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realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Seems like every time I want to take some photos, I get caught in a torrential shower, at what seems, the most distant point from the

house. No worries though, there is always a palm leaf to shelter under. Everything always looks so beautiful in or after a good drench. 

Just a few photos from being in the back garden.  

Tim

 

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Hilo, Hawaii

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excellent photos tim. your place looks beautiful. i look forward to the rains beginning here. we need to have the dust settle some!  cheers

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Keith N Tampa (ex SoJax)

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Tim, your place is beautiful.  It looks so natural and easy to maintain...though I know nothing could be further from the truth.  Your climate seems perfect for a full-on rainforest garden.  

Land O Lakes FL, a suburb on the North Side of Tampa, FL

Summers are great, 90f/32c in the day & 70f/21c at night with plentiful rain & sun

Winters are subtropical with occasional frosts and freezes. Tropical cyclones happen.

We have a few Royal palms in the warm microclimates but Coconuts freeze.

I am a Kayaker, Hiker, Bicyclist, and amateur Photographer that loves the outdoors.  

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Really full garden Grand Master

Really full garden

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Tim , what a vision of tropical splendor at its finest!

Is your nepenthe in a pot or free growing?

El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

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Cindy Adair Grand Master

Cindy Adair

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Tim, your garden never fails to amaze and delight!

From nepenthes to broms to orchids, and yes, PALMS! they are wonderful individually and the intertwining of colors and shapes.

Thanks so much!

Cindy Adair

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Looking stunning as always Tim. We could do with some of your rain.could you send some our way please.

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realarch Grand Master

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Thanks Kris, been rather dry here since the first of the year...finally seems we're coming out of it. 

Keith, my garden is a bit on the wild side. Lots of work, but worth it. 

Thanks BPK and Palmaceae!

Scott, the Nepenthe's are in a big pot. We've been getting dry spells weeks at a time and I'm afraid they'll dry out if I tie them to trees. 

Thanks Cindy, I've got to throw a few other things here and there for a bit of color. If it's not a palm, I don't have the desire to know many of their names. 

Steveo, Boy, if I could I would. Hope all is well in your part of the world. 

Tim

Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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Alberto Grand Master

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Very nice garden. What is the palm with the purplish-grey crownshaft in the 13th photo/ Thanks for sharing.

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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realarch Grand Master

realarch

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Aloha Alberto, the Palm is Archontophoenix purpurea. When it's wet the grey / purple color looks like metal. A very cool palm.

Tim

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Tim

Hilo, Hawaii

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palmfriend Grand Master

palmfriend

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Photos taken right after rainfall are in my eyes one of the most beautiful -

the green of the plants looks so strong, full of life - you can almost sense their vitality!

Tim, your garden is a great inspiration - 

thank you for sharing,

best regards

Lars

 

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21 hours ago, realarch said:

Scott, the Nepenthe's are in a big pot. We've been getting dry spells weeks at a time and I'm afraid they'll dry out if I tie them to trees. 

Tim

Tim,

The garden looks really great. Note; very, very few neps are epiphytic and the ones that are have very specific needs.  Neither of the the plants shown (what looks like a burkei x ventricosa primary hybrid and a nice rafflesiana) are epiphytic. These are terrestrial plants that morph into hemiepiphytes. Unless it rains a couple times every day, all year long, I doubt they'll thrive mounted to a tree. I've grown (and continue to grow) many hundreds of these things, pure species and hybrids, ultra-highlanders, highlanders and lowlanders, in both tropical gardens and greenhouses since 1997. That said, under the right conditions you can indeed grow some nepenthes to massive sizes in 6" hanging pots dangling from a big tree.

J

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BS Man about Palms

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:drool::drool::drool:

Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

"The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

-George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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Thank you Tim, 

Watching your post makes a wonderful sunday morning start for me !

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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Kim Grand Master

Kim

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Such an excellent garden, and more beautiful every time I see it. Great photos!

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Al in Kona Grand Master

Al in Kona

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A great looking east Hawaii garden with such a variety of palms and other plants.

 

Hawaii Island (Big Island), leeward coast, 19 degrees N. latitude, south Kona mauka at approx. 380m (1,250 ft.) and about 1.6 km (1-mile) upslope from ocean.

 

No record of a hurricane passing over this island (yet!).  

Summer maximum rainfall - variable averaging 900-1150mm (35-45") - Perfect drainage on black volcanic rocky soil.  

Nice sunsets!

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The kind of garden I would love to experience!  It's just a treat to see the photos.  Thanks so much Tim, for sharing your amazing garden with us!

 

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colin Peters

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Spectacular, nice companion plants that make a complete organized "jungle" effect. Wish I got the rain that you do.

aloha

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