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   A Bus Ride in the Big Orgy

   May 12, 2007 by DoomsDave

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   Howdyall: Last weekend, I had a bum knee, so instead of the Tour de La Habra I had to get out of the house in a way that was less orthopedically intensive. This is the 43 bus from La Habra down Harbor Booley, to Costa Mesa. Snapped pics from the Digi-cam out the window of the bus, so these are candid shots . . . Here is a $400K house, on the main drag of Harbor Booley, almost across the street from the King of Big Screen TV (we went past before I could get a pic). Note the Ravenea rivs in the treelawn!

   

   Last reply by osideterry, June 3, 2007
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   A Business Lunch

   April 12, 2008 by amazondk

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   On Monday I was in Rorainopolis with my customer from Holland and we went with one of our suppliers to have a lunch business meeting. This supplier has about 48,000 hectares of land spread amoung 5 ranches in the area. This ranch, his main one is about 18,000 hectares in area. We went with him to see some of his logs from his project there and discuss future business. Unfortunately we could not stay longer and even spend the night. The Jauaperi river eventually flows into the Branco River which in turn flows into the Negro River. Hopefully next time I can stay longer and do a little palm hunting and fishing. The river through his property has good fishing and there…

   

   Last reply by palmmermaid, April 23, 2008
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   A DAY ON THE ROAD 1 2

   October 30, 2007 by amazondk

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   I have posted quite a few pictures previously of the area between Manaus and Boa Vista, Roraima. I hope some more will be enjoyed. While driving north last Friday to Boa Vista with a stop in Rorainopolis, 475 kms north of Manaus, I got inspired while thinking about Gileno's road trip, shots of Fiji by Jim, and Dave's Southern California street drive by shots. So I took a few pictures of the days trip. I left Manaus around 9 AM. I did not start taking pictures until somewhat north of Manaus, but I guess that is ok. The road, BR 174 which goes to Caracas is a real mess. It takes about 6 hours to travel the 475 kms to Rorainopolis. I never get tired of looking at the…

   

   Last reply by amazondk, November 11, 2007
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   A drive to the beach today

   November 1, 2020 by cbmnz

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   R. Sapida and Phormium tenax in habitat plus planted CIDP lining the entrance to Waihi, NZ

   

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   a duck and many vegetables in Nuwara Eliya

   July 11, 2014 by doranakandawatta

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   In the hill country , middle of Ceylon, around of Nuwara Eliya, the landscape is either designed by the tea plantations, or by the vegetable gardens where people are still growing cabbage, lettuce, carrots, beetroots, cauliflower and other european vegetables, or even strawberries… the british left in 1948, but their vegetables are still there. I visited friends there and the young guy of the family was happy to show me something rare: artichoke !

   

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   A Few Campus Palms - FSU.

   May 27, 2007 by amazondk

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   I came up to Florida on May 16th for my son's graduation from High School in Fort Lauderdale. Time sure does fly. It was a big week for him, graduation, he got his drivers license, and a car. Then we took his new car up to Florida State University in Tallahassee for his orientation for fall semester. It has been a while since I have driven in the States and all the traffic was a big difference from where I am driving normally. I sure wonder where all those people are going to. But, at least there were no crater sized holes to dodge. Nor where there any anacondas or indians. While walking around FSU I took a few pictures of the campus' palms. It is a beautiful scho…

   

   Last reply by mike in kurtistown, June 17, 2007
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   A few garden visits in Costa Rica

   July 2, 2013 by Jeff in St Pete

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   I went back to the Quepos area last week and stayed with some friends for a couple nights in Villa Nueva which is about 30 minutes from Quepos. The next morning I visited some other friends who live right up the road and have a working spice and heliconia farm. Their farm hand accompanied me down into the forest to check for seeds on an entire leaf Bactris palm and I took a bunch a photos along the way. Walking through the farm down towards the river

   

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   A few more Aussie photos

   December 24, 2006 by SubTropicRay

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   Archontophoenix and Calamus in the rainforest

   

   Last reply by DoomsDave, December 25, 2006
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    A few nice Adonidia merrillii at the Columbus Zoo.

    July 4, 2019 by SilverDragon

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    I love animals, but even at the zoo, plants will always catch my eye first

    

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    A Few Nor. Cal. Meeting Pics

    September 25, 2006 by Jim in Los Altos

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    We all had fun at Sunday's Northern California Palm Society meeting at the beautiful garden of Dave Silvia and Eric Christensen. Here's just a few pictures of their serene and harmonious garden. some nice bromeliads on a Butia trunk Mule palm on the right

    

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    A few Palm Springs Scenes

    March 19, 2007 by Scott

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    Took these this weekend....

    

    Last reply by SubTropicRay, March 20, 2007
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    A few palms around San Jose

    October 14, 2007 by Jeff in St Pete

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    I went to San Jose a couple weeks ago to take care of some business. While I was there, I managed to take a few pictures one cloudy afternoon. Two very spiny palms used as street palms. Acrocomia and Aiphanes?

