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welcome to the adventures of pohonkelapa in bali! this year i journeyed with 2 friends,lauren reate & minh tran nguyen(who is called sun--pronounced "soon").both are college students in the san diego area.the trip lasted from may 31st to june 12th & was the 1st overseas holiday for both girls.i have visited bali every year for the past 6 years,so some of the pix may be similiar to those from previous visits.there is alot to see in bali besides the obvious tropical plants,so please enjoy! (note:some pix were taken by the girls) laurens mom,tracy & i. lauren. sun.
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join mattyb & paul(pohonkelapa) on their latest adventure as they discover the vast richness of southern florida,from verdant farmlands to the miami beach strip,from palm collectors dream-nurseries to spectacular private gardens! matt gets snarly before intra-continental flights. while paul is contemplative. or just not awake yet. just to prove we were in atlanta.there we met an airport employee who "out-jeebused" matt. he was appropriately chastened.
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Dick Douglas garden 1 2 3 4
by iwan- 149 replies
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Last weekend I had the opportunity to tour Dick's garden. This is the most mature private palm garden that I have toured (outside of the tropics) and is an excellent example of a California zone 9 hardy garden. In spite of our brutal freeze in January and another freeze last December with lows down to the low 20's, very few of Dicks palms show any damage or even signs of stress. A lot of the palms have been in the garden 30-40+ years. The layout reminds me of a small scale version of the Huntington Botanical Garden with grass (Dick said they were irregated weeds) pathways leading you through islands of palms. --------------------- You will know Dick as PalmGu…
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first of all i'd like to thank dean for opening his home & sharing the beauty of the big island.dean is a blast to hang out with.laid back,great sense of humor,has cool palms,& loves good food!i felt like we had already been friends for a long time on the 1st day.this was truly a trip i'll never forget for SO many reasons.
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join us as we return to indonesia in june of 2011,this time determined to see some new sights! the 1st leg of the trip is from los angeles to taipei. actual ticket stubs from the actual trip,actually. here we are somewhere over the pacific... but still in the plane. you know what i mean. after the meds wore off i woke up enough to notice that we are nearing japan. looks like we are right over osaka,"food capitol" of japan!
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Wilson Botanical Garden 1 2 3 4
by Jeff in St Pete- 1 follower
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The Costa Rica Palm Society held a meeting at Wilson Botanical Garden this past weekend. The garden is located near the town of San Vito up in the mountains near the border with Panama at about 1,100 meters (3,609 ft). The OTS (Organization for Tropical Studies) aquired Wilson Botanical Garden in 1973 as part of Las Cruces Biological Station. The Wilson's began planting the garden in 1962 and remained on the property until they passed away in the mid and late 1980's. This is an amazing place with a vast collection of mature palms and other tropical plants from around the world. I immediately fell in love with this garden and can't wait to go back again. Some p…
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one day i was talking to jeff in CR on palm talk & said how much i'd like to see costa rica & he said: "you & jes are welcome to come stay with me" so much to his surprise i said "OK" & the rest is as follows... we departed from LAX,the flight was a true "red-eye" & left at 1:30 am. the coast of socal just after take-off. thanks to the wonders of modern pharmacology i dont remember anything between when the previous pic was taken & this one the next morning. we sat next to "rasta man"(whose hat you see next to jes). he ate a bucket of chicken in the first 20 minutes of the flight.
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Just thought I'd get started with this thread. There will be lots of palms and a lot of other plants too. Just a teaser - the back of the gift shop
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yes,ANOTHER trip to bali for enjula & i.we go every year so i apologize if some of the places we visited are familiar to you but we did see some exciting new things! LAX.
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Just for starters Will post more pictures later or tomorrow.
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Pious and Curious go to Hawaii 1 2 3 4
by www.dadluvsu.com- 1 follower
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Two weeks on The Big Island! Stayed at Jerry and Cindy Anderson's place and it was out of this world! Couldn't ask for better hosts. Forgot the camera when we crashed PALM MOD's pad. Bummer. Got to meet Bo for more than a layover in Atlanta and his wife for the first time. Tempted fate at Pele's front door. Cleaned off with a Filthy Farmgirl. Got my foot stuck in a lavatree and am still here to tell the story. Found my future home. Dodged Da Hui's aerial onslaught. Ate too much Katsu Loco Moco. Enjoyd da kine Ono Double Deckers with Luquin. Saw daylight color shows and Gil from Nemo in the same breath. Met too many stinky dogs, didn't step in it. Saw thr…
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Local plant show 2009 1 2 3 4
by Gbarce- 127 replies
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THere is a local plant show this coming weekend. Its being held by the Horticultural society so its all types of plants. I was in the area so I deided to pass by. THere is usually a display with booths of the different plant clubs to showcase their stuff but they were still setting up so I couldn't go in that area just to see what was going on. Some of the commercial booths were already set up though-- and sometimes they put on a display to rival the formal exhibits. Couldn't really buy anything yet though but there were a few interesting plants I already spotted that I had to come back for. Here are some shots I was able to take. More to come when/if I get…
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Cairns and district trip - photos galore 1 2 3 4
by Walter John- 1 follower
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Hi sports fans, ah...palm fans...ah fan palms ? , um........ anyway, I took nearly 500 pics over 4 days from our (Donna and I) wedding anniversary trip to Cairns which we returned from this afternoon to a swamped Brisbane town. I'll just set up a few teasers for now and approach this thread more over the next couple of days. I was very happy to meet Mikey (calyptrocalyx&licuala freck) in person for the first time, Mikey is a self confessed Calyptrocalyx nutter and there's nothing he'd like better than to see wall to wall Calyptrocalyx junked up next to each other. Thanks Mikey for a fab time. Okay, here's just a couple for tonight. Day one, a drive up to Port D…
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Hai friends This tour,of that lovely lalbagh gardens was covered when i was in banglore last year for my wedding function.and though i had a very hectic schedule,since the function was to commence from that day evening...and my parents & relatives all frouned at me hearing that iam gon'a take my camera,my little brother & my cab driver to that garden which is situated in the heart of the city ! Beleive me even their,while i was taking stills i was getting reminder calls as to i must came back quickly ...Since all here know preety well that i forget what time iam in,when iam one with nature ! And a gentle reminder that visitors,must have a broadband connec…
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Hello,, I left the cold of the capital to go west. beautiful trip on horrible roads. This first pic is taken only 220 km from Antananarivo, but the temperature is 12°C higher, here it is summer, and there, winter. The river is called Tsiribihina, and goes through the tsingy of Bemarah where I will take you. Hope you enjoy the drive.
