topher...its Hyophorbe lagenicaulis the bottle palm. I got these off ebay last year from a person in FL, $5 each I think. I hope they will keep their red trunk. Kinda adds a nice color to it. The spindle has a purple shaft and the other looks like it will be green. I read they have a red form of the indica also.

When cagary said, "growing a Bottle palm (Hyophorbe lagenicaulis) outdoors", I said yes!. I grow everything outdoors, but I bring them inside the greenhouse in the winter. :-) Technically I grow everything outdoors, my greenhouse is outside also. :-) I do have some small Hyophorbe lagenicaulis. I cant wait until the get about 4 foot high. That will be a great day!

I do make seed available from time to time, however, unfortunately, our bottle palms are not in flower at the moment. I took the pic below 6 months ago at our local park when they were. Alternatively, you could try the rare palm seeds website. They generally offer good quality seed. This post was edited by PalmnutVN on Fri, Oct 24, 14 at 0:11

X, nice fuse of tropical and desert! I am creating a similar type garden here in central Cal, but knowing you have to haul your plants in and out every year makes yours more amazing. I am mixing many tropicals with desert plants, such as majesty palms and queen palms with aloe ferox and aloe vera. There's a specific area that's about 12' by 12' against a south-facing wall and a west-facing wall that i am packing full of tropicals and desert/succulents. I have Aloe Marlothii, Dypsis Decaryi, Aloe Arborescens and Phoenix Roebellinni as anchors. Then, filling in the rest of the area are a great many different types of clumping/creeping/climbing aloes, crassulas, some dwarf bananas, agaves (attenuata, desmettiana variegata, scabra x regineae and some unknown variegated ones), pachypodiums, cymbidium orchids and bird of paradise. On the walls, i have stephanotis floribunda, passiflora edulis and antiganon leptopus. After seeing your pics i might incorporate some of those giant alocasias/colocasias. Your yard looks like the "look" i am working to achieve. I won't post pics of my attempt because yours puts mine to shame lol (i only have before pics because i just started this season). Please keep us posted about the development of your yard.