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I was just curious if anyone has had success with growing these in California. I've seen a photo of a nice looking one in Ensenada, Mexico before, so wondering if anyone has had one in California. I am growing a couple in the imperial valley of California and the one below has made it through two winters and one summer without any damage, but also with minimal growth. Also pictured are Dictyosperma album and Hypophorbe langenicaulis handing the desert heat for their third year now without issue!

With a nice autumn feel about the garden theres a change in the weather, autumn is the best time of the season in my climate just perfect weather, the garden has warmed up all summer and you can see the plant activity. Now is the perfect time to plant in the garden, so the next few months a lot will be planted!

My golden Christmas ready to go in the ground caught my eye. Full sun for full yellow color.

Chuniophoenix nana!

One of my friends is growing several coconuts in Brawley, CA. They are coming into their third summer now. I wonder whose will fruit first! haha. Yours looks flawless!

The lowest temperature recorded in Bridgeport, CT , over the last 20 years was -6°F (-21°C), set on February 14, 2016. so this palm has suvived a -6F wth no external heat as its been in the grouns since 2009

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

No worries ..or need to apologize ..I knew exactly what you were referring to cuz i'd noticed the same thing at that time as well. Still a few weeks to go before i'll offer up any of my early thoughts on the subject, but ..this.. may be our reward for early heat this year.. As far as websites? ** .. Tropical Tidbits and Pivotal Weather are where i go to look over day to day forecast model data.. W/ some additional input added from any daily NWS office ( PHX, and / or Tucson, etc regional offices ) forecast discussions. ** Data from both the ECMWF ( " ECMWF Charts " section of that site ) and graphical / chart data from COPERNICUS make up where i go to look over longer term forecast thoughts ( multi -weekly / seasonal ) ..Will look at stuff from the CFS and NMME ( North American Multi Model Ensembles ) too but thoughts from both aren't always the most reliable ..so ..more salt, lol. ** Weather Underground 10 day is the only place i trust when it comes to WX app- esque tools ** My opinion only but, it has been the most accurate day to day. Reliable enough that i've been a loyal viewer since ..2012, if not earlier than that.. Point n' click from our local / other NWS offices aren't a " horrible " source for info either ..but they seem to err more conservative / kind of bland in their thoughts / forecasts / discussions at times, esp. the PHX office ..So i'll take whatever they're saying w/ some salt.. ** Maricopa Co Flood Control District ( and Pima County's FCD site, ...and Rainlog.org are where i go to look over any local / regional rainfall data after storms.. There are others of course that i can't remember atm.. Those i avoid ( ...like the plague? ) Accuweather.. Used to be " ok, " for basic info, but is now Horrible ..useless Weather.com / Weather Channel -anything- Extra horrible, ..and useless. Always been a " corporate / sold out " kind of site. In 2026, if those two sites are the only places someone looks to for " trust-worthy " weather -related info they might be interested in obtaining, they deserve all the bad info they receive, ..lol. Same with only trusting what X Y or Z local news forecaster says. I've yet to find any weather app as reliable as data from Weather Underground so that's all i use. They have an ap for both IOS and Android. Never used it myself so i can't comment on how good it might ..might not.. be, compared to the main site. Daniel Swain, who founded the Weather West website, is the only person i turn an ear to for detailed dives into regional WX expertise. Since he is an actual Climatologist, who grew up in this part of the country, he understands the physics behind all the nuts and bolts of the weather here / across the west.. Very rare i find anything i might see differently compared to his thoughts on things. No hype and his blog / YT live stream discussions are extremely articulate and easy to comprehend. Noticed there are several folks from Chandler on his Threads page now.. At the other end of the spectrum, Avoid the " AZ Weather Force " Facebook weather clown.. PLENTY of info out there on why.

Gonesies. Off to the land of Grady Judd and Jin Jin Kitchen and Legoland and Wellspring Gardens.

Washingtonia seeds are weed like. You should not try to to compare them with other palm seeds. On the other hand, Butyagrus seeds may never germinate...

