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Thought I’d ‘bump’ this topic and add a few recent progression photos. This Lemur has really grown in the last few years and is such a magnificent palm. In one of the overall shots there is a shovel with an orange handle for scale. Tim

I just noticed a spathe tip poking out from below an old boot on my Burretiokentia koghiensis. The two oldest boots were easily removed and I could see another spathe that was previously hidden beneath a boot. They didn't get an opportunity to fully open since the boots never dropped on their own. These are the first spathes on this specimen.

A flash of red getting around the place!areca vestria dypsis lantzeana dypsis louvelli

A vigorous push on one of my Encephalartos ituriensis.

Blue bayou, (Linda ronstadt)

Best of luck with them Richard! Thanks to Richard for making the seeds available! I recently germinated a bunch (maybe 80+%) in comm pot and baggie using vermiculite and bottom heat. I've already potted up several with more to do!

Yesterday was a great day, PRA with Justin, Jason, and Billeb. Toured Jason’s and my garden which gave me a photo op opportunity with Jason for an update. Powering on! Tim

How about a silver / blue Brahea ? Gopher ate my Bizzy ! Harry ‘Brahea Armata , actually more silver/green like my Butia. Oh well…. Butia Oderata No blue in these two but plenty of silver!

What got planted today. A couple of nice palms. A. Ive pacsoa purchase of a vonitra dransfeildia, a nice home grown licuala triphylla followed by a Merc psillakis cyphophoenix elegans. This should give the garden a bit more of a tropical look! Vonitra dransfeildia cyphophoenix elegans licuala triphylla

Both are beautiful palms . It would be hard for me to make a call on that. Harry

I'd give the edge to the Nanorrhops.

Nice one Harry, you get excited with just one try having 2 dozen of them throughout the garden, pure ecstasy. Richard

I only have one Chambeyronia so I really get excited when a new frond opens. This time it didn’t mess around, the spear showed no signs of opening Sunday when I was watering . Yesterday afternoon it opened . Within 3 days it will be green , it is in full sun. Harry

I’d say in your location the two main challenges will be hot and dry in summer, and cold and wet in winter. Similar to the issues in my climate. As you say, A cunninghamiana is probably well suited, however I’d guess that winter damp soil may be a big challenge for C leptocheilos and B condapanna. Even Chambeyronia macrocarpa would want to have good drainage in winter ideally and also won’t love hot and dry for too long unless you can irrigate. They are pretty tough though so that’s your best from the palms you have. Here’s some other palms I’d think would be suited to the conditions: Archontophoenix purpurea, maxima, myolensis Chrysalicarpus baronii Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae, onilahensis (might need soil ammendment for drainage) Rhapis humilis Livistona australis, decora Chamaedorea radicalis, plumosa

Spring is entering gradually and new growth starts appearing on Bismarckia and Nannorrhops. Which one is more blue in your opinion?

Here's an older pic of mine that I tried to skin 😂 It just ended up looking like a trachy at the end. I might just keep doing it just to see what it looks like.

Never a dull moment in the garden with a dypsis louvelli and a Chambeyronia hookerii for a touch of colour.

An amazing palm . I didn’t know anything about them until I saw one in the glass house at The Huntington in Pasadena , California. Yours is splendid! Harry

Some garden eye candy, caught my eye today!

Another flower forming on the dypsis saintlucei!

Just sharing my Syagrus pseudococos growing and fruiting in the garden. I like the looks of this Syagrus with a fairly thin trunk and best of all it is self cleaning.

Holy bump Batman now that’s a palm, lucky Hawaii growers!

I live on a hundred acre community with ten neighbours. We all chip in and do a bit of maintenance around the property. So I thought I might plant a few plants at the front gate near the letterbox. And for the life of me i cannot understand why one neighbour who shall remain nameless, continues to maul and devastate the plants with a pair of scissors, thank goodness he doesn’t own a chainsaw. It’s just blatant vandalism in my opinion. What possesses a person to cut perfectly good leaves of healthy plants!

My 4 year old S Lisa. What do we think? Evidence that it will be true to form or still have to wait a bit longer? Older fronds are slightly cupped. Newest one strongly cupped.

@Skenny I can hardly see any green stuff, so keep in mind that the green needs to see the sun to generate new energy. Cutting dead ends off the fronds might help, if the brown stuff really is blocking the sun. For fertilizer I might use about 2-3 handfuls of the Sunniland 6-1-8 per clump. That's a highly scientific measure, obviously. I've used Sunniland 6-1-8 for years, and recently switched to their Pro 8-0-10 Tree/Shrub. It's actually slightly cheaper per pound of Nitrogen and Potassium. https://www.lowes.com/pd/Sunniland-50-lb-All-Purpose-Fertilizer-8-0-10/1000007606

Color change shown on these two flowers of a Bc. Sunny Delight × Bc. Richard Muller. Old flower is now predominantly yellow.

SW Houston today just outside 610, in person this thing is nearly glistening in the morning light. No burn in sight, but it's a warm area (the young queens are green, the split leaf philodendrons and giant bird of paradise have living aerial crowns, pristine citrus, etc). It was installed in 2021 to replace a big queen palm. Met this guy who is REALLY into zone pushing (he even has a lipstick palm). Becarriophoenix and foxtail pictured. For hardier stuff he also has Bismarckia and hardy Chamaedorea spp.

