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palmfriend Grand Master

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Hello everyone,

 

last Saturday I went to our local home center just to stroll through the garden department because I like to look at

the plants and flowers lined up over there and since the selection of offered palms is usually very limited I was quite

surprised to find two priced specimen - I never saw before over here - probably just moments before put on the shelf...

Well, I didn`t let that happen... ;)

Here they are:

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Two very beautiful and already almost seven feet tall Dypsis decaryi - each for just 25$...an unresistable offer :wub:

Alright, and since we are still in the rain season - no strong sun for the next time -  I took the chance and put them in

the ground:

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Number one (sry for the angle),...and

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..and number two.

I am really happy that I have found them and I hope they will grow well!

Btw.,

after some weeding afterwards and putting away the tools I checked our post box...

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a new letter from Munich/Germany....:D:D:D

Thank you for your time -

best regards

Lars

 

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Well done. I have found that now and then my local home centre store has palms that are often very hard to find or quite expensive, for under $30. It pays to keep one's eyes open.

 

 

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I came. I saw. I purchased

 

 

27.35 south.

Warm subtropical, with occasional frosts.

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JT in Japan

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Score!!

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Shimoda, Japan, Lat: 36.6N, Long: 138.8

Zone 9B (kinda, sorta), Pacific Coast, 1Km inland, 75M above sea level
Coldest lows (Jan): 2-5C (35-41F), Hottest highs (Aug): 32-33C (87-91F)

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palmfriend Grand Master

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Thank`s to everyone for your kind comments!

Well, Dypsis decaryi are not that uncommon over here - I have just never seen them to be sold.

Here are two, three spots of D.decaryi doing more or less well over here:

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A great choice to place them along the road - their ornamental value at its best.

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Same place, another angle.

Here,...

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...close to our airport and finally...

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a single specimen in our botanical garden. During the last two years I regularly collected some of its seeds - but none of them ever germinated,

so I was very lucky to find those two palms at our home depot.

On the way out of the garden, I couldn`t resist to take this photo...

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A flowering Strelitzia - just beautiful.

Oh, I almost forgot:

Among the "letter from Munich/Germany" were some seeds of my latest "I must have"...

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Already germinated: May I introduce - Chambeyronia macrocarpa, probably the first of its species on this island. ;)

 

Thank you very much again -

best regards

Lars

 

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On 6/21/2017, 7:33:15, palmfriend said:

 

Thank`s to everyone for your kind comments!

Well, Dypsis decaryi are not that uncommon over here - I have just never seen them to be sold.

Here are two, three spots of D.decaryi doing more or less well over here:

001x.thumb.jpg.9419858e36b85375c52b84614

A great choice to place them along the road - their ornamental value at its best.

002x.thumb.jpg.045d28680cd0bbe113edb9a64

Same place, another angle.

Here,...

004x.thumb.jpg.f484576c310f494053470f2ce

...close to our airport and finally...

003x.thumb.jpg.2e7b256e3709bc872316f2196

a single specimen in our botanical garden. During the last two years I regularly collected some of its seeds - but none of them ever germinated,

so I was very lucky to find those two palms at our home depot.

On the way out of the garden, I couldn`t resist to take this photo...

005x.thumb.jpg.1b098673f13bf0db0c7a1d98e

A flowering Strelitzia - just beautiful.

Oh, I almost forgot:

Among the "letter from Munich/Germany" were some seeds of my latest "I must have"...

006x.thumb.jpg.75e922d55cf6a6df705b5f58c

Already germinated: May I introduce - Chambeyronia macrocarpa, probably the first of its species on this island. ;)

 

Thank you very much again -

best regards

Lars

 

 

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Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

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300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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Lars, This is Strelitzia. The yellow flower in your post is Heliconia. :)

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Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

Las Palmas Design

Facebook Page

Las Palmas Design & Associates

Elegant Homes and Gardens

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3 hours ago, Jim in Los Altos said:

Lars, This is Strelitzia. The yellow flower in your post is Heliconia. :)

Jim,

thank`s a lot!! Very much appreciated!

I had my doubts and checked my Okinawian landscaping plant book at least twice

before posting.... The only Heliconia mentioned there is this one -

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...Heliconia rostrata Ruiz & Pav. (Hanging lobster-claws) -

photo taken by myself two weeks ago just a few meters away, same Botanical garden -

but  after all I thought the similarities (of the one I posted) were stronger to the Strelitzia  and

so I came finally to my (wrong) conclusion.

Sorry, lesson learned, thank you very much again :greenthumb: -

best regards

Lars

 

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