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  1. Borassus Madagascarensis & Copernicia Baileyana
    8 points
  2. Views outside the following windows: Living Room Bedroom #2 Bedroom #3 Laundry Room
    7 points
  3. View from the deck too many palms to list...can you name them. No fair if you’ve been here Friend drove by in his sporty car
    6 points
  4. Looking east toward Atlantic Ocean. Veitchia, Coccothrinax, Cocos, Ptychosperma, Heterospathe.....Veitchia, Pritchardia, Drymooholeus, Coccothrinax, Hyophorbe, .....
    6 points
  5. From the downstairs AirBnb part of our home:
    4 points
  6. Small house, but every room has a view. View south out front door: Southeast Northeast: North view: Looking northwest: West view is limited: South from a different room: It’s been pouring down this afternoon, but I can enjoy the garden from inside.
    4 points
  7. Just when I though winter was done with, the first 10 days of spring have been very cool. Lows in the 10C, highs at 17-19C... Last week we had a hail storm. No. No freeze, frost or snow. However it did last about 3 minutes. All of my cocos were exposed. Even the little one (haari papua). Well, its been a week after, and all of them are pushing on! (Cue Col. Bogey march)
    3 points
  8. 3 points
  9. First ring of trunk on this one. Easy grower here in SoCal. Started from a small 5 gallon in 2013 I think. Full sun.
    3 points
  10. Years ago my wife pointed out that we had palmy views out every window, both upstairs & down. Funny, I'd never noticed. Women and their attention to detail, geez. Anyway, here's a couple images; one of the north side of the living room, one looking out the second story master..
    3 points
  11. Here you go various Windows throughout the house.this is a fun post it made me clean some windows wife was stoked
    3 points
  12. 3 points
  13. With wildflower season winding down, cacti return to center stage as what looks to be a weeks worth of 80-85+ heat settles in.. Looking over everything, anticipating an average year from most things. While the chilly nights scattered through this winter should help push the Echinopsis / Trichocereus to flower decently, the added wet conditions look like it will keep some of the Echinocereus from flowering well/ if at all this year.. Many Hedgehog sp. like a cool but dry rest. We'll see what happens. Last of the Beaver Tail Prickly Pear at peak bloom, with the last of the Poppies. Stenocactus sp. at it's peak. Echinocereus, **formally Wilcoxia** schmollii. Supposedly endangered in it's limited habitat/ distribution in Mexico. Appears to be Female. Stamens look under-developed / Anthers lack much if any pollen. Echinocereus viridiflorus var. russanthus X E. canus " Cattail Falls " First time flowering.. Even with one flower this year, Brown is an unexpectedly interesting flower color. Combined with those purple-ish and black colored spines, that is a pretty attractive cactus, imo. Have to check again but appears to be either fully functional ( fertile male/ female parts ) or a functional female. Mammillopsis senilis, 6th day of opened flowers.
    2 points
  14. Here’s my living room window on a fine Corona Viral evening The big palm is a Parajubaea cocoides. Show us your palmy window pictures!
    2 points
  15. This poor little seedling with its baby bifid leaves was struggling in a pot so I stuck it in the ground about a year ago. Its twin died and this one looked very stressed after adding a few pinnate leaves. No idea if beetles were to blame (burrowing at the stem base) as I didn't know about them here then. I did nothing as life was just too busy here. Then suddenly it gets a new lease on life and adds bifid leaves again! To me it would be like my gray hairs being pigmented again without chemical assistance. Anybody seen this before with juvenile leaves returning?
    2 points
  16. It’s finally home. Now that I’ve been able to examine it more thoroughly and I know what to look for thanks to @akamu, I’m convinced it’s a regia. It does have the black specs on the crownshaft.
    2 points
  17. First palm in the ground this year, really like this one. Grew strong all winter so into the soil.
    2 points
  18. All 2018 survivors. This is just a small sample I happened to have on my phone. Photos I took around my neighborhood for another thread.
    2 points
  19. 2 points
  20. And finally the front bed is mulched! Along the driveway from L to R: Bordelon banana, Coccothrinax Barbadensis/Dussiana, Coccothrinax Crinita, Coccothrinax Argentea, Zombia x Coccothrinax hybrid (from NatureGirl), a triple ponytail palm, and a sago from a neighbor. The big cycad on the left is an Encephalartos Tegulaneus (ChuckG) and just to the right is an Agave Weberi and a super-clustering Dioon Edule (also ChuckG). To the right of the Edule is a double Pindo, then a Caryota Gigas seedling. The front row is a Weberi "Arizona Star" and a bunch of other random small agaves, Just behind the sago is an Encephalartos Whitelockii (ChuckG) and an Encephalartos Gratus (Carver). I have a big area in the middle that's currently open, probably about 10' x 20'. Maybe it's time for an oddball double or triple? Or a good spot for a slow growing Brahea Nitida or Clara? Something silvery in the middle would offset all the green...hmmm...suggestions?
