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Here are 2 Allagoptera arenaria planted in the corner of the house. I finally got them to produce seed which are just starting to germinate. P sargentii also producing a bit of seeds. Serenoa repens which replaced another one that got too big and out of control. C proctorii Pinanga javana. This one is too exposed to the sea breeze but is hanging in there. Carpoxylon macrospermum. This one has grown well in this climate.

Seems like PalmTalk has been a bit slow lately and since I don’t post that much I figured now is probably a good time to post more. So here are a few photos of some palms in my garden. We just came out of the rainy season so most look pretty good at this time. First up is C lanceolata and S yapa to the right. A group of H lagenicaulis Another group but of H verschaffeltii This Pritchardia beccariana got planted last year and replaced a coco palm that got hit by lightning. You can still see the cut off truck of the lightning victim.

Its been a while since I've posted anything, and figured I'd step it up and document the life of a copernicia fallaensis in my front yard. Here's when I first got it. It was all alone and looking for a forever home. Grown by Josh Allen at his Vista nursery, it was ready to move out and make a life of its own. Hitchhiked it's way to my house in Fresno back in May. Life's been good to it so far. A good, deep, sandy loam (some 80% sand), a warm climate (many days above 100F) and plenty of water. Some cool, though spiky, neighbors as well. No tantrums yet, though we've been enveloped in a thick fog for the better part of 2 weeks. Seems to not mind the chill.

A few more photos of my palms. The first is Coccothrinax crinita sp. brevicinis Dictyosperma album Ravenea hildebrandii in the middle of a few Encephalartos Here’s an unknown Dypsis with a Wodyetia and A alexandrae in the back ground Arenga hookeriana clump. It’s hard to keep these looking good here. A clump of Hydriastele rostrata (?) The moon raising over C. decaryi. I just noticed the new fronds look bad. Not sure what’s going on but hopefully it recovers. I’ve already lost 2 of these. Moquitos are coming out. I’ll continue posting a few more photos in the morning.

I have some nice, blue Sabal uresana available for shipping within the US. They are in liners and busting out of the bottom. I have 10 available - some have multiple plants in them and you could separate them if you wish, but i would prefer to ship these potted to avoid bare-rooting at this time of year. $20 each for these + shipping from Fresno. Cheers! 🤙🏽

Moving on to some Licualas. Most I’ve lost the names to but this one is L spinosa. Unknown Licuala. I just noticed it has some ripe seeds I need to plant. Another unknown Licuala This one is seriously overcrowded by a Heleconia. Unknown Licuala This one probably gets too much sun. That’s it for now. I’ll see if I can post a few more palm photos this afternoon. Thanks for looking!

I agree completely with Bill's observation about the 'Hedyscepe complex'. They are erratic, even within the same seed lot. I have a slender trunked one that makes excellent, strong seedlings and a thick trunked one with poor seedlings. They are not like Howea or Chamaedorea, where all the seedlings are quite regular. A strong Hedyscepe seedling will have a fully pinnate eophyll with 3 or 4 leaflets on each side of the rachis. Also, they dislike pot culture beyond the 1 or 5 gallon size, this is one reason, (besides the basic slow growth), that large plants are so expensive.

Been quite a while since I checked in! All good here on the Space Coast, Brevard County FL USA! Here is a scene looking north from the west side of our home in the 32951.

Alive and kicking Usually check in daily Don't always post And yes,no Facebook, Twitter etc. Good people losing their minds on that over nothing, saying things they wouldn't say in person, being prodded into confrontations or fanaticism from a bot Nope

Itaya amicorum, I really like this one but it probably needs to be in a more protected area. A big clump of Walichia siamensis Caryota zebrina. This one deserves more then one photo. C crinita with C leptocheilos

A lovely time of the day on dusk, the colours are always different!

Two beautiful dypsis saintlucei caught my eye today.

Just looking at this thread again, was looking at mine this morning and thought I’d post an update. Tim

There is a couple of super tall ones in Ventura at one of the Sullivans apartments . Harry I've posted this before but worth a second look!

A beautiful little palm perfect for the understory the triphylla. A real gem of a palm, definitely the miniature look for a palm that fits into any spot that’s beside a path or an entrance way. As we would say in Australia an absolute bonza of a palm!

Thought I’d post a couple of recent photos of this Australian palm that’s been in the ground for 14 years. It’s been a steady grow here in East Hawaii and is robust in stature. Might be a few years yet before it starts trunking. Check out the shove for scale. Richard posted photos of his sprouts a few weeks ago, the transition is slow, but well worth it. Tim

Josue, am I first in line ? Select your two fattest ones for me, PM to follow !

Great plants..endless shapes and colours for any plant enthusiast...few of mine..dont know all names..recently got agave salomonii and guadajalarana...

