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Here are some of the more colorful palm trunks in my Northern California garden. Post yours please! Howea forsteriana Rhopostylis baueri Archontophoenix purpurea Chambeyronea macrocarpa Archontophoenix myolensis Chanaerops costaricana Rbopalostylis sapida ‘Chatham Island’ Rhopalostylis baueri Rhopalostylis baueri Chrysalidocarpus decipiens Wodyetia x Veitchia Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti Howea forsteriana Chambeyronia hookeri Euterpe edulis Archotophoenix alexandrae Phoenix roebelenii Caryota urens R. sapida Hedescepe canterburyana Chamaedoea tepejelote Bentickua condapanna Dypsis rosea Chamaedorea species Euteroe edulis ‘Orange Crownshaft’ Chamaedorea elegans C. radicalis Livistona australis

I planted this Rhopalostylis sapida that was collected from seed near Auckland NZ as a small seedling 15 years ago. It's fronds are very upright in growth habit compared to my 4 other Rhopalostylis. This year it flowered and set seeds for the first time.

12 years ago I planted this palm and for some odd reason it bifurcated about 5 years ago

Troy’s Ropalostylis thread got me thinking about the Chatham Island form. The photo of me with the huge one is from back in 2010 or thereabouts. The next one is taken today with my 2nd generation offspring grown from seed at my home. I planted it in 2012 from one gallon pot.

I started this addiction of mine during covid and I'm hooked, still planting away even though I dont have the space so I cut away concrete to make more land. My wife thinks I'm nuts but supports my alot better habit compared to others out there.

Sending good Wishes to have Merry Christmas with a safe & creative New Year, to Palm Lovers to the North, South, East, and to the West of greater Miami and the Redlands. We are preparing to plant 100 Palms at the soon to open "Bailey Botanic Garden" this Holladay Season. "Three generations of Baileys, planting a Bailey Palm on Christmas day 2024, everyone got their hands dirty, even baby Lilly."

Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus showing some colorful fruit.

Chrysalidocarpus Robustus with shoe for scale.

My Chambeyronia’s first inflorescence! It has gotten spathes before but they usually just fall off. Harry

Just adding to pogobob’s thread about this NewCal palm. Looking good after a frond drop exposing another inflorescence. Handsome palm. Tim

A nice foggy day most of the day in my area. Had a lot of rain relatively speaking in November and the temperatures really haven’t dropped too much so far, so everything looks pretty darn happy. Dictyosperma album var rubrum, with the standard form and conjugatum at its base.

Sowed seeds from a spontaneous pollination (ie bench cross) of my Anthurium villenaorum 3-4 years ago, now have 2 mature (blooming for the first time) kids

It's this time of the year again, when my garden becomes full with eery ghosts.

This is an old image of mine, grown from a 1-gallon start.

Here’s a few pics that well end up the cutting room floor, the ones they don’t want you to see. Every grower has them and if you don’t you’re not a real grower. We try our best to grow the best, but Mother Nature has a way of saying try as you must even I have dead plants she says. But it certainly looks a lot better once you get in and clean it up! Iam sure there are some real messed up grow shows out there until we get around to fixing them! Especially when it’s a hobby and you have a life to live and a job on top that with work taking up most of you life, but the bills have to be paid, but one gets tired of making someone else’s the money when working and all you want to do is work for yourself, one day I will retire!

I have a Rhopalostylis sapida that is extremely upright like Troy's plant. It was labeled as "Auckland Form" when I purchased it. It's been a relatively fast grower for me in the SF Bay Area (compared to my other Rhopalostylis). My plant has been in the ground for about 12 years from a 5-gallon pot. It started flowering a few years ago, but it didn't produce any seeds until this year.

Just planted my cryosophila stauracantha. Been growing this one from 1 gal for a few years .

Mine is leaning away from the adjacent heliconia as tho offended.

We also enjoyed a very wonderful, warm and gracious afternoon at the home of Dr. Romeo and Linda Montalvo. Their home and gardens were just sublime. And, more gratitude, incredibly grateful for their hospitality, hors d’oeuvres and open bar. What fun! Thank you Romeo and Linda.

I was incredibly impressed by our visit to the Palm Sanctuary. It was necessary to drive through the “wall” to the southernmost point in Texas, hard on the Rio Grande River. And I was astounded by a true palm forest, in fact the last relic forest of Sabal mexicana.

Hi palm lovers A little update more than a year later. Haven’t been posting since a baby just arrived in the family, but the garden is still growing. Hope you like it. The plus side of tropical weather : it grows fast ! The down side is every hurricane season you pray for not getting everything on the grownd. Joey magnifica : 1/2 leaf a year 😅 slow even in the tropics Areca macrocalyx : fast one ! And starting to show some redish color carpoxylon also a fast one : 2 years old and the fastest of them all : pigaffeta filaris : 6 mouths from seed !!! the latest great success: dictyocarium lamarkianum: 10/10 success germination. Hope they will tolerate the weather here. Maybe too hot. mauritia flexuosa : feets in the water and my 3 years old baby mapu : on the grownd of all they are some geonomas, calyptrocalyx and Chamaedorea growing 🥰

In habitat, the majority you see are upright. Occasionally you see more arching habit with palms growing down in valleys that are hidden from the sun more above the canopy. Here's mine growing, the kereru pigeons love eating the ripe seeds, all gone in a couple days.