I happened to be on a flight from Honolulu to Hilo yesterday, but on approach to Hilo at 2:45 pm, the pilot made an odd left turn. Then another more severe left turn and I could feel the plane climbing rather than descending. I knew something was wrong, and wondered if we were returning to Oahu. The pilot announced we were being diverted to Kona, much to the dismay of passengers. Planes don't do well flying into ash clouds, thus the inconvenience. Luckily a dear friend, BGL, came to pick me up and take me back across the island. The park was closed, visitors ordered out, and the highway approaching the park was closed. This is an exciting place! Edit: I should add, the repeated eruptions are contained within the humongous main crater up in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and notwithstanding the flying tephra, no homes or towns are in peril.

#2 I would say more likely C. argentea than C. argentata. Easy to confuse those names. C. argentata, at least the Florida form, is delicate, wispy, small and slow. I have many of these questions about my own plants, whether they are hybrids or the species are hard to discern. I agree that the last one is probably Thrinax based on the disorderly trunk fiber. The split leaf bases might not be obvious at that size.

Thrinax radiata. aztropic Mesa, Arizona

Perhaps it's Thrinax rather than Coccothrinax.

Not 100% sure but Tad believes it's the high night temperatures here compared to those out west. Same reason we can't grow Parajubaea. Even now in early March the lows are in the low 70's. 😔

That is a lovely flower . I’m not sure , but I think a neighbor , two doors down planted one a few years back and it literally took over her yard. If it is the same plant , they tend to be invasive if not kept trimmed. Harry

Those are lovely . I can’t help with ID , I only have one here . Mine never really thrived here but plugs along slowly . It was purchased over 25 years ago from Phil at Jungle Music and he wasn’t sure which species it was . It was very small and I planted it out in the yard right away . I posted here and someone said it was Barbadensis due to the orange look to the hastula. I am in a 10a climate , no frost. Harry They just don’t look as good here in full sun . I don’t think we have the humidity they like.

A few more palms to go in, a couple of the pacsoa show purchases. No need to overwinter these ones they a tried and tested winners in my garden. Dypsis procera 3 out of 5, 2 more to plant Dypsis ambositrae grown by Lyn Crehan a quality grower of exotic plants. Schippia concolor chamearops humillis

Red Latania new frond

Sabal Yapa new frond

Washingtonias growing pretty fast still yet to see results from the rest ( archontophoenix, p.reclinata, p.rupicola, pt.elegans, butiagrus)

Thank you man! I hope me haha. I know dwarf coconuts can fruit earlier on and these maypan coconuts are mixed so maybe I’ll get lucky these next few years. Are the ones in Brawley from Florida as well?

Yeah, here in El Centro, CA, it was as if winter never came. I didn't turn on my heater once, which has never happened before.

Hopefully the growth will continue for you. It’s a tough one in the desert . Harry

Hi everyone, I’m visiting Tenerife in mid‑April and I’m hoping to find Plumeria obtusa ‘Singapore White’ (Singapore/White Plumeria) while I’m there. 👉 I’m looking for: • Nurseries or garden centers that sell this variety • Private growers who might have plants or cuttings • Local markets or plant swap meet locations • Any tips on where to look in Tenerife I’d really appreciate recommendations, contacts, phone numbers, or even a meet‑up if anyone is willing to help! 😊 Thanks in advance!

This is the issue with vague terms like cold-hardy. Hardy to what temperature what percent of the time under what conditions? If it was a typical radiational freeze down to 24F, Beccariophoenix alfredii would probably have a lot less damage. Add in 40mph winds the first night and several frost events after that and we got different results. A lot of the Becarriophoenix alfredii here are bronzed from the combination of wind, cold and frost. Mine was in an area where the other plants in the yard cut the wind speed down to 13 MPH and had minor burn. Beccariophoenix fenestralis is growing, but it was completely defoliated from the same event. This event will undoubtedly produce tons of observations for the Cold Hardiness Observation Master Data. That said, I'd rather have less observations and more palms. Hope that the palm(s) in question recover, but be wary of terms like cold-hardy that don't offer many specifics. The record lows along the I-4 corridor generally range from 15F-20F. That holds true inland the entire way down to Immokalee. Those temperatures can kill a lot of palms considered cold-hardy.

