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For those who did not know. I've grown this Chamaedorea Elegans directly in the top of my aquarium for a couple of years now. It's done great! It's a great way to grow out those small grass tuffts they sell for cheap at the box store.
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Trying this again in the correct post about palm trunks. Chrysalidocarpus pembanus Chrysalidocarpus robustus (2 photos) Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos Cyphophoenix elegans Cyphophoenix nucele
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Here are some of the more colorful palm trunks in my Northern California garden. Post yours please! Howea forsteriana Rhopostylis baueri Archontophoenix purpurea Chambeyronea macrocarpa Archontophoenix myolensis Chanaerops costaricana Rbopalostylis sapida ‘Chatham Island’ Rhopalostylis baueri Rhopalostylis baueri Chrysalidocarpus decipiens Wodyetia x Veitchia Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti Howea forsteriana Chambeyronia hookeri Euterpe edulis Archotophoenix alexandrae Phoenix roebelenii Caryota urens R. sapida Hedescepe canterburyana Chamaedoea tepejelote Bentickua condapanna Dypsis rosea Chamaedorea species Euteroe edulis ‘Orange Crownshaft’ Chamaedorea elegans C. radicalis Livistona australis
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7 pointsTroy’s Ropalostylis thread got me thinking about the Chatham Island form. The photo of me with the huge one is from back in 2010 or thereabouts. The next one is taken today with my 2nd generation offspring grown from seed at my home. I planted it in 2012 from one gallon pot.
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7 points12 years ago I planted this palm and for some odd reason it bifurcated about 5 years ago
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It had sped up a bit only after I had buried next to it a mastiff dog🙄! If it were a Caribbean sp, I'd say it needed some dose of voodoo magic, but it is actualy from the West Coast. I like the bright reddish fiber around leaf bases.
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6 pointsThis season in NZ. Chathams have flowered once or twice but the kermadecs haven't started yet. Last seasons seed is just maturing on the kermadecs
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A couple of nice ones ready to get planted in autumn after the summer heat. I could plant them now but the watering for new palms and a busy lifestyle would not suit them. Autumn, winter and spring are the best planting times for my climate, summer can be brutal living in the bush especially for newly planted panted palms and a trees!
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5 pointsCouple of nice Zamia skinneri to add to the collection. Both a male and female so fingers crossed a few seeds!
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5 pointsThanks Darold , I have replaced it recently with a R. Baueri Cheesmania . This time in shade on the cool side of the house. Live and learn. Harry
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Sabals are TOUGH. We here in the Land O’LaLa tend to discount them, and forget how beautiful they are. @Phoenikakias thanks for re-educating us about that. @Than try some where you are!4 points -
4 pointsHard to say with confidence, but it might be Chrysalidocarpus arenarum. Even the crownshaft and trunk colour look a little off for C lutescens but that could be growing conditions - looks like quite deep shade?4 points -
4 pointsLast night I cut down a Caryota acquired as no, but was probably a urens. It was too large for the space and about to get too tall for me to remove myself. The new real estate was already committed to planting one of the Meryta balansae I got from Matt a couple of years back. It had roots outside the small pot it was in. Here is the initial result. I staked it on two sides while it gets established. My wife likes it being in a prominent position along the walkway to the entrance to our home.
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In the very first photo are Clivia Lilies. Not exactly ground cover though. They love a cool to mild climate and will tolerate an occasional hot spell. Bloom time is early Spring.
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Sabals do look tropical, especially trunking ones.3 points
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Almost all except those with subterranean trunk and palmetto can live in my garden. I am sure, that if I had a sandy soil, there would be absolutely no exception. Hmm, I have caught me wrong, I do have also a dwarf minor surviving in a slope.3 points
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Actually dog was mine, but ... as @DoomsDave can testify, bring more corpses!3 points
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3 pointsAdded a few more, um, er, palms? You could maybe call them that at a stretch, although these resemble more some stricken survivors of a dystopian apocalypse...which in fact they virtually are, having been ravaged by rabbits (two down to the spear alone), dug out of the dry South Arm sand, and finally a year later transplanted to a better place, in what is now I guess the SW Pacific bed, rather than just LHI. These are of course, as any three year old could tell, Rhopalostylis baueri cheesemanii, or hopefully, will be some day! So now it's cheesemanii in the foreground in the green hats and baueri in the back in black.
