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And so it starts again...


Daryl

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Thanks for showing us pics of your new place Daryl and all the very best with this new garden. It's an incredibly stressful thing trying to literally rip up roots and place them down somewhere else (at least it was for me). I still haven't fully moved from my old place and we moved down 3 years ago. I've still got some palms to dig up and move on before we sell it. You've got a beautiful spot there in a beautiful part of the world and with your extensive knowledge will transform that new place into an even more beautiful place than it already is.

Glad to know Satakentia transplant well. I have one I need to dig up from the Perth garden but not sure if it will make it down here. How well do Chambeyronia transplant?

 

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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The local topology... Mt Nathan area and my little valley in particular...all eucalypt forest with pockets of rainforest on better soil...mostly regrowth after excessive timber logging in the 19th/20th century

 

Here's a few more palms that we planted 2 weeks ago..all of the Ratpack turned up to help out...thanks to Colin, Mike, Andy, Wal as well as newer Ratpackers David Tanswell and Paul (Comic097), plus Roger, who has recently relocated from Melbourne (saw the light)...couldn't have done it without you guys...

This is one of the Dictyosperma album var conjugatum that we relocated from Wal's old place...

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Here's the crew...Me, Colin, Mike, Wal, David, Roger and Andy, with Paul taking the photo... over 115 palms were planted on the day..champion effort from everyone!

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David getting into it...

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More planting activity

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Wal taking care to get those Kentiopsis just right...

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On 1/31/2017, 9:30:47, Tyrone said:

Thanks for showing us pics of your new place Daryl and all the very best with this new garden. It's an incredibly stressful thing trying to literally rip up roots and place them down somewhere else (at least it was for me). I still haven't fully moved from my old place and we moved down 3 years ago. I've still got some palms to dig up and move on before we sell it. You've got a beautiful spot there in a beautiful part of the world and with your extensive knowledge will transform that new place into an even more beautiful place than it already is.

Glad to know Satakentia transplant well. I have one I need to dig up from the Perth garden but not sure if it will make it down here. How well do Chambeyronia transplant?

 

Chambeyronia transplant well Ty

 

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Beccario alfredii

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Dypsis canaliculata

 

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Saribus rotundifolius

 

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Hi to everyone! 

Planting palms all day sounds just perfect! Wish I could have joined in.

Someday I'll make it over there and perhaps you all will get to my part of the world.

Lovely palms and I look forward to updates.

 

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Looking good Daryl, and well done rat pack.

 

I've moved my Satakentia and 3 Chambeyronia  down here and so far so good.

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Well, its way too hot to do anything physical in the garden today...38C, humid and no breeze...worked up a serious sweat just watering my pots in the shade! So thought I'd upload a couple of progress photos...

 

My test coconut is growing well...if it gets through next winter then I can rest easy!

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Dypsis sp 'bijouf' is finding its feet and settling in nicely into it's hot, sunny, exposed position...

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Can't help bad luck...the developer finally turfed the roadside with nice A grade couch , but every day since is over 37C (100F) and water doesn't seem to help! I'm sure it will survive, but the weather could co-operate...where are those thunderstorms?

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Great photo of the the 'gang'. The camaraderie of the Rat Pack is surely something special.

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Hilo, Hawaii

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A few photo updates....the garden got severely smashed by a hail storm in Dec '18 and just about all of my palms took  a severe battering by hail up to 5cm (2")...two dies bu the rest have recovered over the remainder of summer.

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Dictyosperma album var conjugatum was planted Dec 2017 and is settling in nicely...surprisingly did not get too much hail damage

 

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Sad to hear of the hail damage, but the pics you've shown us look great.

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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This  Dictyosperma album was planted last year and has grown very well from such  a small palm

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Beccariophoenix alfredii planted Dec 2017 and seems to be liking its new home... has more than doubled in size

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Dypsis sp. 'bejouf' got hit hard by hail and is finally opening a new leaf...but the new leaf is 7ft long. so  it is growing well despite the damage...

 

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Satakentias are recovering and are starting to look OK...the newly rescued and planted Neoveitchia next to them is getting settled in after being very sad and in need of TLC

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Dypsis sp 215 is getting back to its former self and colouring up nicely...

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Coconut and Veitchia joannis enjoying the late afternoon Autumn sunshine

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Thrinax radiata is a tough palm

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Well, that's enough photos for now...Daryl

 

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Love your palms and the gardens you create Daryl. Keep posting pics as the garden progresses.

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I just realised I didn't post an updated photo of my Coconut that appeared in the first photo of this thread...here it is a bit over 2 years after planting...seems to be growing OK so far...see rake handle for scale...

