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Have been joyful to see my Windmill Palm grow and thrive in NoVa over the last 9yrs+;

Aeoneum arboreum "Schwartzkopf" blooming behind a nice green Encephalartos. I like the mix of colors.

Among other things.

Thank you for sharing, sir. You are very fortunate, like some others here on this great forum. Thank you, sir.

I'm in West Seattle and I grow a whole bunch of palms. Established in the garden I have Butia odorata, Jubaea chilensis, Trithrinax campestris, Chamaerops humilis, Chamaedorea radicalis, Chamaedorea microspadix, Butia odorata x Syagrus romanoffziana, Butia eriospatha x Butia microspadix, Jubaea chilensis x Butia yatay, Butia odorata x Parajubaea torralyi, Parajubaea cocoides x Jubaea chilensis, and Trachycarpus princeps. I have many more in containers waiting to be planted.

Cocos nucifera opening a new frond

Pinanga maculata. Tim

Dictyosperma album var. conjugatum (supposedly) new leaf.

A nice batch of kerriodoxas looking good!

This view

(Butia X Jubea) X Jubea in Dallas 5 years in ground.

The fate of palms in Texas according to the gfs currently lol .

Upon request by the owners and IPS president Andy Hurwitz I am posting information about a one of a kind legacy property available for sale in Hawaii. PT is not normally the correct venue for real estate ads, but I believe when you read more you will see why an exception is made here. Although memories of my visit there in 2022 will forever be etched in my mind, please address inquiries to the owners, not to me personally. Please see information and photos from the owners: A New Chapter for Casa de Las Palmas We purchased Casa de Las Palmas in 2017 from the estate of legendary nurseryman Jerry Hunter. Jerry was the owner of Rancho Soledad Nurseries in California, Palms of Paradise in Hawaii, and Mount Soledad in Pacific Beach. Dubbed the "Dean of California Landscape Architects", he held license #33. His designs are found throughout the San Diego area, including San Diego Zoo, Balboa Botanical Gardens, and a host of other public and private venues. Along with collecting and hybridizing many new plant varieties, he built the first plant tissue culture laboratory in San Diego. Casa de Las Palmas was Jerry's private Hawaiian retreat. Over the course of 35 years, Jerry transformed seven acres of upper Hilo farmland into a true garden masterpiece, creating a magical realm of exotic palms, waterfalls, meandering lava-rock paths, water gardens, and flowering tropical plants. Now over 45 years since planting began, it's a vast and mature botanical collection of rare palms, cycads, philodendrons, bromeliads, anthuriums and orchids. We have been honored to be the caretakers, but the time has come for us to move on, so we are offering the property for sale. Before we list it on the open market, we want palm and garden lovers to know it is available, in the hope that we can find a custodian for the future. The property has a 2-bedroom, 2-and-a-half-bathroom house with a separate apartment, and potential for additional dwellings. We currently do private garden tours, film shoots, and small events, and there is plenty of room to grow a successful business here. We had the delight of hosting IPS members for a lunch and tour during the 2022 Biennial in Hawaii. Please do contact us if you would like any further information. Irene Francis & Lars Woodruffe 646-338-7882 irenefrancis@hotmail.com https://houseofthepalms.com/

Not too sure what to think about the next 2 weeks. Models all over the places. Pattern looks quite cold, maybe even supportive of another wintry weather threat for northern Florida next weekend. I just ask that it doesn't drop below 22F in my yard.

I wonder if you could find a nice spot in the yard and bury a big water filled tub or huge pot, then plop another big (less big) pot into that and put that in the ground. Depending a little on your micro climate… but people do grow these in the ground quite successfully in Dade, Broward and even Palm Beach counties, without bringing them in. Especially on the eastern edges of the counties.

Thanks Tim. I’m already working on a landscape design in ChatGPT that separates 4 distinct geographic areas (Africa, Americas, Asia, and Oceania) 😂.

