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Nineteen years ago I crossed my fat trunking Butia eriospatha with Jubaea chilensis. I have several of this palms growing here. A few were imported into England also. Yesterday I cleaned the trunk of one of this two. It are beasts! How you call the hybrid of a Butia eriospatha x Jubaea?

Two of my Kentiopsis oliviformis are getting ready to bloom for the first time

Everything in the picture was planted by hand circa 2018-2019. New zoysia sod just went in a month ago. Love my little tropical garden! (SW Florida Zone 10b) JD

Damn that thing is beautiful. More than I deserve. Sprouting seeds maybe sell the babies.

A rather fast growing majestic Syagrus with stiff dark green leaves. Ripe fruit is yellow and the size of golf balls. These have got to be in the 30 foot range. (10m) Always loaded with seed. Tim

Not exactly today, but....

Calyptrogyne.

It is that time of year again in the Northern Hemisphere. Mostly a variety with orange flowers here in my garden. They make a nice green ground cover when not in bloom.

Hey all, Got invited up to Beaumont to see fellow palm geeks Randall (inland palms) & Eric (Beaumont tropics), along with Bill (Cardiff palms). Beaumont is about 2,800 feet in elevation (I believe) and we had great weather. Both have wonderful gardens. We started at Randall’s. Yes, there is a house back there. He must have 150 palms and cycads packed in there. First up, the nerds congregate. Followed by a nice, fast growing Nanorropes richiana, and an awesome Phoenix rupicola.

The yard was FULL of Clivia flowers but due to the unprecedented heat in March, I didn’t have much time to snap photos before the flowers began falling off.

Really good looking palm, Tim. Here's another Hawaii entry - my quartet, planted September 2013. Photoed from my third-story balcony.

Next, the best Trachycarpus princeps I’ve ever seen. Interestingly, they won’t grow very well here near the coast. But a slam dunk in the dryer air where he lives. Followed by a canopy view with a Livistona decora poking its head out. As his canopy has expanded, what used to be impossible for him to grow, is no longer out of the question. Case in point, Becarriophoenix alfredii.

It’s also just this side of lethal. The dead leaf that fell would make a wicked conk on the noggin. Conan and waste cart for scale.

I didn't think this would open sky flowers but I was mistaken. It is a pleasant surprise to see them.

He was a busy host.. Notice how he seamlessly folded the mule palm into his deck!

Prestoea acuminata var montana inflorescence would catch anyone's eye. In two weeks it will be pink, then red. The bees are having a party.

The next step in this flush. It clearly has a tilt toward the southwest sky, which is where it gets the fullest sun exposure.

An update, plants already brought there. A picture of the chief gardener next to the donated plants. And the previous happy owner...

A few pics from the far north coast of NSW. Apart from South West Rocks, these could be the most southerly. Covering Brunswick Heads to Yamba.

Had a nice dinner under the Roystonea regia: grilled up some cevapcici, which are caseless Serbo-Croatian lamb and beef sausages with some mushrooms in wine and garlic sauce. And a politically incorrect beverage. .

My bottles don't start flowing until around 8 pm.

Next up is a nice stout Brahea armata, followed by a great Phoenix rupicola & finally Dr. Randall explaining the characteristics of a Cycas hybrid.

Flowering now after taking a few years off

Visited the motherland this week. The smaller fruiting coconut is from a ditch that was collected by a lady in homestead Fl 5 years ago . receives no love from the owner . second the largest coconut that has managed to evade the 2021 Texas palm massacre lol over on port Isabel if anyone wants the exact address message me . across the same street I found a yard with 3-4 young cocos that looked really great the lady who lives there mentioned her husband collected all the cocos that washed ashore and they sprouted! other pics are of various parts of the valley for whatever reason palm talk won’t let me insert individual Info per pick so if yall have questions I’ll answer what I can haha . #Zone10A-BTexas IMG_9409.mov

Last Friday, this Iriartea deltoidea dropped a flower sheath with a loud "thwop!" and shook itself out like a wet mop. A day or two later I finally returned with the camera to capture the glowing flowers. Now on the fourth day, the bees are still buzzing around it. These stately palms are a favorite.* I first saw them in Costa Rica, looking down on the fluffy crowns from hanging bridges, mesmerizing. These individuals were planted in July of 2011. IMG_5346.MOV *(All my palms are favorites.)