    

    Last reply by Jeff in St Pete, October 18, 2007
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    A few palms from Laos and Cambodia 1 2

    December 10, 2008 by LJG

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    OK, so I got back from a three week trip to Laos and Cambodia. I took a few palm pictures and figured I would show some from their natural environment. First up is Livistona Saribus in Laos. Here is what they look like naturally clean when pushing out past canopy. No way to get scale since it was like 80 feet or taller. Close up Baby one on Jungle floor

    

    Last reply by paulgila, December 18, 2008
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    A few photos from Taroko Gorge, Taiwan

    March 6, 2008 by mppalms

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    I have a lot of photos from my last few trips and have just gotten around to organizing some of them and some of the photos of the yard. I'll start with a few photos from Taroko Gorge, near Hualien on the east coast of Taiwan. There is a great drive down the coast from Suao to Hualien that somewhat reminds me of the PCH around Big Sur. While it was pouring rain on the way to Hualien, we got a nice sunny 25 C day on the way back. This trip was in mid-January. Jason

    

    Last reply by Kim, March 17, 2008
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    A few pics from Coronado, CA

    August 8, 2006 by epicure3

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    veitchia (don't believe this is arecina. Looks more like a spiralis). Closer shot of crown

    

    Last reply by palmsrgreat, August 9, 2006

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    A few pics from the Keys

    July 26, 2007 by NatureGirl

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    Pritchardia thurstonii?

    

    Last reply by SubTropicRay, August 7, 2007
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    A few picture in Solana Beach

    May 1, 2007 by BigFrond

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    My eight years old daughter took these pictures. We will take some more at Balboa park this weekend.

    

    Last reply by Kris, May 2, 2007
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    A few scenes of palms in a vacant lot in Manaus

    February 16, 2009 by amazondk

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    There is a vacant area of land going along a new avenue in Manaus to where I have an office and cargo terminal. This morning was sunny for a change and I stopped to take a few shots. The landscape has a nice mixture of local palms, Mauritia flexuosa, Euterpe precatoria, Oenocarpus bataua, and Mauritiella armata. The avenue on a Monday morning. The vacant land Street side palms growing wild.

    

    Last reply by amazondk, February 19, 2009
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    A few shots of Whitehall

    June 7, 2010 by bubba

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    Henry Flagler is largely responsible for Florida as we know it. It has been said that Florida was the first State founded and the last settled.It's settlement related to the capital expended by Mr. Flagler. Here are a few shots of his house: Side shot: Straight on: Inside ceiling:

    

    Last reply by palmislandRandy, June 16, 2010
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    A few Southwest pics I took

    January 12, 2022 by Joe The Palm

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    Here are a few pictures I took on my trip to the Southwest back in June. I find this area of the nation different and kind of enchanting specifically along Interstate 8 Two pics of a date farm and California fan palms taken in the Imperial Valley near El Centro, CA A pic of the border with Mexico taken near Jacumba Hot Springs, CA A pic of sand dunes near Glamis, CA A pic of two Robustas in Yuma, AZ

    

    Last reply by Joe The Palm, January 14, 2022

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    A group visit to the Palmetum of Santa Cruz

    March 10, 2007 by Carlo Morici

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    A group of local plant-friends visited the Palmetum in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on February 10th 2007. Félix Díaz took many pictures during the visit and uploaded 58 pictures to this album: http://es.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph...._photos It is from his blog "El diario de Baldo Mero" http://diariodebaldo.blogspot.com/search/l...%20Santa%20Cruz Carlo

    

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    A little bike ride 1 2

    January 19, 2007 by ruskinPalms

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    Hi all, it got nice this afternoon so I went for a little bike ride and took my camera for a change. Nothing too rare here, but some interesting shots of stuff that has naturalized to the area. Foxtails in inlet of little manatee river. This is brackish water.

    

    Last reply by ruskinPalms, February 2, 2007
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    A little bit of France (french riviera)! :D

    January 2, 2011 by samirbouag

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    hello everbody! first! i wish you happy new year,health and happiness! and by this cold temperature(france, and florida! good luck)i just wanna show you some pics from the french riviera(where i live) and i wanna show that in high latitude(42 or 43°N) we can also grow palms and others exotic's plants! have a nice day!

    

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    A little trip across the river

    September 11, 2006 by amazondk

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    I went on a little outing with some american friends of mine yesterday. We went across the Negro River to the meeting of the waters where the muddy water Solimoes River (known outside of Brazil normally as the Amazon) joins the Negro River to form the Rio Amazonas (in Brazilian geography). The Negro River at this point where it joins the Solimoes is 14 kms wide and 100 meters deep in parts. It is a lot of water. We then went up to a lake on the other side of the Negro and took a little walk in the varzea flooded forest area. The water is dropping quickly now and you can easily walk where 3 meters of water flowed a few months ago. This area has a lot of forest floo…

    

    Last reply by amazondk, September 14, 2006
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    A little trip to the farm

    January 15, 2009 by Really full garden

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    Today I am going to my new farm to see what progress has been made since last week.This is a veiw from my front yard.Today we will be going to the base of the volcano in the right of the picture.This is the cattle -sugarcane plantation where I live.Its at 50m elevation.We are going to travel by car 55km to about 800m. Volcanos dominate the skyline in this part of Guatemala.This is taken from the parking lot of my supermarket in Escuintla. Main street Escuintla.This is a hot,chaotic,charmless town.

    

    Last reply by paulgila, March 9, 2009