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7 pointsIt's this time of the year again, when my garden becomes full with eery ghosts.
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7 pointsSome new ones and some sporadic germinaters and a few slow coach’s catching up. The warm weather has helped things move along and push up some of the slower germinating late comers. And a few new varieties coming up strong. Out of 11 dypsis minuta 11 germinated from home grown seeds, pretty happy with that. Theres always something popping up in the germinating department, but the biggest surprise is the Oraniopsis there still coming up very sporadic seeds! Oraniopsis appendiculata
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7 pointsHi palm lovers A little update more than a year later. Haven’t been posting since a baby just arrived in the family, but the garden is still growing. Hope you like it. The plus side of tropical weather : it grows fast ! The down side is every hurricane season you pray for not getting everything on the grownd. Joey magnifica : 1/2 leaf a year 😅 slow even in the tropics Areca macrocalyx : fast one ! And starting to show some redish color carpoxylon also a fast one : 2 years old and the fastest of them all : pigaffeta filaris : 6 mouths from seed !!! the latest great success: dictyocarium lamarkianum: 10/10 success germination. Hope they will tolerate the weather here. Maybe too hot. mauritia flexuosa : feets in the water and my 3 years old baby mapu : on the grownd of all they are some geonomas, calyptrocalyx and Chamaedorea growing 🥰
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I will raise the bar and throw in ten mapu palms, double or nothing!
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We also enjoyed a very wonderful, warm and gracious afternoon at the home of Dr. Romeo and Linda Montalvo. Their home and gardens were just sublime. And, more gratitude, incredibly grateful for their hospitality, hors d’oeuvres and open bar. What fun! Thank you Romeo and Linda.
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I have three of them and they dislike dry conditions and lack of humidity, they prefer a cool place in the greenhouse, none in the ground yet. I soon worked out not to grow them in a hothouse thinking they needed super cool protection in winter quite the opposite actually, it’s the hot dry no humidity they dislike. The two in the picture I have a water jug full of water for a bit of extra humidity and they are sitting just of the ground on a pallet which I keep wet underneath. Not sure if I ever will plant them in the ground they are to rare and precious to kill. But if you to see some real hum dingers check out @realarch he’s the one that will give any palm grower palm envy in a blink of an eye, being one of those lucky Hawaii growers that look at there palms and they grow a foot with each look!
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5 pointsA big thanks RPS for supplying these seeds. A pretty well much unobtainable palm for me so when rps had seeds for sale, I just had to buy them. A palm that’s not often available in large numbers so the opportunity was up for the taking. They are growing well a bit slow but they will put on some pace with the warm weather.
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I was incredibly impressed by our visit to the Palm Sanctuary. It was necessary to drive through the “wall” to the southernmost point in Texas, hard on the Rio Grande River. And I was astounded by a true palm forest, in fact the last relic forest of Sabal mexicana.
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Pictures from Botanical Garden today. Carludovica palmata and other excotic plants Most described...
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With basically an unlimited supply of adscendens seeds I have about 500 in the greenhouse at different stages of growth. They are my favourite chamaedorea and are hard beat for sheer beauty and colour, only my metallicas come close to them. And with around 50 mature ones in the garden iam certainly glad I planted them 25 years ago, and this new batch of babies are destined for the same treatment only on mass this time!
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4 pointsDypsis weeping form onilihanses with a few seeds and a new flower!
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Apart from the Carludovica, I have all of those plants in my tiny back garden or in the shade house. Usually I look at plant photos and feel very deprived but today I realise maybe I am more fortunate that many others. Different perspectives I suppose. Thank you for the reality check Peachy4 points
3 pointsThere are half a dozen of pretty sized ones and a dozen of small ones. I think I'll leave them ripe on the tree. Not too much time left. They are getting red.
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3 pointsEvery year before last my Washy put out 25-30 fronds a year and then last year it only put out about 7 fronds and never really got full looking . I hope it was a just a one off year but maybe not ? I'm glad it didn't get a lot taller at least . Maybe its height is maxed out for this area ? Before the 14F cold this morning . The other pictures below are from yesterday when I protected it with Xmas lights and blankets . I think the trunk is hardy to 15F ? ? Every other year it put out lots of fronds . Below you can see how full it typically is is . This was the growing year before last .
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3 pointsGood job ! Fortunately I don’t have to protect anything in my garden . Harry3 points
3 pointsHi everyone ! Since I get precious advices and great pictures from old post I though I should introduce myself. I live in Guadeloupe, French West Indies. I have bought my house 3 years ago with a totally virgin garden, and have been planting since. I am lucky to have nice weather for palm tree, and have been able to have 40+ species. Most of them a young, started from seedling, or even from the seeds. Here are some pictures of my garden, hope you like it.
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Remarkably, Romeo‘s neighbor Dr. Roberto has an equally impressive home and garden. And we are very thankful to him as well for hosting our gang of Palm people.
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With tremendous gratitude to this guy, Chuck Malloy, President of the Palm Society of South Texas. On behalf of the International Palm Society’s Board of Directors and our members, I thank you for an absolutely memorable weekend in South Texas. The IPS and PSST are now linked even more closely and we all look forward to many reunions.
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Brahea dulcis- what a beautiful clumping form!