No, I moved to Mississippi for a while for work. Glad to be back. Much more palmy here even after all the freezes 🌴

I can't see too many issues with roots in local trees, but they can get pretty big, so I'd still be cautious. I've got 3 growing in a very wet part of our property on clay, no root rot problems, they're tough trees. Also, Lagunaria seed pods are full of itchy hairs that drop out and blow around in the wind, could be very irritating on a smaller property. My choice would be Banksia integrifolia though, as I mentioned in the other thread, a nicer tree all round.

Many a try on this palm, complete failure, last bss as tech survived 3 years in hothouse so I decided time for the greenhouse winter killed the lot in the greenhouse. One last attempt with them now with apparently a black seed variety, see if this one is a bit tougher, fought it though can only dress as m of such a beautiful palm. Lucky for me there are those lucky Hawaii growers who have them in all their glory!

Just had a read thanks. So is there really only 1 C andersenii? It mentions multiple attempts at growing in So Cal failing - surely other Hawaiian growers gave it a go? The article doesn’t seem to mention any effort to get pure seed from this plant which I’d expect would be important if it is truly the only known example of a new species.

Ok, the rest of the palm……. Shovel for scale. Tim

I moved to Sugar Land last year. Other than getting slightly colder, we really like it here. You’re in a condo there? Great area no doubt!

I woke up to my coffee maker at 6am and the outdoor temp was a nice 33F. Checked the temp again just as the sun rose and it was 26F. This will be a neat experiment to see how a few of my non-palms deal with the quick zap. Still makes it a zone 9B winter! Ready to hit the ground running in another 6 weeks or so!

Got the snow here too. Not as much as @JLM but light to moderate snow for about 1 hour just ended. Good thing is we're not having a nuclear freeze tonight like with the snow last year (15 deg). Looks to be around 24 deg here. Nothing my plants and palms can't handle. 8bab3d55-bee6-4f9e-82ec-9cef7366b768.mp4

Status update: we have a dusting of snow.

Thank you Meg So, in your eyes, my royal highness is parched or thirsty? Is that cracked and yellowish leaf from thirst?

I have been asked to spread the word about the World Palm Symposium supported in part by the IPS as part of our research, education and conservation mission statement. Below I copy a letter from the Organizing Committee: Dear fellow palm researchers and enthusiasts! Abstract submissions and early-bird registration are now open for PALMS 2026 Singapore! We are now accepting submissions for talks and posters related to the following themes about palms: 1. Ecology and ecophysiology 2. Systematics, phylogenetics, and evolution 3. Biogeography, macroecology and macroevolution 4. Plant-animal interactions 5. Uses and conservation 6. Palms in the human landscape Hands-on workshops in palm propagation and collecting—plus exclusive field trips into Singapore’s nature reserves—are coming up. Join us and be part of it. If you are early career researcher or student, we are also excited to announce travel grants to help support you. For more information, check out our website: https://palms2026.sg Sign up here for news and announcements (e.g., workshop sign-ups and deadline reminders) or follow us on Instagram! Best, Jun Ying Lim On behalf of the World Palm Symposium Organising Committee

32 at my house in Altamonte Springs, 35 at Leu Gardens. If you followed local "news" you would have thought FL was having another Dec. 1989 freeze with the ridiculous feels like temp ratings hype.

Pinanga disticha, Licuala grandis, Licuala glabra var. glabra.

Calytronoma plumeriana. Tim

These have bifurcated and now trifurcated? I’ve been thinking of trying to remove the smaller trunk along with some of the root. Still haven’t gotten around to it. Here are a few photos.

I noticed a spadix beginning to push out of my Pseudophoenix sargentii a couple of months back with anticipation. It is the first one this palm. Today I checked it's status and saw that it never fully opened. We'll, at least it has hit this milestone and may flower someday in the future.

lilium tiger bicolor

Chambeyronia oliviformis powering on and opening a new frond yesterday despite a maximum of 44C/111F with 75km/h (46mph) winds. Tough palm. The nearby Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus which also decided to open up a frond in the oven wasn’t so lucky. The heat and wind sucked the moisture from the frond and it wilted quickly.

Planted 3 L weddellianum together about 4 years ago and they caught my eye today.

Bismarkia new frond

When did the yeti move in?🤣

Today I noticed a coleus hitching a tide on L rupicola I believe this is?

