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PRA Edith's Peninsula Palm Paradise


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Yesterday was a scotching blazing hot Summer day, perfect to go and escape the heat up the Peninsula for a Bay Area style PRA. When we left the Santa Cruz Mountains, it was 98F, but by the time we reached Atherton, it was a pleasant 80F. The whole family came along to indulge in the visual pleasure of Edith's magnificent garden.

She has the biggest fattest most massive sabal ureseana I've ever seen anywhere in California, in fact, it's the biggest sabal I've ever seen in person. This thing is an absolute monster. She tells me she had to remove bricks out of the patio just to make room for the trunk as it grew bigger and bigger. This sabal even dwarfs her large house.

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Of course, one is never enough, she's got another monster uresana starting to get big on the other side of her garden:

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Hey dad, look at all these palms!!! That's a trithrinax brasiliensis on the left and a beautiful brahea armata in the back. That brahea is a monster as well.

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The brahea armata up close, one of the most silvery blue armatas I've seen around:

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Close up of the Trithrinax brasiliensis

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Those BXPC are simply amazing!!!

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There's two of these beauties, the one on the right is stunted from drought stress, apparently the irrigation system failed without Edith noticing it.

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This place could easily be called the Jungle of Doom of the North! I got lost in a sea of palms, palms everywhere, braheas, livistonas, sabals, the whole works!!!

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OK, enough for now, I will post a part II later, it's too nice out not to be gardening. And I need to get my drip irrigation fixed before I get scolded by the PalmTalk Police again.

Some parting shots of brahea nitida, one of the most amazing brahea you can plant!

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the purple petioles on that b. nitida are mesmerizing!

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Great garden! Those sabals are insane! Thanks for posting... Now go fix your damn drip system!!! :P

"it's not dead it's sleeping"

Santee ca, zone10a/9b

18 miles from the ocean

avg. winter 68/40.avg summer 88/64.records 113/25

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Great garden! Those sabals are insane! Thanks for posting... Now go fix your damn drip system!!! :P

Edith has a whole collection of sabals, I'll post mores after I fix my irrigation system.

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The whole family came along to indulge in the visual pleasure of Edith's magnificent garden.

Axel you're talking about Edith Bergstrom?

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GIUSEPPE

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The whole family came along to indulge in the visual pleasure of Edith's magnificent garden.

Axel you're talking about Edith Bergstrom?

Yes.

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nice garden ! :greenthumb:

Old Beach ,Hobart
Tasmania ,Australia. 42 " south
Cool Maritime climate

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I forgot to mention, Edith's garden is in a cold air drainage area, so she gets considerable cold, she has a classic zone 9b garden. She has a large majesty palm that fries on a regular basis. Her p. rupicola was badly damaged this last Winter. Her king palms, on the other hand seem hardier than her p. rupicola.

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Great stuff.

Happy Gardening

Cheers,

Wal

Queensland, Australia.

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Great garden Axel! Great color in that garden, and that is a massive uresana. The palms look like they ate the yard, LOL!

Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

Tom Blank

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Edith's garden is located in what's likely the coldest location in the South Bay Area, actually it's on the peninsula but it 's south of SF by about 35 miles. Despite that, her garden is chock full of interesting and colorful palm species, some of which aren't considered cold hardy. Huge boulders everywhere, mysterious paths leading to secret garden spots, and an array of beautiful companion plants makes her garden a treat to visit.

Jim in Los Altos, CA  SF Bay Area 37.34N- 122.13W- 190' above sea level

zone 10a/9b

sunset zone 16

300+ palms, 90+ species in the ground

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