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Tassie Troy's Garden 2015


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Looking fantastic Troy, good to see the Brahea Armata doing so well!

How's the Trithrinax going?

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Thanks Guys

Pete cant remember if i posted the Trithrinax will have a look tomorrow.

Ben - your collection is as inspiring as it can get ! :greenthumb: :greenthumb:

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

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For Peter G Trithrinax acanthacoma

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

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Everything looks perfect Troy. Well done. You must be the Rhopie king now.

Also I didn't know that Hobart got 450-500mm rain annually. I thought it was wetter down there.

Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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hi Tyrone

Yes i have a good collection of Rhopalostylis

Auckland white flower "upright version " from Jonathan

Great Barrier Island - from Pogobob

Chatham Island from Pogobob

South Island from Pogobob

Baueri from Pogobob

Waipatiki bay North Island variety from Benz

East cape ( still only tiny ) from Peter G

Baueri Cheesmanii AKA purple crownshaft from Pogobob collected from Ron Stricklands place in San Clemente .

Seedlings from Colin wilsons R sapida ( unknown providence )

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

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Thank you Akaranus i just had a look at your garden !

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

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Wow, that is one beautiful garden! Great palms, and the use of xeric plants and colour is really great...nice work!

Rusty Bell

Pine Island - the Ex-Pat part of Lee County, Fl , USA

Zone 10b, life in the subs!...except when it isn't....

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Nice work Troy,truly amazing and colourfull garden!Hopefully make it down there one of these days and you can show me the sights....better still,maybe a few Rat packers could plan a mini tour of the Apple Isle...watch this space!....cheers Mike. ps the mule palm is CRANKING! :drool:

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Congrats Troy. Your garden and your photos chronicling your adventures and the gardens of others are second to none. Well done sir.

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Great work Troy! I really love all the accent plants, rocks, etc. Hope I get the chance to see it in person some day. Eventually it will just be one beautiful oceanic forest of palms!

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Looks very awesome Troy. You’ve done an excellent job on the new home landscaping. I love coastal garden because you can grow so many different palms and exotic from around the world.

Your garden is so vibrant and that’s what I love the most.

- Roger.

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NICE!!! I approve this garden. That's a major turn around from the barren land just a few years ago.

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Looking fantastic Troy :greenthumb: :greenthumb: :greenthumb: , is that the Brahea armata I gave you? Its growing a lot better than mine.

I'll have to come down soon and look at the garden again.

Sol Cooper

Hobart Tasmania

42 degrees South

Mild climate - mostly frost free

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:greenthumb::greenthumb:

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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Mike Newcal Ye the Mule is cranking by Tasmanian growth Standards anyway !

You are due for a visit down here Summer and avoid the stifling heat !

Thanks Rusty i like the desert area (although it hasn't stopped raining for days )

and Hammer i like photo documenting my adventures

Firepalm an oceanic forest of palms! sounds great plenty of Rhopies to grow up thats for sure.

Thanks palm crazy i like the many different colors that you use in your garden too.

Big frond its great to look back on old pictures and see how everything has grown

Sol (Nomolos ) you are well overdue for a visit !

No it's a different Brahea armata the one from you is Glacial for some reason ??

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

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Glacial? what is that?

Sol Cooper

Hobart Tasmania

42 degrees South

Mild climate - mostly frost free

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Very slow growth - some palms of the same species differ in growth rate some are runts and some are rockets

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

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Peachy

Talk of moving from QLD to TAS to grow palms??? I've heard it all now :floor:

Waimarama New Zealand (39.5S, 177E)

Oceanic temperate

summer 25C/15C

winter 15C/6C

No frost, no heat

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Love it. One thing though, I think that planted lepi may be on the ropes and could do with some H2O2. Can't quite be sure from the photo but they do seem to have a habit of chucking out a few smaller leaves but often seem to recover on their own.

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Love it. One thing though, I think that planted lepi may be on the ropes and could do with some H2O2. Can't quite be sure from the photo but they do seem to have a habit of chucking out a few smaller leaves but often seem to recover on their own.

Norm the planted Lepidorrachis was transplanted from one part of the garden to another spot 5 months ago. I broke quite a few of it's roots as i pulled it out :bummed: and it threw out a shrunken leaf but has bounced back to a normal sized frond now and is growing well. is on a bubbler connected to an automatic irrigation system and is always moist.

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

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Well done with the Hedyscepes Troy, they must love your climate.

Oceanic Climate

Annual Rainfall:1000mm

Temp Range:2c-30c

Aotearoa

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Yes Mike the Hedyscepes grow like escapee's in the ground and i have another 50 in the Shade house that come from Pogobobs garden.

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

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Hi Troy, that's an amazing collection of succulents, Geoff must be in awe as well, a well rounded colletion too, thanks for all the hard work, Ed

MOSQUITO LAGOON

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This is an incredible garden. I'm speechless.

Joe Monkey

Fort Lauderdale, FL

zone 10B+

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Very nice! :)

Carambeí, 2nd tableland of the State Paraná , south Brazil.

Alt:1030m. Native palms: Queen, B. eriospatha, B. microspadix, Allagoptera leucocalyx , A.campestris, Geonoma schottiana, Trithrinax acanthocoma. Subtr. climate, some frosty nights. No dry season. August: driest month. Rain:1700mm

 

I am seeking for cold hardy palms!

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It was disconcerting to see a few bromeliads (a spotted one looked like an Orthophytum) that would seem at home in the Florida steambath. I suspect that New Zealand breeders, in particular, have worked with plants that live at higher elevations in the tropics, and therefore like the oceanic climate.

Fla. climate center: 100-119 days>85 F
USDA 1990 hardiness zone 9B
Current USDA hardiness zone 10a
4 km inland from Indian River; 27º N (equivalent to Brisbane)

Central Orlando's urban heat island may be warmer than us

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I went to Troys garden the other day and the growth is phenomenal. The washingtonia trunk is about the fattest I have ever seen.

He is a true master grower :greenthumb:

Sol Cooper

Hobart Tasmania

42 degrees South

Mild climate - mostly frost free

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I went to Troys garden the other day and the growth is phenomenal. The washingtonia trunk is about the fattest I have ever seen.

He is a true master grower :greenthumb:

Time to get the automatic irrigation system Sol and the drippers :interesting:

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

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  • 4 years later...

Recognised that had seen this place on here when this came up on my youtube feed today

 

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7 hours ago, Firepalm said:

The garden is looking great Troy! Nice work! Love all of your ferns and companion plants.

Its wonderful  that ABCTV's Gardening Australia recognises  how significant Troy's garden is.  He has a gift for placement , so his garden is a real work of art , with surprises and splashes of colour everywhere . Like all the palm people I have come across he is incredibly  generous with his time and his plants and it has been a privelege to have had him as a mentor for  me and my palm garden here in Hobart over the last 5 years.  

Well done Troy !

PS In all my visits to Troy's place I have never noticed that  curious infestation of seagulls heard at the beginning of the tv segment  ! Maybe they were attracted by the ABC's drone ! LOL

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Yes, looking good Troy,  we were surprised to see you and the garden on TV the other night quite by accident.

Before they told us, I said "Look lizzy I know whose garden that is!" 

Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

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Great garden Troy well done!

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

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Troy spectacular garden! Congrats on your segment on television that by the way is seen worldwide. Even though I am in the USA I have been a loyal Gardening Australia viewer through their podcast rebroadcast.  Loved the feature on you and your garden.  Don't know how you do it in such a cool climate.  Looks fantastic, might need to borrow some tricks from you during our short cold spells.

 

Lou St. Aug, FL

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