we are plannng on opening up Sabal palmetto Bridgeport WED April 8th,2026 after the cold weather passes; what a winter 2025-2025 In early 2026, Bridgeport, CT, experienced significant cold, with a low of 2°F recorded on February 8, accompanied by record-setting cold high temperatures of 17°F and dangerous wind chills. A cold weather protocol was also activated in January 2026. Temperatures in March 2026 are ranging from the mid-20s to mid-40s°F. Key 2026 Temperature Details (Bridgeport, CT): February 8, 2026: A low of 2°F was recorded, which was 23 degrees colder than the normal low for that date, according to CT Insider. Record Cold: On Feb. 8, 2026, the high only reached 17°F, setting a new record for the coldest high temperature, breaking the previous record from 1994, CT Insider. Wind Chills: Wind chills were dangerous, falling to between -10°F and -20°F on Feb. 8, 2026. The palm has seen colder temperatures The lowest temperature recorded in Bridgeport, CT , over the last 20 years was -6°F (-21°C), set on February 14, 2016.

Yes that’s problem, time to maintain them. If i wasnt working in the job I have I would have a lot more free time, while the boss makes the money of me, my business doesn’t grow. One day I shall retire hopefully and not have to work for the man so to speak. I love going into my greenhouse in the hot days and watering it’s so refreshing in the cool greenhouse. Richard

So nobody told my palm tree it was supposed to be cold.... Despite it being the coldest year it experienced and the multitude of snow / ice events. It came out completely fine. I did protect it with a frost cloth & c9 lights but I'm questing if it even needed that. It also hasn't spear pulled which is a first. - Picture Below is from february (thankfully no more snow here ), Also you can see the sad Cycas Revoluta in the top right, It's also growing nicely e

These are ancient specimens at Breaker's in PB

Compact and robust Butia today in Galena Park by the Houston Ship Channel

Okay, it's in the grow room, Sabine just said, Phönix canariensis is doing well 🤗

Red Latania new frond

A few more, here’s a close up of a frond I showed in the last post for growth comparison. then this one The visible trunk form a distance 😍

Hello everybody, I have just found the topic. That plant behind the fence is our beloved Red Spicata Dwarf. It grew with little care in a partly abandoned area, which has recently been transformed in the new section for Papua New Guinea. I though it was due to abandonement, but it often produced misshaped nuts and some of the seeds never sprouted. Some unripe fruits were stolen too by happy visitors, so we took a lot to make seedlings. Now it is doing much better. It might be a hybrid too, as the inflorescence is often not a perfect spike. Now it is taller and we made babies out of its fruits, so we can see how the next generation will go.... if the spike is a spike and if we get better shaped fruits. Its first seedling is starting to bloom at ground level, but most are just 1-2 years old. All seedlings show a deep orange colour except one which was paler but it then became almost the same of others. You can watch a not-so-old video on youtube about this tree, by Sdravko of All the fruits:

At least more good growing zones. At the lowlands of Chihuahua at around 300 meters I am sure Coconuts would grow. Once you go west in Durango you will drive over Sierra Madre. Once on top the nature changes drastically when you start driving down towards Mazatlan. In that complete western part bordering Sinaloa you can pretty much grow everything.

Sorry, I shouldn't have used the word "community" as I was referring to the big name/major sites. I realize they're pretty bad but I still couldn't believe that early fall 2024 heat wave was an afterthought. As long as the summer months have an active monsoon and don't have constant above average temps, I'm take the winter warmth all day long. What are the best places for weather info in your opinion?

right now its 66f it's been raining on and off all day. today we have a chance for some pretty severe thunderstorms and even some tornadoes

Bump before I need to waste taller pots on them. 3 in 1 gallon one in a liner, I will bundle all, all 4 are on their 3rd blade of grass strap leaf and growing surprisingly fast.

A nice male dioon spinolosum in cone, he will be a bit lonely as there are no female cones in the garden yet, give it time and there will be, so it takes about 27 years in my climate for spinolosum to cone.

What's even worse is that they are planted at my work (I live in an apartment) and it's a public area, so most of the palms I have planted have been killed by lawn mowers, weed whackers, kids stepping on them, and water getting cut off in the middle of summer for construction projects, so these palms are not only growing in an unforgiving climate, but also in an unforgiving setting! I had two beautiful christmas palms that were killed last year when kids were swinging on their trunks (they only had a couple of woody rings at this point) and knocked them over

What are the environmental factors? The ones around here haven’t produced seeds after 2021.

