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Portland suburbs neighborhood tour


Chester B

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Here’s a few pics I tried to take discreetly while walking my dogs at lunch. Our HOA was built in 1993 and is composed of over 100 homes. We’re located in the southeastern suburbs. Most of the palms were planted at a later date. As you can see not much variety but some nice specimens nonetheless. 99% of palms you see in the Portland area are Trachycarpus. 

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The last one is a welcome departure. Chaemerops humilis. I’ve already told my neighbor I’ll be happy to fertilize it with some palmgain 

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And here’s a couple of my own larger palms. 

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Nice, are there others that work in your climate but just aren’t common? I run into that in Houston. The Nurseries here just want to sell low maintenance plants that won’t die in their inventory, 

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1 hour ago, Meangreen94z said:

Nice, are there others that work in your climate but just aren’t common? I run into that in Houston. The Nurseries here just want to sell low maintenance plants that won’t die in their inventory, 

Yep. I have have 12 species in the ground and have more that went out this spring. Realistically I think around 20 species can be done with proper siting. Maybe more.  If you include hybrids that number may be a little higher.

What you typically find are fortunei and Chaemerops, after that Butia and pretty much everything else is very rare to come across. A good portion of my palms are mail order or grown from seed.  

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@Chester B looks great.  That little touch of tropical in an otherwise temperate climate.   When I retire, a while from now, I plan on looking at the PNW.  Hear it's beautiful and since living in Florida the past 18 years,  I think I can handle a climate like yours.  Time will tell.

 

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