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Here's my 
Parajubaea torallyi 18 months after planting...starting to get a move-on now...

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18 minutes ago, Daryl said:

I just realised I didn't post an updated photo of my Coconut that appeared in the first photo of this thread...here it is a bit over 2 years after planting...seems to be growing OK so far...see rake handle for scale...

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Gorgeous coco. I noticed it had pinnate leaves when you first planted it. Do you know old it was back then?

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4 hours ago, GottmitAlex said:

Gorgeous coco. I noticed it had pinnate leaves when you first planted it. Do you know old it was back then?

I think it was maybe 18 months old when I purchased it as it had just started pushing pinnate leaves. It sat in  a grow bag for about 9 months before I planted it., so that would make it 2 years 3 months at planting and it would now be 4 years and 7 months old. It has grown well, but certainly not as fast as if it were in he tropics...

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8 hours ago, Daryl said:

I just realised I didn't post an updated photo of my Coconut that appeared in the first photo of this thread...here it is a bit over 2 years after planting...seems to be growing OK so far...see rake handle for scale...

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That is a very healthy looking Coconut considering your latitude. Are you at altitude there in the Hinterlands, or in the lowlands ? In any case that plant looks like its thriving ! You get frosts at your location ?

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45 minutes ago, greysrigging said:

That is a very healthy looking Coconut considering your latitude. Are you at altitude there in the Hinterlands, or in the lowlands ? In any case that plant looks like its thriving ! You get frosts at your location ?

Half way between altitude and lowlands...about 80m asl ...surrounded by 250m hills and only a few kms from 500m +   I hope I never get a frost here, but time will tell....there was a cold morning last year and it got down to 4.8, but down the street in the low lying areas (25m asl) there was a light frost that morning.  There is a significant drop in temp from my place to the end of the street (3C difference) and that is only a 55 metre drop in altitude. There were a couple of large Coconuts growing down there once...they were cut down for some reason...had 4 or 5 metres of good trunk....

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Cyphophoenix alba transplanted from Wal's is getting a move-on

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As is this Kentiopsis magnifica...

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My young Copernicia fallaensis has doubled in size in 18 months, so looks to be a good grower here...

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My baby Tahina is finally starting to speed up after transplant from the old garden...

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Really diggin' my Dictyospermas lately...they  take the wind and grow fast...they have almost outgrown the hail damage from 5 months ago...

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This Dypsis lastelliana dwarf is starting to look normal after struggling to establish since planted 18 months ago...it suffers from the same droopy spear syndrome as a lot of the other forms of lastelliana

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This little Roystonea oleracea is a recent acquisition...

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Coming along beautifully Daryl; a real choice selection of palms & some spectacular growth. I agree those Dictyospermas just rock. Wish they grew like that around here. Regarding your Roystonea oleracea, I've seen seedlings before with the maroon-ish petiole. Looks as if they keep that feature for some time; looks very cool. At this rate you'll have another tropical oasis in no time. Nicely done..

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"In the shadow of the Cross"

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A couple of recent photos...

Some paving and pebble to tidy things up around the house...

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Dypsis sp. 'bejouf' is starting to grow out of the hail damage from last Christmas

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From afar, the garden is slowly taking shape, even after enduring hail storms and extended drought...

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Wal's rescue Pritchardia hillebrandii is on its way to being a nice feature in the garden, and has recovered from its transplant ordeal where it was down to a single spear...

 

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Well, three years into this project....three extremely dry years I must say...makes it hard to get your garden established....2019 was probably the driest on record.  Some of the tougher species are growing OK, but some of the more tender species have struggled...I hope we get some decent rain soon.

Here's a couple of updated photos...

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Parajubaea torralyi has been fast 

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This young Bizzie is nice and purple...bodes well for future colouration...

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Young Ravenea sambiranensis is finally getting adjusted...

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Copernicia fallaensis is tough and easy

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Dypsis sp. Bejoufa is getting plumose leaves and growing well

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Making the best out of second chances, your new place is looking fantastic. I really like the subtle elevation variation and the open space, looks peaceful. The retaining wall, pavers, and pebbles, ‘ROCK’!

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Also, my Coconuts are doing OK, confirming my climate suspicions (in the short term at least)...they are doing better here than in my last garden with better speed and less winter spotting. Not as fast as the tropics, but OK for 3 years.

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Your garden is looking great especially when you consider how dry you’ve been over there. I think your coconut looks fantastic. Hopefully you get some nice steady rain over on the east coast that can also extinguish all those fires at the same time.

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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