After a reasonable, Monsoon -esque tease yesterday afternoon, and some morning spit, clouds are clearing out as residual moisture associated with the COL responsible for yesterday's break in the heat heads into the southern Plains where it will stir up more trouble. Once the sun breaks out overhead, temps head from the mid 60s now ( 63F at 11:11AM in the hood ) to somewhere in the upper 70s < ...or low 80s, neighborhood - side.. > as we head into the afternoon. Enjoy it cuz' it will likely be the last time we see sub - 80F high readings here for ..quite awhile... No need to post the 10 forecast from underground today, you know what is coming. 80s for your Hump Day, ..then the pan hits the stove.. Tack on potential day #3 of highs reaching 100+ to yesterday's forecast and ..Get ready.. More crazy thoughts regarding how things are looking, esp as we start next week, in this mornings' NWS discussion: For those interested ..here, and in ..pretty much every corner of the Western U.S.... Daniel Swain will be live on YT today around 3PM PST offering his expert thoughts / context on what continues to look like a historical heat event on the way.. While seeing -any- highs reaching 100 in March is rare, a 3 -5 day stretch at /above that mark is unheard of. Add to this the multi- day stretch of temps exceeding 90F: A few 2 -4 day stretches doing so scattered thru March isn't all that unusual. The potential that we may see -at least- ..10 90 / 90+ deg. days, in a row, with a reasonable shot of reaching 15 days on the table = unprecedented, should that occur. Record, multi day stretches of 90F temps before May include: 23, set in 1989, 15, set in 1946, ..and ..the most recent, 13* ..set in 2021 * = I'll have to double check since i think we added a couple more days before we got a break that year. ..All of these occurred ...in APRIL. NOT March. On a less sizzling side note, Now that we are quickly closing in on the middle of the month, we are about 13 days from crossing two important ( to me at least ) Solar Noon thresholds for observing one of the most fascinating, warm season Atmospheric optical phenomenon, the Circumhorizontal Arc ( CHzA ), which becomes observable in this part of the country once the sun elevation is above 58deg at noon. Once the sun < at noon > is above 60deg, these can be observed on any day the right type of Cirrus clouds are present in the sky. Fingers crossed this is an excellent year for these, esp. once we reach / proceed through Monsoon Season.

Here's an interesting planting of Livistona decora at the same nursery. The drought is severe here as well - no rain in 2026 yet...

That’s why you build more greenhouses , right? With all the room you have , I think you would run out of time to maintain them . I had one greenhouse that was small compared to yours , 12’ x 12’ with very high ceiling . I spent several hours in there every week. I even had a plastic chair and I would sit in there and look at my mini jungle and enjoy the sauna -like atmosphere. Stuff grew very fast and was needing constant attention. Harry

Sometimes planting in Fall or Autumn is nice . A bit cooler and still time to get settled before cold weather. I didn’t wait for Spring to add soil/ refresh container for Ernie . Yesterday I lifted him out of his pot , not root bound but soil disappearing. I added a few more pebbles to the bottom of the container along with a mix of potting soil and perlite. It seems Ernie likes to “eat” soil, hmmm. Harry🤔

San Felipe, BCN Guerrero Negro, BCS

Sum' more, same area.... 147 Cristobal Colon, 5,037K ft. First time seeing any fruits forming on this kid. 108 Los Arcos. 5,059K ft. Up and coming specimens.. 226 Ribera del Lago, Chantepec. 5,209K ft. ..a bit east of Jocotepec along the shore of Lake Chapala, in Chantepec. Tallest Cocos i've found yet ..all with fruit in various stages of development ( closer up = Screen grabs #2, 3, and 4 ) Groups of Coconut specimens directly across from one another along Rivera del Lago, ( Also in Chantepec ) a bit west of the Ribera del Lago specimens.. Tall and all have fruit on 'em. Can easily see in the last 2 shots, below this group, ..what sure look to me.. like mature ..or very close to fully mature nuts hanging off of it. Address is 75 ( north side of the road ) and 58 ( side of the road that faces Lake Chapala ) elevation is 5,105K ft