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Imagine an attractive palm from the tropics that can take quite a bit of cold, down to 0c, very fast growing, very tough, can handle full sun from very age and tolerate a bit of neglect. I am talking about the gorgeous Carpentaria palm. With such impressive looks and fast growth, my big question is why aren't they a popular garden palm in cool sub tropical areas. They are easily propagated but it took me many years to find one. We have a lot of over looked native palms in Australia. Admittedly some are touchy or very slow growing but these do not go under that category. What does everyone think about Carpies and why don't they have one ? Peachy

Mice are plentiful this year after so much heavy rain so old Radames, my Oriental cat, catches one or two every day. Not bad for a 16 year old. If only he wouldn't bring them inside to show me. Peachy

A beautiful almost white silver colour on the elegans flower at the moment, the ground is covered in tiny star dust looking particles. It’s just a shame it’s 7 metres up in in the sub canopy. The iPhone pic just quit can’t capture what the naked eye can see.

The one I have up the back part of the garden has the dark flowers. Not sure what’s going on with this one! Richard

They are tougher than McArthur palms, I grow a few McArthur in my garden not a B problem, I don’t think they like a lot of chill hours. They do take the cool just not hundreds of hours of it. Richard

You’re a game grower, saying to @peachy I prefer clumping palms, you’re in for it now 🤣🤣🤣

Well you got me on that one my dear possum, I don’t have any of them, and if anyone was going to have them you would think I would have them. I assumed they don’t like the cold and never really have come across any seeds or plants, iam sure there out there just not in my nursery, but I will say question of the week goes to peachy🌱 Richard

Last year I used a framed insulated enclosure. No wrapping, just mini lights and C7's laid out on the ground at the base of the trunk. It worked perfectly. Top down view looking inside the enclosure.

Lovely palm. But just don’t seem to handle a Mediterranean climate. Lord knows I’ve tried. And I’m not aware of anyone in SoCal growing them..

The good old clumping palm that always has the last laugh. Richard

I very much enjoyed the video posted on the IPS Facebook page. Well, at least until it came to the heartbreaking bananas and felled trees. Everyone agrees to protecting rare palms until they get hungry. Sad, but true. Here's hoping the fresh conservation efforts will find support within the Comoros communities. I wouldn't know if they are "for real" or not, but several California gardens have reported growing Ravenea moorei -- this would have been many years in the past. You may have to pay a visit to California and take a few tours.

Bentinkia seedlings thriving under a plastic baggy.

Beccariophoenix Alfredii. Backdrop to a lot of horseplay. This was yesterday, it witnesses a lot

I’ve never seen one for sale in Australia. They may exist in some collections over here, but they’re never for sale. If I ever managed to get seed I’d plant a dozen of them in close proximity for future seed production. That’s the best way to grow any Ravenea in my opinion provided you have space. I’ve done that with Ravenea rivularis and Ravenea glauca var Andiginitra.

I can't believe I got this thing for $5.

Photos of Dypsis scottiana, sourced from Floribunda. Very slender palm, trunk no larger in diameter than a fat crayon. Intrafoliar inflorescence held out to the horizontal or more erect, a very delicate look. I'm not familiar with the affinis v. scottiana (nor the reverse). Whatever you have, it's a nice palm.

Ok, guys which is it , stable to parent or not ? Last Monday I purchased one from Jungle Music, labeled as 'suckering', but the palm has no suckers. The very reliable plant supplier to JM said the seed parent was suckering. Is is possible that the palm is slow to develop suckers ? I grow three plants of the suckering form, and it is one of my favorite palms. Two have a faint red flush to the new frond. I once had one as red as a Chambeyronia, but it died after I looked at it without proper reverence. Here is the bitter evidence !

My Chrysalidocarpus Decipiens. It survived me digging it up and transplanting it when I moved back in April. It did really well! I attribute it to me digging as much of the root ball as I could. I actually broke my shovel in the heavy clay soil, trying to get it out.

After a miserable drought for most of 2025, rain finally returned to East Hawaii in mid October. All my wilted tropical plants are gradually recovering. No matter how much it rains, I'm always thankful for more. Months of cloudless blue skies is a disaster when you live on a small island, or even a Big Island. Always thankful for my monster Metroxylon amicarum planted 12 years ago from a waist high 5 gallon. Fingers crossed the coconut rhinoceros beetle never attacks.

Also here last September. And early this month with a different one.

