Cleared Area And Planted New Palm Arrivals!

[Jim in Los Altos]

Cyphophoenix elegans

Polyandrococos caudescens

Gaussia princeps

Dypsis albofarinosa

Kentiopsis oliviformis

Archontophonix myolensis

I cleared out mother ferns and way overgrown Dianella to make room for some new palms recently, added rock in one area and added a couple of the new palms in empty spaces that are rapidly becoming obsolete in my smallish garden. This is how I celebrated my 56th birthday week.

[Ben in Norcal]

Nice! Where did you get the big kentiopsis? Happy birthday btw.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Nice! Where did you get the big kentiopsis? Happy birthday btw.

You can order enormous kentiopsis from Floribunda, $25. The 3g Hawaii size is equivalent to a Calif 15g size. Best deal around.

[Ben in Norcal]

Good to know. More money gone tomorrow then!

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Good choices Jim !

Had no idea you were 56 !!!

[Alicehunter2000]

Jim........you have one of my inspiration gardens....always like to take ideas from your selections. Oh....and Happy Birthday!

[Jim in Los Altos]

Jim........you have one of my inspiration gardens....always like to take ideas from your selections. Oh....and Happy Birthday!

Thanks, Dave. What better way to celebrate another birthday than with more palms!

[Jim in Los Altos]

Good choices Jim !

Had no idea you were 56 !!!

Thanks, Troy. Yeah, 56. Thankfully I don't feel old...yet.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Nice! Where did you get the big kentiopsis? Happy birthday btw.

Ben, Dwight carries a lot of stuff that he doesn't list on his Nor. Cal. list. I got two from him and they wer full rooted into their five gallon containers and all CA acclimated.

[LJG]

Great choices Jim. Not sure Gaussia princeps will do much for you. I had a good sized one I traded off a few years back because it needed heat and didn't like winters.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Great choices Jim. Not sure Gaussia princeps will do much for you. I had a good sized one I traded off a few years back because it needed heat and didn't like winters.

Len, I took a chance since this one was not greenhouse grown and has seen some pretty chilly temps already. I grew a Gaussia maya for many years to adulthood but lost it in 2007's freeze the following spring. How would you rate G. Maya with G. Princeps?

[LJG]

Maya is much easier to grow. Princips seems to suffer cold damage on the leaves every winter and I could only get one leaf a year after the first winter in the ground. Who knows, I could have had a dud. Hope you have much more success.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Maya is much easier to grow. Princips seems to suffer cold damage on the leaves every winter and I could only get one leaf a year after the first winter in the ground. Who knows, I could have had a dud. Hope you have much more success.

I'll cross my fingers and baby it along the way. It's opening a frond pretty fast and the next spear is moving at a fair clip in this only 70 degree weather but, as you said, after next winter, it my become more reluctant. It's worth the try though.

[Gileno Machado]

Nice way to celebrate the birthday Jim, I'll be 56 in August too and I was planning on planting a Polyandrococos (Allagoptera now) for the occasion. You garden looks amazing as usual, congrats.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Nice way to celebrate the birthday Jim, I'll be 56 in August too and I was planning on planting a Polyandrococos (Allagoptera now) for the occasion. You garden looks amazing as usual, congrats.

Thanks, Gileno. 1958 was a good year. I know about the Allagoptera reclassification. Sometimes it's hard to change something when you've known it the other way so long. In the palm world, you have to expect it though.

[bgl]

Jim,

Always exciting to clear out an area and plant stuff! I'm sure the palms will be real happy there. And nice touch with the rocks! Oh, and Happy Belated Birthday! 1958 was indeed a good year - I remember it well!

Bo-Göran

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I am amazed you're finding room to squeeze more stuff in. I only got a couple of things from Dwight this time around. i am having a lot of success with Floribunda stuff, it's keeping more money in my wallet. I even planted a lemuirophoenix (which I don't expect to live, but you never know), I am surprised you don't have a lemuirophoenix tucked away in your garden somewhere.

I am stuffing in a few different species of archontophoenix to get more of a palmy backdrop. I also got one of those myolensis for $8 from Floribunda. That's where Dwight gets his.

[Jim in Los Altos]

I am amazed you're finding room to squeeze more stuff in. I only got a couple of things from Dwight this time around. i am having a lot of success with Floribunda stuff, it's keeping more money in my wallet. I even planted a lemuirophoenix (which I don't expect to live, but you never know), I am surprised you don't have a lemuirophoenix tucked away in your garden somewhere.

I am stuffing in a few different species of archontophoenix to get more of a palmy backdrop. I also got one of those myolensis for $8 from Floribunda. That's where Dwight gets his.

The A. myolensis was free, a gift. I've bought lots of palms from Floribunda. They always arrived healthy and in great condition. Most of what I get from Dwight is for clients and needs to be fifteen gallon size. I may give a Lemurophoenix a try. The only Floribunda palms I've ever lost were three Pinanga javana. They were victims to soil that was too cool by the end of their first winter here.

[David in Berkeley]

Slightly jealous of all the more exotic species you're adding, but at the same time I'm also happy to be using more common species that are hardier, but still not exactly common here in the East Bay. So new species for me are adding more understory palms like Chamaedorea microspadix, radicalis, costaricana, tepelijote, Chamaerops humilis cerifera, Brahea edulis and 'Clara', Trachycarpus martianus. I've still got some Rhopalostylis baueri v cheesemanii that I really don't have room for in my own garden, and debate with myself whether I should remove the Archontophoenix cunninghamiana's and mature Illawara in my garden. I wish they were Howeia forsteriana's instead, but those got planted in a client's garden instead. I am really enjoying the grove of Chamaedorea plumosa's in my garden, as they're perfect scale for a small garden like mine.

[Jim in Los Altos]

Slightly jealous of all the more exotic species you're adding, but at the same time I'm also happy to be using more common species that are hardier, but still not exactly common here in the East Bay. So new species for me are adding more understory palms like Chamaedorea microspadix, radicalis, costaricana, tepelijote, Chamaerops humilis cerifera, Brahea edulis and 'Clara', Trachycarpus martianus. I've still got some Rhopalostylis baueri v cheesemanii that I really don't have room for in my own garden, and debate with myself whether I should remove the Archontophoenix cunninghamiana's and mature Illawara in my garden. I wish they were Howeia forsteriana's instead, but those got planted in a client's garden instead. I am really enjoying the grove of Chamaedorea plumosa's in my garden, as they're perfect scale for a small garden like mine.

I too have been adding lots more Chamaedorea species like woodsoniana, plumosa, oblongata, radicalis tree form, costaricana, elatior, hybrids, and more. Trachycarpus martianus is by far my favorite of the genus. I find it both fun and challenging to zone push in my own garden though. Some of my favorite palm species are zone 10 and doing well, at least for now, in my garden. Some, for several years.

[BS Man about Palms]

Awesome Jim! Keep it up!

[palm tree man]

Happy belated birthday Jim. Your new palms are beautiful and I agree there is not better way to celebrate a birthday......Christmas, Fourth of July,anniversary, St. Patricks Day; I honestly would invent a new holiday or make up a life event if it would allow me a reason to obtain another palm. When you have the bug the only known cure is a new palm.