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When I found out the dates for the So.-Cal. banquet, I immediately started looking into this to see if I could come out for a long weekend. My friend Ken and I booked our flights, made a few phone calls, and after many emails, arrived in San Diego on thursday morning. Bill (BS Man About Palms)was gracious enough to meet us at the airport and drive us around for the day. Our first stop was at Mission Bay to see the enormous Jubaea's.
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Gday all, I’ve read several stories on the forum where people have attempted to grow coconut palms away from their preferred climate range with a variety of results so I thought I would share my experience in growing one in Perth, Western Australia. Further north in our state coconuts grow extremely well and fruit prolifically but here in Perth (32S) it’s a bit too cool for a bit too long over our winter but like everyone else I really wanted one as I’ve spent a lot of time in our states north and love the look of these palms. I read everything I could find in books and online, including here on this forum before I attempted growing one just to see wh…
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I wasn't sure how to put it in the title thread, but I wanted to get across that this Dypsis is totally unique and was found and "named" by Mardy D. quite some time ago. Mardy has a couple at his place, a beautiful one in his poolhouse, but stretched and some struggling outside. This one is at Jeff B's "Cuesta Linda" and it is coming out of the funk the cold winter of 06/07 and looks like it will do fine. We have talked about building a "winter house" for it due to its rarity. Part of why I'm posting to see if the Aussie guys or "whoever" has one. Our Moderator told me he killed a few in his youth when there were some seedlings out there. First off, its BIG. …
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Hi guys, Some have asked me to post up some pics of our new place. It took a lot to tear me away from my 1/5 acre rainforest garden in Perth to start a new garden 400kms further away from the equator on the cold southern ocean. But if you're given lemons, you might as well make lemonade. Well I'm not quite at the lemonade stage yet as you will see from the pics, but I have plans, and I've already tried to tropicalise the place up a bit. The property is 6 acres, with 2 acres set to a sheep paddock and the other 4 acres are for gardens. There are 3.5 dams on the property. The main dam has been made into a lake of sorts with an island and bridge. The property next do…
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Hi Guys, I live in Melbourne. So very much similar to San Fran. As there are heaps of B. alfredii in Oz, but not many in Victoria yet. I know you guys in CA would have started growing these way before anyone here in Victoria, Australia. So wondering whats the biggest north of Monterey or lets say Santa Maria???
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Yesterday, Madagascarbob asked me to post more photos, so that gave me an excuse to get some up-to-date shots of various areas of our garden. I'll post a few now, and will continue tomorrow. Can only cover but so much (and it's getting close to bedtime here!). Here's our main entrance from Malama Street. A Clinostigma samoense is visible in the upper left, the then there's a Cycas circinalis (and another one on the right hand side of the entrance), a Salacca wallichiana (planted from a 4 inch pot in 1997!), and the smaller palms to the right of it are Pinanga philippinensis. Towering above (and behind) the Salacca are a few more Clinostigmas and Veitchias (difficult …
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I picked up 3 greenhouse grown B Alfredii last month and just threw them into full blazing sun in the ground. They've been in the ground in full sun for an entire month now and today we had our first scorcher day at 92F with 35MPH winds with adiabatic heating down the Mountain. It was hot and dry and these palms are not showing any hint of stress, yellowing or burn. They grew right from the get go, pushing new fronds out even without heat. I really wonder if the frost damage report on Alfredii are based on mis-labeled specimens? I can't imagine a palm this robust and dry/heat tolerant would mind any frost.
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We travelled last weekend to visit and enjoy the hospitality of some friends who invited us to visit their nice palm collection in their cattle ranch. The property is located 450 km to the south of Recife, in the State of Sergipe, close to the Rio São Francisco mouth. Hoover and Liana are still in the process of landscaping the areas around the main houses and shadehouse. They've started planting the first palms some 9 years ago and then went buying seedlings of every different species available, first in their State, then in the region, the Country, etc...now they're in the seed germinating advanced stage (I've seen another similar story...). Anyway, their palm coll…
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Somebody posts this type of topic every so often and I just want to see outstanding palm trees ( doesn't everybody?). So what's the palm in your collection that you are most proud of at this point in time? Maybe because its very well grown or because it is super super rare or maybe both. Please show us a picture of it. Thanks.
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That famous line made famous by Rolf Harris, is the title to a new quiz. For germinating "palm-nuts" and everyone growing seedlings, the aim is to post an 'emerging' seedling photo but ONLY after you identify correctly, the current photo. Only the person who guesses correctly, can post the next seedling photo, and MUST respond to their post ONLY when the right answer is given. NOTE: You might know the answer, but if you've no plans to add a photo please don't post. Take it away George..
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Somewhere on the volcano of Hualalai is our garden/Dean's garden. We are around 2100 ft. / 640m. Hualalai's elevation is 2,521m / 8,270 ft. and last erupted 1800-01. I took these photos of Hualalai when I was near the beach. The last pic is a sunset from the garden...
