Yard photos today from a sunny day in Pahoa

[Justin]

This is more or less in order, following the lots around the perimeter from the SW corner to the SE corner to the NE corner (well, not really, since I can't get to the NE corner as of yet) to the NW corner, and then back. About 85% of these are from the main lot, and 15% from the new lot that I've been clearing. It should be pretty self-evident what's the new lot and what is not.

http://justinandcrystal.com/Maile20131101/

Let me know if you have any questions about anything - I'd be happy to provide whatever I can.

[LilikoiLee]

Justin,

Wonderful garden tour. We've got a lot of questions but because of the rain we spent much of the day on PT. It's getting late and we're a bit bleary eyed so we will hold our questions until tomorrow. Are you coming to the HIPS lecture on the 15th?

Lee

[realarch]

Boy Justin, your garden is really getting it's groove on. Pretty gratifying isn't it? Was down Kehena way earlier today, one of these times I'll have to stop by.

Lee, PRA at Justin's?

Tim

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Nice update Justin

For me it seems unusual to see a sunny day in the Big Island Photo's !

[Cindy Adair]

Very nice inside and out! I recognize some of the non-palms (and even some of the palms) but would love any names you can share. Thanks!

[Justin]

Very nice inside and out! I recognize some of the non-palms (and even some of the palms) but would love any names you can share. Thanks!

I was worried someone might ask me to do that.

I'm pretty sure I know 80+ percent of these, but someone correct me if you think I botched one of these IDs.

Three Pinanga caesia "red" looking a little ragged from what was apparently a fairly dry fall:

Metroxylon americum with Heliconia longissima behind it:

Hedge of Pinanga coronata and Carpoxylon macrospermum:

Banyan tree with all sorts of little friends living in the shade underneath (Iriartea, Kerriodoxa, Joey, Pelagadoxa, plus Mangosteen tree and trash can for uh, scale):

Actually, the trash can is there because I was putting it over the palms as I was cutting back the Banyan tree last week. I cut probably 1/3 of the branches down to get the branches far off the ground and not reaching so far out. I want it growing more up than out. Obviously, I'll have to be diligent about it. I may have to root prune sometime soon, that may help.

[Justin]

One of the 10-20% I don't know for sure, maybe an Iriartea??:

Pelagadoxa in the near foreground, with giant Rainbow gum (Euacalyptus deglupta) in the distance:

Dictyocaryum (left) and Areca macrocalyx (right):

Kerriodoxas and Indonesian Wax Ginger (Tapeinochilos):

[Justin]

Either Dypsis tokoravina or hovamantsina (I have both, planted the same day, and confuse them because the names sound similar), with a low branch of Cassia "rainbow shower" in the upper right:

Lots of stuff, including one of the big Dypsis (I think Jurassic park, but maybe not) in the bottom left, coconut in the middle left, Marojejya in the grass, one of the orange crownshafted palms (I think a Euterpe, but not positive) sticking up right above the Marojejya, clump of 5 Chambeyronias about 2/3 to the right, Mauritellia in the grass on right, frond of Wodyetia in near foreground on far right:

Another shot of the Banyan, looking North to South (the prior view was West to East):

Triple Beccariophoenix and a fan palm that was here when I moved in (don't know the name, so if you do, please speak up):

[Justin]

Syagrus amara and Bentinckia condopanna:

Dypsis ampasindavae, Dypsis lastelliana and Cyrtostachys renda in the foreground:

Rainbow gums:

Licuala ramsayii and Licuala grandis, in the shade of the Rainbow gums:

Dypsis prestoniana and saintelucei in the back corner of the original lot, the new (uncleared) lot is in the background:

[Justin]

One of the stilt root palms, not sure which one (maybe Wettinia??):

Brachychiton acerifolius, with Licuala grandis and Christmas palm, plus another fan palm that I don't know the name of:

Socratea, which put out a nice new thick stilt root since July:

Dypsis carlsmithii in foreground, and in the background left a Cyphophoenix (or Cyphosperma?) and in background middle another Beccariophoenix:

Delonix regia (foreground) and Samanea saman (background right), with Dypsis carlsmithii frond in bottom right:

[Justin]

Chambeyronia clump and double Syagrus pseudococos:

Cannonball tree just to right of path I cut into the new lot:

Cleared area for a giant clumping bamboo, Dendrocalamus asper "Hitam." This is about 50-60 feet from the area with the Chambeyronia and Syagrus pseudococos, and was chock-full of Uluhe ferns:

A second entry to that same path to the bamboo clearing area, with a Thunbergia mysorensis growing on the Ohia on the left:

[Justin]

Neoveitchia storckii, with "Red Velvet" heliconia in upper back right:

Some giant-leaved aroid that I got from Jerry Anderson, which I mounted well up in a tree:

Madagascar foxtail:

Carpoxylon:

Can't remember the name on this one, a little help, please:

[Justin]

Mealy-bug Dypsis (I just planted in July, I wish it would put out a couple more fronds and put my mind at ease):

Etlinger elatior:

Row of Clinostigma, with Areca vestiara (both red and orange) growing under the Podocarpus, (hopefully) soon to replace the Podocarpus as a privacy hedge:

Ficus dammaropsis, which seems to be doing quite well:

Path that I cut behind and to the right of the dammaropsis onto the new lot (actually, the dammaropsis is on the new lot as well, but just barely):

Philodendron giganteum, which hopefully will take (I just got a cutting with a couple roots attached):

[Justin]

Strangler fig that I (mostly) cut off of an Ohia:

Area that I cleared for the world's largest clumping bamboo, Dendrocalamus giganteus. This is near the far lot line, very far from the house

Relatively steep hill leading up towards house lot line:

View looking back from the top of that hill:

Giant hole/fissure that I thankfully did not fall in, right near the spot the above photo was taken from. I can't tell how wide it is or how deep it is, because I can't see the full width or the full depth. I would guess the depth is at least 8-10 feet, however:

And, to wrap up, Caryota zebrina:

The link in post #1 has all the photos, and the photos there are larger than the 800 pixel width I have here, if you want to see additional detail.

[paulgila]

awesome stuff! you've done a lot of work & it shows!

[Bencassa]

Good work mate. Great looking property too.

That mystery stilt root palm you were unsure of, possibly Wettinia, looks to me like B. hapala.

[LilikoiLee]

Justin,

Once again, super photos of a super garden. Posting again with ID's on the pictures answered the questions I was going to ask. Can see that the hardest work is in clearing the land. For the folks who've never seen property in this part of the island there is no way to appreciate how thick it is (literally impossible to penetrate on foot in many places), so we are really impressed at your progress. Great collection you've got going.

The mystery stilt root doesn't look like our Wettinias but it sure looks a lot like our Socratea exorrhiza.

Lee

[Justin]

Socratea exorrhiza, that may be it - thanks!

[Bencassa]

We must be looking at different things.

You have a pic of a Socratea later in the post labeled as such. But the palm you have as possibly wettinia is along way off from being Socratea.

Still say its B. hapala

[akamu]

Looks like a lot of land clearing work. Great job on your palm choices

[O'o Bar Master]

We must be looking at different things.

You have a pic of a Socratea later in the post labeled as such. But the palm you have as possibly wettinia is along way off from being Socratea.

Still say its B. hapala

Ben,

You're absolutely right. We were looking at different pictures. In scrolling back and forth through Justin's great tour I misplaced myself and correctly identified the wrong palm. Was looking at the Socratea which Justin had already identified as such, not the mystery palm.

Mike

[JakeK]

Good looking garden Justin! Keep us updated.