I donated that palm MANY years ago. It came from John Bishock as Copernicia sp. so likely it's a hybrid.

Today it was Bismarkia, C nucele, and tall dracaena, then Obi Island, then Metroxylon.

Here’s one planted at Gizella Kopsick Arboratum in St Petersburg FL. Beautiful species. I have a 3gal specimen

Hello ! One of the most original palm to germinate. Maybe my technique was not the best but managed to have 2 beautiful seedlings : lost 3/5 because the tap root was too fast and got through the pot

My first “Weekend Biennial” was amazing. Chuck Malloy, and the Palm Society of South Texas, provided excellent programs that were very interesting. Everyone I had the pleasure of meeting were warm and friendly. I hope to see you all again in Miami, 2029

Dypsis weeping form onilihanses with a few seeds and a new flower!

Tahina X two!!

I planted a Cocothrinax fragrans today; it's not looking good, so I thought I would pop it in the ground and see if it improves. The tag said June 13, and I was wondering why I didn't put the year. Well, duh, I started that plant from seed in June 2013, so it's over 12 years old. I have two other fragrans that I planted a few years ago, from the same batch of seeds, and they have a few feet of trunk, look good, and are seeding regularly. I also did a C. borhidiana x fragrans cross and got lots of seeds, and some have already germinated. For whatever reason, my borhidiana has not self-set seed. One of my goals in doing the cross is to see if the cross has hybrid vigor and grows faster than pure fragrans and pure miraguama, both of which I started from seed recently. I got a few nice palms at the Palm Beach Palm Society holiday party giveaway: Calyptrocalyx holrungii, Calyptrocalyx polyphylus, and Actinokentia divaricata. I'll probably kill them, but for free.99 I'm willing to give them a try.

Today we had time for a walk on the gorgeous beach after a delicious breakfast (included in the package). At 10 am we departed for the Sabal Sanctuary. I was so impressed with the efforts in progress to save these beautiful palms. I am hoping others will post photos of the elegant surroundings, but I was enjoying the speakers and amazing food and happily taking a break from electronics. Afterwards most of us ignored the bit of rain and walked some of the trails. I for one gained new appreciation for this species and will be delighted to try to germinate the gift seeds we were given. I feel so very fortunate to have seen both the Amazon in Peru and the Rio Grande (below) in a few months of IPS travel. We all agreed that the PSST (headed by Director Chuck Malloy) did an absolutely amazing job making the very first weekend Biennial a complete success. Texas hospitality abounded. Thank you!! It was as always hard to say goodbye, but at least those of us heading to Vietnam in early 2026 will see each other again soon. Lastly, I know for some PT users this was your first venture with IPS travel and it was wonderful to meet you! Thanks too for posting here.

Acoelorrhaphe wrightii, (paurotis palm or Everglades palm) in flower at the zoo entrance.

Well, I'm only just getting started with my new garden, but here's a few starters. Chrysalidocarpus Baronii - greenish, yellow with a hint of white trunk, juxtaposed with late fall leaves. Chrysalidocarpus Ambositrae Chrysalidocarpus Decipiens

Yes they are more robust and seem more durable. Here’s another photo of the one in my former home

First dose of artificial insemination on this girl done this morning.

A gift of some seeds from Colin Wilson which are always welcome, a few linearis that popped well and one lone Caryota monostachya. Thanks Colin

Heterospathe Barfodii showing off a new red leaf and trying to compete with the Cyrtostachys

Latania in the rain

First flower on my calyptrocalyx. Some of my palm are becoming adults 🥲

There’s a Cyphophoenix nucele growing at the San Diego Botanical Gardens. I remember it being a very small plant back in 2010. It has grown into quite a large tree in the last 15 years. This photo is from September of 2023. I believe it’s got 15 to 16 ft of cleam trunk, unfortunately you can’t see the bottom of the trunk.

This is what COVID did to me, I went a palm growing frenzy and I built a few things. Problem is now it’s finished Iam still on a palm building frenzy 🤣

Burretiokentia koghiensis opening with a little color today.

I like it well done, it’s an art to what you’re doing and you’re doing it well!

Kerriodoxa elegans new leaf and some lovely colours in the trunk of a Cham hookerii after the leaf has fallen!

Some new ones and some sporadic germinaters and a few slow coach’s catching up. The warm weather has helped things move along and push up some of the slower germinating late comers. And a few new varieties coming up strong. Out of 11 dypsis minuta 11 germinated from home grown seeds, pretty happy with that. Theres always something popping up in the germinating department, but the biggest surprise is the Oraniopsis there still coming up very sporadic seeds! Oraniopsis appendiculata

Gaussia maya is very tender to any kind of freeze. Nevertheless it has been surviving in this spot since 2020.

Brahea dulcis- what a beautiful clumping form!

Very grateful to be leaving with a palm and a book!

An Areca vestaria form and one of the Thrinax parvifolia forms - or at least obtained as such…