    2 points
  21. Prob transplant shock, they can take the heat especially if you have been watering extensively. Were the Arecas shade grown? That's a common problem from them grown down south unless they were Sungrown
    2 points
  22. Will definitly buy one when i see one coming my way and plant a really fat Filifera besides it once it gets some size. I have seen them grow together at the same size in habitat and it looks amazing.
    2 points
  23. Awesome! Wish that could grow here. I'm happy to see I'm not the only one. Just yesterday I planted Bismarckia, Nannorrhops, and Pseudophoenix sargentii.
    2 points
  24. Mine are just youngsters but are growing almost as fast as A. cunninghamiana in my yard. Here’s one in the front yard. It was a one gallon plant four years ago.
    2 points
  25. Every window in my house has a palmy view since palms surround the house. First two pics are out kitchen nook with sabal causiarum and beccariophoenix/borassus ethiopum. These are all wide angle to get the height in as much as possible.
    2 points
  26. Since I was blocking off the original "greenway" around the corner, I decided to expand the agave bed to make space for the super-fast-growing "Bluebell Giants" that went from a 5 inch seedling to almost 4 feet in diameter in one year. This was just an excuse of course... I got bored of red lava rock so I made a "stream" and border with salt-and-pepper granite and built a raised area in the back with leftover quartz from when they built the house 30+ years ago. The new bed is an equal mix of sand/topsoil/perlite. At some point I'm going over to Pebble Junction to get some fist-to-head sized boulders to put in there, but here's the overview shot before I finished planting: The burn pile is a bunch of stump chunks from the roadway and path, and digging a monster stump out of the front yard (see future post below). Here's the new NW plantings: And next to the stream I've added a "Mad Cow," a "Crazy Horse," a regular Bovicornuta and am looking for a "Crazy Cowlick" to fill out the Insane Cow Posse area: On the new "point" the Bluebell Giants takes the center with some Weberi and a "tall and narrow" unusual Salmiana from one of the guys at Agaveville. Back up in the raised area is a Wercklei, a Valenciana, a small Ferocactus Latispinus "Devil's Tongue" and a big 6' tall triple of Cereus Repandus/Peruvianus that I picked up from a local FB sales group. I'll get a photo of them later along with the 3 bamboos I planted behind the bed.
    2 points
  27. For a joyous and exciting Coronavirus Saturday night, here's some more progress photos from my yard! On the East side I had a wide greenway of grass all the way around the corner, and I decided to rework that whole side and fill it in with thick-leaved plants to help block the sound. I decided to change the "road" to the well so it went onto the driveway near the garage. On the right side are a couple of Arenga Engleri from ChuckG, a few smaller agaves at the end of the drive, a triple of Livistona Chinensis, Bismarckia and Livistona Mariae. Back in the center next to the philodendrons is a Corypha from PT member Carver, and on the edge of the road behind the Engleri are a few monster Ice Cream Bananas in a row. On the left side is a slightly sunburnt Attalea Cohune (also from Carver) and an Encephalartos Ferox that seems to be adapting to the full sun spot: Continuing down the path I filled in the middle that I'd laid out in January, and my wife really, really, really wanted a walking path. So she got a walking path between an Encephalartos Hildebrandtii and a Whitelockii, both from ChuckG. The Hildebrandtii is flushing now and the Whitelockii is really thinking about it! Just behind the potted Agave Americana is a Bambusa Lako and green crinum lilies. And here's the view from the other side. You can see two of the bamboo plantings on the left. Just behind the pile of topsoil is a Dendrocalamus Latifrons that's just put up 3 new shoots. A couple of feet to the left of the Sylvestris is a Dendrocalamus Maroochy next to the Viburnum. To the right side is a new sea grapes and a cluster of white bird of paradise. I'll have to figure out something to put in the corner arc near the Sylvestris.
    2 points
  28. A rainy afternoon view from the kitchen
    2 points
  29. Armatas want heat and love sun. They are medium growers in my experience. These were among my favorite palms when I lived in arizona. At the edges of the day they are still "lit" with color, and the color in some of them is among the most intense power blue blue palms Ive seen along with copernicia hospita. Here are mine 10 years ago when I left. they were 24" box size and in the ground for about 4-5 y ears at this time
    2 points
  30. My beautiful hybrid latan palm new frond mixed with blue and red color
    1 point
  31. Dude. They're fine. Watch the new growth over the next month. You'll see it looks fine. I've found that the shade grown growth on D. lutescens tends to burn when I pull it out of the greenhouse. No biggie. Don't worry about the watering. Your grass is obviously getting plenty. It's just sunburned. I can't tell on the royal, but I'm not seeing anything that concerns me.
