Another Amazing Maui Garden

[LilikoiLee]

In addition to the Merwin Conservancy featured in a previous post, the Hawaii Island Palm Society was fortunate to visit a second exquisite Maui palm garden owned by Jerry Welch and his wife Robin. The palms on Jerry’s two and a half acres included more than 350 species in a tropical garden setting. As we walked along the well groomed trails, one mature and massive specimen after another appeared around each corner. The palms were well marked with placards describing their various names and where each originated.

Jerry began planting in 1989 and continues to add new plantings every year.

Lee

Host Jerry Welch led a well-informed tour through the property.

Well groomed trails were a hallmark of this beautiful garden.

Mauritiella

A really nice Coccothrinax crinita (Old Man Palm)

Jerry struggled to get staghorn ferns to grow for several years, but when they took hold they took hold on everything and are now growing wild throughout the property.

A giant Raphia anchors one corner of the property.

Three Lemurophoenix planted at the same time and in the same location show dramatically different growth rates.

Palms planted years ago share the trails with current plantings.

An impressive Dypsis bejofo was a crowd pleaser.

[Bill Austin]

Thanks Lee for posting Jeff Marcus was telling me about this garden and I was hoping somebody would post pics. What a fabulous garden.

[mike in kurtistown]

I am hoping that Lee and Mike won't object to my adding a few pictures from the beautifully maintained garden of Jerry Welch. Here are a couple shots of two different Dypsis sp. bejouf/bejoufa, not the true bejofo, but one that also appears in various gardens on the Big Island. These trees originally came from Peter Messmer (Peter Palms), likely from the same group as the grove of trees now growing in the Lundkvist palm garden. The flowering one shows Jerry and the other shows Kona area palm grower Garrett Webb with Lee.

Jerry labeled these as D. mananjarensis, but now thainks that to be incorrect. He didn't elaborate on the reason. Any suggestions, anyone?

Here are a pair of Ravenea robustiors:

I'll have a couple more later.

[Jim in Los Altos]

I'm speechless.

[LJG]

Thanks for posting these guys. We needed a little boost around here

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Dypsis bejofo looks massive

Hell of a garden !

[Jeff Searle]

Beautiful, thanks for posting.

[comic097]

Great pics thanks for posting, amazing growth rates between all 3 lemurs

Paul

[fan palm]

Wow what a garden! Loved the bejofo. That palm Jerry is calling mananjarensis looks to be what used to be called dypsis hovitrendrina and is now nauseosa.

Thanks for the pics!

[mike in kurtistown]

Here are the remaining palm shots from the tour of Jerry Welch's garden:

Madagascar natives Dypsis perrieri and Marojejya insignis:

D. perrieri is a discovery. It never gets very tall, has beautifully formed somewhat glaucous leaves, makes a wonderful large but not tall landscape item near houses, garages, etc.

Calyptrocalyx awa and another take on the Raphia farinifera:

For Livistona fans, here is L. fulva. Not many Livs in Hawaii gardens. The ones there are all seem to be fulva.

I refuse to explain this one:

[mike in kurtistown]

Here's a better take on the Calyptrocalyx awa:

[LilikoiLee]

I am hoping that Lee and Mike won't object to my adding a few pictures from the beautifully maintained garden of Jerry Welch. Here are a couple shots of two different Dypsis sp. bejouf/bejoufa, not the true bejofo, but one that also appears in various gardens on the Big Island. These trees originally came from Peter Messmer (Peter Palms), likely from the same group as the grove of trees now growing in the Lundkvist palm garden. The flowering one shows Jerry and the other shows Kona area palm grower Garrett Webb with Lee.

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Jerry labeled these as D. mananjarensis, but now thainks that to be incorrect. He didn't elaborate on the reason. Any suggestions, anyone?

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Here are a pair of Ravenea robustiors:

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I'll have a couple more later.

Mike,

Thanks so much for adding the great shots of Jerry's garden. Always hope posting pics will motivate others to add to and expand the original post. Mike confesses that after the Merwin Conservancy tour he was getting camera weary and didn't get as many shots of Jerry's garden as he would have liked. Your wonderful pictures sure filled in the gaps!

Thanks again.

Lee

[doranakandawatta]

Can we hope seeing more and more pictures of this lovely garden?

Thank you, thank you, thank you

[Josh-O]

great pic's thanks for posting

[Dave-Vero]

That robust Coccothrinax crinita is on the scale of a C. crinita x some other species in my yard. It was a tiny thing for about five years, then got serious about growing. I have another Coccothrinax, a purported C. barbadensis, about the size of the palm in the Welch garden.

Thanks for the impressive photos.