Send in those pooches to get him my dear possum, fancy a clumping palm lover mentioning that in your post he’s a brave man. 🤣🤣🤣 Richard

So I thought a 12" tall grow bag would last, but this seedling medjool is only 3 months old and rooting out the bottom of the bag. Now what? I need more space!!

I was growing these as a great substitute for Sago palm in Florida landscapes as a design/build contractor. Now that they are finally a beautiful size I am no longer in the design/build job and i would like to find homes for these. A couple have recently coned so they are very mature and about 12 years from seed. My folk have one in Panama City that was subjected to 17 degrees and didn’t defoliate. They do not get Asian cycad scale either. They are perfect if you like the form and ZERO troubles. Great for containers too. I can bring some with me to Winter CFPACS meeting if i get some commitments, otherwise DM for pickup only in SE Hillsborough county. $60 each this month only for members here. Happy Holidays . Sorry I don’t want to ship these but I’m open to delivery at a charge if that is best for you

That’s what I thought!

I would have one but it would easily die in my area. I prefer clumping tropical species because of that.

Very pretty. Mine always have dark flowers. I do have one that puts out a red new leaf however so they must be one of those variable species. I often see Alexanders with very thin dark trunks in gardens too. Peachy

There such a graceful palm, I still believe you could grow one, even in a container in that lovely outdoor setting you have. You will be surprised they are tough even a little dry tolerant and cool tolerant, if your growing Ernie’s and metallica you can grow a kerri! Richard

Scored another two variegated weddlianum seedlings. Germinated from seeds from my garden it’s one palm in amongst 4 that set seeds that has the gene or mutation more likely. Not sure which one but I have an idea to who the mum is. I will be keeping an eye on the 3 I have found and see if it holds true in the variegated department. But for now a few freaks of nature in the collection!

It has been a very mild fall so far and I’m still getting a few flushes. This blue Longifolious I bought as a seedling 2 years ago and now it is blowing up in a 15 gal! It is also the first blue Longi I have owned that was actually blue.

A couple more palms go in the understory, a nice juvenile calciphilla that will look good in a few years time. And now I have worked out how to grow iguanura palms, they are tricky little critters that’s for sure but I worked them out. I had some teething troubles at first with them but got there. So now it’s time to get them in the ground and hopefully no more trouble with them!

What is this palm in Zoo Miami?

I obtained a Ravenea hillebrandii from Floribunda as a 1gal and its grown quickly in Florida. First time I saw this species was last spring at the University of Miami. What a lovely small palm! Most of the plantings at UM are post-Hurricane Andrew and around 30ish years old. If this is uncommon everywhere else I’ll take even more precautions with mine (recently moved into 5gal pot)

Dypsis plumosa flowering away!

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.

A bit of hey look at me on this day with temperatures and humidity that would give cairns a run for it’s money, this double header of a licuala ramsayi feeling right at home in the humidity!

Dark petioles are consistent with the Chambeyronia hookeri that I have too. Jim, perhaps yours is a little darker on its petioles but only s degree of difference. Nice specimen that you have!

Bulbophyllum longissimum

Some red on new leave with Archon. Alexandrae here. Sometimes, even with Cunninghamianas too.

Iguanura wallichiana. Tim

A nice young burretokentia hapala, had the dancing lady orchid to dance with!

Here's a hybrid Phoenix reclinata x roebelenii that I just germinated. Going into a 12" liner for the winter - after that we'll see...

I haven't even looked at the banana seeds in weeks. I've left them sealed up on a mat that's tied to the bedroom grow lights so everything is on and off with a switch, they need heat/cool cycles per the internet. 2 1/2 months after purchase, 40 seeds plus some alleged Sabal Causiarium plus being sent the wrong seeds and being totally unsure that ANYTHING is what the labels said they were - I have an alleged Musa Sikkimensis Red Tiger sprout! I pushed it closer to the lamp and hopefully some of the other 39 and the alleged Causiarium sprout soon. Bought at the end of August. 😑

Good morning from Okinawa... No editing - uploaded as it was taken. Lars

A nice Chambeyronia pyriformis looking good.

After 4 days of a rain . Maybe a break with more on the way. More than just a silver lining. Deep watering for our palms in Southern California . Harry

I wouldn't sweat that forecast. You could just cover with a sheet for the cold evening if you want to. I personally think they won't blink at 28

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Latania

Mine growing on the east side of the Big Island of Hawaii.