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The Ultimate Palm Adventure


Hilo Jason

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Back on May 19 and 20 4 of us got together to go on the ultimate PRA! Here's where we went:

Ralph Velez Garden

Larry Black Garden

(both of those were part of the May 19 PSSC meeting)

Gary Levine Garden

Jubaea Grove - Mission Bay

Jim Wright Garden

Catamaran Hotel

Gregg Hamann Garden

The group consisted of these Palm Talkers: Perito (Perry From Grover Beach), Frito (Luke from Tallahassee, FL), Chris In Murrieta, and myself.

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Up first was Ralph Velez's garden in Orange County, CA. Because there have been a few posts of this garden tour, I will keep these pictures limited (as well as from Larry Blacks)

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Ravenea Moorei behind my wife and Ravenea Hildebrandii to her right

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A great little Chamadorea, not sure of the species

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Pinanga Coronata

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Copernicia Baileyana with a Jubaea behind it

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Large Dypsis Slick Willy on the right of the sidewalk

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A nice Coccothrinax

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Now on to Larry Black's garden. For more pictures of both Ralph and Larry's incredible garden, search the forum for more posts.

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When you walk in the back yard, the first thing you see is this large, seeding Veitchia. I believe it's Arecina

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A perfectly grown Dypsis Lanceolata

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This looked like some sort of Dypsis Hybrid that had decaryi in it, but also other traits.

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Chambeyronia Macrocarpa Trunk

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Dypsis Leptocheillos trunk

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A couple of nice Dypsis Plumosa

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The next morning we woke up and headed south. Our first stop was at Gary Levine's place in Escondido. This was my second time visiting this amazing garden and Gary was a great host!

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Parajubaea, I forgot which one, sorry

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Dypsis Mananjarensis!!! With Perry for scale.

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2 Archontophoenix Purpuraea

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Dypsis Marojejya

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Kentiopsis, sorry I don't remember if this one was Pyriformis or piersoniorum.

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An overall shot of this planter with both Kentiopsis Pyriformis and piersoniorum. Also a massive hybrid which I can let Gary comment on if he sees this. I have another shot of the top of this palm later on. It carried so many upright leaves, it was amazing!

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Dypsis Ambositrae (well, sort of.... Gary mentioned that this probably is not, but is what's going around as that. Regardless, its a beautiful palm!)

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Dypsis, I forget the Sp. Great color on the new spear of this one.

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Dypsis Slick Willy

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Pritchardia

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Another very nice Dypsis that I forgot the name of

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Gary has some of the nicest Hedyscepe's I have ever seen. Here's one of them

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Another Hedyscepe with Chris for scale

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Dypsis Decipiens

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Dypsis Prestoniana

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Dypsis Onilahensis

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Another Dypsis Prestoniana

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Dypsis Carlsmithii

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Dypsis Leptocheillos with a Dypsis Leptocheillos x Decaryi in the background

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Dypsis Leptocheillos x Decaryi Hybrid

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Beccariophoenix Alfredii

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Jubaeopsis Caffra

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Foxy Ladies!!!

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A couple of Beccariophoenix Madagascariensis

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A great look at some of the variety Gary has on his property. I loved this more desert area which also included....

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Ravenea Xerophylla!!

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With Chris for scale!

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Allogoptera

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Another impressive Dypsis Decipiens

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Bismarckia Nobilis with an amazing view in the background

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Parajubaea

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Pseudophoenix Sargentii

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Pseudophoenix Sargentii from a bit further back to show the surrounding area and the view

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The tall palm is Syagrus Pseudococos and under that is a Dypsis Decaryi x Lucubensis I believe, there's another teddy x triangle behind that as well

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Closer up - great looking palm!

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Another Dypsis Ambositrae (sort of...)

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And this is the top half of that massive hybrid that I showed before. I've never really seen anything like it!

Thanks again to Gary for allowing us to start our Palm day at his place and taking time for us. It's a very inspiring garden and my pictures only scratch the surface of the variety that he has there.

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We continued to head south towards San Diego and went to Mission Bay to check out the Jubaea grove.

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A great california look with the red convertible in the background

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The crew, minus myself

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Luke (Frito)

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Chris looking up at one of our favorites which was much more grey than the others

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Closer up at the grey one. This one had 8 sets of leaves, all the way up.

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Mission Bay in the background

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It was a beautiful day, and still early on in our adventure!

Up next... Jim Wrights Garden....

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I have had the pleasure of being at Jim Wright's a couple of times in the past, but this was the first time for the rest of the guys. You can always spot a palm house from blocks away!

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Clinostigma Savoryanum

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This bridge in the backyard was a new addition since my last visit, a great addition to any yard.

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Jim has some towering Rhopalostylis as part of his canopy

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Veitchia Sp.

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Rhopalostylis

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Chambeyronia Hookeri

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Jim has a great collection of Chamaedorea, but unfortunately I'm not very good at IDing them.

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Small chamaedorea fill in the space under the towering jungle canopy

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Coming out of the jungle part of the yard, you enter into the yard of the neighboring house which Jim also owns. Full of flowers, butterflies, hummingbirgs and bees

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Looking down from the previous pic you see this massive Kentiopsis Oliviformis, Howea, Archontophoenix and the rest of the canopy palms

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Jim has great variety and an orchid shade house which is where this was

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The tallest palm in this pic is Euterpe Edulis

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Chamaedorea, sorry I forgot the name

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I went back up on the bridge and got this pic looking down on a Dypsis Utilis type palm with 2 new leaves

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We saw a few Hummingbird nests on the various Chamaedorea. Jim said they seem to like making their nest on the leaves of Chamadorea

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Jim has a great mix of bromeliads and ferns in between the palms

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Back in the front yard

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Wodyetia Bifurcata in the front yard of the neighboring house

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The guys with Jim.

