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Got an opportunity to stop by Jim's garden over the weekend. I enjoyed taking some of these photos, despite the difficult lighting conditions (bright highlights, dark shadows). Did a little post processing work to bring these photos to life. Hope you like them. Click the link to view the album. https://photos.app.goo.gl/GneVpq1VwwjRpdYr834 points
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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 saccifera24 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.20 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 up19 points
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We have just made PDFs of the Palms of New Guinea book freely available for download! We hope that this makes it even more available to the widest audience. Of course, we still encourage you to buy a hard copy - but the electronic version allows everyone to use it in different ways. We've made two version available - one low resolution and one high resolution. The low res one works really well on a phone. I hope you enjoy it! https://doi.org/10.34885/qepn-3c6517 points
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Finally got around to giving this trio of Dypsis rosea some TLC. After trimming off some old leaf sheaths and fronds, they are looking rather epic. On island, we always referred to this palm as ‘Hawaiian Punch’, for obvious reasons. The smaller of the three needed more trimming and doesn’t have much color. These are not small palms. The white 5 gal. bucket for some scale in the one photo is between the two trunks. Tim16 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!15 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.14 points
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There are not many people keeping coconut trees in Houston, so I would like to share mine. I bought 6 coconut trees in the summer of 2018. They were just sprouted coconuts back then. I live in Pearland Texas, inside Houston city limits. Of the 6 coconut trees, 2 live today. The 4 that died were in pots. 1 of the living ones is in a pot and is still quite small. But I will focus on the one that is in the ground. The attached pictures were taken this year during the freeze that got into the mid teens. The tree actually took 12 hours of 28-32 degree weather before I could get to it. After that it was wrapped up as you can see with a 1500 watt infrared heater pointed at it with no heating cable. I was almost positive it was going to die. But It is doing quite well considering. The newest leaf is growing and 3 leafs besides that are 75% green. In 2021 it got down to 15 degrees! And in 2022 17 degrees. It was wrapped up in blankets and heating cables in 2021. I did not wrap all the leaves. It was completely defoliated and the center frond pulled and was rotten. But the tree recovered! It was mostly defoliated again in 2022. In the summer of 2023 it was over 100 degrees every day for 2 months straight. I have heard they can’t handle heat, but I have seen differently. It was watered 5 times a week. mistakes- Using a heating cable that was 5 watts per foot burned the center part of the fronds, killing the entire fronds. Putting the heater too close has fried a few fronds. The tree has about 10” of trunk now at the base. I make sure to water it a lot during the summers. And I also fertilize a few times a year. Over the past few years I have lost a massive medjool date palm, 2 Sylvester date palms, 2 Beccariophoenix Alfredii, 3 king palms, 1 Cuban royal palm and 2 Christmas’s tree palms.The Christmas’s tree palms, king palms, and Cuban royal were covered and heated like the coconut tree with heating cables but not a infrared heater. And the coconut tree still lives! I can post more pictures in a week or so that are stored somewhere on my computer if people are interested. I can also take a picture of the coconut tree next to the defoliated cidp from the big freeze a few months ago if there is doubt that I am lying about my location.12 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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The palm and cycad society of Australia annual plant sale had some rare and common varieties for sale well worth a visit for any collector of rare plants the show was held in the grounds of mount cootha botanical gardens in Brisbane they had some wonderful palms on display along with cycads as usual you have to be first in the door to get the super rare palms which would have sold out real fast as they say first in best dressed so the early bird gets the worm next time perhaps the prices reflected the market prices for rare palms I believe the growers of rare palms deserve what ever price they put on there plants as a grower myself I fully understand what goes into obtaining rare palm seeds and growing rare palms to a sales point a lot of work mostly done for the love of palms12 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.11 points
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yes, my garden is in west-flanders, similar climate like zeeland in the netherlands...There are a few Butia and Jubaea around here but not many but they are doeing great. Here are a few pictures of my Jubaeas and my Butia. The last time they saw some protection was 2011/2012. I can also grow Livistona chinensis with only some fleece for protection during cold spells. B. edulis is also a good palm for here, suffering only minor leaf damage during winters...11 points
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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 goes10 points