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Huntington Botanical Gardens image gallery (May 21, 2016 PSSC meeting)

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Hammer Grand Master

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52 minutes ago, Silas_Sancona said:

GREAT pictures Pando!.. Missed a chance to tour the Conservatory the last time i visited. Nice to see such a diverse collection in there. You or anyone else get pictures of the Ombu Tree above the Bamboo garden/KoiPond?

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Hammer Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Pando said:

100 bonus points for anyone who can guess the name of the famous actor who just walked by   :floor:
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Pando:

What a fantastic tour of the Huntington! Thanks for posting these images.

Bandy-legged, dork haircut with some gray in the back, lifter heels...I'll go for Sean Penn, fervently hoping it's no-one from this forum :innocent:

 

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LJG Grand Master

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11 hours ago, Pando said:

Hahaha.... nope :)

I'm incognito. Actually there is only one (1) picture of me on the internets. And only one other Palmtalker knows where it's at.

Found it!

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Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

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"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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On 5/23/2016, 8:10:50, Pando said:

I'd like to ID these two.

Is the fan leaf palm Mauritia flexuosa?

What about the fish tail leafed slender palm in the foreground?

14 hours ago, Pando said:

100 bonus points for anyone who can guess the name of the famous actor who just walked by   :floor:
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Too short to be Matt B . . . .

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On 5/23/2016, 8:10:50, Pando said:

I'd like to ID these two.

Is the fan leaf palm Mauritia flexuosa?

What about the fish tail leafed slender palm in the foreground?  Ptychosperma, caryotoides, burretianum or waitinanum?

Thanks

 

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G. argyrata. If you look closely, you can actually see there is a Washingtonia robusta seedling hiding in the upper left.

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The always photogenic Brahea decumbens! One of my favorites.

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Pando Grand Master

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8 hours ago, stone jaguar said:

Pando:

What a fantastic tour of the Huntington! Thanks for posting these images.

Bandy-legged, dork haircut with some gray in the back, lifter heels...I'll go for Sean Penn, fervently hoping it's no-one from this forum

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Thanks Jay!

Not Sean Penn.

A hint - he played a movie character named "George"...

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7 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Ptychosperma, caryotoides, burretianum or waitinanum?

Thanks Dave, I'm not sure, as the shape of the seeds don't match any of them. The seeds are shaped like beans.

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Great pictures msporty! I wish I had more time to stroll around outside to look at some of the gems growing there. The G. argyrata looks huge!

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5 hours ago, Pando said:

Thanks Jay!

Not Sean Penn.

A hint - he played a movie character named "George"...

I have no idea why I'm guessing Christian Slater..

 

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I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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Hammer Grand Master

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13 hours ago, Pando said:

Thanks Jay!

Not Sean Penn.

A hint - he played a movie character named "George"...

Brendan Fraser

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On Mon May 23 2016 20:40:50 GMT+0530 (Sri Lanka Standard, Pando said:

I'd like to ID these two.

Is the fan leaf palm Mauritia flexuosa?

What about the fish tail leafed slender palm in the foreground?

Thanks

fish tail leafed slender palm balaka seemannii or any balaka species 

Thanks for great photos 

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45 minutes ago, User00 said:

fish tail leafed slender palm balaka seemannii or any balaka species 

Thanks for great photos 

Thank you so much, this is it!!!  In davesgarden there is an image of one growing in SoCal (Dennis W.?). I wonder if it's still growing and is anyone else growing it here? Looks like a zone 11 palm, so, perfect for my garden until it gets cold. :mrlooney:

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19 hours ago, Pando said:

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Love the detail throughout the dof, so crisp!  Comp is terrific on both the closeups and the landscape shots!  Great color saturation too on all your photos.  Wait.... wrong website, I'm not on a photography website, I'm on Palmtalk.  Well bottom line it all holds true, fantastic photos Pando!!!  I was hoping I could pull up the metadata and look at your camera settings, but no access here.... shucks.

33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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Thanks Adam and Tracy! Below is some metadata for the last image. It's been resampled to 25% original size using Lanczos2 filter before uploading to imgur (which strips all metadata). Sometimes I do tiny adjustments to the images to balance the chroma and luminance, but you'd only notice if you compared them side by side. Usually the camera gets me 99.9% there.

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Hi all!

My name is Brad. I am the Conservatory Gardener here at The Huntington. It was great to meet some members of the palm society! It is a semi rare occasion when the conservatory is one of the main attractions for an outside group.

I will use this thread to post pictures of our palms and cycads. Although there are some pretty amazing photos in here already!

 

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1 hour ago, SluggerFish said:

Hi all!

My name is Brad. I am the Conservatory Gardener here at The Huntington. It was great to meet some members of the palm society! It is a semi rare occasion when the conservatory is one of the main attractions for an outside group.

I will use this thread to post pictures of our palms and cycads. Although there are some pretty amazing photos in here already!

 

Welcome Brad.

I believe we meet that day and you provided some killer "tours" for our small group!

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Thanks Darold and Jim!

Jim - We did. It was you, Hammer, and Brett? I believe it was you who was showing me pictures of your stellar landscape! Let me know if you guys ever find yourself planning another trip to The Huntington.

Planning on snapping some pictures of our inherited collection of Loran's cycads. Some amazing stuff!

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3 hours ago, SluggerFish said:

Thanks Darold and Jim!

Jim - We did. It was you, Hammer, and Brett? I believe it was you who was showing me pictures of your stellar landscape! Let me know if you guys ever find yourself planning another trip to The Huntington.

Planning on snapping some pictures of our inherited collection of Loran's cycads. Some amazing stuff!

I was wondering about the collection. I saw some new cycads speckled among taller grasses at the area where the new welcome center pathway met the old road at the palm/succulent gardens. There was a middleburg next to the path but most were too far away to see and buried among tall grasses. There was a group of horridus(?) below a new restaurant in the same area but it was roped off. What's the plan with the new cycads? I was saddened that they were so inaccessible to visitors while tons of ordinary Agaves were prominently planted along the same walkway. 

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On 5/21/2016, 10:51:42, Pando said:

More pics later, but to get this started, here are a few images I took today:

 

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What are the two palms to the right in the fifth picture?

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Pando

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28 minutes ago, Matt in OC said:

What are the two palms to the right in the fifth picture?

Verschaffeltia splendida, the left one is shown closeup in the second image.

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9 hours ago, Pando said:

Verschaffeltia splendida, the left one is shown closeup in the second image.

Thanks, Pando. I made my first trip there a few days ago. Just amazing!

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