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Many flowers over the years. First time I’ve seen seeds. Will see if they turn out viable. 20’ish years old from a 20 gallon. Dana Point, CA

An update at the end of July, 2026.

Macrozamia johnsonii I grew from seed is now coning. 1996-2026. These are large plants with 10ft+ leaves.

Hey there everyone. Its been a while. Had a rough NYC winter this year. Lots of snow and cold wet weather. Windmill Palm took a little beating!! But still thriving! 16ft to top of crown, 12ft to top of trunk. Just gave her a prunning. Unfertlized seeds avaliable.. not sure if you can pollinate them? Good luck to all this winter!! Bobby

Time to weed the lava and misc AM light…

Here’s Jayne Mansfield my big Roystonea oleracea. Makes my heart sing to look at that lovely thing. And my big regia in the background.

Yea spelling wrong. To hard to look up on phone. Any way growing nice under shower tree

Chrysalidocarpus saintlucei gets thicker in full sun and thinner trunk in shade here. Full sun specimen front and center in this photo.

This genus is terribly difficult for me to differentiate between them. Even more than young Pritchardia, and that’s saying something. Nonetheless, here are two that were purchased either as argentea or maybe argentata..they’re similar in speed of growth and having silver backed leaves. Here you go!

Lehmannii and whitelockii

Been growing nicely in deep shade since 2020 Just planted The other day. Iʻm 5ʻ10" tall so itʻs doing just fine.

Sabal Yapa Palm & sun making art

The mid north coast of Australia a subtropical paradise. With thousands of hectares of rainforest that covers a fair chunk of it. Before settlement it would have been one very unique piece of land. Now it has been fragmented into isolated areas broken up by farmland. Much of it is either state forests or national parks with a lot of special reserves locked up for conservation purposes.

Not super red today. Has looked better Calyptrocalyx hollrungii This one has looked better.

A vine that was scrambling along the ground.

The peace and quiet and with a lot of areas inaccessible to the family car there’s always a spot where you won’t see anyone at all except for the animals!

I have two satakentias from ken johnsons farm, planted out in early 2019 with 2-3' trunk. I also have a smaller one I grew from a 4" seedling in 2021 that was planted in early 2025 is now 6-7' overall. They are great palms and the trunks are pretty thick. I will quote ken " ythey are emergent palms so they like shade when young but with size they take the sun well. The trunk at the crownshaft is about 8-9" caliper, definitely more than my archies and all my other crownshafted palms except for the royals. They hate frost with a couple upper leaves burning a couple years ago. They do look a lot more colorful in sunlight after shedding a leaf. Here is one of mine, they trunks/crownshafts glow in the distance in sun. No sign of inflorescences yet. closeup of the same palm to see the crownshaft color a week or so after a new leaf was dropped Easily my prettiest crownshafted palm. I checked the trunk measurements, 8 1/2' clear trunk as of today.

M amicarum seems to be building some momentum…

The plumosa are flowering again, and I have finally worked out the boys and girls and where they are in the garden. No flowers opening up yet. But some daily observations will be the order for the day. I will try and hand pollinate them this year. I managed to get 4 seeds pollinated last season only to have the rats get them, right on harvest there clever little sods. In the 25 years they have been in the garden only twice I have had good seed set naturally where Mother Nature lined it all up. A nice landscaping palm that’s tolerant of a lot of hard conditions.

Went to just do a quick heat check and figured I'd check a couple other things while I was in the grow room. The heat index in there is 127°F right now, and I've left the heat mats plugged in but they're not cycling on - they're set at 85 and the thermostat says the soil is 97. Anyway. Y'all think these are ready to come out of the baggie?

It’s amazing the difference a little mulch makes on the garden. A nice winter blanket, weed control, moisture retaining, you feed the soil and it looks good. So a little mulch does go a long way, now all I have to do is spread that mulch around, a couple of wheel barrow loads should do the trick!

Someone here would like to see how and, here you are satisfied, I didn't breed it and it was born on its own, on the 2nd leaf I saw that it was different from a normal radicalis

Yes me too!! I would need to dig again those pictures from my old hard drive! Here are some of them: Such a wonderful and colorful palmtree 🌴😀 JB

Ceratozamia sancheziae

Thanks for looking

Ever so subtle.

Brahea clara on the right, grown from seed. About 5 years old.

You may already know this , they stay green even when ready to sow. It looks like you will be sowing seeds soon . Harry

Nice.... Hoping one of mine lives to seed and my daughter can bump this thread in 30 years.

here is one i grew from seed. vulcano ... seed from portugal. awesome you grow platyceriums too! i just started but grow the rarer forms indoors. i started a platycerium discussion on the other tropical plants thread. you have perfect climate to grow so much. i love pasadena but alas couldnt afford it when it was time to purchase a house. lived there when i went to art center. cheers tin

Here are some photos of flushing zamias in the garden, Zamia neurophyllidia A couple of Zamia splendens colorful one leaf flushes, A Zamia flushing bronze, And finally a Zamia inermis flushing after a thorough haircut.