If I am zone pushing I only buy in summer or if it is irresistible and from a local grower I risk it. !4 years ago, I had a holiday (3 days) the first and last since 1997 as I can't go away and leave baby plants, little dogs, neurotic cats and eternally fecund parrots. For a group of people who really love palms we seem to murder far more of them than the average person ever dreams of. Peachy

Most of the palms I can get now are ebay or mail order so I have a big shadehouse packed with tiny seedlings that are so slow growing and very labour intensive. This year we had a freak winter hail storm that blew tiny hail under the roof then an extreme heat wave instead of spring and 50% of my small stuff died. I would buy both of those gorgeous palms if available in a plantable size. My garden is only 4 years old and miniscule so space is at a premium so I go for things now to make it look like a garden.

You might have been hearing the mating call, the owls siren song, may I ask did it lure you! I never let my cat out at night that’s the way it is no nocturnal cats for me. One because there killing machines and two the powerful would easily catch a cat for dinner not a problem.

I just planted two of these here in Rancho Mirage (Palm Springs area)...they had been sitting at a posh local nursery for about a year, presumably grown in Florida, only one of the original three had been purchased, all in 35gal containers and carrying a very high price-tag (and that doesn't usually seem to put off the Palm Springs designers, but I think many customers might have thought they were just some overpriced Bismarckia). I documented these palms in another thread last December...in any event, we needed a couple of specimen palms street-side in front of our house and we made the decision to plunk down the money as this is such a spectacular species and the likelihood of encountering it again here at this size is very slim indeed. The justification also being that I'm 63 at present, so need that 15 or so years of extra growth so I can feel like I planted them when I was 48...even though I'm quite the poorer for enjoying that illusion. They are doing just fine, and I am old enough and palm-experienced enough now to have gobs of patience during the establishment phase, so I don't expect to see much noticeable movement for a couple of years on these. I'm assuming they will endure the occasional temps around the freezing point here without issue since we don't experience frost here in general due to the low dewpoints. Of course Fresno is not going to be so kind in the latter regard, so you may find that to be a problem, although the leaves are largely vertically held, which would minimize any frost accumulation, I would think. In any event, keep all of us posted as this one I think has a future (if a slow-growing one) in California. You won't know until you try it...and keep in mind that there was a day when most of us assumed the exotic Bismarckia nobilis was a tender tropical that belonged only in Florida or Hawai'i.

When I posted my C. Decaryi a while ago , I was told they struggle and usually fail in the humid Hawaii climate. It is arid here most of the year and mine are 25 years old or so , doing well. Nice , nonetheless. Some very nice palms in your collection. They all look very nice , hopefully the Triangle will pull through. Harry

Hybrid Jubaea x Butia F2 seeds compared to Jubaea Chilensis seeds. Right away the hybrid has a darker seed appearance than both Butia odorata and the Jubaea seeds. They look a lot like Butia Witeckii seeds except rounder in shape! But about the same size aa Witeckii seeds otherwise. They are a little smaller than the Jubaea seeds. Hopefully they will sprout and survive the wet cold. I currently have two Jubaea seedlings that survived brief 25F so far. Pindos do very well here with rarely any damage.

A Dorset Canary… 🇬🇧 A fat old trunk on that specimen…

I'm still here but not as much. Mainly post on the Cold hardy Forum.

Thanks Harry. The lanceolata is clumping although it only clumped at an early age. Here is a photo of the base.

Super nice garden and palms. Is the Lanceolata a clump or separate individual stems? I understand that sometimes they clump. Harry

This varieagated Agave Attenuata is turning into one of my favorites! I love the striation in the leaves and no 2 are the same. It is even starting to get a slight hint of blue in the center. The pic I posted earlier was an old one. This is from today.

More user friendly Variegated Agave Attenuata. No spines on this one👍

Unless you're @happypalms Richard seems to have every seed known to man, and some unknown! Will have the best palm nursery in the country in a few years.

One of the best from Aus. Seems under appreciated in general, I suspect because of the slow growth and the fact they did if they slightly dry out. Certainly cold hardy though, no issues well below zero and extended cool winters. I also suspect there would be more interest in them if they were called Ceroxylon, which they may be in the future.

Beautiful Tim.. Wish I could grow them here; I've certainly tried. But they want warm. Yours looks awesome.

Wow incredible palm. From a tiny little white sprout to one of the most gorgeous looking palms out there in the plant kingdom

@Foggy Paul, yours looks OK, keep up the good work !

Looks great Tim, how old would that be...in actual years, not in HEY (Hawaiin Equivalent Years)!

