Nice palms @ Steve - Liz Property

[Mohsen]

2 days ago I went to Steve and Liz (@gtsteve) property and not only generously was given more than 10 nice seedlings but had the chance to take few photos ...Steve gave me the palm names but I might match them incorrectly…

 please correct if you see some mistakes and thanks again for inviting me mate... Well done

 

Pics will be coming shortly ...

[Mohsen]

Front yard :

Nice Pritchardia hillebrandii-Blue Dwarf

 

Trachycarpus ukhrulensis :

 

Trachycarpus fortunei :

 

Thrinax radiata

Coccothrinax barbadensis??

[Mohsen]

More to come soon...

[User00]

1 hour ago, Mohsen said:

More to come soon...

i'm waiting 

Edited May 6, 2016 by User00

[Mohsen]

some more species from back yard garden ,  that I could match ( hope not wrong) :

 

Caryota mitis - is dying slowly  after fruiting !

 

Howea forsteriana :

 

Dypsis pembana :

Dypsis sp. Pink crownshaft :

chamaedorea benziei:

chamaedorea plumosa:

 

Howea belmoreana:

 

More to come ...

[Pete in Paradise Hills]

Nice pics. What city is the garden in?

[Mohsen]

8 hours ago, Pete in Paradise Hills said:

Nice pics. What city is the garden in?

Sydney, Australia, near Cronulla Beach  ...

[Pete in Paradise Hills]

That Cocco Barbadensis looks immaculate; way better than mine which looks toasty in Socal...

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Nice garden Steve and thanks for posting Mohsen

Cronulla has a great microclimate for palms.

 

Troy

[Kennybenjamin]

Nice guys..... Catching up with fellow palm talkers is always great fun!! Some of my best mates now are palmtalk friendships. 

Nice palms there Steve!!

[Steve Mac]

Thanks guys, actually Liz is the brains of the outfit, I just do the carrying.

also unfortunately due to my crappy handwriting Mohsen has had a hard time deciphering my writing,

thus  the Cocothrinax is actually inaguensis not  Barbadensis.

Thank you Mohsen for going to this trouble to share the pics with everyone, because I have just been to lazy.

And thank you for the beautiful bizzy, I have all of it's baby pictures and details from your earlier posts about it. 

[NApalm]

[Mohsen]

some other pics :

Wodyetia bifurcata :

same age , one small one get bigger !

 

 

 

 

 

My favorite Kentiopsis oliviformis:

 

Hyophorbe indica :

 

 

Chamaedorea tenerrima :

 

Dypsis rivularis:

 

Dypsis pinnatifrons:

Normanbya normanbyi:

Cyphophoenix nucele:

 

Chambeyronia macrocarpa var. 'hookeri:

 

Chamaedorea woodsoniana:

Chamaedorea tenerrima:

Chamaedorea seifrizii:

chamaedorea schiedeana:

Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii:

Chamaedorea elegans:

Chamaedorea alternans:

 

Burretiokentia hapala :

Licuala elegans :

 

PHOENIX ROEBELENII:

and finally nice Cycad :

There might be some mistake for naming and the blame should be on me....Steve might correct me though ...

Thanks again Steve and I hope you enjoy watching them here too ...

[Las Palmas Norte]

Very nice collection there.

Cheers, Barrie.

[gyuseppe]

are chamaedorea tenerrima?? if yes,is very rare!

[Josh-O]

great picture tutorial   

[Steve Mac]

Well done Gyuseppe, you spotted one of the deliberate mistakes, they were tenella.

I know 3 year olds who white clearer than I do. Mohsen had no chance of getting them all right,

and he had to reorder them as well, so we intentionally made it a puzzle.  

The Cycad is a Burrawang (Macrozamia communis)

Now the answers to the rest of the reordering quiz that we deliberately set for your enjoyment,

The Ch. alterans is Ch. Brachypodia,  the Ch. elegans is Ch. adscendens,  the Ch. seifrizii is a Syagrus (Lytocaryum) weddellianum. The Ch. woodsoniana is Ch. radicalis, and the Cyphophoenix nucele is preceded by a double of Cyphophoenix elegans.

Now give yourselves all a 'Like" for each one that you got right.  

Thanks again Mohsen for taking the time to share the pics with others who may enjoy them. I believe that gardens, money and views (amongst other things) are all enjoyed most when shared with someone else. I am going out there now to find a few more.

