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Garden of Dr. Mardi Darian

Phil
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in DISCUSSING PALM TREES WORLDWIDE

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What an amazing collection of palms, thanks for sharing

Definitely, thanks for bumping up an awesome thread! Even with some of the photos missing…(the strategical use of rocks around his Wodyetia x Veitchia and the catwalk…..Oooh that catwalk must be super duper awesome!), I instantly love the good doctor's work and probably would not have known how priceless he truly is, without this thread!

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There are several mature Wodyetia bifurcata in my neighborhood--that helps determine my zone, right? :blink:
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Wow... I can't believe there is a Deckenia nobilis!

I'm always up for learning new things!

Wow... I can't believe there is a Deckenia nobilis!

There isn't. Pretty sure it is A crinita.

Len

Vista, CA (Zone 10a)

Shadowridge Area

"Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

-- Alfred Austin

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    what an incredible thread, thank you Phil. great photos of a legendary garden, i wish i could have met Dr. Darian in person... quite a legacy!

    Floribunda web jockey / garden gnome

    https://floribunda.xyz

    What has happened to the garden?  Many thanks to Phil for documenting it so carefully.

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    I'm lucky I saw this response. 

    Mardi's wife, Cheri, still owns the property as far as I know.  The garden still exists.
    Most of the unusual cycads have been sold but almost all of the palms remain.
    I think the property is still for sale.  Cheri's stumbling block in selling it is that there are structural issues with the house.

    The garden has not been on tour since Mardi passed.

    Phil

    Jungle Music Palms and Cycads, established 1977 and located in Encinitas, CA, 20 miles north of San Diego on the Coast.  Phone:  619 2914605 Link to Phil's Email phil.bergman@junglemusic.net Website: www.junglemusic.net Link to Jungle Music Palms and Cycads

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    Let's hope the place gets sold to a palm lover or at least someone who respects the horticulture and effort put into making the unique place.

    Life is too short. Imagine if we lived for a thousand years what Mardy would have done with that place.

    Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

     

     

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    On 10/23/2008 at 2:18 PM, Phil said:

    Marojejya Darianii

     

    http://www.junglemusic.net/New%20Folder/MarojejyaDarianii02-02082008%20(Small).JPG

     

    A somewhat closer view

     

    http://www.junglemusic.net/New%20Folder/MarojejyaDarianii01-02082008%20(Small).JPG

     

    A closeup of a more juvenile plant that Mardi is growing

     

    http://www.junglemusic.net/New%20Folder/MarojejyaDarianii03-02082008%20(Small).JPG

     

    By the way. Some day I'll be posting a photo of another Marojejya darianii growing outdoors in El Cajon, CA with twelve foot leaves. It's from another garden

    I wanted to bump this thread specifically to highlight this palm, Marojeya darianii.   This palm has a dedicated thread which Tim started many years later with more photos of it growing in many other areas.  Given that the name was dedicated to Mardi, I wanted to go back to his specimen in Vista.

    There is another thread from a few years later of Mardi's garden during a Palm Society tour.  I probably posted in that other thread from a rainy day in his garden.

    The other garden Phil refers to above is that of Greg Hamann, where the SoCal Palm Society will meet next month.  We can't tour Mardi's garden anymore but thankfully others are following in his footsteps. 

     

     

    33.0782 North -117.305 West  at 72 feet elevation

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