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but how about parajubaea in the mist in habitat?

This little beauty Pinanga disticha complete leaf, definitely can’t wait to get this one in the ground!

Jubuteasaurus albertoii

Looking pretty good for a chamaedorea seed harvest this season. Might have to put a few adscendens and metallica seeds up for grabs on palmtalk, stay tuned!

The Wooly Wine Wonder palm?

Ours just bloomed! I had to move it under the Chrysalidiocarpus Decaryi , it started to get sun burned . The courtyard is now getting a lot more after noon sun. Harry I love the blooms of these . We will probably get more at some point.

Progress:

Dave it looks healthy so hopefully the spathe will open normally and you will actually get a flower bract. My largest has produced the flower spathes for years, only to abort them before opening. It is currently holding two, but I have learned not to expect much from them.

My diannanensis decided to throw a double cone!!! 😯. Need to find a female so I can produce pure species on this, as the ones at @edbrown_III house are phenomenal specimens! Multifrondis also coning...looks like more hybrids this year! 😁

You got me on this one Dave by a few years! Remember the older we get the better our palms look!

Dypsis saintlucei in flower, Chambeyronia macrocarpa and hookerii both flowering together, dypsis rosea and a archontophoenix Cunninghamiana with that rare orange leaf for a bit of colour!

Shaved Old Man:

I have lots of new flushes going right now! With the summer like weather we have been having here in So Cal the plants think its like May or June. Here are just a few of the plants I have flushing right now. This Horridus is a very basic leaf form but one of my bluest. Pics were taken after a morning rain shower so looked a little less blue than normal.

Jubea the Hutt? 😜 or Jubea the But (pronounced like the first syllable of Butia)?

This year will be more of a work-in-progress year. A lot of stuff has been removed, a lot of stuff will be added. This year might be the year of the Brahea and Livistona plantings. The success of Brahea edulis here has been a motivator to bring more species from this gorgeous genus in for a try. The bed was condensed to a circular scallop bed to make room for a path in this area. Due to the success of Brahea edulis thus far, the former desert bed is getting an expansion with copious trials of Brahea aculeata, Brahea brandegeei, and a few Brahea 'Icy Blue'. All but one of the plantings was grown from RPS seeds picked up last year at this time. About half of the bed is still empty, but there are more Brahea armata, Brahea dulcis, and Brahea 'Icy Blue' waiting for their turn. There might even be a Nannorrhops ritchiana here at a later date. Start of desod - notice how un-Florida-like the soil is here A few views of the first plantings in this area. More to come.

Things were looking bleak for these Foxtails at Lake Miriam Square. These were newly planted only months before the freeze and were totally brown only a few weeks ago. They're coming back now. Here at the homestead, a Veitchia X Carpentaria that was marked as dead on my spreadsheet may make me a liar. It has a long way to go, but it was totally brown and dead only a few weeks ago. Tropical hardwoods like Delonix regia and Bursera simaruba are coming back.

Dypsis plumosa loaded up with seeds!

Well done my friend, I too have donated plants to the botanical garden of Naples in the past, I also donated the very common chamaedorea radicalis, an easy to find plant, but they didn't have it, I saw lately that they were male and female and they produced seeds.

Nice one Dave! Cats and palms hey. My dear kitty Kat sari is 19 now and she has used up all her nine lives, she’s having trouble walking and all the other ailments that go with age! But shes not letting go just yet! My princess sari!

Glad to see kitty is alright! That’s BIG Chambeyronia!

The palm in the lower two pictures is sending out three inflorescences at once.

Crotons sprouting, foxtail trying to recover, Christmas palms now sprouting green from the center, bottle 2nd spear looks good. Coconut shooting up new growth mostly green but dead fronds all snapped jn the wind storms. Lawn guy cutting them off this weekend. I see no growth on shrubs like clusia.