A nice little dypsis paludosa, and a nice little Chuniophoenix nana with a few seeds maturing!

When the light radiates through a palm frond

A nice lytocarum and a fallen flower spathe of a Dypsis plumosa

Some nice flowers on the dypsis minuta in the summer heat!

Burretiokentia vieillardii. Tim

Y. schottii is growing well here in Germany too. As I remember the big ones in Arizona where my seeds came from where very stiff and had a sharp spine at the end of each leave. Needs to be planted away from any foot path or playing children. Keep us updated. Eckhard

Wait till the roots wash out then get the local rugby team to help you lift it! Pity Nikau seeds never drifted west across the ditch... Great thread, thanks to all contributors.

I completely agree with Meg’s info to you. I have two over 8 ft, in the garage right now. They were 4” pots 6-7 years ago. Always sitting in tray of water and I use “Florikan” slow release fertilizer on all my palms. Expensive but worth it, usually get the 6 or 9 month bags. Like Meg, might be selling mine next year, going to be too big to fit in garage. I have another one about 4 ft from a sucker off on the bigs ones. To me they have grown pretty fast! We hit 38 degrees last night, they would melt at that temperature. I also have used the Diathane M-45 every month during winter, got the same advice. I had one years ago in Ft Lauderdale, grew great to about 3 ft, then got the fungus and died in the winter. So disappointing.

A couple more things about this species: never ever let it dry out. If it does, it's toast. I kept mine sitting in trays of water I monitored almost daily, esp. in dry weather. When/if we went out of town for more than a few days I asked our niece to check on them, which, I'm sure, was a pain to a woman with two businesses and a family. If we traveled in winter I sweated every cold front until we got home. No way could our 5' tall niece roll massive pots weighing 100s of lbs into/out of the house for us. But that's what you have to do because with this palm there are no do-overs. And I wasn't going to risk keeping them indoors in a dry house for a week or two. I don't keep houseplants and these make poor ones. One last tip: we kept these palms on our back lanai under heavy shade cloth. I've read they can take sun and maybe so but grown in shade they are the most gorgeous dark green. Finally, a palm grower in Homestead told me lipsticks are highly prone to a lethal cold weather fungus. He said I should drench them in a solution of water and Dithane 45 (from Southern Ag) before cool weather arrived, then follow up every 2-3 months until spring. A few people on PT said that wouldn't help but I followed this guy's advice every Nov. and Feb. for all the years I had them. Never had problems with fungus. I also credit my diligence in caring for these uber tropicals.

Thank you @PalmatierMeg Years ago I posted another question about this palm, and someone schooled me in the slow and delicate ways of the lipstick palms. Whenever we go below 50 here in Miami, which isn't often, we bring the pot inside. That baffles us because in Costa Rica it gets chilly/cold and they thrive down there; perhaps it doesn't get 50s cold. I haven't fertilized it, but my wife will use new palm soil when repotting it. I will wait to add the fertilizer until March, and we'll just keep watching it grow slowly. We brought 7 of them from Costa Rica in 2015,and this is the last of them.

Have you ever fertilized it? I assume you bring it indoors when temps are below 50F. I assume you fertilized it at some point over the past 7 years although it does look undersized and peak-ed. I grew green and red lipsticks from 3g to over 9' tall in about 5 years before I sold them. They got too heavy for us to roll their carts indoors and were touching the top of the birdcage. All that aside I suggest you wait until the weather warms in March to fertilize to get best results. During cooler weather the palm takes in fertilizer little or not at all and its growth slows. Fertilizer is too expensive to waste nor do you want to force new growth on this uber tropical palm in mid-winter. If you haven't so far I suggest you heavily research care of this species here or on reliable internet sites. It can grow into a beautiful palm but you have to cater to its tropical needs. We can no longer do so and I decided years ago not to try more lipsticks. I do have a Cyrtostachys loriae - a solitary, robust and cold hardier species - planted in our south facing back yard that backs onto a freshwater canal. It survived Hurricane Ian and I'm hopeful it will survive winter in Cape Coral. Not a chance in h*** I could have planted our lipsticks.