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I have noticed many times living here in southern cal that palms are incorrectly placed in the landscape. the #1 issue I see is that very poor judgement is used with regard to where and how many palms should be planted. (now I understand that for many here the palms and number collected are of more importance with design considerations being a distant second - you may want to consider skipping this thread) for those interested - i present this key drawing: you will notice that the trees "frame" the house. they solidify the house to the surrounding landscape the key here is that the trees (palms in our case ) project in diagonals from the…
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Lately its been apparent to me ( and a few others) that the board has lost the worldwide discussions that used to take place. It has evolved into a place where only growing in Florida, Texas and similar places is of interest to the majority. Chameadoreas, New World palms and Trachys growing in Texas are big hits. Start a subject on anything not involving the southern USA or chameadoreas and the thread dies an instant death. This is why many of the older members have left, bored with posts about the weather in florida, or growing coconuts in florida, and lack of interest in anything else. I dont know how we can get the discussions back the way they were, but I feel…
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Pinanga Aristata showing a lot of mottling action
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The first fully opened new leaf, opened two weeks ahead of the D. sp. betefaka, about February 15th, since then both have a new spear, but surprisingly enough, as fast as the betefaka grows, the abositrae is leading the pace, just shows you what proper lighting can do, even though it was 94.1 two weeks ago,(they stop growing around that temperature), Easter sunday was a high of 77, the sun is stronger this year, than it usually is in July, before that, I already had to move all 300 of them from spot to spot, now I'm frantic, (or lunatic) I'm not sure which, trying to avoid the hot spot's, before you ask why I don't drive stakes, a use shade cloth, don't bother, I'm left h…
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So, time to start another Pritchardia thread after seeing how nicely they are growing from recent posts. My first Pritchardia's I planted were rescues from a friends garden up in Volcano about 7 years ago and I just assumed they were P. beccariana. They later turned out to be P. pacifica after hoping they were something else, like P. lanigera. Oh well, they are still quite nice. I've got 3 P. martii, 2 P. glabrata, 5 P. beccariana, and a number of small P. maindeniana, and hillebrandii, and 2 P. pacifica's. The oldest P. beccariana has been a rocket and the P. martii are just killer palms. Anyway here are some photos from the garden. Tim …
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Matt in SD said at first this was a borassus, then seeing the flower, he said definitely not! A firend of mine came here a few days ago and talked about this palm. That friend lives 150 Km north of Mahajanga, west coast of madagascar. He saw it in a geological site called "tsingy" in malagasy, karstic ruins... This palm is known locally as a "dimbaka". It is enormous like a corypha but no roads go to that place, that can be reached by plane only or by boat. So, my asumption is that it cannot be an imported corypha. So, is it a Borassus?
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The recent rains have been good to the plants and they're looking a lot more lush. Seems like all the palms are opening new leaves and showing significant increase in size. Tahina Spectabilis
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The Palm Society of Southern California held its latest meeting on September 17, 2016 at the estate of Jeff and Christine Brusseau in Vista, California. This stunning 2 acre property is filled with over 2000 different species of plants, all of them receiving constant care and meticulous attention. Below are some photos I took on that special day. I am very grateful to Mr. Brusseau in permitting me to post these images here for all of you to enjoy. -------------------
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Attention all members. Stay tuned to this topic if you want to keep PalmTalk up and running. We will need a lot of support. The Board of Directors has voted to make some changes that will lead to the demise of PalmTalk. They will need to be reminded of how important this site is and why it is good for the IPS in general to have it. As new information about this issue is posted here please comment so you can let the Directors know how you feel. The first (in) action the Board took was to stop private messaging because they felt we were letting to many people trade plants improperly so we had to shut it down to reduce liability. That also makes it so the site can't …
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I just spent 8 days in the city by the Bay. It is a wonderful city with so much to do and to see. It's also filled with nice people and lots and lots of tourists. During my stay I got to hang out with old friends, see the Golden Gate Park, The Lakeside Park Palmetum in Oakland, CA (opposite San Francisco, but right on the bay), and also Darold Petty's AMAZING palm collection. He knows so much about palms in cloudforest climates and has an eclectic and fascinating collection. He was able to host me with only a few hours notice too, so I am very thankful for that. I was pleasantly surprised by how mild it was during the coldest time of the year! It seems like every part of …
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A few people have been asking to see some palms of our yard. We had some damage fom the hurricane that took it's toll on many of the palms and plants through-out our yard. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do. Our house is now 5 1/2 years old.
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The 2009 growing season's about to come to a end here in the big city of Brandon, FL. I've pretty much gotten all of my goodies into the ground, and am leaving it up to the palm gods to handle it... I'll do what I can, but it's all up to mother nature now... I just thought I'd like a thread to look back on my plantings, and compare results as time goes on... I reckon I'll start with my front yard which has dense oak canopy... Everything here gets about 3hrs full sun, and the rest of the days is filtered bright light... This H. verschaffeltii was originally planted out back just before winter last year with a H. lagenicaulis. The Bottle didn't make it, and …
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Has PT reached a consensus about the cold hardiness of alfies, the "cold coconut" is it 9a, 9b, or, God forbid 10a where you can grow the real deal anyway? My initial impression was that it was easy 9b, maybe even 9a. Since then it seems that their cold tolerance was perhaps over rated. I'm increasingly getting the impression that it can survive 25f, but with a heavy frost it may well succumb to the upper twenties. I'm starting to wonder if the "cold coconut" reputation comes from the fact that it grows well in CA, which could well mean that it is cool hardy, but not necessarily more cold hardy than a nucifera. Thanks
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