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Palm Nurseries in the Canary Islands
by Carlo Morici- 28 replies
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In Spring 2004 I went to the island of Gran Canaria and visited some palm nurseries. I have just rescued some pictures taken in nurseries with a large offer of species: Viveros Godoy and Viveros Mogán. 1) VIVEROS GODOY , on the North Coast (Cooler and cloudier) by Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Howea belmoreana (H.fosteriana behind) Gaussia spirituana (and Pritchardia hillebrandi) Cyrtostachys renda Hyphaene coriacea
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Wandering the streets of Townsville
by greysrigging- 1 reply
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Made a quick trip over to Townsville last week ( investment property inspection.....a poor one as the Townsville property prices are in a deep slump.....oh well.... ) Townsville is probably the driest location on the whole Queensland coast. Residents of wetter areas to the north and south refer to the city as 'Brownsville'. Annual average rainfall is 1100mm or 44". However, most of this falls in the summer months and winters are generally rainless or a couple of inches at best. For our visit the place was nice and green courtesy of a 150mm or 6" unseasonal dump of rain in late May If one is prepared to pour the water on during the dry months nearly all sub tropi…
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Macrozamia sp Enneaba
by Tyrone- 20 replies
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About a year ago I travelled up to Exmouth in the tropics on the west coast of Australia. On the way back home we stopped in about 200km north of Perth at this stand of Macrozamia sp Enneaba. There are three species of Macrozamia in Western Australia. Macrozamia reidlii from around Perth down to Albany on the southern coast line, Macrozamia dyeri from Esperance to Israelite Bay on the south coast, and this undescribed species which reportedly exists from Perth's northern suburbs to around Enneaba south of Geraldton. Some consider it to be Macrozamia fraseri, which is a name applied to the western Macrozamia by some. I'm of the opinion this is a different species with a…
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Costa Rica
by Palmensammler- 4 replies
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Hi all, in June me and my wife will go to Costa Rica for our silver wedding anniversary and I want to ask if anybody has some proposal for either good palm pictures or seeds to be picked up? We travel around for three weeks and either my camera or my empty plastic bags are ready... Eckhard
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Thought I would start a photo thread of my travels in the Northern regions of Australia. I'm a keen 4WDriver and I always have a camera handy.....and being a lapsed palm enthusiast I seem to have quite a few pics of local palms ( native and exotic ) in my photo files. About an hour and a half south west of Darwin on Bynoe Harbor, there is a nice little resort called Crab Claw. These pics from November 2016.....start of our 'Wet Season' Foxtails growing in pure beach sand only 3' above the high tide line. They really are a tough species that can handle harsh growing conditions way different to their native habitat on Cape York Peninsular. …
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Here are some photos I took of palms and plants at Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios. Lots of tropical plants. At IOA, they have planted a couple dozen Caryota obtusa that are getting large. http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/wdwplants/al...ir=1bea&.src=ph
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Ann Norton Sculpture Garden
by bubba- 1 follower
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Pedro and I did a fast check of the condition of the Ann Norton Sculpture Garden on Thursday Jan. 21,2010. This is over a week after the Jan.2-11 cold event in which no freezing temperatures were incurred but a long time-frame between the low 60'sF and approximately 35F. As reported previously, this is the longest cold event since 1940 for South Florida. We were pleasantly surprised but there were certainly issues presented to many out of the ordinary and rather Tropical specimens. Start with a Satakentia liukiuensis: A big Teddy among others in there somewhere: Ptychosperma macarthurii: A large Cocothrinax crinitia:
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When in Colombo
by doranakandawatta- 1 follower
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When in Colombo, enjoy Barefoot gallery garden restaurant But they recently lost some coconut trees I loved ( storms?) here in april 2014: or The Gallery Cafe ( earlier Geoffrey Bawa's office) These places are where art and culture meet good atmosphere and excellent cuisine
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SECOND VISIT TO TASMANIA
by Phoenix Bob- 1 reply
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Recently returned from a week's stay in Tasmania where we were guests of Tassie Troy and his wife, Danylle. Both Troy and his wife went far beyond the boundaries of being excellent hosts. Each took time off from work in order to show us some of the fantastic sights Tasmania has to offer visitors from other corners of the world such as my wife and me. We have alway contended that New Zealand is our favorite spot on the planet, but Tasmania is closing in on that number one position. The pristine condition of Australia's southern-most state is superb, and I would suspect that its remote location (250 miles south of mainland Australia) has much to do with its near-perfect…
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Staying at the New Oriental Hotel
by doranakandawatta- 0 replies
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In Galle, down south, the Old New Oriental Hotel has been renovated and is now Amangalla but the charm is still there.
