Back behind my garage has a ton of baby palms. I found them when i was clearing back the run away morning glories, black eyed susan vine, and grape vines that make up the jungle back there. I am thinking of digging them up and planting them along my fence line. i think they are queen palms cause there are two or three big palms back there that look like queen palms. There are also some sable babies back there but i think will leave them there as they are making a nice sable canopy for sitting in the shade. There are mounds of fallen and decaying palm fruit around the large palms left undisturbed for likely a decade when my dad stopped maintaining back there.

There are some saw palmettos growing around the oaks here that weren't planted. Nobody knows where they came from, but they're only in that one place on the grounds.

Someone said the one large jelly palm we have here was a volunteer that came up, and the lady in that apartment started taking care of it and protecting it from the yard crews.

Ha! How about all over my yard? We actually have an clump of Sabal palms that came up in the backyard and have been allowed to mature.

Yeah palms pop up everywhere. I'm always yanking them out especially the cabage palm sprouts. Those are so aggressive.

I've got several Washingtonia that Im allowing to stay, tons of butterfly palm seedlings even in pots, always pulling up those and fishtail palm sprouts, both super aggressive. I've got lots of triangle palm sprouts under the mother this year. Bismarck palm sprouts under the mother.

Queen palm has sown itself into the yard. I got a single foxtail palm about 1 1/2' tall that must have came up from seed? Rhapis palm keeps sprouting but I think that's from runners as the sprouts mature way too quickly and they're impossible to pull up. Would love a hedge of those however.

Florida_Joes, you must really love palms! You could sell a lot of those sprouts bare-root on eBay. I had a friend in Punta Gorda once who did that and made pretty good money.

Dirtygardener, I so would do that if I didn't mind all the trouble of shipping lol. But also some of my palms are very invasive I think. Especially the fishtail palms because they just sprout everywhere! Around the mother plant they look just like a ground cover. I haven't seen them invading my neighbors yards but then again they all keep their yards mowed down. Maybe these palms only sprout so much in my yard because Its shady and I use shredded leaves as mulch. They seem to love to sprout in the shredded leaves.

Florida_Joes, I know what you mean about the trouble of shipping. These people who order them usually grow them out for sale. My friend said the most popular one she had was the pygmy palm. She used to gather seeds and grow them out to about 3 leaves, then sell them in bundles of 25.

My nephew, who lives on St. Armands in Sarasota, has Kings and Royals growing on his property. He has potted plants (flowers) on the ground near the Palms. He gets seedlings often and gave me a pot of Kings. I love those Palms.

I planted it between my two Queens. It rooted and took off.

So, now I have a King between two Queens.

Jane

I love King palms. They're oddly not as common here as the Queens. Which I don't understand why because they're really beautiful palms and I think they're self cleaning unlike the Queens.

One palm I would like is the pindo palm for it's supposedly delicious fruit. I'm into edible plants more than any other lately. My smaller cabbage palms have fruit within reach so I'd like to try those this year as I heard they're edible. The crows devour the ones off the taller specimens. Queen palm fruit is supposedly edible too.

My fishtails here were planted by my grandfather after he saw all the damage done by hurricane Andrew in homestead. He said everything was completely leveled in one neighborhood except for a single home surrounded by fishtail palms so he came back and planted fishtails all around the house here.

As a kid we ate the queen palm fruit. Its very sweet and sticky. You nibble it off and it is stringy and you kinda pull the sweet sticky stuff off the strings. Its amazing we didn't poison ourselves as kids cause we grazed on the plants in the yard all the time...ixoria nectar, pickle grass, sugar cane, citrus, cactus, grass stalks, java plum, those pumpkin shaped cherries, wild grapes, elderberry, nasturins ...so much to eat growing in the yard and ditches. Mom did point out the poisonous plants when we took walks so we knew not to bother the lantana, those red berries that made the birds drunk, or those little ladybug looking seeds from vines.

I get tons of volunteers from pygmy date palms on my property. I don't mind them nearly as much as all of the vines and weeds.