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Presenting on palms at the Fresno Home & Garden show
by Josue Diaz- 2 replies
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This weekend I'll be doing a presentation on palms for the Fresno area at the Home and Garden show. Really wanting to showcase unique palms for the area and hopefully introduce people to species other than washingtonia, syagrus and phoenix. Here are a few of my props, borrowed from a local nursery. The allagoptera is very nice, tempted to snag that one myself... Chamaedorea plumosa Livistona decipiens sabal riverside Brahea edulis Allagoptera arenaria
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Best Palm Fertilizer For New Mexico Desert
by Chipper- 7 replies
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What would be the best palm fertilizer for our sand in Las Cruces, New Mexico?
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Sensitive viewers may not want to look at the photos attached. Yes, sometimes we have to do the unthinkable and prune a palm. In this case, it was a Chrysalidocarpus rufescens that is planted near a walkway. This clumping palm can produce a lot of trunks and one was reaching for light by leaning out over the walkway. My wife and I both grew fatigued of having to duck to pass by. It didn't help that a few leaves of my Encephalartos nubimontanus tend to reach across to the edge of the walkway on the other side, leaving little room to pass. Step one was to remove pups from the E nubimontanus on the other side of the walkway. That only resolved part of the issue. So S…
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Palms at a temple in India
by happypalms- 0 replies
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Visiting a temple in India more palms were once again the feature landscape plant along with a cycad used in a formal setting adding great affect to temple grounds
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Satakentia Saddness
by Looking Glass- 1 follower
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Well, this year there have been a few bumps in the road.... The two Satakentia out from went from pathetic little beanpoles, to pretty stout, strong palms. They are some of my fastest growers. Popping spears like clockwork. May 2021.... July 2022.... The other day I noticed a leaf wasn't opening like normal on the strongest of the two. Normally it cracks apart, leaving the new, thin spear of the next leaf, and then pops and opens fully in a couple more days. This one was lingering. So on closer inspection, the new spear seems to have had some rot, and. pushed it out. Perhaps corresponding to our 10 inch rain event th…
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Pacsoa old seed order list
by happypalms- 0 replies
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I found an old society magazine from the palm and cycad societies of Australia with a mail order service for seeds with a few good varieties on the list
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Coconut palms in Vanuatu
by happypalms- 0 replies
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A coconut plantation in Vanuatu was well worth a visit for a short break
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Visiting a nursery in the punjab India
by happypalms- 0 replies
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While visiting friends in the Punjab in India I came across this nursery they are very interested in palms not quite the collectors market for choice but I was surprised to see how popular palms are in the Punjab with a interest in home gardening for ornamental plants around the home with such a large population there is a market for ornamental plants with temperatures down as low minus 2 this year it was a cold winter and with temperatures as high as 48 degrees Celsius with the summer conditions consistently around 40 degrees Celsius in the day any type of plant has to tough and dry tolerant survival of the fittest in India
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Mobile nursery Indian style
by happypalms- 0 replies
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While staying with a family in the punjab living the daily life a street vendor literally pedaling his plants around the the streets selling his home grown plants calling out in the streets garden plants for sale as he rode around I just had to get a photo he was making a living and doing something he loved to do only in India anything goes
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Butia x Cocos
by edbrown_III- 1 follower
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I stopped by Marks a few weekends ago
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Ants!!!!!!!!!
by ZPalms- 3 followers
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I made a post a couple days ago about my coconut having ant problem but my yard has been having a huge influx of ants coming in and you can see trails of them walking everywhere and I'm overwhelmed what to do to get rid of them?? They are in my palm beds and around my pots and under my pots and everywhere!!!! I don't know what to get for them that won't harm potted plants or plants in the ground
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Large palm collection in Phoenix Arizona
by Mr.SamuraiSword- 3 followers
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I was walking near south mountain in Phoenic as I often like going for long walks especially with everything being closed and such, and noticed a house with a large royal palm. I asked the owner if i could look around and he obliged and showed me around. I'll start with the numerous Royals on the property. Here's the biggest one Another big one, very robust and had more smaller ones planted on the left. There were around 25 Royals planted in various spots around the property. Most were around thus size or somewhat smaller He also had many other uncommon palms. Beccariophoenix alfredi …
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Hello all, I'm new the community and have a question about the palm tree I have on the backyard of my new home I just purchased. The palm tree is really tall estimated about 30 feet. It has a large amount of root exposed on the trunk and pretty much large expansion of root all around. It is a nice beautiful tree and I would love to keep it as long as I could. First, I'm curious why there are a lot of root on the trunk and if it's safe to remove some? Secondly, is it also safe to plant some tree around it. Really appreciate your input in advance.