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Hi ! Today i'd like to show you some of the palms of "parc des palmiers", which lies 10 km from my place, at an elevation of 600m. Palms I can't identify are numbered so you can identify them if you want I let you admire : 1. Bismarckia nobilis 2. Butia capitata 3. 4. Beccariophoenix sp. 5. Beccariophoenix sp. 6. 7. Dypsis madagascariensis 8. Macrozamia communis 9. Woodyetia bifurcata 10. Allagoptera arenaria 11. 12. Caryota urens 13. Copernica sp. 14. Sabal minor var. louisiana 15. Copernica alba. 16. Ravenala madagascariensis 17. Aiphanes horrida …
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Palmetum, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
by Aaron D.- 35 replies
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Hello all, I am new on this forum. I live in Belgium and last summer I went on holiday to Tenerife. And of course I had to visit the Palmetum. So I wanted to share a few photo's. I'm sorry but the pictures are not in the right order.
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trip to Costa Rica
by Palmensammler- 0 replies
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Hi, I'm travelling to Costa Rica at the end of June, Are there any proposals for palms? I'll travel throughout the whole country and want to collect as many seeds as possible. What do I have to expect? Regards Eckhard
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Want to say thank you to Josh-O
by GottmitAlex- 1 reply
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I had the opportunity and honor to get a quick tour of Josh-O's home garden by none other than the man himself. Aside from his excellent and welcoming demeanor, helpfulness, great spirit and alacrity, his garden made me speechless. It is fantastically well organized. I was beside myself looking at the exquisite specimens he has in his premises. I should have taken pictures. He has such wonderful exemplars of select palms and dypsis, one can only begin to fathom what he has in his Vista Nursery. Here again Josh-O, thank you for the tour. Hidden tropical paradise in Carlsbad. Alex
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Mohoti Walauwa in Bentota
by doranakandawatta- 5 replies
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Again, I may share pictures of the nicest small boutique hotel I know in Bentota, where I really feel at home:
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Cypress Gardens Adventure Park, Orlando,FL december 2015
by samirbouag- 7 replies
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Hey everyone, i hope you guys are doing well, I just wanna share with you some pictures i took in this fabulous garden betwen Orlando and Tampa.
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Leu Gardens Orlando Thanksgiving
by Cocoa Beach Jason- 33 replies
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So my son and I decided to take a stroll through Leu Gardens today for a couple hours while in Orlando. I am not a photographer and I merely snapped some photographs with my cell phone. My 4 year old son Liam for scale. I'll just get right to it: Cyphosperma balansae
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A Visit to the Huntington Botanical Gardens
by sbpalms- 1 follower
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I had the opportunity to visit the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California yesterday and was simply amazed by the variety and number of plants. Here are some pictures I took during my adventure.
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Cinnamon tree rest
by doranakandawatta- 3 replies
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Cinnamon tree and old colonial house, See the colored new leaves of the cinnamon tree
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Martin Wickramasinghe's house and the war
by doranakandawatta- 0 replies
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Martin Wickramasinghe is an important writer for the sinhalese culture, his house is now a museum, many local visitors respectfully visit the place, few foreigners are curious. Did you notice what a female officer of RAF can do?
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LUNUGANGA
by doranakandawatta- 6 replies
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I posted a thread about Brief garden, Bewis Bawa's property. Bewis was the brother opt Geoffrey Bawa, a famous srilankan architect, who created Lunuganga, his own paradise, close to Bentota, in a uninterrupted work from 1948 until 80's. It's now open to visits, http://www.geoffreybawa.com/lunuganga-country-estate Visits I do almost every time I stay in Bentota, and I remember all the visits with Geoffrey. Brief is a garden, but Lunuganga is a landscape.
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Hi, I went to Gran Canaria back in April 2015, and I took a few pictures of palm trees with my bad-quality smartphone. Here are some of my photos (plus a bonus landscape picture): I'm not sure of the palm species in picture number 5 (the palm in the central part of the photo), anyone could help me please?
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Going to Costa Rica
by Stethoscope- 2 replies
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Hey everyone, I'll be going to Costa Rica (Arenal, Monteverde and Carara national park next week). Does anyone have any suggestions on special gardens/arboretums and conservatories I should visit? Any native palms which should command my attention? I plan to bring many small zip lock bags with me....
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Ti-Palm' invite you this time to discover the incredible garden of Cayenne's Herbarium in French Guiana. It is a fantastic collection of rare palms collected and planted by Jean Jacques DE GRANVILLE, a great specialist of palms who was before the Director of the Herbarium. Here is some pictures : Arenga brevipes : Arenga tremula : Caryota rumphiana : Deckenia nobilis :
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Another Flecker trip ,,
by aussiearoids- 15 replies
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Had to drop of neighbors at Cairns airport yesterday , so spent a few hours wandering around snapping away . This Dypsis , labbeled as nauseosa is about to flower A hybrid Ceratozamia keusteriana x hildae Think this is Dransfieldia whatever .. Lots of infl. on many of the exotic trees there , here is a large Amherstia , looking straight up . and a Saraca
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