Once again, another inspiring and incredible garden and Jim was very friendly and willing to spend time with us. Thanks Jim! We chatted for a bit on his back patio and tried to take it all in. We then decided to make a quick, un-planned stop at the Catamaran Hotel before our final stop of the day which would be at Gregg Hamann's place in El Cajon.

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We only had about 15 minutes to spend at the Catamaran, so I only got a few pictures. It was very overcast on the coast, so not the best lighting for taking pictures.

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Large royals out front that haven't quite recovered from winter yet, still nice for California though

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Walking through the front lobby, you see palms like this! Verschafeltii??

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Mutant Phoenix Robelini

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Raphia Farinifera w/ Chris. This palm inspired me to plant one of these in my yard last summer. Looking forward to it looking like this one day!

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Acoelorrhaphe wrightii

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There are many types of Hibiscus around the grounds, this is my favorite. these flowers were probably 9-10" across!

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Jubaeopsis Caffra! Wow!

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Our final stop of the day would be Gregg Hamann's in El Cajon. This garden has a special place in my heart as it's the yard that got me into palms about 5+ years ago. A friend of mine is a friend of the Hamann family and got married in their backyard. My wife and I were there and the large Caryota Gigas in the backyard caught our eye and because Gregg has all of his plants labeled, I was able to go home and googe "Caryota Gigas", and the rest is history! It's been a pleasure to go back to this garden twice now that I know much more about palms and landcaping than I did on my original vistit.

Anyways, enough of my story, on to the palms!!!

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You pull up and see this from the street, leading into the 2 acre park-like property of the Hamann's! They had just been toilet papered the night before so we helped them get a lot of the toilet paper out of the palms, but you can still see some remnants. Gregg said this was a fairly common thing for them.

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Walking up the driveway you notice towering Dypsis Madagascariensis

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Ravenea Moorei

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Looking up at this Pritchardia

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Dypsis Affinis

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Gregg was not 100% sure on this one, some sort of Baronii / Onilahensis type

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Dypsis Sp Mayotte

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gastrococos crispa

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He had many Coccothrinax, here's one of them

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Heterospathe glauca with Luke collecting some seeds from some of the other nearby palms

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Looking up at the Dypsis Leptocheillos x Lucubensis trunk. More pictures of the top of this palm to come later

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Gregg has quite a few massive Dypsis. I did not make notes of what they were labeled as, although we discussed how a lot of the names on the labels that they came in as are not really what they probably are, or what people are calling them today.

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Another large Dypsis, I believe this was labeled Nauseosa

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Cyphophoenix Nucele in the foreground, Dypsis Onilahensis behind that

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Hyophorbe Indica

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Dypsis Madagascariensis type

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Another look at that large dypsis from post #28 above

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This is the Caryota Gigas that started it all for me!

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Perry standing next to the trunk of this monster

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Dypsis Carlsmithii!

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Dypsis Orange Crush, Gregg said that the crownshaft of this will stay orange for months when it loses a leaf

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There's a little hint of the orange showing here

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Gregg with the Cyphophoenix Nucele

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Dypsis ?

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Kentiopsis, forget which one (I was on palm overload!!!)

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Dypsis Cabadae

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Copernicia Alba with Coccothrinax and Jubaeopsis Caffra behind it to the left

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A very impressive Sabal with Luke

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Beccariophoenix Madagascariensis, Windows Type (Growing in California!)

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This Dypsis was one of my favorite. He bought it as "Frilly Leaf" or something like that. The leaves were probably 10 - 12 feet long. Hard to capture.

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A closer look at the white

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New Chambyronia leaf next to the Hyophorbe Indica

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Here's a look at the top of that Dypsis Leptocheillos x Lucubensis hybrid

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Closer up

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Further back, with a look at the amazing view

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looking to the left a bit from that last pic

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Beautiful pictures Jason.

I am officially drooling and am now going to fetch the mop and bucket.

The little Chamaedorea tuerckheimii towards the top is one cute little palm :)

Nick C - Living it up in tropical 'Nam....

 

PHZ - 13

 

10°.57'N - 106°.50'E

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Some perfectly grown Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana always make for a great look, regardless of them being common

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And when they reflect in a pool like this, it's quite the sight!

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Paradise!

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Thanks to Gregg for spending so much time with us and giving an amazing tour of his one of a kind masterpiece of a yard! It was the perfect ending to a great weekend!

That finishes up my photos for our palm adventure. Needless to say, we were all pretty mentally fried by the end of this day so we headed back north to Fallbrook, stopped at a good Chinese buffet for dinner and called it a night!

The other guys might have some pictures that they will contribute here. Thanks for looking!

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Awesome tour Jason! Thanks for taking the time to post these. I've been to Jim's place before a long time ago. Those rhopostylis he has are the tallest I've ever seen. Again awesome photo tour! drool.gif

"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Absolute beautifull!!

Im ready with my new mantra here: canopy, canopy, canopy,...

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Fantastic Jason! I can remember the first time I went to each of those places.. GREAT PRA!

Also, THAT palm in the first pic of post #6 is a K. piersoniorum... just starting to show why I love them and their color!

And... :drool: your pic of the Jubeaopsis caffra at the Catamaran may be the best I've ever seen to capture the size and essence of that beauty.. I believe it is well over 70 years old. (not in that same location)

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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