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Went on a Mini Palm Excursion.... 1 2 3
by FRITO- 113 replies
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took a few hours today to do some drive-by palm hunting in parts of town that are off my beaten path. I focused in the FSU campus surrounding areas only, there is much more to be covered in further explorations.... Started off near the Magnetic Research Lab At FSU... found a cool metal sculpture large Needle Palm near a vistor center of some sort Up close at NEEDLES
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Virginia Beach Palm Trees! (2016)
by PalmTreeDude- 1 follower
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Here are some palm trees from Virginia Beach, VA.
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Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens 1 2 3
by RainForestt Robert- 92 replies
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I spent a week in Florida in July. Vacation in Florida in July? The heat and humidity was nothing compared to what I experienced in Washington, DC years ago and I do live in the Caribbean. This was a family vacation, wife and kids in tow. Most of our time was spent shopping, a fact which Jeff Searle found incredible. No PRAs? Well, we did check out the palms at the Miami Zoo and had a quick look at the Searle Brothers Nursery before fire and brimestone, no thunder, lightning and torrential rain fell from the heavens. So a couple of days before it was time to leave Jeff offered to give up his Sunday rest and relaxation for a trip to Fairchild's Tropical Botanic Gard…
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this nursery is a part of an incredible ongoing project that combines the farm and nursery with a hunting outfitter, eco tours, and soon to be botanical garden. these shots are in mexico so rember the prices are in pesos not dollars.
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MEXICANA : my little garden on the french Riviera 1 2
by leyucca- 3 followers
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Here are some pics of my garden :
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Dear Friends let me take you all on a tour to the crockodile bank which is around 30/Kms from Chennai City. And this place stocks venemous snakes from all parts of india,and turtles from all around india and crocks from around the world. i actually visited a temple situated near-by since i had to drive the vehicle which had my younger brother & his wife.since they wanted to see temples around chennai. this crocodile bank is just 3/Kms from this temple since i had a camera along i thought you all would enjoy seeing those lovely reptiles grown in captivity ! and this place receives repticles as gifts from around the world.and its also u.n & federal govt assi…
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Leu Gardens Orlando Thanksgiving
by Cocoa Beach Jason- 33 replies
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So my son and I decided to take a stroll through Leu Gardens today for a couple hours while in Orlando. I am not a photographer and I merely snapped some photographs with my cell phone. My 4 year old son Liam for scale. I'll just get right to it: Cyphosperma balansae
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Madagascar Madness 1 2 3 4
by Kim- 158 replies
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Zo. Where to begin? This leg of my Africa Adventure was an afterthought. That may shock you, but it's true. All my energy and planning had gone into my Mt. Kilimanjaro hike, but when it came to make the flight arrangements, that little island to the right of Africa kept begging for my attention. "It's just a little over that way," I'd tell Steve, Mr. Non-Palm-Centric-Husband. "If we've already traveled halfway around the world, how can we NOT go there? It's a unique ecosystem, nothing else like it in the world." Indeed. Nothing Else Like It In The World... So a few thousand dollars later, it's on the itinerary. Do not be deceived; it is not simple to fly t…
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Steph and I just got back from another working vacation at our place on the big island of Hawaii and while I did plant some palms and stuff a lot of our focus was carving trails and taking out invasive plants in the back half of our acre. I was able to hack out a nice trail to the back of our property and clear out some other areas for planting. Bo again hooked me up with some VERY NICE plants and here is the list of the palms and others I was able to plant when I was'nt swinging the machete. Dypsis Decipiens 5 gal. Dypsis Oropedionis 5 gal. Dypsis Rivularis "pink crown" 1 gal. Dypsis Onilahensis 1 gal. Dypsis "clumping mystery" 1 gal. Marojejya Darianii 5 gal. 2- …
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''GARDENS BY THE BAY'' SINGAPORE
by Pedro 65- 1 follower
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Last week after 2 weeks in Phuket Thailand for rest, relaxation and recovery we headed to Singapore for 4 days. 2 of the 4 days I spent at the recently opened "Gardens By The Bay", I enjoyed this remarkable, stunning creation so much more than I anticipated, I will for sure travel back in a few years to marvel at the growth of all the newly planted palms and to stare and enjoy the well over ONE MILLION Bromeliads that are everywhere. There are around 10 massive Tree like steel structures that have Bromeliads attached all over them. Two of these structures are connected by a Sky Walk to each other, I would guess these walkways are easy 40 meters high, its an "Awesome" …
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