    1 point
  32. That is close, but that species tends to have yellow to straw colored denser spines. When it blooms, if the flowers are cream colored it could be Mammillaria parkinsonii - if red maybe Mammillaria geminispina. Hi 76˚, Lo 42˚
    1 point
  33. great pics everyone looks like we all come home to Paradise no matter what part of the globe we live in keep them coming
    1 point
  34. I only have one of these in my yard here in Hilo compared to the 9 or 10 I had in California. Hard to get it all in the photo. Not trunking yet, but getting big. It’s the palm on the right in the pic below. On the left is Basselinia Humboldiana.
    1 point
  35. The ones on the west side of the pyramid don’t have anything blocking the north winds. And now that I think about it, they have morning shade also. Probably not for much longer though. They’re about to be taller than the pyramid.
    1 point
  36. Last six pack (of palms) for this topic as today was to be the last day of Puerto Rico's earlier than most strict curfew. Another two weeks starts tomorrow. Getting low on some food items but my license plate ends in an odd number (and grocery stores now closed on Mondays anyway). That means I am not allowed to drive until Tuesday. Copernicia eckmanii
    1 point
  37. Ok back to the palms! In the front bed there was a stump that was really frustrating. I had to dig a hole 12 feet in diameter and nearly 3 feet deep to get the trunk and major roots out. I started on the right side and tossed dirt behind me as I went...ugh. The other recent stumps were easy compared to this one, which had an unusually huge number of large diameter horizontal roots. Here's about 2/3 through...in the foreground next to the driveway there's a Coccothrinax Argentea, Crinita and Barbadensis/Dussiana from R to L. I've finally planted one of my Caryota Gigas seedlings in the front center near the Agave Weberi "Arizona Star" in the center. I will have to add a photo later, since I'm missing one.
    1 point
  38. Great looking KO @Cape Garrett. I love this species. Mine is much smaller than yours but I am loving it. Not putting on much height just yet but the new leafs are incredibly large when they open up. Mine always has a lot of blue in it and also some yellow when they open. Below is a couple different angles and different lighting.
    1 point
  39. I'll play.... First three are from my home office windows. Archonto's with Monsertera delicoiosa and Aloidendron Hercules to the west. North windows straight out look at a Cycas tropophylla x micholitzi with some hanging Tillandsia, and the other window looks out on a still young Kentiopsis oliviformis right on the verge of forming some trunk.
    1 point
  40. Dining room window Family room window office area window laundry room window kinda odd, but one of my favorite views is out the kids bathroom window
    1 point
  41. Lovely photos here make my little one look quite unimpressive. However my Schippia is one of a large group of "memory plants" in that looking at it planted out maybe a year and a half ago reminds me vividly of the day in October 2014 when Lucinda McCartney (IPS Director Robert Blenker's Mom) and I were greeted by Dale Holton for a tour of his amazing garden and nursery in Lake Worth FL. Dale gave us gift seeds from his mature plants shown here and after twists and turns in my life this one is in place. I think I have at least one more still in a pot. I had this plan while still working full time in VA (and only visiting my first PR farm) that when I retired and moved I would everyday be adding to threads such as this one no matter how tiny my seedlings were. Yes, life has lots of twists and turns and the days slip by don't they?
    1 point
  42. Here’s a two year old seedling. Harvested the seed from Jamaica
    1 point
  43. I'm only hypothesizing on the Recurvata freeze damage, based on them being in the ground during the 2009-2010 winter at my friend's house. All 3 large ones at his place look the same, he gave me two of them and kept the biggest one. His house was built in 2000, so it's possible they were planted by the original owners. All guesses, really. A lot of changes are afoot! I'm working to absorb some of the highway noise from the East and South, and am adding some clumping bamboo for some rapid hedges. Today I put a "big leaf" type in the front bed next to the garage. There were three 80' water oaks in that corner, so I had to dig out yet another stump, YAY!!! This one was a bit easier, and I only ended up with one wheelbarrow load of roots and stump chunks. Planted in the open area is a Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii (not). It's called "(not)" because the ID is in dispute and it's probably not actually Hamiltonii. But it's supposed to get to 50ish feet and 3" diameter culms, with 1-2" wide x 8-15" long leaves. This one was from Bountiful Earth in New Smyrna: The reciprocating saw and pinch bar did a great job on this stump, it only took a few hours today to extract the big chunks and plant the bamboo. To the right is a Musa Kandarian, and on the far right an Ice Cream banana. Both did pretty well this winter, with only a few burnt leaves.
    1 point
  44. Morning walk through our little Florida town
    1 point
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