Central Florida Palm and Cycad Society meeting

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March 27th meeting in Vero Beach Florida

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Oak Lined Avenues

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Sunny day, winter is over. Spring is in effect.

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We visited 4 gardens today. Perfect weather. Everyone is talking about how bad the past winter was. We are on the other side of one of Florida's Worst Winters ever (if you grow tropicals)...Camellia and Azaela did good this spring!

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Australian native Foxtail and Madagascar Triangles do really well in Central Florida (with some canopy protection)

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Sabal Lisa

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Schizo

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A dypsis mystery and triangle

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Sunny day, winter is over. Spring is in effect.

Glad to see spring has sprung for you guys

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front porch of first house

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interesting frond shape

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windowpane

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interesting border choice

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New Caledonia palms did pretty good this winter. Most red feathers are unscathed.

Kentiopsis oliv. (spelling) is a tough cookie as well:

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One thing we learned is the importance of canopy (especially oak) in the survival of cold sensitive palms

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What freeze?

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very tall red feather

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sorry about the sideways photo. Turn your head sideways. I thought I turned it over, sorry.

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In the 2nd garden now, next door.

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back porch view.

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bamboo forest

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...with a side of palms...

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another view

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intimate protected spot

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nice

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Nice bamboo set up to block the North wind.

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Front yard of 2nd garden. Impressive oaks.

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oaks-R-us

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Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood...

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I think this is a cabadae

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ornamentals

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"Impressive oaks"

The huge laurel oaks (Quercus hemisphaerica) look a bit like live oaks but belong in the red-oak subgenus; live oaks are whites (not in the Alice-in-Wonderland sense). The laurels are on the city-owned right of way for Victory Drive, and are in decline. One at yard #2 was recently replaced with a young live oak.

Yard #2 is an impressive design, developed over a long period. I really like the way it shelters the house from the street behind layers of bromeliads, palms, and a cycad or two, but without hiding the house or creating the appearance of a thicket.

#2 has an impressive collection of Archontophoenix, almost all looking fine, despite a long night that began at 28 degrees and ended at 29 (-2 C). There was also a weird night of nearly-freezing rain, which must have severely chilled the soil in a way that rarely if ever happens this far south.

I don't know whether anyone noticed, but there's two palmy yards emulating #2 on the blocks immediately to the east.

The reddish leafy ornamentals are Anthurium, perhaps A. schlechtendalii as shown in the photo. These tropicals suffered only minor damage in the cold!

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front porch of 2nd house

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Thanks for that oak dissertation dave-vero!

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hookerii

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"front porch of 2nd house". The pink flowers next to the oak trunk are begonias. I couldn't believe them. Mine are still in shock. None died, they just look diminished and miserable.

The foreground is lily turf, Liriope. I don't recall the nice fan palm, but the sheared hedge near it is a holly, very likely a native yaupon (Ilex vomitoria), 'Schillings Dwarf'.

The red-petioled fan palm might be a Latania. Next to it is that Anthurium thing.

Chambeyronia hookeri seems a big success story for this winter.

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White Elephant

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Chattin' up the yard...

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I've got a few more photos. I'll post the rest after Sunday morning coffee (currently late saturday night)

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thanks for sharing all those whose could not be there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

really awesome pics.......