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Very grateful to be leaving with a palm and a book!
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3 pointsMy Chambeyronia’s first inflorescence! It has gotten spathes before but they usually just fall off. Harry
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2 pointsI have several hundred seedlings of mixed armata and armata hybrid. The seed for the hybrid came from @DoomsDave and are off his "frankenbrahea" hybrid. The pure armata came from a local armata. I was growing these in ground and was slowly potting them up, but I'm having some cement work done and had to pull these out lest they be removed or buried beneath concrete. Free! Come take as many as you'd like - no shipping sorry. For pick up in Fresno.
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2 pointsDemons, ghosts and black fairies would visit us during sleep, if we expected a frost without any sort of protection for the beloved ones.2 points
2 pointsIt was an interesting cold event. You could see the urban heat moving NE -> SW in the early morning hours due to the wind hence why the west side ended up staying a bit warmer. In a calm radiational event, the temperature gradient is more circular from the urban core (but also with a bias towards the west as the core development-wise is more centered on the west Loop vs downtown nowadays). I'm actually in Orlando right now. Back in town tomorrow to see the (lack of) "damage"2 points
2 pointsI got to 32F for an hour or two but no frost due to the wind. No damage so far to things like bananas and such from what I can see.2 points
Only some will ship palms larger than seedlings. But I prefer growing from seed rather than starting small! 😊2 points
I lost 2 of my adscendens and the remaining one is strong and healthy but no pretty shades of green as yet. It will be getting planted very soon however. I love my little Ernies, they grow so quickly and really thrive in this climate. My oldest one is now 1.35 cm after only 2 years in the ground. You can't plant the Addy in the photo either as it has been sold and will be moving to Qld. Peachy2 points
I will give the gardens a gift of all my plants to help the botanically deprived Swiss. All I ask for is a free visit to Dignitas, I won't even expect a return trip plane ticket ! 🙄 Peachy2 points
You're welcome, dear Peachy😀 The gardeners are doing a good job and working hard. And lots of students come during the week. Yesterday, there were only six people there while we were there 😀2 points
Richard, I had small plants that didn't have time to grow, but if you say it's your favorite chamaedorea, there must be a reason. For now, my favorite is Ernesti-augusti. I've sown both seeds of this species (the seeds of Adscendens were given to me by a person from Australia, so it's better not to mention his name!)2 points
2 pointsHere’s a stack of some of the personal collection, there in pots so I can post them in the palms in pots section, trust me when I say personal collection, that they are and their in there, it may be just one or two of a certain variety but their in there !
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2 pointsLooks like I better save up some money. I see big purchases occurring in about 5 years from now !! (drooling already) (hope I last another 5 years) Peachy2 points
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Have you been to this office complex? Or just previously seen other's photos? I live here and just found out about the place last week. I've driven past it several times not knowing what unusual palms were planted here. It's unusual (and very nice!) to see a commercial planting like this in the region. 😊2 points
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2 pointsI planted a Cocothrinax fragrans today; it's not looking good, so I thought I would pop it in the ground and see if it improves. The tag said June 13, and I was wondering why I didn't put the year. Well, duh, I started that plant from seed in June 2013, so it's over 12 years old. I have two other fragrans that I planted a few years ago, from the same batch of seeds, and they have a few feet of trunk, look good, and are seeding regularly. I also did a C. borhidiana x fragrans cross and got lots of seeds, and some have already germinated. For whatever reason, my borhidiana has not self-set seed. One of my goals in doing the cross is to see if the cross has hybrid vigor and grows faster than pure fragrans and pure miraguama, both of which I started from seed recently. I got a few nice palms at the Palm Beach Palm Society holiday party giveaway: Calyptrocalyx holrungii, Calyptrocalyx polyphylus, and Actinokentia divaricata. I'll probably kill them, but for free.99 I'm willing to give them a try.
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2 pointsYep,birds. If I want to harvest a crop, I have to bag the seeds,or watch them fly away by the dozens each day.🤷♂️ I've actually taste tested Coccothrinax fruits,and would have to say that yes,they are edible; even for humans. Slightly sweet, slightly bitter, and very juicy. aztropic Mesa, Arizona
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Same situation here compared to US palm hot spots like California and Florida. I didn't buy these seeds but collected them from local palms. Not exotic but certainly uncommon here. Arenga sp. (not engleri) fruits on left and cleaned Nannorrhops ritchiana seeds on right
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2 pointsDrainage drainage and more drainage, they are so prone to soil problems especially fungus. My conditions are perfect for growing them and i still lose the odd one to fungus, tip though don’t replant in the same spot if one has died there before! The telopia is the Sydney variety:2 points
I had my Pritchardia Hilbrandii push out new fronds with just a little brown on the leaf tips once they opened. It did that for a year or so then stopped . All good now . Harry
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2 pointsHere’s how things look, today: Fallaensis Macroglossa I also planted two Copernicia Rigida, in the spring, that were shipped to me last spring (shipper no longer ships to CA), which have done well. They’re slow. Lastly, here’s that 15 gallon Fallaensis and a 7 gallon Berteroana.
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Acoelorrhaphe wrightii, (paurotis palm or Everglades palm) in flower at the zoo entrance.
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