Asterogyne martiana, seen in the Botanical Garden of Basilea, Switzerland

With very unique plants that have adapted to cope with all sorts of climatic conditions, and relying on the animals for that symbiotic relationship to survive for a lot of species and visa versa with a lot of animals dependent on that ecosystem for survival.

Hi everyone! I’m a newer palm grower in Southern California, and I’ve recently fallen in love with Chamaerops humilis. One of my favorite things about the species is how variable it can be. I recently found a beautiful var. cerifera with small, star-like fronds, as well as a wispy form with a completely different look. It’s been a lot of fun searching for unusual specimens. I’d love to see what everyone else is growing! If you have an interesting Chamaerops—silver, weeping, long-petioled, compact, or anything else—please share some photos. I’m always on the lookout for unique forms.

Life has been busy and I haven’t had much time to be on PalmTalk or work on new plantings in the garden. It’s just mowing and weed wacking like crazy over here. But I did just find some time and inspiration to get a few new plantings in the ground so I wanted to document them here. I’ll post some updated pictures of the garden as well, after the new plantings. First up is Chrysalidocarpus Mijoroana: Next up is somewhat of a mystery. My old garden had a Chrysalidocarpus Pembanus hybrid (most likely crossed with Madagascariensis). I tried many times to get seed to sprout and only ever got 2 to germinate. So this is an F2 Chrysalidocarpus Pembanus hybrid, most likely crossed again with something in my old garden: And then I was able to plant some smaller Dypsis in the jungle area. Dypsis Beentjei: Dypsis Maranoseta:

Here are a few cycas currently flushing around the garden. Cycas maconochiei Cycas siamensis. I grew this from seed I got about 20 years ago. A Cycas siamensis “dwarf” in the foreground that was flushing and got smashed by a Bismarkia palm frond from a storm that passed through a few night ago. In the background is another Cycas siamensis flushing. Cycas revoluta was pretty common around here until a few years ago. Scale has killed off most of them but I’ve been able to keep this one in check. It seems to like my soil prep area.

The first Chamaedorea radicalis in Italy were made by a friend of mine with the seeds of Inge Hoffman who managed the seed bank, she collected them in Dick Douglas' garden

That’s a beautiful palm. Here’s a nice black petiole baronii.

My memory was a little off, it was 0.4C by 10:15pm, 0 by midnight, pretty close. That frost bottomed out at "only" -2.3C though. My R.Baueri were very small them, coming through that with zero damage I realised they probably were going to be viable. Gas heater is a step too far for me, would not bother to grow anything that needed that drastic level of action. It would have to be something really one off like thinking was facing a 1 in 50 or 100 year freeze to go that length. The problem with being up a zone would be, could not help trying to grow the next level of sensitive palms, and so if/when a one in 5 -10 year freeze came , would be in the same position My ridiculous contraption against the odds survived the day and needed minimal adjustment for tonight. I was wondering if the "sail" would take off and be over the road somewhere by time got home from work. Those poles are 3.6m long, the palm is over 3m tall now.

Looks like some sort of infection in the crown that has now completely pushed out. Growth should be normal from this point forward.

VThe garden is holding up to the usual winter weather not a problem 2 degrees celcius this morning, and iam sure the low lying areas in the valley most certainly would have seen a very white ice blanket on the ground possibly even a minus degree reading somewhere.

Last but not least I bought 3 more Encephalartos “Trappes Valley” Latifrons last year and 2 of them are flushing right now. Here is one of them.

Encephalartos Cleopatra x True blue Arenarius flushing for the 3rd time since spring! That hybrid vigor us a thing! I have also noticed each leaf it throws is getting bluer.

Not sure you can identify the drooping leaves at this age and with all the wind/dry damage. If leaves are prematurely drying out(it is AZ) and falling, small roystonea like that often do not have those below horizontal leaves. Nice fat bulge at the bottom says it does not lack for water. As I remember royals in the desert carry fewer leaves as you might expect and those leaves would be the lowest ones that you are looking for hanging down. CSN, "We palm talkers have all been here before"

A little slice of Australia here in Florida: L to R: Archontophoenix unknown (I think tuckeri) Amorphophallus paeoniifolius Archontophoenix unknown (supposed to be maxima) Sphaeropteris cooperi Archontophoenix cunninghamia (not as robust as the others) Archontophoenix alexandrae

Not entirely true your conclusion. Length of petioles may depend also on genetics. For example the cultivar vulcano has short petioles regardless the water it receives. This here is a specimen in my garden I callit wannabe vulcano. Seed originates from vulcano, but the offspring has longer petioles than in an ideal vulcano and therefore crown spreads more horizontally than remaining upright. Otherwise it is a very appealing dwarf specimen, which receives perhaps the least water quantity here, when it does not rain.

Here’s enough breakfast blueberry’s to last a lifetime and more. 100 acres should keep you going with a bit of all bran breakfast cereal!

After over a year of waiting, some Butia lallemantii is showing activity!

Spring is only another 5weeks away, now is the danger time for any of the new plantings, so far so good with only one palm taking a bit of burn.