Why should you go and visit?

Over the next few weeks will post pictures and comments, would you visit/attend?

Street views and a view from the palmetum

regards

colin

more

what palm is it

Lots of unexpected sites

street scene

views from the yet to be opened palmetum

public pool with palms,

In Santa cruz, in the nothern part of Tenerife,  have palms lining the streets, lots of flowers and palm filled public parks.

Pictures from Park Garcia Sanabria Santa Cruz

Adonidia merrillii

another

another nice scene

As the sun sets so does this series of photo's for the moment

enjoy

regards

colin

Colin,

Thanks for the photos. Never been there, but I know Tenerife is a beautiful place and it would be an exciting location for a Biennial. This will be discussed at the IPS Board Meeting in Santo Domingo on Oct. 1st, less than 2 weeks from now. But if it were to happen it would probably be in 2010, not 2011. The Biennials are every second year (2006, 2008, 2010 etc).

Bo-Göran

Hi Bo

It takes an hour on the fast ferry to Gran Canarie where they have a beautiful Botannical gardens, we really enjoyed our visit to the three islands we went to, We took about 150 pictures at the Palmetum  in Santa Cruz and at Las Palmas botannical gardens. Many of the resorts have palms and the palm supplier from the south of Gran Canarie is supplying more than the usual palms. It would be of great support for the volunteer team of people in Tenerife to have the meeting there. It may help bring the palmetum dream to its final positive long term funding needs.

regards

colin

Fine with me and I (and others ) know the best speaker on the subject  whom some of us will be meeting shortly in DR

You guys who miss out on Bienniels are missing a lot.

Regards

Jon

Dear PalmsforPleasure  

those pictures of canary island and its palms

were terrefic.

and since i love plants from this country_they are

canary island date palm & dragon tree(Draconean Draco).

these 2 varities are my foremost favouriate plants.

i always wanted to see pictures of these islands and i

was curious to know wheather they were under-developed

forest like country like some african countries. but to my

surprise seeing beautiful buildings,highways etc.made me

realise how developed this place is !

thanks for those pictures.

love,

Kris.

Great pictures and I would certainly make every effort to attend a biennial in Tenerife as there is unlikely to ever be one much closer.

Kris, most of the Canary Islands are fairly well developed in parts due to their main industry being tourism.  It's also the closest place to Europe with winter sun, so tourism will always thrive there.  That said, there are still many wild and undeveloped areas on each island with beautiful and varied natural landscapes.

I like the picture's The canary islands is a good place to be. Maybe i will go next year to there for a vacantion

I went to Lanzarote and blew it- Tenerife looks much more tropical and green!

I've got to be honest and say that if I'm going anywhere near expansive ocean, it will either be French Polynesia or remote (non-tourist) Hawaiian - I'm stuck on South Pacific! The snorkeling is incredible

Take lot's of pictures!

Looking into a valley of Phoenix Canariensis at the Las Palmas Botanical Garden on Gran canarie

more in the gardens

regards

colin

las palmas gardens

regards

colin

Nice !

(Randy @ Sep. 20 2006,05:14)

QUOTE

I went to Lanzarote and blew it- Tenerife looks much more tropical and green!

I've got to be honest and say that if I'm going anywhere near expansive ocean, it will either be French Polynesia or remote (non-tourist) Hawaiian - I'm stuck on South Pacific! The snorkeling is incredible

Take lot's of pictures!

Many areas of the Canaries have very little rainfall, hence the lack of greenness.  Much of the greenness you will see is the result of human intervention.

Whilst I have nothing against the South Pacific, you should also consider the Indian ocean for tropical greenery and snorkelling.  The Indian Ocean and even the Red Sea are home to some of the best diving locations on the planet, needless to say snorkelling is also good.

Sure would like to visit just to see that variegated canariensis!  Too bad it doesn't produce healthy seedlings  

Sign me up!

Hello Colin, hello all,

I am glad to see your pictures - thanks for "promoting" the islands. Can you send more? Have you got to visit the old Botanic Gardens on the northern coast?

Here are some ID comments.

- the first two pictures show the Tres de Mayo avenue. The palms in the pictures are Veitchia joannis and Pritchardia pacifica, planted two or three years ago. They are in "pots" - there is a highway tunnel below, so roots are not in contact with the true ground.

Veitchia joannis is becoming a common sight around this city, for its spectacular growth rate.

- The unnamed palm shown in your third picture is a group of Thrinax radiata. Not too common here.

- The group of skinny, ringed-trunk palms in the park is not Adonidia. Those are recently planted Veitchia. They have been planted just a few months ago and I hope they will increase in girth... maybe V. joannis again, which is becoming more and more common in these years.  

Carlo, Tenerife

Almost four years later... he is going to come back !

Almost four years later... he is going to come back !

In that case i for one,will love to see more visuals of CIDP's...

beautiful visuals thanks for sharing =]

Hi Colin,

Waiting for the next lot of photos.

Regards

Stephen