This has been a fun palm to watch grow. I planted it in 2012 as a solid dark green 1 gallon. Slowly it became more and more silver on the bottom of the leaves and then started to turn silver on the tops. Now I have to climb on the roof to shoot a pic of the tops of the leaves and they are solid silver only loosing some their color as the leaf ages. Sorry for the Bigfoot quality photo on the first shot.

I'm very happy about that, and so is Sabine, because of Sancho. We love dogs too. That's great news. Thank you very much for the helpful tips and comments. Sabine was already upset that what should have happened didn't happen, but there's nothing more you can do than select it online and fill it out...

It’s pretty perfect weather here for me. There are some hot weeks in summer and some cold weeks in winter but the rest of the year is usually perfect. I don’t even mind the heat either. It’s not constant, usually just under 35° although I do wish they did a bit more for shade in public places.

Bump because these are really tempting

I realized I forgot to make a post about an agave I got from lowe’s about 2 weeks ago. Found Agave isthmensis kissho kan for 20$ and couldn’t resist a cool rareish agave. I have been quite active in the agave family lately, having bought 2 yuccas recently. But when palms no longer fit anywhere I have to look for cool compact alternatives. Here’s what it looks like. @Merlyn I credit you for getting me started with this addiction 😂😂

I have seen those ones and kris has a lot of palms. and by far I would say they are in my opinion the most prized and best palms in his collection, he may disagree but they are in a perfect setting and anyone who see them will agree!

Beautiful collection great to see, and you know what you can make as many posts as you like, let’s see more of this lovely garden with a million dollar view!

I looked into them as well you have to buy baits and gas cylinders from wherever (most likely the company that makes them) so for now I will continue my method of catch and release. And I don’t want to kill any native rodents we do have native mice and when trapped I can release them, but the death machine it won’t tell the difference between pest and native animals it will go on a killing rampage. Richard Oh the mopoke owl such a lovely call at night.

Peachy, it is never too late to put something in the ground and enjoy it while it's small. Best to do that rather than fuss and fret and put it off forever when it could have been growing up the whole time you had your knickers in a twist over it. It might surprise you and grow quickly just because of your all-encompassing love of it! I grew P. sargentii in the Florida Keys (granted, it's native there) and it wasn't all that slow. Once it has one ring of trunk you get all the whiz-bang effect of that trunk against the powdery crownshaft, and it isn't really that far away until you get to enjoy that treat. I have one here that I bought as a 1gal, put it in a 3gal pot and a year or so ago threw it into a crowded, shady area within reach of the sprinklers and sort of forgot about it. Today I hacked my way back to it and it suddenly has a frond pushing five feet tall! (That's what shade will do for you sometimes.) Now I assume it has rooted into the ground there and so I have to make a worrisome decision on what to do with it. But really they aren't as slow as everyone in the cooler zones may experience, as long as you get some stretches of good hot days about 30C or so, with warm nights...I think you have those conditions in greater Brisbane, am I right?

Those are really nice specimens! I agree, that is a total steal...I paid about $200 for a much inferior-looking mail-order plant from a Florida vendor recently and was quite disappointed. These, however, are quite beautiful and $60 is beyond inexpensive IMHO. This is an amazing species in terms of cold-tolerance, and quite beautiful, to boot. I used to grow it in Natchez, Mississippi (chilly zone 9a) and even the long 2010 winter (3 days below freezing, lows of 18F), and a later jab to 13F in 2018, didn't defoliate it. However, it was very slow-growing there. It is also an excellent cycad out here in the low desert of California, where it remains one of the few that can be grown pretty much in full sun with beautiful appearance and with low care needs.

A couple of Agave up here on the east coast of Vancouver Island, BC Canada. Agave parryi Agave palmeri

It's a tie between Rhapidophyllum and Sabal minor for me. Both of mine stay green in most winters here in northeastern Middle Tennessee and survived the December 2022 and January 2024 winters in unfavorable microclimates without protection nor any close calls (my dwarf palmetto only lost half of its green leaves each time and needle palm only had mild leaf spotting in January 2024). I feel emboldened to grow Sabal brazoriensis too but haven't done it yet, so I'm not 100% sure how they'll do - but if they do as well as @Allen's experience suggests, having healthy tree-sized palms outdoors like the ones in Dallas and Virginia Beach will be a dream come true!

I've never ordered from them or built a cold frame, but I also learned the hard way not to order plants in winter. I broke my cardinal rule last year and an unexpected polar vortex swept down and shut down everything. My plants sat in a FedEx trailer in Memphis for 5 days. At least those were from Lowe's so I could return them. I broke my rule again last week but these were dragon fruit cuttings and thanks to the wonderful tracking of USPS, I had no idea where they were. Tracking showed them bouncing between San Bernardino and MoVal over and over and then they showed up at my house. Anyway I can't speak on anything else, just wanted to tell you you're not the only one.

I miss these from my former San Clemente days