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Chambeyronia hookeri

I have Ceroxylon alpinum, quindiuence, and amazonicum doing well for years. No trunks yet but hopefully soon.

H rheophytica and Bismarkia today

Nice one, I have been planting a few around the garden!

Dypsis pembana an easy one to grow.

@Than can you observe medium?

May 3, 2026 update I don’t see much of a difference since the last update. It’s hard to tell when all the new growth is out of my view. It’s been very nice these last few months. yellow golden green

The first two photos go together…

Tracy, yours looks 100% like beccariana to me. Great looking palm..

Bump...updated photos of #1 and #2 palms. I have a palm acquired from Phil at Jungle Music about a dozen years ago that was labeled as Pritchardia beccariana. I think it most resembles your #2 palm Matty. It has flat, large round leaves with many shallow pleats compared to the deeper pleats on most other Pritchardia I have growing. Steve please share a photo or two of yours as well.

Dave, I’ve always been a “plant them even when they’re tiny” kind of guy. Many of my big honking palms were planted as 2 or 3 inch seedlings directly to the ground. Here are just a few of them…

Most definitely not a palm in a windy area, but tuck them away out of the wind and you have a true masterpiece in the garden!

A couple of good collecter palmscocothrinax eckmanii dypsis proceralicuala fordiana

This one is around 5years from a bare rooted mail order in a 140mm container. I also dug it up once due to a tree that had to be removed. So it’s just really starting to get a move on. Your temperatures won’t hurt the schefferii lows as 2 degrees celsius in my garden. They are tough and moderately paced growing habit.

No, these were all planted in 2020 into this area. Here’s a not so good pic of the Bismarckia in the background. This pic was taken on November 15, 2020.

Everyone get some close up shots of the underside of the fronds while they’re within reach! May not give a positive ID but could narrow down which species.

Even before we opened at 9am, the garden was buzzing with activity. (9 photos) When we finally opened, some familiar faces showed up to fill their wagons with new plants. Dr. Rossi leads the Tour de Freeze, showcasing the palms that performed best and worst during the cold outbreak that dropped the garden to 21.5F. You can't say the Central Florida folks aren't adventurous, with Rhopalostylus planted. The baureri didn't handle the event as well as cheesemanii. A special thanks to @Jeff Searle, @Fishinsteeg234, @howfam, @STLOUISPALMGUY, @CodyM, Clay Porch and Steve Farnsworth for an excellent selection at the sale. Also a special thanks to @PalmJuan, @ChristianStAug, @RiverCityRichard, @flplantguy, @Jblume, @Kekoanui, and all of our new and current members for making the event a success.

There is a good chance that the one I collected died ( I’m starting to recall being numbed that it died) and this is the one I got from Jastin. Still I’m pretty sure it’s not baccariana though. It’s gets the crap kicked out of it by basketballs and wiggle balls.

I hate to say it, but as much as I understand wanting one, this seems like it's probably not a good idea. These are very sensitive palms. I don't see them growing well in such conditions. @sonoranfans , thoughts? Also, how are you acquiring these OP?

Calyptrocalyx leptostachys. Tim

A bit of luck with the pollination on the adscendens in the garden. Should go close to another 400 seeds from the rest of the mother plants, not a bad haul from the garden for a relatively rare palm.

The base and crown of mine. The crown has a diameter at least 4 meters; it’s a big boy!

Yep, ^ this is exactly what i saw when roaming the area after the 2010 freeze.. Wasn't there in '18, but did see a morning or two near freezing ( ..light frost in my yard, over by IMG Academy ) in early '16, right before moving here. As mentioned elsewhere, saw frost in yards near where i'd worked at the time in Sarasota, just west of 75 on the same days as well. Saw some 2026 street views near the old house in Bradenton yesterday and ..I too was surprised to see specific trees i'd pass daily / observe closely looking completely flawless ( Gumbo Limbo planted near the Oyster Bar, Cassia afrofistula in a yard nearby on FL. Blvd, Pseudobombax e. near the CVS / Target on Bayshore Gardens ) Expected to see more remnant damage..

I also got a archontophenoix tuckeri, and my star fruit, mango tree and bardebos cherry are all coming back after the 22 degrees. After the coconut was planted I saw 40 degrees a week after it was planted. Coconut has grown about 2 feet in the main spear 3 feet in a smaller one and a completely new spear is emerging. It hasn’t really gotten taller is just widened out

Chamaedorea Radicalis

Latania loddigesii at Four Arts:

And an absolute perfect variegated rhapis!

Chamaedorea metallica and a dypsis lantzeana enjoying the rain!

Chamaedorea adscendens 27 years old in the garden and he is a beauty!

Five top palms for any collection. Left to right, licuala ramsayi, Chambeyronia macrocarpa,Ravenna glauca, dictyosperma album and ptychosperma elegans!

Chamaedorea klotzshciana loving the shade.

Been trying to determine if mine is P schefferi or P lauterbachii but these seeds confirm P schefferi do they not?

Kerriodoxa elegans

Ptychosperma schefferi

Kings rock, but they’re thirsty But so worth it!

@Gottagrowemall Looking at them online, they look to have all green underneath. They're probably Archontophoenix cunninghamiana. Agree with the other posters on the formula for success: Warm + Moist + 4 weeks = Baby Palms @byuind You can see them from about 4 years ago here: Google Street View - Tanger Outlets

Apart from perlite and lava in its place, I used same ingredients to save few seedlings of this kind, which endured a 3 weeks long journey but finally the seeds had been separated.

Dypsis baronii don’t need bottom heat. I germinate mine in winter in a tin garden shed in clear plastic storage bins that might get into the 20C range during the day and single digit at night. I get around 70% germination this way. From 10 black petiole seed I have 7 plants. Have germinated lots of standard D baronii this way.

I had 11/11 (100%) germination from a RPS batch last year. No added heat, just indoor room temperature in baggies of sphagnum moss. Here’s one in April about 4-5 months after germination. A few have now opened the second frond 7-8 months after germination. A solid grower for me in cool Melbourne, I’m keeping them in nearly full shade for now.

Seed

Okay Managed to rescue a few! Gonna try again. Dypsis baronii don't germ well for me, no doubt because of my inteptitude.

I will exchange the Marojejya Darianii seeds for Juania Australis.

I never cut mine off. Once it got to a certain height and started to flower the old leaf bases just fell off with the lightest pull.

Some great plants at the sale today at SJBGNP in NE Florida outside of Hastings. I completed my Pseudophoenix collection with an incredibly lucky day, some unpictured sargentii seedlings with lideniana, vinifera, and ekmanii i was shocked to see. Three species of Attalea and three Archontophoenix. Hyphaene coriacea, gaussia maya, and a few other seedlings i cant recall the name of but are tagged to round it out.

Hi there, looking out of one of the living room's windows... All the best from Okinawa - Lars

I just put them in a ten inch container and put them in the hothouse. They will pop up I’ve done hundreds of bizzies before. It’s the potting up part you have to be careful with those tender roots are the one, they definitely dislike disturbance.

I have 1in ploy tubing along each palm and each palm gets two Rain Bird pressure compensating module 5.0gph for 1hr at 7am everyday and then once a month I will water them for a good 3-4hrs.

not in Florida :p

Does tissue culture work with palms? What do you use? I know of a grove of black Sphinx palms that I don’t know if you can get young plants of that might be interesting.