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Well dreams come true and I finally got the chance to visit this legendary garden on the big island of Hawaii! I feel like the majority of the palms I saw were firsts for me! Click here for all of the photos with labels Sclerosperma walkers Masoala madagascriensis Ravenea musicalis Areca gurita Geonoma atrovirens Manicaria saccifera23 points
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A couple years ago I posted a thread on here (which I can no longer find) about wanting to remove about 20 stumps from the north side of the front yard to create a new planter. Well I finally got around to it and since then I’ve been bringing in soil to level out the planter and prepare it for a new row of palms. Since I had already collected and acclimated a good number of palms in the meantime, once the planter was ready to go it was hard to hold myself back, so needless to say this all came together pretty quick. Here’s some photos of the progress as well as how it looks today. There’s room for about 2 more palms to complete the row so it’s almost done.16 points
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I just spent a few nights with my wife in Tofino on the west side of Vancouver Island relaxing and (trying) to surf. Of course, I also spent some time checking out the local flora like always whenever I go. I always love seeing all the giant Cordylines around town (I know, not technically a palm but similar appearance/ feel) and was worried they may have been nuked from the series of bad winters we have had recently. All the large ones I know on Eastern Vancouver Island were fried back in December 2021 and got hit again this year. I was happy to see the ones in Tofino all look perfectly healthy with no sign of cold damage / collapse. For this reason, I would put Tofino as a solid zone 9 and the furthest north zone 9 I know of in North America. Of course, there are lots of palms in Tofino (mostly windmills as anything else is hard to find in Canada) but I was able to find a few others and a very nice palm garden: Brahea (I think): Big Butias, Jubaea, and a CIDP (the only one that was protected, and just minimally with fronds tied up): Big Cordylines Giant Eucalyptus nitens (I think): I am surprised with Tofino’s cool / wet weather (much cooler in the summer and about 4x the rain as my location) that the heat loving palms like Butia look great. I’m sure they grow painfully slow and have been there a long time but still nice to see.12 points
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People will have a hard time making a suggestion because they may not share your aesthetic sense about what ugly and attractive palms are.12 points
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Late last fall I planted a hookeri not sure what to expect colorwise as its my first. while in containers they kind of faded similar to my watermelon but this late winter leaf is holding fast in 3/4 day shade shade. My watermelon was salmon color by the 3rd or 4th day even this time of year and it is planted 25' due east, same winter sun exposure. I had heard that the hookeri had more color, but my watermelon had some great rose red color in low light but more orange content in high sunlight. Light transmitting the hookeri leaf is more boldly red for longer in my 2 palm comparison. Here is show the low light(reflected) color of hookeri in shade and the sun transmitted color more orange in transmitted light at the 12 day mark after the spear opened I couldnt be happier its about 3x longer than I have seen on the watermelon. Shade pic at 12 days followed by sun pic at the same time: At the 3 day mark the color looked very similar in low light but the transmitted color was a stunning red. The spot here is a half day shade spot with no late day direct sun. I have another hookeri and am considering planting it in a more sunny position. I am concerned that the initial red color of transmitted light may fade faster in sun. But that is why we run experiments to see what happens. Any hookeris in sun out there holding up the color? shade and sun(transmitted) close up11 points
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I bought a pair that were field-dug to place on both sides of my steps. My opinion is that Chamaerops are somewhat the "roebelinii" of the hardy world, with their smaller size and multiple curved trunks. Albeit they grow slowly. The one on the left is a normal looking, somewhat silver specimen. The one on the right had a fungal infection from when the rootball sat in the black plastic wrapping all winter. I hit it with copper fungicide and it's pushing clean healthy green growth. But the fronds are like wagnerianus fronds in that they are small and like a palm whose fingers are all closed like a knife-hand. I don't know if this is genetic variety or a symptom of the fungus damage. The third is still in a 15 gal pot. Very green and healthy. Edit: Also, the 15g very green one, is producing flower spikes.9 points
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Thanks for the excellent photos. Just the tip of the iceberg. Ten days ago I drove through some scary deep water to pick up my most recent Floribunda order. Folks on the Big Island are totally spoiled with such an incredible resource right here. Most people on PT know Jeff and Suchin only through mail orders, but here they are major benefactors of the local palm community. Last month the Hawaii Island Palm Society held our annual banquet and rare palm auction. This event bankrolls the society for the upcoming year. Jeff and Suchin donated a collection of super rare, one-of-a-kind, holy grail palms to the auction. Every year Jeff provides descriptions from the stage before the bidding begins. Since his plants are often new to cultivation, Jeff's commentary is key to informing attendees about the remarkable traits of each species. And he drives interest through the roof so bidding quickly soars into the stratosphere. Jeff and Suchin have donated well over $10K worth of rare palms to the auction in just the last couple of years. Getting all these rare palms into wider cultivation is a mission for them. Several other commercial growers and serious hobbyists also provide great plants to the auction, so we can offer our members over 110 species to choose from (20 live auction + 90 silent auction). It's a lot of fun. The only downside is that there are no bargains to be had.9 points
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This is going to sound really callous and rude, but there's literally thousands of threads to read on this forum. And unless you're willing to buy a couple seedlings and wait 5-10 years, you're going to spend more than $50.9 points
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I’ve posted this palm several times here on PalmTalk. Collected as seed by a friend in Madagascar. He referred to it as Dypsis “column” due to its size. It’s a stocky solitary Lutescens-type palm. It recently started seeding for me and I’m getting about 100% germination on the seeds. But what’s interesting is that some of the sprouts are green and some are golden. Does this also happen with the regular common Lutescens? I’ve never sprouted Lutescens so I don’t know. Would love any input. Parent plant: and here are a couple of the community pots of seedlings showing the golden and green coloring: Also interesting to note is the seed of my parent plant was collected 6 years ago. So from seed to seeding plant in 6 years seems pretty fast to me!8 points
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Proves artificial intelligence is very dumb at this point Palmtalk is much more advanced and it's own data blows away any AI at this point.8 points
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Nothing better than wandering around the garden doing a bit of pruning with the autumn weather change in the air now is a good time to be planting some new plants getting them to settle in before winter with more than ideal day night temperatures now is a optimum time to plant in my area with some new cold proven plants from the collection8 points
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I really think you don’t need to do anything to it. It looks very happy and healthy to me7 points
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My Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons are growing well with the recent high temperatures making for good growth I have the tube stock seedlings in the hothouse which certainly helps them in the subtropics creating more heat for growing conditions all I have to do is add water along with foliar feeding blood and bone and kelp extract7 points
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Spare me, Lord. I once had a snowbird from Minnesota ask me how to grow Roystoneas there. Go home, Dude!7 points
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There's a reason you saw those palms in Florida and not Memphis. If you could grow tropicals over there and easily protect them from cold for under $50 then a lot more people would be doing it.7 points
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I agree with Allen 100% I've grown them successfully in TN z6b/z7a to maturity and they still flourish. Here is a Sabal Minor from the Cole Estate in Sparta Tennessee that I grew from seed from plants that naturalized there 65 years ago. Mr. Cole (now deceased) was truly our Tennessee Palm Godfather.6 points
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Actually got some palms in the ground today… t. Takil t. Princeps t. Waggy small mule. divided up some pretty pathetic ferns and got them in the ground, two elephant ear bulbs the size of coconuts 🙄 . more tomorrow, weather is nice this week.6 points
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