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Stepped out back and kinda let out a yell. It’s about 30 fee 10 m tall.

The good old glauca a stand out palm in any collection. I have five in my garden and all are beautiful palms. Super tough dry tolerant cool tolerant palms sun or shade it doesn’t matter the beauties. These ones are about 24 years old grown from purchased seedlings from rosebud farm. What’s not to love about them!

Photo from Saturday of my largest Chambeyronia pyriformis putting out a new leaf. This is growing in mostly shade in my jungle section where there is barely any soil on the lava rock. I planted 3 in January 2019; one died last year and the other is only about half the size of this one.

One palm that’s in the collectors books the Pinanga coronata. There is a var kuhlii that’s probably even better than the original coronata. A neat medium sized clumping palm, doesn’t really get messy dry tolerant cool tolerant, will drink whatever water it can get. A good landscaping palm that’s predictable in growth. An all round winner in the palm department!

Obi Island, C elegans and mates then Obi Island leaves, then B madagascariensis

Just starting a thread for us to show off how our palms have grown over the years! I’m sharing my own photos, grown in partial sun, narrow space, no fertilizer, and just 1km from the sea here in tropical Singapore. Drop your own Before vs Now shots too! Whether your palms exploded with growth or took their sweet time, we’d love to see how different species perform. Bonus points for rare or quirky ones! 😎 Pic 1: Dec 2020 – Bismarckia nobilis, Areca catechu, and Johannesteijsmannia altifrons. Pic 2: Jul 2025 – Same lineup, 5 years later. Pic 3: The Areca got so tall it no longer fits in one shot with Joey! Here’s another angle. Pic 4: Dec 2020 – The Licuala orbicularis pair. The left one was already a decent size, the right one a bit behind. Pic 5: Jul 2025 – Both have grown into handsome plants with nearly perfect round leaves. Worth the wait! Pic 6: (Bonus) Dec 2020 – Trees planted by the government behind my garden, fresh in the ground. Pic 7: Jul 2025 – Trees grow like champs! Nice to have a government that values a green neighborhood. 🌳

A few new summer plantings that just went in the ground this week. Now that I actually have some canopy and protection, I decided to get a couple of Joey palms in the garden: Joey Magnicia on the left and Altifrons on the right. Altifrons planted (above) with my loyal companion Suubi in the background. Magnifica planted below: Then for some sun plantings, up first is a Pritchardia Martii in my Hawaii / Pacific Islands planter: overgrown 1 gallon plant above, planted out below. The last new planting for now is a Lemurophoenix that I’ve had in a pot for years. These seem to hate being in pots (at least for me) so I’m hoping it gets happier in the ground. Sadly this spot only opened up in my Madagascar planter because I recently lost a trunking Chrysalidocarpus Infanadiannae. Some sort of fungus took it out. Hopefully this Lemurophoenix thrives in this corner spot.

Slow to germinate and slow to grow princeps. Imported seeds from china a few of years ago. Just sit back and wait on these little beauties. So far there easy to grow I definitely know they are cold tolerant that’s for sure. But at least I have them growing for now.

The good old kentia palm. As beeen discussed about there use in commercial landscaping and home gardens. Here’s a few around in the city centre of Coffs Harbour used for commercial landscaping purposes, and the last picture is a home in sunny Sawtell by the beach with a bellmooreana and a fosteriana being used in home garden. I see so many of them in my are and I can only imagine the ones iam not seeing. A beautiful palm that’s a very predictable easy growing palm, we all love them in palm land!

Looking down on the best( in my opinion) palm garden on the big island. Not to many people have seen it but if u have u are lucky

I grow lots of plants (by the way I’m a teen still living in my parents house) I love fruits, palms, yuccas, agaves and many more plants it’s maybe been two years since I’ve gotten into growing stuff. My first tree was a cocoa tree and I still have it from seed 3 almost four years old! It is taller than me and looking awesome hopefully flowering soon. Well I grow indoors outdoors (zone 7b) and in my greenhouse. I’ve had many indoor palms for about a year but I’ve just started on my hardy palms collection thanks to this forum! So far I have two windmill palms, three jelly palms, one Mediterranean fan palm and one sabal minor. And yes I’m protecting every one of those except the minor. My palms I’m growing indoors are açaí, flamethrower palms, Chinese fan palms, sabal palmettos, queen palms, Christmas palms and a royal palm. Most grown from seed and are still small.I don’t listen to what people say I can’t grow indoors or in pots I just try and see if it works. And so far my sabals and my royal palm are doing great indoors. I’ve got some other palms too but those are some. Thank you for reading and I hope your palms survive this winter! Here are some pictures. IMG_3828.mov

2025 update.

The first flower on the inflorescence opened today. The inflorescence has continued going both upright and the branches have extended. If each of those fingers on the hand like appendages will produce a flower, this will be in bloom still for a long time to enjoy.

When you’re obsessed with palms, short on space, and totally ignore the ‘space them out’ rule… Fast forward a few years, and boom!

