I love these pictures and tropical palms. I find them the most challenging as a northerner. Are those all pups underneatht the Basselina? It's amazing to me how those fronds look like juvenile coconit leaves.

I have a huge interest in tropical palms! I jsut cant grow them outdoors! Those palms in your pics are beautiful! Betel Nut palms were always one of my favorites and I love to see the rare palms.
Where in hawaii is this? Im going to guess the big island.
Good luck!
-Alex

Jeff's a great guy, and I've talked to him on the phone a few times about his experiences cultivating Beccariophoenix. He's really got a great garden, and sells stuff so cheap at his nursery it's unbelievable. I highly recommend watching this video tour of his garden

http://palmpedia.net/wiki/index.php/MARCUS_GARDEN_TOUR

those tours are indeed worth watching and many palms I myself had never heard of are shown in detail... amazing photos and incredible stuff... really makes me want to move to Hawaii... no idea how to afford to live there. These are all from the east side of the Big Island, southwest of Hilo in a rocky area prone to flash flooding and potential lava flows. Also an area that sees droughts now and then (bad if rain is your primary source of water and you grow thousand and thousands of palms). But Jeff manages to do it.

Here are a few more photos

Ravenea sambiranensis

Ravenea musicalis, normally growing in water, but drought going on at the time... still, it looks pretty happy

Ravenea albicans, supposedly does well in my climate, but a hard palm to find

Wettinia hirsuta (a very colorful palm)

Sallaca magnifica (looks better when not photographed on a sunny day)

Veilonia alba (now called Cyphophoenix alba... I think)

It looks like paradise to me.I can only dream of living in a place like that.When I think of heaven,that's what I think it looks like,at least to me :)

I LOVE those dwarf catechu's. Top 3 favorite palms. They must love that black volcanic soil as well as the temps in Hawaii.

Thanks for sharing the palm photos. This forum is for all sorts of palms and ideas.

I can really see almost an Asian style in some of the trunks and leaves. Its amazing how many varieties there are.