Lush Life 2

[realarch]

Hey fellow Palmtalkers, after the bump of LL1, it was hard to believe that was two years ago. The garden is powering on and

is almost exactly five years old since planting the first palm. Still getting new palms in the ground regularly, but I'm at the point of having to take stuff out to make room.

Mostly concentrating on ankle biters nowadays.

Here we go! This is the front garden and the Madagascar section is behind the rock border except for the Marojejya and D. robusta.

Mauritia flexuosa is the palm in the center of the turf.

[realarch]

The first pic is looking from the the top of the slope. Mostly lava and I was lucky to find puka's to plant in. #2 is the Marojejya in full blazing sun, and the last is Carpoxylon.

All of these palms were planted from 5 gallon or less, I can't dig a hole larger than a 5 gal., mostly solid rock.

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Dypsis saintelucei, Dictyosperma album, and Dypsis robusta. Finally got name tags for most everything.

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Beccoariophoenix 'windows', Bentinckia nicobarica with B. condapanna, and some broms.

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Euterpe precatoria, hands down the fastest palm in the garden, Dypsis prestoniana (?) with my left foot.

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Calyptrogyne plumeriana, (Calyptronoma), with a Cryosophila warscewiczii to the right, spinless Bactris, and the Socratea exhorrizum. I really dig South American stuff.

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A group of Drymophloeus subdistichus, Wettina hirsuita, and three Dypsis sambiranensis (or whatever they are now.) That's a two gallon pail for scale.

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Clinostigma samoense, a beautiful monster of a palm, Dypsis paludosa and faneva, and a path between the Clinos.

[realarch]

I forgot to mention that in the last post we've moved to the back garden.

Some garden art, moving that thing was a real ball buster. New Cal. tree fern to the right. Chambeyronia macrocarpa and a pair of Loxococcus rupicola.

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Veitchia arecina, common, but a real beauty. On the way to the Clinos. with a Pinanga coronata to the left. The last one is Arenga hookeriana, it likes this spot.

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A path between Areca macrocaylx on the left and Prestoea montana on the right. On the far right is a two year old Pigafetta looking for lunch.

The second shot is of an A. purpurea, a Verschaffeltia and Heterospathe on the right. The third pic is heading back to the broms with what I think is

some sort of Cyrtostachys in the foreground.

The big finish is an Areca macrocalyx, I swear it isn't photoshopped. That thing really looks like that. It's ugly stepsister is in the first photo.

Tim

[Kennybenjamin]

Wow, great looking palms!!! Very healthy... Your doing a fantastic job there!!!

[Pedro 65]

Tim.....Glorious Gardens.......Perfect Palms.......Cool Commentary............Pristine Pics.... ..........Pete.......

[Cindy Adair]

Words escape me.... I guess that means I'm speechless!

[cobra2326]

Amazing garden! Its definitely one of my favorites. You've done a great job placing things, choosing accents, landscaping, etc. Lots of growth too!

[palmislandRandy]

It's obvious your making your palms are very happy. Great job Tim.

[Jeff Searle]

Tim,

Very beautiful. And I agree, I love many of the central and south American palm species. There should be more of them planted when can.

[redant]

It's like HI is sprinkled with magic palm dust, everything looks perfect, not an unhappy palm anywhere, stunning.

[Peter]

Looks great Tim!

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Looks amazing, doesn't seem like the recent Kona winds and volcano smog bothered any of you palms.

[George Sparkman]

Fantastic garden Tim !!!

[Bill Austin]

Tim I really like the way you displayed your new garden art were did you find that ? Oh ! not a bad looking garden either.

[CLINODAVE]

Dang, just beyond gorgeous!

[doranakandawatta]

TIM,

You don't need to go to Gardens by the Bay to see a nice palm garden! You're happy at home!

Thank you for showing us such beautiful species and a lovey landscaping!

Regards

Philippe

[ariscott]

what about the back garden?? you know... my favourite part of your garden with all those anthurium :)

[Small palm]

Really nice garden. I like your Euterpe precatoria

[NApalm]

POP POP!!!

[realarch]

A big Mahalo everyone, I appreciate the positive comments. Honestly, Palmtalk has had a lot to do with the selection of species and the design. It's much nicer in person, so stop on by if you're in town.

Ari, the back garden started in post #8.

Jeff, you know if I had to do it over again, the garden would be strictly South American.

Tim

[Cedric]

Amazing garden! Its definitely one of my favorites. You've done a great job placing things, choosing accents, landscaping, etc. Lots of growth too!

Exactly what i was thinking, its so nice to see the trees for the wood despite quite a dense planting. That Arenga hookeriana is stunningly nicely groomed and such a nice green.

South American palms are terrific, every time I see your avatar I start getting hot flushes!

[Daryl]

One word - Outstanding!

[Walter John]

Great commentary Tim, the palms are coming along nicely indeed. No they're not, they're coming on stupendously. You might consider incorporating the ankle biters in your photography for perspective

[newcal]

Truly inspiring Tim and plenty of hard work as well by the look of it.Well done ,keep up the good work, now go and have a nice cold one...i think you've earned it. ....Cheers Mike Green(Newcal)

[ariscott]

A big Mahalo everyone, I appreciate the positive comments. Honestly, Palmtalk has had a lot to do with the selection of species and the design. It's much nicer in person, so stop on by if you're in town.

Ari, the back garden started in post #8.

Jeff, you know if I had to do it over again, the garden would be strictly South American.

Tim

Sorry, didn't read it properly obviously!! Very nice

[JakeK]

Two Thumbs Up! Nice looking garden and good inspiration for me.

[Dr. George]

Hey Tim - Over working on the farm and just getting caught up on a couple of days of PT posts. Great design, great progress. Gonna be in your neighborhood tomorrow, but I think the to do list is going to preclude a visit once again. You are still on the agenda and it will happen one of these days. Best - gmp

[dan.vagnoni]

So many happy palms. I don't even know where to begin other than beautiful. Both selection and placement

[colin Peters]

Tim awesome, that red macrocalyx is especially stunning.

aloha

[dan.vagnoni]

Tim awesome, that red macrocalyx is especially stunning.

aloha

Yeah it is. Mines almost that size but no where near that color. Stunning

[Hilo Jason]

Just came across this thread, it's amazing how much has changed in 5 years in your garden.  And you had so much sunshine coming through back then!  Epic garden Tim, then and now and it's a privilege to live around the corner from you. 

 

[realarch]

Awww shucks Jason, thanks for the kind words. Having a neighbor sharing a genuine interest in this passion and talking palm, is such a special circumstance. That 3 minute drive to your place is quite grueling though.

I'd forgotten about this thread, quite the blast from the past. It is amazing how much things have grown and changed. If I can muster the energy, there might be an update.

 

Tim