Welcome Robo-looks like a good start. 😀

Welcome aboard! Lots of palms for your warm climate!

Edit- You should try to grow Phoenix and Bismarckia!

Welcome aboard Caesar 😆 😆

Glad you`re into germinating palms...a great hobby.
Even dates from the store can be started...presto Phoenix dactylifera of your own.
And, one day, dates (if you`re really really really young) 😥

I`ve got some Christmas palm seedlings too...a little too dry here but they should like your summer with your area`s higher humidity.

Look forward to seeing when and where you plant them.

Barb

PS--I`d give my teeth for an 8b!

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!

Paul - Bismarckia looks very intriguing. I think I'd need some winter protection for it, but it would be awesome to be one of the few people in Seattle with something with such striking blue fans! Back in June, I actually did get some dates from the grocery store, which germinated very quickly. I don't have any leaves yet though.

Seattle may have mild winters, but there isn't much of a summer. Most of the year, the highs are in the 40s, 50s, or 60s with significant cloud cover, so that's probably the reason more types of palms aren't grown out here very often.

Barb - I hope to see some leaves soon from my germinated dates. I'll post some pics when that happens! Maybe I will see some dates someday! (I'm a recent college graduate and I live with my parents at the moment :D)

I'm on the Oregon coast this Summer and so am also looking at palms for mild winters (zone 9 here) but little summer heat.
Chamaerops humilis -- European Fan Palm -- should be on your list, too.

Bizzie should NOT be on your list. Hates the chill. I have a potted one in Tulsa that loves the heat: >100 F / 38 C is great for it.

My home is in Oklahoma, zone 7, but HOT. Sabal minor is the best there, of course.

I too have started Christmas Palms from seeds. They die young for me but I'll try again. My favorite to start from seed are, of course, Sabal minor. 😀

Erik- BOOOO!

Perhaps a Brahea then? Or A particularly silver form of Butia? Isn't there also a silver Jubea???

For blue, he will want the blue med. fan palm.
Never heard of a silver Jubaea. That would be very cool.

It's not common at all:

http://www.tropicalvibe.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/843/cat/500/ppuser/1

Very cool 8)
Big trunked Jubaea of any sort are out of my budget, alas, but thanks for sharing.

Chilean Wine Palms have been grown around here, but they can sometimes attract unwanted attention, unfortunately:

http://montlaker.com/2012/05/04/arboretum-seeks-information-on-chilean-tree-vandalism/

I'll definitely have to try a European Fan Palm at some point, and perhaps some sort of Butia! That's pretty neat that there are bluish varieties of both.

Excerpt from robocaesar's link:

Vandals have destroyed part of the Arboretum’s new Gateway to Chile project, causing $43,000 worth of damage. Someone used a machete or axe to take down two monkey puzzle trees, three Gunnera tinctoria, and 19 large fronds from three Chilean wine palms.

How awful!

And wouldn't we all love to have caught the vandals in the act. 😈

Drumroll....ta da! My BLUE form Chilean Wine palm seedling.

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I'll be 212 years old when it's in a 5 gallon pot. 🙄

Barb

Welcome aboard!

Wow! I look forward to seeing the progress on that Jubaea Chilensis seedling! That must have taken some patience to wait for that to germinate!

some patience to wait for that to germinate!

Yup...stared at it so long it germinated 😆
4 months.

Its siblings will probably take another 12 months.
Barb