D' Jungle Jan 2020

[redant]

My backyard jungle.  Video quality from an iPhone 8 pretty much stinks and adding extra music past the first song seems nearly impossible on youtube, so find some music you like while watching lol. Any questions about any palms just mark the time and ask. 

 

[Palmaceae]

Beautiful garden and collection, thanks for sharing the video! Love the Rainbow eucalyptus. 

[Estlander]

Wow, you have your own personal palm forest. So beautiful!  It’s my dream to have one as well. 

[jimmyt]

Thought I had tuned into the BBC and was watching a documentary on some Tropical jungle somewhere in the south pacific.   I thought I heard David Attenborough narrating too!  Wow!

That is some kind of Paradise you have there.    Salute to you redant!

[redant]

1 hour ago, Palmaceae said:

Beautiful garden and collection, thanks for sharing the video! Love the Rainbow eucalyptus. 

This was when it was in full color. It varies greatly at different times of the year.  

 

[redant]

Just now, jimmyt said:

Thought I had tuned into the BBC and was watching a documentary on some Tropical jungle somewhere in the south pacific.   I thought I heard David Attenborough narrating too!  Wow!

That is some kind of Paradise you have there.    Salute to you redant!

I really need a decent cam.  Could do so much better.

[kinzyjr]

A very nice slice of paradise!  Thank you for sharing!

[Palmaceae]

1 hour ago, redant said:

This was when it was in full color. It varies greatly at different times of the year.  

 

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that video also, how old is the Rainbow?

[TikiRick]

Beautiful!!! How large is this property?

[redant]

2 hours ago, Palmaceae said:

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that video also, how old is the Rainbow?

About 10 or 11 years old. Super fast grower, was the size of a pencil when I got it on Ebay. 

[redant]

31 minutes ago, TikiRick said:

Beautiful!!! How large is this property?

Total property is about 2.5 acres, a bit of that is submerged lands. The front is the more manicured look, the back a total jungle. My neighbor calls me Tarzan lol.

Edited January 6, 2020 by redant

[Palmaceae]

46 minutes ago, redant said:

About 10 or 11 years old. Super fast grower, was the size of a pencil when I got it on Ebay. 

I have had a couple in my yard in Cape Coral when I lived there, they were about half the size of yours, and yes they are fast! Just planted a small one here in my garden in St. Pete.

[Merlyn]

Gorgeous as always!  I probably asked this on your last video too, but what are the two big palms around 9:50-10:10?  I think you said one was a Beccariophoenix Alfredii and the other a Fenestralis?

Also, I didn't see the whole thing, but it looked like the trunk of an Arenga Pinnata at 3:33?  How old is that one?

[The Gerg]

That’s awesome. I think I saw a velociraptor at one point in the video. 

[redant]

12 hours ago, Merlyn2220 said:

Gorgeous as always!  I probably asked this on your last video too, but what are the two big palms around 9:50-10:10?  I think you said one was a Beccariophoenix Alfredii and the other a Fenestralis?

Also, I didn't see the whole thing, but it looked like the trunk of an Arenga Pinnata at 3:33?  How old is that one?

Good eye on the Arenga Pinnata, that's about 12 or 13 years old.  Pretty slow for me but that's fine, have plenty of monsters already.  9:50-10:10 are both Fenestralis, have 3 more too, love these Jurassic looking palms. They are a bit sun starved like everything in the jungle.  

[redant]

8 hours ago, The Gerg said:

That’s awesome. I think I saw a velociraptor at one point in the video. 

That would go well back there and keep the wildlife in check. We do get alligators in the back waters, I'm fenced so they don't come strolling in to munch on my dogs.