[Steve Mac]

This is a location shot from our front verandah. We can see the neighbours sunbleached potted raphis, golden cane, bangalows  and a livistona australis from here. As well as the river and Pacific ocean.

and while I am up here, this is looking down out the back.

[Steve Mac]

This is looking up the left hand side of the back garden.

This is from the back door. The magpie eats out of our hands

This is looking back up to the house over a Kentiopsis pyriformis. It is all a bit of a jungle in places.

 

[Steve Mac]

Here is a Chambeyronia 'houailou' and you may notice the Nepenthes pitcher plant too.

Here is a young Chamaedorea benzei female, Ceratozamia kuesteriana cycad pushing in the front and some small Ch. glauca pushed at the back. And some tillandsia on the right.

This is a dramatic if skinny, Dypsis 'laffa', with the distinctive crimson new spear emerging out of the white powdered other bits. It is as thick as your finger and 8' or 9' foot tall. There are a few variations of dypsis called laffa so it may not look like yours, and there is a D. pinnatifrons trunk on the left.

Next is a little scrappy looking Basselinia gracilis which has been in too much shade for years and I have just replanted out in the open more.

 

[Mohsen]

4 hours ago, gtsteve said:

Well done Gyuseppe, you spotted one of the deliberate mistakes, they were tenella.

I know 3 year olds who white clearer than I do. Mohsen had no chance of getting them all right,

and he had to reorder them as well, so we intentionally made it a puzzle.  

The Cycad is a Burrawang (Macrozamia communis)

Now the answers to the rest of the reordering quiz that we deliberately set for your enjoyment,

The Ch. alterans is Ch. Brachypodia,  the Ch. elegans is Ch. adscendens,  the Ch. seifrizii is a Syagrus (Lytocaryum) weddellianum. The Ch. woodsoniana is Ch. radicalis, and the Cyphophoenix nucele is preceded by a double of Cyphophoenix elegans.

Now give yourselves all a 'Like" for each one that you got right.  

Thanks again Mohsen for taking the time to share the pics with others who may enjoy them. I believe that gardens, money and views (amongst other things) are all enjoyed most when shared with someone else. I am going out there now to find a few more.

Oh, Steve...

You tried to save my face mate but now I am embarrassed ...that many mistakes...

It was better if I didn't mention any names at all...

What do you expect from a person who get into Palm's world not more than 8 months ...still learning  

 

 

[Steve Mac]

here is Ch. sartorii

here is Ch. elegans female and male on the left, 

Here is an elegans male with a Howea belmoreana trying to shade it.

Here is Ch. woodsoniana and Fluffy. Fluffy keeps children out of the yard.

 On the left is Ch. nationisana I think and the tall stuff is Ch. costericana.

These little suckers could be anything at this stage but I'm inclined to think that they are Ch. anemophila, judging from the tag. And a tiny stunted D. pinnatifrons that has done nothing for years.

 Ch. microspadix , dull leaves but attractive fruit which stays on for ages.

 Ch. oblongata in fruit, see how denuded they are, a rat ate off 90% of the leaves a little while ago, just chewed them off and dropped them. Now we have weatherproof baits all over the yard hidden where the birds and possums cant get them.

lovely leaf.

An easily overlooked fairly unremarkable, Ch. stolonifera running along the back with some self seeded oblongata.

 

[Steve Mac]

A blurry Ch. linearis.

A clump of Ch. hooperiana, a S weddellianum, Ch. glauca in the back. And Snuggles, he stops birds from stealing hooperiana seeds.

Ch. metallica bifid and split, if I had the chance again would I put the Ch. e- augustii  so close?  No.  

A teddy bear buried in the dark, if it had grown at the same rate as everything else it would have been all right, but no it sits back there saying to everything, "no, you first, grow right ahead, after you."  Now I have to use a torch to find it. 

 

It's hard to tell the Ch. nationisana from the Ch. seifrizii from the Linospadix.

 

Ch. seifrizii, a walking stick on the left and a stick to keep it straight in the wind. When we bought the seifrizii about 12 years ago the young girl working in the nursery on the checkout saw the sign on it and said " Oh. a bamboo palm, you had better leave it in the pot, because it will run and spread." I said "Ok thank you."

Dypsis scottiana, they are so small and skinny I should have bought more than one. That hooperiana on the left would eventually come across and squash it if I let it, it spreads quickly here.