Chrysalidocarpus Hovomantsina showing off

Here’s some photos I snapped today. These and hundreds more were found in “logtown” near Pearlington, Mississippi. first pic is an enormous one. Has over 2 feet of trunk and its width and appearance reminds me of a mature butia. there was also some growing straight out of the swamp.

Nice! I put the three I got from Floribunda directly in the ground last year in full shade and they really took off now showing lots of trunk rings from none last year. Definitely a palm species in the “cute” category.

I planted one of Pats ButiaxJubaea X Syagrus palms about 12 years ago at my sons house . It is aka the Jackass palm --- I visited my sons house on Sun day and was amazed by the growth and it was throwing an inflorescence----

This lot are taking winter well, they are acclimated to the cool so nothing to worry about as far as palm seedlings go in winter. The Butia was the only one out of ten RPS seeds so lucky to get that one and it’s rare. And the other two were a purchase from a Sydney grower as tiny seedlings. A nice repot in spring and they will be underway for the garden the following season. Except for the Butia it’s a bit slow so far.

Ugh. There's nothing in Meridian MS of interest. Some Chamerops and some Roebellini for like $84 in 5g size. A really pretty bromeliad though.

A batch of imported nationsiana seeds has given a near 90 percent strike rate, super healthy seeds. If you import seeds and get a strike rate like that one can’t complain about that. A few will go into private gardens and some botanical gardens in the state of NSW. And the rest will be planted in my garden!

This weekend I discovered that my Brahea dulcis blue form began suckering! I wasn't expecting it to sucker because I grew it from seed collected from a solitary blue palm! According to @kinzyjr's cold hardiness spreadsheet these are hardy to warm parts of zone 8b (defoliating but surviving 10°-15°F).

What can you say about the tough old engleri nothing except there super tough die hard palm. Great for screening that neighbour out. Perfect for cold climates, dry tolerant pretty well much sun proof not full blazing sun but tough enough to take the sun and the heat that goes with it. There dotted throughout my garden creating a microclimate as they grow. Great easy to grow palms!

here’s a bonus photo of a cluster of them I took in winter time a few years ago.

Not the rarest of palms but this grouping of Livistona australis have been in the ground for 10 years from 15L bags and the tallest is flowering for the first time. I can see 4 more spathes coming out but there may be more. I’ve got quite a few planted around the place and can’t wait to grow more from my own seed and maybe get a few volunteers around the place. These are pretty tough but you still have to plant them above the high tide mark on my swampy land. They still don’t like being inundated for weeks when small. Maybe when they trunk it’s much less of an issue. I’ve lost a few to drowning but apart from that - bulletproof.

@gyuseppe and @TyroneThose are very nice . I really like the look of these palms . Not that common here but they grow like weeds in our temperate climate. Mine is still quite young but growing relatively fast , much faster than L. Chinensis. The combination of the deeply divided and costapalmate frond give it a unique look . I stuck mine on a south facing slope in full sun , no problem at all. It wasn’t that healthy when I got it , but it recovered immediately once planted. Harry

At it again in the seed department. With some exquisite tropicals varieties for my little cultivation brain to work on. And a nice batch of locally sourced seeds for a bit of fun. While they may not look like much now hopefully they certainly will in a few years time if my little cultivation brain has its way.

Hey All, Here is mine in Beaumont, CA. Probably 7'-8' tall to the leaf tips. Has taken off the last few years, a good grower for me. Can't find the planting date but was probably a 2-3 gal. from KW around 2019.

Pushing three spears, mid winter Tasmania...microclimate very foggy in winter, clay soil. Happy as!

Two rare Cerotazamia the Toman, you won’t find these ones in the chain stores that’s for sure. Purchased as a group of five from eBay, a super good buy. Planted in between a row of three satakentia that have been planted a month ago. Iam sure they will all look good in the years to come as an entrance to the greenhouses!

Don’t forget about @Harry’s Palms!

There’s heaps growing in coastal southern wa towns. In fact they do better in Albany than Perth. Even inland in towns like Pemberton, the old karri forest timber areas, Kentias do very well. Now when it comes to belmoreana their scarcity is simply a supply issue. I went to the nursery on LHI and asked them if I could source some belmoreana from them and they don’t even grow them. They are only interested in forsteriana mainly for the indoor plant trade. The lady their said that belmoreana don’t really grow well on the mainland, which is not true. I ended up getting 1000 seed from RPS. Ironic that it’s easier to get an Australian palm from overseas. Im planting heaps of belmoreana around the property here. A beautiful palm.

It flowered last year for the first time and then that created 2 main trunks from 1 main trunk , and now those 2 trunks have 2 flower spikes emerging . It should be pretty showy soon . Will

Haven’t murdered it yet.

