Bizzie progress!

[Walter John]

Took these photos 15 minutes ago, can't get much better than that for an up to date Bizzie report. I have two silver Bismarkia nobilis. Hope you enjoy, we've just had a shower so that adds to the palmbience (another word for the palm dictionary).

Front yard, lil' fella (for now)

Back yard jungle, this one's been seen a few times on the board, he's opening a new frond in there, in the middle of winter too.

[Walter John]

Here's a photo I took 2 year ago at the Cairns public pool area. Bizzie and a wonderful variegated pandanus.

[Tad]

here is a repeat, but it is the palm that sells!! everybody who comes out to the farm wants one after seeing this!!!!

[jimbiz]

Kris in India  Since Madras is in the tropics, surely you must be able to grow just about anything you want.   Is Madras a tropical paradise?

Tad Your Bismarckia has grown phenomenally since I saw it in April 2004.  It must be one of the largest I have seen in TX.

I have one growing in my backyard here in Odessa  but I have to take extraordinary measures to protect it.  All the older leaves turn purple in the winter.

[Tad]

thank you jim, i kow where a couple of others are that are bigger, 2 of them I moved for the owner but they dont take care of them. mine is also in a protected area

[ruskinPalms]

OK, Bismarckia nobilis is one of the most impressive palm species in existence perhaps third to only cocos nucifera and roystonea regia...elata. Easily the best fan palm in existance (although some licualas are pretty cool...). I have 2 very young ones planted in my back yard that currenly look like doo doo, but they have pushed out a couple of fronds each. I think that these will be the last palms standing in my yard after the next advective freeze. (oh, forgot about the queen....). Anyway, I have seen these palms in person and they are huge! Someone in the neighborhood has about 4 in their yard that are pretty much taking over the world.  I think the ones that I have planted will consume my house in the coming years!

[paulgila]

has anyone seen this bismarkia at the s.d. zoo?is it the green form?

its awfully "limey"!

[paulgila]

leaf close-up.

[BS Man about Palms]

I kinda remember seeing that when I was there this month and I thought it was a green one, I didn't really see any silver or purple anywhere.

BS

[paulgila]

i tried a green one in my yard & it died--i think from the cold last winter.

[Kris]

Dear wal,Palmotrafficate,Pohonkelapa your pictures on Biz is good and it has been a feast for all our members of this forum.

and iam replying to you guys immedietly just to encourage you and other members whow got lots of Biz pictures to share with us.

this post for few days now has beem like festive occasion & i along with other members had feast to our eyes.

Just keep it coming guys. i request active participation by other members of this forum to share pic and thoughts on the photos seen in this post !

And JimBiz thanks for the comment and i will try growing exocitic palms & cycas in India.(you are Encouraging)_thank you.

And Palmotrafficate i love your picture on biz and also your Pet .Give him my kiss.

And Wal should i say anything More_ (you are Great_Man) and that little Biz color is fantastic !

Thanks thanks...

One Man one tree

Love,

Kris.

[Robert Lee Riffle]

Gahldurn, Wal!

The diff in the surroundings evident in your 1st photo here and the 2nd is amazing--absolutely AMAZING!  And it shwos that you are an even better "landscaper" than I'd thought.

That's the effect I'M trying to achieve:

1. HIDE THE NEIGHBORS

2. SEE A LUSH, TROPICAL TABLEAU in DOING so .....

Heartiest congrats!

[Central Floridave]

Here is the bizzie that is formerly known as the most photographed Bismarck on the internet (4 years ago), and my new surfboard.

[Dave-Vero]

I need to take a photo of a local Bismarkia planted beneath a big live oak.  Surprisingly, it's doing OK, with enormously long leaf stalks.

It's not  for nothing that Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has Bismarkias near the old entrance, dominating the most formal part of the garden's grand landscape design--a cycad garden with a vista downhill to the lowland lakes.  

Legend has it that Martha Stewart visited and was amazed.

[Scott]

Matty, about how old is that one?

Bo, Thanks for that picture of the tall one, I've never seen one (in pictures or real life) that tall.

Wal & Krisachar, I know it's winter in Australia, but it's an oven all accross the U.S. Is your weather changing in an unpleasant way down there? It was 100 F. in my atrium at 9PM last night - UGH! It must be very hot where you are Krisachar.

[Stan]

Wal,what's the palm with the white trunk/brown rings?

[bgl]

Scott,

you're welcome! The photos I posted above were all taken on our property. Here's the tallest Bismarckia I've seen. It's right outside Palms of Paradise nursery on the outskirts of Hilo. I posted this photo on the old forum.

Bo

[amazondk]

I don't have a picture of these palms.  But, if anyone is driving on highway 826 west of Miami International airport they planted all kinds of Bismarkias.  I noticed them when I was there in February.

dk

[Robert Lee Riffle]

Dave--

It's not legend.  MS was at Fairchild a few years ago, when Katherine Maidman was curator of palms there. I believe KM was on one of MS' shows.

[MattyB]

Scott, I don't know how old that thing is.  I was just commenting on Dean's posting of it.

Now I'll have to say, "Oh, honey.  That's only that big 'cause it's in Hawaii.  Ours will only maybe get half that size."   ...and I probably won't be lying....verdad? ???

[Dypsisdean]

Scott,

I don't know how old that is either. It is in Pauleen's garden on the Big Island.

