New Zealand Palm and Cycad Society

[Caryota_gigas]

Hi everyone,

The Palm and Cycad Society of New Zealand has a new website. It still has a lot of content to be added, but is up and running and on line now.

You can check it out right here

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike.

www.nzpalmandcycad.com

[Dave-Vero]

Bump.  Inventory info on Sabal palmetto and Serenoa repens look quite good.  The latter is still underappreciated in its home state.  At least the Montgomery Botanical Center in Miami had the good grace to plant a mass of silvers from Hobe Sound at a prominent spot, to attract Bismarkia-like attention.

[SubTropicRay]

The website looks good.

I wholeheartedly agree with Dave regarding the Serenoa.

[Caryota_gigas]

Serenoa repens is not at all a common Palm in NZ. It is extremely slow growing here and is not commercially available anywhere. It is a plant for the avid enthusiast over here.

[Dave-Vero]

Serenoa is slow from seed--it takes a while to grow a presentable plant, and a landscape-ready one will cost $100 or more, about the same as a nice clump of Rhapis.  On the other hand, big Acoelorraphe wrightii are on the market, and they're slow, too.  My seedllings have reached knee-high in five years.

Once established, the plants can put out leaves fairly rapidly.  They recover spectacularly fast after a fire.

[ZoneTenNut]

Mike,

Website looks great and nice to have another location to go to and learn about palms.

Roger

[rubyz]

The site looks quite promising, although it seems they don't have a forum, which is a pity.

[Tyrone]

What a cool website. It is handy for those that live on the extreme south coast of Oz too who have a warm North Island style climate. I've been introducing more palms to my mother-in-laws garden down in Albany, Western Australia, and now I'll be able to tell what has a chance of survival and what doesn't.

I didn't know that Hyophorbe indica would grow in NZ. I may have to introduce one into my in laws garden.

Well done Palm & Cycad Society of NZ.

Tyrone

[Caryota_gigas]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I am adding more to the site each day.

We havent done a forum type board like this, as this one is sufficcent for everyone I think. I dont want to have to compete with this board. We have a yahoo chat group, which is on our links page.

Hyophorbe indica is a "get to grow if you are lucky plant" I only know of one largeish one in ground. Lots of people are trying it at the moment seeing as no other Hyophorbe really has a chance outdoors here.

NZ Palm and Cycad Society

[DGP]

Hi

Website looks really good. It's great to have some cultural notes specific to NZ's climate.

My only suggestion would be to try and make it more Google friendly so it show up on more searches.

Cheers

Dave.

[osideterry]

Your climate closely parallels ours enough to make your comments quite helpful. Looking forward to having another site to dig around in.

[Caryota_gigas]

I am working on the google thing, but it takes up to 12 weeks for it to all come through on search engines like google. Google is still displaying the site coming soon page, so they have no idea about any of the content yet...