More I-Drive restaurant palms

[Trópico]

Yesterday I took the camera and drove after work to the Charley's down the road from International Drive and Sand Lake Road. I spotted these palms last week while returning from lunch back to work.

Roystonea regia

The restaurant's south wall and corridor, shooting from the main parking lot

Edited July 8, 2011 by Trópico

[Trópico]

The conditions were not optimal for pictures and it was kind of late, right around 7:00 PM and dark and drizzly.

A couple of foxtails with trunking Cocos nucifera

Phoenix sp.

[Got Palms]

Very nice, maybe now with all the big box stores carrying exotic palms, landscapers will get more creative in their variety of palms the plant.

[Trópico]

The royal looking back from the south corridor into the parking lot

Caryota mitis infructescence

[Trópico]

The coconut crown. This palm looks to me like it's been there for many years, surviving both vicious 2010 winters.

The same with this well established Adonidia merrilli

[Trópico]

Lastly, Thrinax radiata and a little bottle palm.

I'm sold, this weekend me and the wife are going for the best in town steak, and more coconuts.

[peachy]

That looks so good. I am surprised the bottle survived the severe winter you had over there. One extra cold night and mine look tatty. Thanks for posting these, always gives me ideas for using the common palms.

Peachy

[BS Man about Palms]

Rain. I remember that stuff...

[Jason in Orlando]

Hey Frank, where exactly is the Charley's? I live right over here off Wallace and Turkey Lake. By the way, anytime you want to stop by and check out the collection, feel free to PM me.

Jason

[Patrick]

Cool pics, a lot of nice stuff.

A California drive would go something like this: Washy. Washy. Washy. Washy. Washy. Washy. Washy. Queen. Washy.........

I'll spare the pictures.....

[edric]

Hi Frank, you're telling me those Adonidia, and Coco where there before last winter, Ed

[Trópico]

Jason- About a block south of the corner of I-Drive and Sand Lake Road, across the street from the Brickhouse. I sent you a PM.

edric- I'm not sure but by the size it looks like those palms have been there for much longer than last winter.

[Eric in Orlando]

Nice, I'll have to check it out.

Up the street at Bass Pro Shops, that enormous Pandanus utilis is still alive after the past 2 winters. Amazing since it is out in the open and most around town have died. P. utilis doesn't like the long cool/cold like we have had. Its been there for 10 years or more, whenever that store opened.

[redbeard917]

Nice, these palms are somewhat familiar as I was down there for work a bunch earlier this year. I saw the Adonidias as I drove by, but didn't catch the Thrinax or bottle palm. The Pandanus at Bass Pro Shops looked great I thought, though I don't see them much. And I was pleased to see some sort of tall tropical-looking palm at a retaining pond at the convention center that I believe Eric posted pictures of many moons ago.

Patrick, there's a thread about some non-Washy's (triangle palms) being planted in a median in Santa Monica, so take heart! I actually saw a nice triangle at a city building downtown in Orlando as well.