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A few garden visits in Costa Rica


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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Formerly Jeff in Costa Rica
 

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Breadfruit or Breadnut tree

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Bromeliads on a Coconut

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Cryosophila guagara

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A smaller plant of the entire leaf Bactris

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Making our way to the larger clump

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Jorge looking for seeds on the largest clump of entire leaf Bactris. The seeds were all green so Jorge promised to collect them for me when they turn red.

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Bentinckia nicobarica

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Chambeyronia macrocarpa

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Perfect looking Joey Palm

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Asplundia

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Mussaenda - they have the white, pink, and orange versions

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Hummingbird nest in the orange Mussaenda and a hanging bird nest with a built in trap door on the side

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Rhopaloblaste augusta

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Dypsis leptocheilos planted down from the house on a steep hillside.

Trunk and crown

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Licuala's in one gallon size bags

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Gardens around the house

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Areca vestiaria

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Ensete superbum

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After a nice hike and a great lunch which included home made tortillas, I headed back to where I was staying with my other friends.

The dirt road that both my friends live on.

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The trees that line the road are loaded with all different kinds of epiphytes. This is a high rainfall area that consistently receives between 200 to 300 inches (5,080 to 7,620 mm) of rain per year.

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Arriving back at my friends place

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I gave them a bunch of palms about a year and half ago

Ropaloblaste augusta

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Bentincia nicobarica

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Corn patch

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One of the Ravenala madagascariensis near their front gate

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Plumeria

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Porch plants

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Food growing area must be covered to shelter all the rain

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Zucchini

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Peppers

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Tomatillos

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Bamboo troughs for growing lettuces. They just finished harvesting lettuce from this one, time to replant.

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Areca triandra

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Heliconia sexy pink

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Ginger

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Sugar cane

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Another shot of Rhopaloblaste

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Bismarckia nobilis

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Carpentaria acuminata

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Spineless form of Bactris gasipaes

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White Mussaenda

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The photos in the last few posts were taken with my iPad and are much larger than the rest of the photos here. Sorry about that, I haven't figured out how to resize those photos yet.

After a couple days in Villa Nueva I headed back to the Central Valley and met up with a new friend who invited me for a tour of his garden.

We met at his woodworking shop first so he could show me around the garden there.

Behind the shop is a pond with a nest of baby Egrets hanging over it

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Black Bamboo

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Veitchia

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Next we headed up to his home further up the mountain

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He showed me a lot of different kinds of fruit trees and other unusual trees from high altitudes of South America.

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This is a Himalayan rasberry that is suited for this elevation. This property is right around 4600 ft (1371 meters)

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One of the many views from the property

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Magnolia champaca

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Out of everything I saw in his garden, this amazed me the most - a small Mangosteen tree producing fruit. I asked him how he got it to fruit so small and he said that he took a large branch cutting from a mature tree and rooted it in the ground and it started producing fruit pretty quickly,

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Heliconia and Hydrangea

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He grows a lot of Dragon Fruit and said it's one of his favorites

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Interesting pattern on a Bromeliad leaf

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Views from the other side of his house looking down into San Jose and the Central Valley

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That's all the photos, hope you enjoyed these garden visits.

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Wow!!How many species of palm trees****I enjoyed watching..Thanks Jeff... Cheers,Aleksandar

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Oh, Jeff, I so much love your fine photography. Gorgeous!

Hope you are enjoying Escazú.

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Patricia

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great thread,jeff,wonderful photos as always from you!

that 1st place looks familiar :winkie:

I've never seen a mangosteen tree with fruit before, amazing! you know its my favorite tropical fruit. :yay:

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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Many thanks Jeff for all these pics.

Because of the species and the age of the plants, this palm collection seems to be the american "twin brother garden" of Doranakanda garden ; Veitchia, Rhopaloblaste, Ravenala, Cryosophila, Carludovica, Bentinckia,Areca and Heliconias and Ginger....

Mangosteen trees are the main grove in the village of which one part is called Manguswatta; mangosteen garden, (watta = garden)

The regisseur of the british plantation was an indian (imported from South India by the british) and in the beginning of the 20th century he convinced his masters to start the mangosteen plantation.

Now still the mangosteen trees exist; the fruits are excellent!

Next month, sorry Paul; I'll eat plenty of these fruits in Sri Lanka!

kindest regards

Philippe

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

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you are a lucky man, philippe!

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

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"Great Visual Treat" as usual from CR, thanks Jeff. Pete :)

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Thanks Aleksandar

Patricia, good to hear from you! You must come for a visit. I love the climate here!

Thanks Paul. Yeah, that first garden is the place I took you and Jes. You wouldn't believe how much things have grown since then.

Dude, I've never seen a small Mangosteen tree produce fruit like that before! They normally take many years from the time they are planted. He really got a kick out of my facial expression when I saw the fruit on it. :bemused:

Phillipe, I had my first fresh Mangosteen of the season a few days ago at the local farmers market. I bought one, shared it with friends, and then when we went back to buy more, the vendor was sold out. :(

Thanks Pete

NAPalm, the climate is hot and very humid at the first two gardens near the coast. At the third garden (high elevation), the temperatures are just about perfect.

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Jeff, another great post from CR. Oh how I truly miss that country and the people.

Cincinnati, Ohio USA & Mindo, Ecuador

 

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