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Help Save my queen palm
by Palmtreedude69- 27 replies
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Now I usually don't really like queen palms but when I had my house built the builder planted this one it was fine ever scince 1997 but now it seems to really be suffering what should I do to help it?
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Burretiokentia Koghiensis 1 2 3
by surferjr- 90 replies
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These are essay grows...like a kentia, buy faster!!
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Burretiokentia hapala
by TampaBayRay- 9 replies
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This palms been trying to flower for past five or six years it just aint gettin enough sun so ive been root-prunin it for a digup well digup time had come and its cool seeing them pearly white new roots👍
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Palms in the punjab in India
by happypalms- 0 replies
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While recently traveling in India i was fortunate enough to see palms in the landscape although none in habitat but certainly a few phoenix Washingtona palms used to great affect in the landscape and a few chamaedorea sefritzii and some golden canes used as patio plants outside shop fronts India is a very unique place to travel through that’s for sure
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Couldn't find the photo if I took one, but I saw a 25ft+ tall Phoenix reclinata in Mission Bay, San Diego last year with all suckers trimmed away to present it as a single stemmed palm. It looked good. I imagine it would be a bit of work to maintain it in this fashion. Perhaps the one I saw did not have a vigorously caespitose habit to begin with? Anyone growing one this way? Looked like this photo from palmerasyjardines.com
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pruning/trimming palms
by kkeener- 1 follower
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We installed a young European or Mediterranean Fan Palm last year, and the lower palm branches are hanging down; they are green, but cover/shade new grown at the bottom. Can I /should I prune those off; we would still have a nice top/umbrella for photosynthesis.
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Opening spear issues
by Plantking165- 1 follower
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Had this happen with the previous spear that opened before winter started where it opens from the bottom and the top half stays sealed it doesn't want to open correctly and I'm unsure why I opened the previous one by hand months ago and it burned due to harsh sun but it took 2 months from when it started opening and thats when I decided to open by hand but now I have another spear doing thr same thing. I took pictures of how the spears usually open vs how they open now and the previous one at the top still is tightly closed any info on why this happens and how to fix it would be appreciated. They used to open from the top down but now they open from the bottom up and get …
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Pseudophoenix sargentii
by TampaBayRay- 1 follower
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Gathered up a quick hunard nutz
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Palms of New Guinea - Pre-publication offer!!
by Bill Baker (Kew)- 1 follower
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I am delighted to announce that the long-awaited book Palms of New Guinea is now available to pre-order! The book is scheduled to be published in February 2024, but you can already purchase it via Kew's online shop: https://shop.kew.org/palms-of-new-guinea Members of the IPS can receive a 20% discount on pre-orders - we are glad to extend this offer to members of Palmtalk too. Just quote the code "PALM" at checkout and your discount will be applied. The book is authored by an international team comprising William J. Baker, Anders S. Barfod, Rodrigo Camara-Leret, John L. Dowe, Charlie D. Heatubun, Peter Petoe, Jessica H. Turner, Scott Zona and John Dr…
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Post your best photos - Palm Talk Hall of Fame 1 2 3
by BayAndroid- 8 followers
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Just for fun, everyone post up their favorite photos they've ever taken! I'm aware there could be more than one, so that's perfectly fine, keep them coming! Today this picture came to my mind =)
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Medemia Argun 1 2
by Hal- 1 follower
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I have a single Medemia Argun in Phoenix, Arizona that is starting to flower for the first time. I am not yet sure if it is male or female. If it turns out female, is there anyone out there with some pollen I can acquire? If it ends up male, is there anyone in need of pollen? Thanks, Hal
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What type of palm do I have?
by Richar318- 4 replies
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I bought this palm in Vegas 4 years ago and have been growing it in a pot. I lost the tag on it and don’t remember what it is. I’m in zone 7 Boise, Idaho and want to plant it in the ground. I’m thinking maybe it’s a needle palm but I’m just not sure.