So, I posted a while back “Summer Recovery” and got a couple responses that made me think I’ve been living a lie…😂 First the Brazoria. There was a question about its authenticity based on the height of the seed stalks. Oddly enough, I had no idea that seed stalk height that exceeds frond height is an indication that the palm is not a Brazoria. My face sagged and my heart fell and I’ve been watching those seed stalks like a prison guard ever since. So far, seeds are forming and stalk height is almost exactly frond height. I’ll send pics later. Then I got a post regarding my accidental Butia and I’ll bore you with the details because it’s quite a story that I’ve told before but in my zone, we’re very limited so palms and stories tend to repeat themselves…and age plays a part, too. Anyway, it was early summer and I thought I would try sprouting some seeds so I ordered some Brazoria seeds. My germination method of choice was to use moist sphagnum moss as the medium in a plastic bag. Things seemed normal for a few days then suddenly I had a bag full of hairy mold. So I took all the seeds out to dry on my garden bench outside. I no sooner turned my back and all 12 seeds were gone. The thief was a squirrel no doubt as I have at least a dozen of the chronically obese critters in my microclimate, backyard zone. I feed them, along with the birds. It’s my own fault. Anyway, I thought that was it for the experiment and I moved on. Well, spring rolled around and about mid spring I noticed a 6” thin strap leaf growing right off my ground level deck. I was shocked. That seed wintered, unprotected in ground in an area that gets no sun in the winter. Anyway, I dug it up and transplanted it to a sunnier spot in my microclimate backyard. And here’s where my heart not only sank…it imploded. There was an observation from my post that it probably is a Sabal of some sort. Don’t get me wrong, I love Sabals but in terms of what I have to talk about, they dominate and they’re palmate. This Butia was going to be my only pinnate, protected, of course, until it was too big to protect. Thus becoming another sad Palm Talk casualty but at least something new to talk about! So, it’s a wait and see. I still have hope as there were zero Sabal seeds here unless someone sold me a bag of Sabal seeds but I was real “Palm Talk” studious to make sure the seeds I ordered looked like Butia Odorata seeds, and they did., I’ll give it to fall to see if my beloved accidental Butia is a Sabal… Have a great rest of your summer growing season. I’ll be posting pics by fall to vindicate my palms! 😂

Why not a few garden pics on a special day for all!

If someone doesn’t come over to dig it out and take it home, then someone's an eejit!

Well I’m happy to have leaves on about half ,and a few more just breaking soil loose. I planted the seeds below top about an inch. I’m really surprised how stiff/thick the leaf feels. The ones ground planted in sandy soil haven’t shown anything yet but they were the least developed of the 20.

It’s pushing 3 flowers now and yesterday one opened in the winter sun.

Howea forsteriana - already planted, the second gift from otto ... of course he knew that i had another one in the house. now there are two, one inside and the other outside ... you'll be fine and i'll help you grow it at a later date, was the message sabine gave me from otto this morning. he had just planted it yesterday. he also told sabine the whole story about lord howe island where it is found. i think i underestimated him the so called trachycarpus grower in every way 🤔

you're away from home for a day, then you get a surprising message, you've received a present from your friend otto ... or two ... what can I say to that ... thank you very much

They are slow growing but very forgiving to adverse climate conditions . The last few years we have been getting heat waves that will sometimes burn the Howea that is planted right next to a very thick Arenga Engleri , both in sun . The Arenga shows no sign of leaf burn at all . It has been fruiting for the last few years and I have been pushing seeds around the garden so maybe some seedlings in my future. @Rubberboots It may be worth a try but with shade in your area . I got mine in 1993 as a large potted specimen that was hanging out in an orchard under some Avacado trees. I planted it in 1998 here and it had no shade at that time . It never flinched ….just got bigger to form a nice privacy screen . It is just recently starting getting shade from a couple of Kentia that I planted next to it . Harry ‘the yellow or older fronds are left on the palm as the fruiting stems start to die off. The new stems constantly growing for replacement.( much like Caryota Mitis). The Kentia are starting to trunk and now gaining height. This will be a benefit to the Arenga . Last seasons fruit , more on the way ! Harry

What I find strange is that Kentia palms are sold everywhere. I see them in commercial buildings in big pots or sometimes in someone's house but I can count on one hand them amount of times I have seen one planted in a private garden. It is the same as Chamaedoreas, people think they are pot plants only and never think of planting any. Peachy

Can I ask why you need to Dave? From the photo I see only clear sky above it. If it were mine I’d do anything in my power to avoid removal but I know it’s not always that simple.

Pinanga pilosa. Wonderful palm at 1500m

Why not plant palms if you have them and I seem to have a few. Today just the easy growers are dictyosperma album conjugatum, lanonia dasyantha and a kerriodoxa along with a chamaedorea elatior, some top tropical palms well worth growing for that exotic look throughout the garden. There cool tolerant acclimated so winter won’t bother them, they will most likely enjoy getting in the ground now!

That’s a big Arenga , Dave . It’s gorgeous. Harry

Playng where’s Waldo, Brassiophoenix drymophloeoides among friends.

Always nice H rheophytica.