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3 pointsOnly in NZ does Hedyscepe get relegated to the background of a shot without mention. Amazing!3 points
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I washed out the old substrate and put it in lava rock (to support the plant). The roots are just in the water. The roots over time have actually grown down to the Aquarium's substrate.3 points
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3 pointsSabal uresana and two individuals of Brahea decumbens on a warm December day in Central Texas
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3 pointsThese photos are from 2024 but here is the Washingtonia Robusta at the Lost Garden of Heligan in Cornwall… And one of the biggest Filifera’s in the UK in north London (greenhouse below for scale)… I’ve only just seen these updates, even if they are from over a year ago. It’s a shame that I can’t get more recent photos from this year!!!
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3 pointsBob when you posted about the SAPW attack on your neighbor's CIDP, I remembered seeing your posts of this spectacular specimen of Ravenea. I have heard the SAPW like Ravenea but hope they never develop a taste for this species or some of the other less common ones. I am in the same boat as Brett. I don't think I have the heat this species wants. I tried one in my front planter with all the Aloes, Aloidendron and Cycads, but failed. Grub hunting skunks contributed to its decline. I can live vicariously through your post. A truly prized and spectacular plant.3 points
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Mine is planted in a very exposed spot. This is the best it has looked. I have battled scale on it since before it was put in the ground.
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Well, I'm only just getting started with my new garden, but here's a few starters. Chrysalidocarpus Baronii - greenish, yellow with a hint of white trunk, juxtaposed with late fall leaves. Chrysalidocarpus Ambositrae Chrysalidocarpus Decipiens
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3 pointsYes they are more robust and seem more durable. Here’s another photo of the one in my former home
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Picked up some Sabal uresana from @Josue Diaz. If anyone’s looking, he still has some available for sale too
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Hopefully I can produce a few seeds! They would grow for you as well in your climate just put them in your grow room each winter, and with them being a small palm easily done!2 points
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2 pointsCouldn’t resist, A. pseudospectabile growing in a C. lutescens stump. Tim
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I have to say I agree with Billy, that the specimen in your photos looks more like Cyphophoenix elegans than nucele. The first is color on a C elegans young trunk and the second is C nucele.
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2 pointsA nice salacca to give the gardener a bit of trouble when pruning!
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2 pointsA few more: Chrysalidocarpus ambositrae Chrysalidocarpus rufescens Vonitra crinita Chrysalidocarpus sp. Bef Chrysalidocarpus prestonianus
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That is a lovely colour display Jim. Here with such a tiny space every plant is chosen with care. I have gone for coloured crownshafts/trunks and unusual leaf shapes. There are a few common types, planted for fast growth and canopy. Dypsis leptocheilos was a surprise. It grows here very quickly, about equal to the native Bangalow palm, with the advantage of white on the trunk and the gorgeous red furry crownshaft. Thank you for giving me some ideas and inspiration Peachy2 points -
Still reddish trunk on its north-facing side
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Gaussia maya is very tender to any kind of freeze. Nevertheless it has been surviving in this spot since 2020.
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2 pointsMy three young Areca Gupyana. Same mother plant, same seed batch, but big difference in growth. Same potting mix, same place in the garden
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One more Cyprian cocos planted by a little old Asian lady. Ten years in the ground - purchased at Ikea. 35 degrees North lattitude.
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2 pointsThis was my R. Sapida the year it got hit with the Death Ray of 2018 . Within two years , it was dead. The heatwave also killed one of my Howea Foresteriana. I believe it would have survived had it had some shade . It was noticeably less robust than the Chatham Island form that I see on this thread. Harry Sorry , this is one of the only pics I could find of the palm. I grew it from a 4” seedling band . ‘Once it got overheated by the heat wave , it did this and died shortly after.🙁 Understandably , I really don’t like this picture. This was two years after the other pic. It was a slow , painful process. Harry
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2 pointsThey are not very easy to find for some reason. Seems like they were a one time seed dispersal around 15-20 years ago2 points
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These are in Golden Bay, not Auckland, but it shows the difference when they're under the canopy VS exposed
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2 pointsA couple of nice acanthophoenix rubra popped up and said what about us today!
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2 pointsHeterospathe Barfodii showing off a new red leaf and trying to compete with the Cyrtostachys
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Fortunately it survived when a tree from the ridge above the deck and canyon fell. It stripped some of the fronds and a Pritchardia above the canyon was totally demolished. Yhat specimen was the motivation for me to acquire and plant mine when the garden was still Quail Botanical Garden.2 points