I made a post a bit ago talking about some of the tropical plants I was zone pushing here in zone 6a, Colorado. They are Cycas revoluta, Eucalyptus cinerea, and Monstera deliciosa. Starting with the Cycad, sago palm, I have no idea if it's dead or alive. I should apparently not uproot it or do anything with it yet because iits to early to tell whether it will continue growing or not, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were dead. There is no spear pull or rot; however, I did not protect it probably as much as I should have, and its leaves died due to snowfall indirectly touching the fronds on the frost cloth. Regarldess I will wait and see what happens. I should also mention it has been a relatively mild winter with not much snow and the lowest temp being about 0-1 degrees farenheight (-17 degrees Celsius). My eucalyptus is still alive with some mild damage and dieback, and someone mentioned in my last post that cold damage does not show until temps warm up, which makes sense since it did not get any damage until warmer temperatures arrived. My monstera is alive, but i dont know if it will come back; however, apparently, it might. Its stem is still green and alive with nodes and aerial roots, but no leaves, so i dont know what to expect. I will mention I have an Ensete ventricosum 'maurelii', which is supposedly hardy in only zones 9-11, but mine survived close to a wall and mulched. The canna lillies I did not dig up but are growing after I unmulched them, and my blue passionflower is still green and bendy at the base of the stem. Any tips or helpful advice, or anything? Thanks!

The brown fronds will not turn green . You will have to wait for new fronds for green to appear. Harry ‘The lower fronds on these are beginning to yellow but the newer fronds are green . This happens in late summer to Fall when we have warm , dry days . I wait until they much worse before trimming.

I’m thinking you should plant Calamus radicalis along your front entrance. If he tries to go near it you will find him in the morning tangled up in it. A palm that fights back.

A nice young standelyi leaf!

I've had some luck with this notoriously cold sensitive palm. I got a batch of seeds from Dypsis DeanO about 6 years ago and only 1 survived in the community pot after the first winter in my greenhouse. So after a couple years I planted it out as a small seedling. It's survived 3 winters so far and despite my lack of attention to fertilizing it, it's growing steadily. If it makes it through this next winter I'll start fertilizing and see if it'll grow up to be a real palm someday. Anyone else have luck growing this palm in less than tropical conditions?

I have a fertilizer injection system that I've been using for a couple of years. If memory serves the, I've been using Peters brand water soluble fert with 10-4-12 ratio, somewhere thereabouts. I don't use standard granular fert much, as it really needs at least some overhead watering, which I don't really have.

Thanks Dale, Yeah they are turning into one of my favorite Encephalartos right there with Horridus! Iv’e sold a few but the pure strain green Arenarius are selling really good for me! I sold a couple more today. Steve

That’s good that all of your tropicals in your area aren’t dead. personally, it really makes my day when I drive past a zone pushing palm in my area to see it has survived and will keep growing.

“genetic anomaly” sounds logical, yes Harry🤗

Some 🔥 in the garden recently. Dypsis rosea Chambeyronia divaricata

Yes, when we get a lot in one day those areas typically have standing water for a few days. That's nothing compared to when we get multiple days of heavy rain. We basically revert back to swamp.

There is some good stuff in here, iam even starting to look at this thread and say oh that’s where I planted that palm, I better get back and water it after I forget where I planted them! Richard

Here’s a photo of B. condapanna seedlings almost ready to be planted out. Tim

Red Latania

Those Riversides look plenty old enough to flower - the seeds are even larger than mexicana seeds. I have two in the yard I grew from seed collected in Riverside, CA!

Very cool, too bad there wasn't something in there for scale. Riversides are supposed to be a very large Sabal and fast growing. I have two in my yard and they are indeed fast growing, and were not bothered by this winter as well.

Plumeria would have to be one of the easiest plants to grow. It sounds like you’re overwatering them and over loving them don’t fuss over exotic plants there just the same as common ones. I thought that about many exotics thinking it’s rare or exspensive I have to baby it and fuss over it you do t have to do that. Yes there are certain plants that require certain cultural techniques, I have some plants i cannot grow killing them but each time I learn from that mistake and next time change what iam doing something completely different thinking differently. You just have to think outside of the box. I just simply break a piece of the tree and push into the ground to propagate them you can let the stem dry out for a month then plant them in some good well draining soil mix. They are incredibly tough dry tolerant cold tolerant temperatures as low as 2 degrees Celsius in my garden possibly colder freezing temperatures are not there friend. But so tough you cannot kill them but well worth the flowers.

Still plugging along……..frond, leaf sheath drop still quite the event. Perfect timing for Valentines Day. Tim

I may as well add my 10 cents worth !! L. ramsayii has been a very hardy palm for my place and has taken very cold temps overnight in winter. It also survived a bad frost of -5c with only partial protection. The outer leaves were singed on the edges but not burnt. However, last summer I forgot to water it for a few days and it started dying off very quickly. It is still yet to get back to its former glory. L. elegans seems to take whatever my climate throws at it, although it has never had direct frost on it. L. grandis is doing very well for me also in a large tub in a shady spot and the weather doesnt seem to affect it at all. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for L. orbicularis. Twice now I have paid a fortune for them and both times they died within a few weeks. I dont know what the secret is with them. Peachy