[bgl]

Scott, Matt and Dean,

Well, that shouldn't be difficult to figure out. (And for the rest of you, who're probably totally confused at this point, this is in reference to Dean's photo in Post 17, which MattyB posted again in his response, Post 39). Jeff Brusseau is in the photo, and as far as I know, that had to be during the IPS Biennial in May 2004? Pauleen bought that property around 1990/1991, and only planted small palms in the beginning. So that Bismarckia probably went in the ground around 1992 as a fairly small plant. Maybe germinated around 1990, which would make it 14 years old, give it or take two months (OK, give or take a year then...) assuming the photo was taken in 2004.

Bo

[Dypsisdean]

Bo,

As usual, all your facts are accurate.

[palmsrgreat]

This thread has convinced me to purchase a Bismarkia. I have just the spot for it in a wide open corner of my backyard. I went to HD and they had a 15 gal for 93 bucks and a 25 gal for 200. A nursery also had quite a few for under 100. I think I will be purchasing at the nursery tomorrow.

[Scott]

Well, although my Bizzie can't compare with any of the fine specimens here, I thought to throw a couple pictures on.

I can't believe I still haven't planted him yet. but as I mentioned in previous threads, the need for more shade over the house has brought on an emergency Bambusa Oldhamii project.

[Scott]

The new spear - which I'm waiting for to open.

[Tad]

bismarckias for nextspring!!!

[palmsrgreat]

(palmotrafficante @ Jul. 22 2006,20:11)

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bismarckias for nextspring!!!

These are very nice looking. How many plants do you have all together?

[Tad]

bismarckias??? a couple of hundred not counting the last batch of seed, palms all together?!?!?!?! thousands!!!!

[Walter John]

(Stan @ Jul. 22 2006,14:56)

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Wal,what's the palm with the white trunk/brown rings?

That would be Veitchia joannis, there's another one on the right if you look closely. A great palm.

[Kris]

Dear Scott

Iam from south india(Madras) here the temperature is around

98 to 102F for the past few days,but the oven effect that you mentioned which is prevailing in U.S. is not seen here at the moment.

that is from the month of july to december we experience mansoon rains but hot weather becomes mild warm not cool.

and after rains it becomes all the more sultery and the performance of the air-con also reduces drastically. the air-con drain vent excess water is sent out continously.

during this period  fungus infection accures in our plants_the white sponges appear in the leaves and mealy-bug etc.and as new leaves appear they all get easily infected.

And i have a question to all the members who is MS (Martha Stewart) i have heard this name but donot know who this is.

I think you answer would benefit all members from our side of the globe.(Asia)

And now to palmsGreat hey i thought you already had a biz because your user name suggests or speaks for itself that you are a palm lover how come you missed her(Biz) all these years ?

I also request all the Guests and passive members to join in this forum discussion.Because myself never liked chatting or joining forum to speak out my mind.

But Old Forum members like Wal,Steve,Dave,Scott,Bgl,Dypsis Dean,bobby,Kathy..........have made this forum discussion so interesting and lively that i was waiting that you members invite us(New Members)to join in and take up active participation.

So dear friends who are reading this post and if you are not a member kindly join in and your views on palms will be greatly appricieated by all the forum members.

This post might seem a little big but i must tell my heart out_my life has changed very much and iam glad i have more new friends from hawaii to Madagascar.

I also thank the adminastrators like robert lee & Daniel Lewis of this forum without whom i would not have seen or discussed about exocitic palm & cycas.

I love you guys.

[paulgila]

110 degrees in my yard under canopy today! i've lived in san diego my whole life & i don't remember it EVER being this hot!

[Scott]

At 9PM last night, it was 111F. in our Atrium - the heat being absorbed into the entire house from there.

Hey, if this heat keeps up mixed with the monsoonal stuff, maybe we can grow some Nucifera!

(You gotta get something positive out of it!)

[palmsrgreat]

Yeah Kris the Biz is one that I wasn't sure if I could grow, but after seeing and reading a few things I should have it no later than Tue!Will post a pic once in ground.

[Robert Lee Riffle]

Am I the only one who thinks post # 18 looks as much like a Latania as it does a biz?

[Walter John]

(Robert Lee Riffle @ Jul. 24 2006,04:36)

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Am I the only one who thinks post # 18 looks as much like a Latania as it does a biz?

agree.

[Kathy]

(Robert Lee Riffle @ Jul. 24 2006,04:36)

QUOTE

Am I the only one who thinks post # 18 looks as much like a Latania as it does a biz?

I'm a newbie, but I was wondering the same thing.

I posted this pic in the old forum, and I've got one of the crown I'll try to find, but here's my friend's bizzie trunk on the photo's left, and a slight showing of fronds in the upper left:  (actually this bizzie is now hurricane damaged, and I'm trying to get some updated pics for forum input....hopefully soon)

[BS Man about Palms]

Well this thread is from way back and has a reply or two from RLR, but I thought I'd post a pic of the Bizzie, 2 more opened over Labor day.

[Kris]

Dear guys  

lovely pictures of my loved one_The Biz (undoubtly).

thanks for the pictures and if you have more do share.

love,

Kris.

[TimHopper]

I have pampered mine for almost seven years since I germinated it from seed. I always kept it overpotted in large containers. I ground planted it in my new landscape three years ago from a 90 gallon container. These things really crank out some growth when it's hot. The fence in the background is 6 feet tall for scale. I like keeping mine manicured by removing th oldest leaf boot right to the wood trunk. There are two at a beachfront home 4 blocks from me that are twice the overall size of mine. I can hardly wait till mine reaches those majestic proportions. Tim