictures from JLBG’s Winter garden. I thought the palmettos looked especially good.
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Yep , and at least one gardener took some paradise home! Harry1 point
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Any ideas
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No kidding!!! The area in the 3rd picture looks like great mulch, until you kneel down on it. Then you discover that it's all Encephalartos Whitelockii leaves, which are covered in thorns. It'll be fine by the summer when the rains help break down the stabbiness.1 point
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it's about 11 inches caudex in 25 gallon pot.1 point
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I am tired of wasting many years of my life realizing I was duped and sold wrong seeds and wrong plants. This was sent to me as a seedling by PAUL WITTE at PALMANIA.ES with a tag "Sabal etonia". I think he has been out of business for years now. It's a shame I've offered these seeds with a wrong tag, trusting the "professional", without knowing that. Bigfish, thank you for identifying my plant. Inform other hobbyists if you are sold wrong seed(ling)s.1 point
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I had to buy them peachy, I plead insanity it was my bank account that was forcing me to do it, with a few non show buyers (peachy) it was all up for grabs and grab I did indeed! Richard1 point
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First of the season for me. Latifrons longer leaf individual.
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Couple updates and a couple fresh tweeties amongst the cycas
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My twin sister Lisa gave us a greenhouse as a gift when she visited us last weekend. Dimensions of all greenhouses: width x depth x height - 69 cm x 49 cm x 159.8 cm / 27.1635 in x 19.29134 in x 62.91339 in, 3 shelves inside. We already had one. Then we got another one for $11 and another one for $8.90 from friends of the store manager at a discount store, and at the same time we got another one completely reduced because it had already been opened by customers. Now we have four.We placed them back to back and put the heating mats on Sagex today at the bottom. This way, the heat rises and heats everything from the bottom up, or so we hope.
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Been planting a couple. Deboansis and Subrosephylla.
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Here are few flushes from around the garden.
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Cerotazamia latifolia showing what one day will be a spectacular ornamental plant!
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Nice, Peroffskyana cone for comparison
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Lepidozamia hopei
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A nice patch of volunteer palmettos i've been watching for some time. I'm assuming they came from the transplants at the condo, and have since matured, and dropped their own seeds all over the place. Including this drainage ditch across the street. I have scored some nice seedlings from this area in the past. Oak Island, NC https://maps.app.goo.gl/Z9taq7CpRoMYdh6f7
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Thanks for the kind words. I look forward to our visit and checking out your palm and cycad collection among all of the other plantings. Tim1 point
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Thanks Dale, having seen all the photos of the garden and having met Tracy and Dana, I’m sure it will be better than I imagine. Tim1 point
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Tracy: To me most Puyas look pretty much alike... until they bloom! Here's my P. venusta which I'm still waiting on to flower. I dread the day I decide to repot this viciously armed plant!
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Wow, some great growth in 3 years on all the palms pictured in this thread. Great job Tracy. As for Ambositrae, it looks like yours is growing at a nice rate. I had 10 or so planted in my Fallbrook garden and some were slow and some were fast. There were some differences to how they looked in my opinion as well, and I bought from several different sources over the years. So I think there was some variation going around within Ambositrae. I have 2 planted here in Hilo so I'm looking forward to seeing how they do here. Here's my larger of the two I planted.
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Tracy, mine that Marcus is selling are super fast too. I bought some overgrown 4 inch pots from him last spring. I planted two right into the ground in almost full sun and they hardly burned and grow year round. Great Dypsis.1 point
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We used a couple of different things between the flagstone over the years. We first removed the grass in one area and put in pavers with Zoysia tenuifolia- Korean Grass Thatch. It seems to resist infiltration with weeds "ok", not perfect, but does need to be controlled every few months with a mower and edger. The second patch of grass removed, I accidentally bought Scotch moss (Sagina subulata "Aurea"), which was slower growing but much more prone to infiltration of weeds. We removed it and replaced with pebbles. Ultimately, I like the pebbles best, as they are lowest maintenance. Low maintenance is key as this house has been a rental for the last 3 years. I still get to enjoy my plants over there every once in a while though!1 point
