If you HAD to spend $1000 on palms...

[peachy]

I'm to lazy (read to old) to dig much more than a hole for a 5 gal size. I've found that in a few years the 5 gal size usually catch up or pass a 10 or 15 gal size. I've run out of room anyway. I find myself buying palms, then giving them away.

Dick

Can I be your friend ???

[Kostas]

I agree with Peachy regarding the Syagrus romanzoffiana,they are palms too after all and beautyfull plus fast ones that can offer instant gratification

I love my young one which i took the time to grow from seed,although it certainly doenst look like much still,after 3 years of growth...It certainly wasnt instant gratification but as a seed grown by myself palm,its valuable to me and i love it!

[Mark Heath]

for 1k I'd buy a return ticket somewhere exotic and smuggle seed

Good one Palmazon!!! Been there,, done that!!!!

[Moose]

How long is this pole going to remain open?

[amazondk]

Wal that is interesting that you would mention the O. bataua. This palm is known as pataua here in Amazonas and is quite common. I have a whole sack of them right now and am going to send some to Pious Palms, Bill. The fruit of this palm produces an oil almost identical to olive oil in composition.

dk

[Zayin]

Who sells Copernicia's for 33 dollars?

[Moose]

Ken Johnson ?

[freddie]

Hello everyone! Greetings from a newbie palm addict downunder!!

I'd blow the whole lot on a 12" Psuedophoenix Ekmanii ... if only I could even find one down here.

looking, looking

Guess I'll have to buy some seed and hope I live for another 80 years!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kim]

Welcome to PalmTalk freddie! Hmmmm... So if you would spend all that on a single rare, slow growing palm, does that mean you already have a full stable of other beauties? I suggest you start another topic and show us some pix of your collection. Everyone loves a photo tour.

[freakypalmguy]

Hello everyone! Greetings from a newbie palm addict downunder!!

I'd blow the whole lot on a 12" Psuedophoenix Ekmanii ... if only I could even find one down here.

looking, looking

Guess I'll have to buy some seed and hope I live for another 80 years!!!!!!!!!!!

You sound like a very sick puppy Welcome and good luck in your search.

Matt

[freddie]

You sound like a very sick puppy Welcome and good luck in your search.

Matt

LOL I've been lurking here for a while and know this puppy has plenty of company

Thanks for the warm welcome Kim and Matt. I have collected quite a few nice specimans so far but don't have much in the ground yet... lots of youngsters and mostly still in pots. I'll try to take a few pics but will have to wait for another time, it's the middle of the night here at the moment! I saw my first pic of p. ekmanii about 6 months ago and fell obsessively in love. Really badly!! But even with longevity in my family it's not looking promising that I'll ever see one with a trunk!

[LilikoiLee]

You can buy a palm for less than $1,000.00?

I WANT TO SEE YOUR GARDEN!

Lee

[LilikoiLee]

I would happily pay $1000 for a Lodoicea maldivica of any size (FAT CHANCE!) but I voted for 15 palms because $66 would purchase 7 and 10 gal palms. 15 gal holes are very difficult to find among our blue rock.

Lee

[ixigena]

For 1000 USD. I would purchase/import juvenilles (3-5 years old) most coccothrinax species especially borhidiana, Thrinax ekmanii, copernicia cowelii and other rare and beautiful slow growing palms!!!

[LauraAnu]

Well, for $1,000.00us, I would buy 20 $50.00 palms. These would be 3 gallon pots which would give some instant gratification but not overpower the other small specimens in the yard (and give me too much work to plant).

Laura

[Carlo Morici]

This poll-test has really happened in Tenerife, last year. There were just about 1.000 euros available from the municipality of Santa Cruz in order to purchase palms for the Palmetum, from local nurseries. The option chosen was to pick the most species possible and it was about 50 plants at 20 euros each, about 2-3 plants per species. Also consider that unusual palms are usually available in small sizes, at least here. We actually got more as some nurseries gave some extra gifts. These young plants will need to spend one or two years in the nursery before going to the field, but so is life in a long-term project.

Carlo

[obabylive]

I'd take the 5 for $200 ea. I'm running out of room, and need plants mature enough to survive our sizzling, torcherous summers in Phoneix. When trimming fronds my larger plants often damage smaller underplantings. 15 gal or larger size plants are probably kept outdoors, therefore being more acculmated to ground planting. They make for instant visual impact. I also have a bad track record keeping smaller potted plants alive. That said, I do agree with what others have said about smaller planting establishing quicker than plants the next size up. I planted a S. Palmetto 24" box, opposite a 15gal S. Blackburniana. The 15gal has doubled the size of the 24" box dispite it being in the ground a year earlier, recieving more sun and water. Now, is one species (Blackburniana) faster growing than the other (Palmetto)? I'm not sure about that.

[Alicehunter2000]

5 at $200 ...... love the instant gratification....I'm shallow like that

[Patrick]

HGaha, I'd buy 5 $200 palms, but it would be some pretty tiny holes since I'd be on the lookout for Jubaeopsis caffra and Dypsis decipiens.

I think one of the choices needed to have $1000 soil amendments & topsoil since I'm still "in progress" and will be doing some excavation soon....

a fun poll nonetheless.....