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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.

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

lilium yellow bruse

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

Chamaedorea elaitor

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.

Livistona rigida, thanks @Jonathan👍🎁

Why not let volunteer orchids grow

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Pseudophoenix vinifera at Mounts:

Moving towards heavy:

Appreciate that, I was thinking the gravel would be a good way to go since it's seemed to work on all my other plants out here that need well draining soil. Everything you say about it is definitely true. Every desert plant I had that didn't have gravel died off while all of the ones that did grew huge and healthy over the years. Just finished putting gravel in all of them now. Thanks again for reaffirming I thought I was going crazy. Also went and marked them all with a marker to watch the growth.

Congratulations on your new digs. Looking forward to watching your progress over time.

As a pioneer in the zone push department, I shall put another palm to the happypalms test. Having survived one winter already it’s had it’s fair share of cool weather temps down to 2 degrees celsius. So this little taker is set to change our views on how cool tolerant are orbicularis. Having already pushed the boundaries in zone pushing and finding new palms that are cool tolerant no matter what you read or hear. We shall see if it lives 🥶

Caryota mitis

An absolute perfect chamaedorea adscendans. They don’t get any better than this beauty!

Here’s a cross from Kevin Weaver I’ve never seen before. Should be pretty cool when older. Encephalartos Natalensis x Middelburgensis -dale

All will be good growers, the only one I have not grown is the pritchardia. And as for the rest they all have seen temperatures at 2 degrees celcius, so the zone pushing has been tested on all but the pritchardia. I have lost so many palms to cold weather over the years I have been pushing the boundaries in relation to cool weather, don’t look at as a experiment but as a win for your garden!

Obscenities screamed loudly.

None whatsoever on those. They are very nice looking palms and I’m sure , with your expertise , have a very good chance. You have the perfect environment in your garden . Now that my garden has matured a bit , I am venturing out as well. When my friend gets back from Japan , I will be getting my first FB order in . We are going in together on an order. Harry

Nice ones Jim! Have had an Aylmer-Robinsonii for a number of years. I sort of ignored that species name after reading Hodel’s Pritchardia book, in which he rolls it into remota. I was curious when FB resurrected that name, so I’m not sure what the latest genetic info shows. Anyway, for me it’s grown pretty well, with a very upright growth habit. I can’t tell you how many times I walked by it and think that it has a similar shape as as the “double coconut “, whose Latin name escapes me at the moment. Lovely palm, whatever it is, however. The Chamaedorea grows well here, as does the “baby red stems“. Would love to hear your experience with Pinanga maroon; would be great to have another one of that genus that actually survives here.

I got out the tape measure to see how long the inflorescence is. It was 54" long with only a few buds open.

A nice row of hookeri with almost three in a row putting on show.

Yellow Poinciana starting after looking like a stick tree:

When my large Wodyetia failed , I waited and it was tough to watch such a beautiful palm go through that. No identifiable reason for the failure . No frost , well draining soil , and 7-8 years of solid growth . Other palms in that area of the garden were fine . The Foxtail just decided to die , about 7’ of smooth trunk plus the crown. It looked pathetic for the last year but I thought I could save it. I tried different treatments over a 12 month period , nothing helped. By the time it was cut down , I was so frustrated . A few blocks away , a friend has a huge one is his front yard producing copious amounts of fruit with viable seeds. Nice palms , but finicky here. Harry

Great night to plant the clearance rack Washy…

Not the big island, only getting one leaf a year, and it's worth the wait....

Hey y’all. I recently moved to Northwest Florida from coastal North Carolina, and with that, I can finally plant out my potted palms. To start off this thread, here’s the Needle Palm finally in the ground this morning…

I have a couple Trispinosus throwing as well.This one is very recurved and is the Thresher shark var. Any of you fishermen out there will recognize the thresher shark leaflets.

Looks great! I would amend with garden soil at least once a year . Keep a circle around it at least as big as you have and top with wood chips . Over time , as the wood chips decompose, it will keep the soil healthy and help the clay soil . I do this annually here and it makes a difference in moisture retention and absorption. Harry

Great call on the P remota / Lodoicea comparison. They both have those deep accordion style folds with the drooping tops which gives the impression the fronds are really thick and heavy.

Actually what did catch my eye today was a 🌈 I love Australia 🇦🇺

Yes our government still puts chemicals in our drinking water. I do remember some 34 years ago in high school learning about acid rain in Europe, with the Black Forest dying due to it. I have tank water I drink at my home, so iam quite spoilt for water quality.

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A few more rhapis in the collection.chojuayahme ahyame kannonchikushima

Get your mate who’s in Japan to get you two of them for you. Unfortunately no seeds will be available with this variety of palm. Richard

Licuala pelata var sumowongii, super sun tolerant! Richard

Lagerstroemia speciosa or Queen's Crepe Myrtle:

Simply spectacular. Plus new orange paint on the shovel. Ryan

Yes it depends on what variety of palm you are planting that determines how much you invest in amendments. Iam amending a lot of my rarer and exotic plants now simply to give them a head start in life and that extra jump from the get go. But back in the day 30 years ago I just planted as much as I could if it lived it lived and what has lived you see now in my established garden. Iam going for round two of expanding my garden, making the most of the understory I created. Also new landscaping for all the new plants I have and I have a lot. Budget is another thing to consider as well, when it comes to my garden there is no budget whatever it cost it’s an investment. Iam about to order 50 cubic meters of topsoil. This to me is an investment in my peace and harmony in life. I wish you good luck in your gardening, just plant as many plants as you can now.

Looking at the outer edge of the garden, in there is a whole world of joy

Chamaedorea adscendens.

Been MIA from here for a while (you know life got busy), but I'm really excited for my Brahea Aramata to be blooming for the first time ever. I bought it almost 20 years ago as a tiny plant from Lowe's and I know how dramatic the flowering can get on these. Finally I see some flower stalks forming. Not as exciting to my friends and family so I thought I'd share with fellow palm enthusiasts 😆

As one would be aware of I just can’t get enough of this palm. An absolutely gorgeous palm. If I see one for sale, the dollars are thrown at it!

I finally planted this one out in August of 24 so just about 7 months in the ground. This area can flood so I mounded it up more than a foot, surrounded it with a liner I cut down and topped of with turface. It took a lot of sun last summer and didn’t hate it but it didn’t love it. Still has a lime green instead of the dark green it had in the pot.

Missed the latest posts in this thread, looking good everyone. Dale, back in the early 2000’s I had never even heard of this palm, available species were a bit limited, at least for a newbie like me. Yours looks like the type, with the new colored leaf. You know, mine used to throw the new red/orange leaf, but it’s been awhile since it’s done that. I wonder if I’ve just missed it or if the palm grows out of that stage. I’ve posted these photos before, somewhere on PT, but here they are again. Tim