 Now here is a rare one apparently, well probably not that rare if we ended up with one, and probably contributing to their scarcity in the wild, but it's Ceroxylon amazonium. I didn't go to Ecuador and get it. Very silvery under the leaf. And a little Areca triandra behind it. Yes they are too close too, but I thought that they would grow at different rates, but they haven't. I will try to move the triandra. Those Ceroxylon deserve to go extinct, it's their own fault, they are too slow.

That's our Ch klotzschiana the leaf is similar to the oblongata but arranged differently, and do you like the Hoya climbing up the Golden cane, nothing shouts jungle  quiet like vines climbing up things. Oh, and ticks and leeches and mosquitoes and spiky things and howler monkeys. But apart from them vines do it for me.

More golden cane and can you spot the two Ch. tepejilote about 10' tall, a male and female and they both flower together and hold hands and kiss and everything, well apparently not quite everything because no seeds. Just as well I've got oblongata and klotzschiana coming out my ears. I know it sounds more like a hygiene problem than a horticultural one. 

[Steve Mac]

A good looking Walking stick, a bit more protected here.

I put 3 metallica here so I could probably get seeds, but it ended up 3 males.

That;s an old and ugly Ch. cataractarum with the usual habit of clumping a little and splitting into two as it gets higher.

 This is an old and ugly Raphis don't know what, but it has looked like thi for 15 yrs. winter, summer, flood, drought it always looks the same. probably a microenvironment thing, salt maybe?

 

Another little pink crownshaft Dypsis, no interesting colour yet.

Areca triandra under the big Cyathea brownii tree fern, and Kentia. I don't know if I should thin out some of the clumping shoots before it gets too messy.

Another ugly example of a Cat palm, not one of my favourites.

Hyophorbe indica being pushed over by a Syzygium Lilli Pilli, way too close now, but it is a growth rate thing, the lilli pilli is at full height now, eventually the Spindle will push through and get above the very fast growing native.

 

I might just end up chopping the tree down though.

 

here are some more little Ch. glauca, They ended up everywhere because I didn't know what seeds they were, years ago, and I just planted them in the ground everywhere.

 Here is my last pic ,I tried not to double up on what Mohsen had done already, I tried to show the beauty and diversity that you can get in even a small suburban yard like mine, at least here in Cronulla. It is a B. recurvata, Ch. glauca, Cyathea cooperi and a Phoenix roebelenii photo bombing in from the left.

 

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Great collection there Steve & Liv lots of Chameadoreas , you should visit Colin Wilson he is an avid  Chameadorea collector

Are you growing any Rhopalostylis ?

Troy

[Steve Mac]

Yep, funny that you say that Troy, Colin is a mate, I have seen his garden.

I recognized a lot of his plants from your pictures, half of my cham's probably came from him.

I do have one little Rhopy in a pot, probably a sapida either that or baueri, I can't tell the difference, it is not a foot high yet. I forget where I got the seed from.

I have nowhere left to put it in the ground, I only have a small block and it is very crowded and I'm too old to be bothered with slow palms now anyway. I'll probably just give it away. Lots of Cham's because they are small and I have lost most of the sun in my backyard due to a near solid canopy, I have shaded myself in.

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Hi Steve and Liz,

Ceroxylon are not only slow growing but are dioecious, the only chance they have to reproduce is to plant a minimum of 5 of each species  and keep each species a long way from each other to keep the species pure. About the only place to plant them is in botanic gardens ie RSBG and WBG have 4 species, 5 of each. They take longer than we have to produce seed in our gardens.

Nice garden

Your welcome to visit anytime

Regards

Colin

[Steve Mac]

Thanks Colin, interesting info on the Ceroxylon. It is quite a distinctive and attractive leaf shape close up, and the silver underneath is stunning, so I will just try to appreciate it for what it is now.  

Cheers

[palmfriend]

Wonderful photos!! I love that jungle-arrangement!!

I need to go through the pictures a few more times, it is just amazing!

Maybe there is one or two or... I might put on my own wish list!

Thank you very much for sharing!

best regards

 

[Pal Meir]

On 15.5.2016, 15:10:16, Mohsen said:

some other pics :

[Steve Mac]

Yes, you love your weddels don't you Pal.

[Pal Meir]

34 minutes ago, gtsteve said:

Yes, you love your weddels don't you Pal.

They were my first love , so I decided in my later days to publish a book on them:

[Steve Mac]

Kudos to you Pal. I didn't realize that I was associated with a famous author.