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Palm Beach, FL PRA

Moose
Moose
in DISCUSSING PALM TREES WORLDWIDE

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And another Seychelles native Verschaffeltia splendida (7 gallon) looking choice! :yay:

Here is a different Verschaffeltia splendida (7 gallon) with William DeBoe, Pious Palms, for scale. Look at those impressive stilt roots! :bemused:

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Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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A very healthy Areca ipot (15 gallon). Sweet! :)

Next: Pseudophoenix vinifera (15 gallon) from the isle of Hispanola. We saw this one at the Biennel in the Dominican Republic. This palm is slow but starts accelerating when they get this size. :lol:

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A very impressive Gaussia princeps (20 gallon) endemic to Cuba. :drool:

Next: Not often encountered Zamia splendons (one gallon) with beautiful emergent leaf. :interesting:

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Zamia hamannii (3 gallon) with ridges and colorful emerging leaves. Wish I had room for this cycad.

Next: The rare Zamia purpurea (one gallon)! Also has a colorful new emergent leaf.

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Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Just two more cycads and we will get back to the palms. :yay:

The very rare Ceratozamia sp. "El Mirador" (3 gallon). :blink:

Next: A nice healthy group of Ceratozamia latifolia (3 gallon). :D

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Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

Moose, Were you there yesterday or today? I was really blown away by the incredible number of rare Palms. I purchased an Archophoenix pupurea,an Areca macrocalyx var. red and a Carpoxolon macrospermum from Bill DeBoe(Pious Palms). I also picked up an Areca vestiara from Ron Croci.

I admired a rather large Cocothrinax borhidiana grown by Mike Harris (Carribean Palms) but will have to save up on that one.

The entire Palm Beach Palm Society and all Vendors should be praised for great work. It was hot but their hard work showed. Great stuff!

What you look for is what is looking

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This is a well grown and not often encountered Coccothrinax alexandrii. It has a striking unique leaf shape for the coccothrinax genus in my opinion. :mrlooney:

Wow, I found another one. Can you tell that I really love Phoenicophorium borsigianum ? :wub:

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Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Moose, Were you there yesterday or today? I was really blown away by the incredible number of rare Palms. I purchased an Archophoenix pupurea,an Areca macrocalyx var. red and a Carpoxolon macrospermum from Bill DeBoe(Pious Palms). I also picked up an Areca vestiara from Ron Croci.

I admired a rather large Cocothrinax borhidiana grown by Mike Harris (Carribean Palms) but will have to save up on that one.

The entire Palm Beach Palm Society and all Vendors should be praised for great work. It was hot but their hard work showed. Great stuff!

Bubba - All day Saturday. I was there today until 10:15 am. Had a commitment in Miami, which I did not make due to my scenario on I-95. Knew you would turn up today. We were talking about you, your ears must have been burning! Yesterday we mentioned Jerry, Jerry@TreeZoo and we turned our heads and there he was heading in from the parking area. It's amazing how that happens. :lol::floor::mrlooney:

Ron. :)

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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Here is the very impressive but never cheap due to it's slow growth, :drool: Cocothrinax borhidiana. (15 gallon)

Next: Another Coccothrinax borhidiana (7 gallon) found with another vendor. The stem was exposed on this one.

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Here is an Areca macrocalyx cultivar "pink form" (5 gallon) aka The Pink Lady. Nice colors :blink: I have never seen this cultivar before.

Next: An remarkable Cyphophoenix elegans (5 gallon) native to northeastern New Caledonia. Not often encountered at this size at a sale. :huh:

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Here is Pseudophoenix sargentii ssp. navassana (15 gallon) reportedly from the island of Navassa off the coast of Haiti. Ron Croci is found standing next to his palm. :)

Next: Here is Steve Stern, known to many forum members, hanging out at his booth ready to spin a palm related yarn, or two, or three, or four, or ... :lol:

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Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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O.K. my last two pictures to post. :wacko:

Kostas - here is my Coccothrinax hiorami photo that you requested. Its just a little guy in a one gallon container. :bummed:

Next: this is the rarest aquisition of mine this weekend. Hanging out with Dale Holton yesterday, mapu1, we got to talking about Loran M. Whitelock's book The Cycads which has been out of print for some time now. The chaepest I have found it online in the last 8 months is $300.00. Dale sold me a copy he had been holding for quite some time at a very reasonable price. Thanks Dale!!! :yay:

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I am sure that I missed other forum members while I was there. My apologies to you.

This turned out to be an outstanding PRA! :drool: I am sure all of you had as great a time as I did.

Jeff - yes I was behaving myself :innocent: .

Hope you all enjoy the pictures.

Best regards,

Ron. :)

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

Ron,

Thanks for posting all the great pictures and comments. We had a great time.

I bought 2 addtions for my garden - Calyptronoma rivalis and a beautiful Chambeyronia macrocarpa. Both great palms and both at great prices! I won't get them planted until next week. Betty and I leave on Thursday for a 3-day sale in Sarasota.

If anyone didn't make it to the sale, you missed some great buys and great palms. When I was typing up the species list, I was amazed at the variety. So many new genera for me! Thank goodness for that 4 years of Latin! Certainly made spelling those names easier!

And if anyone sees any spelling errors in the list, please let me know. I cheked them but my eyes were crossed after a while!

Palmmermaid

Kitty Philips

West Palm Beach, FL

Who had the Areca Macrocalyx? and how much? I have killed a few smaller ones so I will stay away from this one but still want to know.

Here is an Areca macrocalyx cultivar "pink form" (5 gallon) aka The Pink Lady. Nice colors :blink: I have never seen this cultivar before.

Next: An remarkable Cyphophoenix elegans (5 gallon) native to northeastern New Caledonia. Not often encountered at this size at a sale. :huh:

With a tin cup for a chalice

Fill it up with good red wine,

And I'm-a chewin' on a honeysuckle vine.
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Who had the Areca Macrocalyx? and how much? I have killed a few smaller ones so I will stay away from this one but still want to know.

Here is an Areca macrocalyx cultivar "pink form" (5 gallon) aka The Pink Lady. Nice colors :blink: I have never seen this cultivar before.

Next: An remarkable Cyphophoenix elegans (5 gallon) native to northeastern New Caledonia. Not often encountered at this size at a sale. :huh:

tikitiki - Steve Stern - he had several sizes, did not catch the prices, sorry I was in a rush and was taking notes for positive ID's. :huh:

Ron. :)

Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

Ron,

Those pics were great. You have me almost wishing to move to Florida so I can buy all those plants at the palm sales. :drool:

Laura

Ron,

Thanks for the great coverage of our show especially all the Palmtalk members.

Enjoyed talkin' with ya and I KNOW you had a good time too!!!

See you at FTBG in Nov.

Mike Harris

Caribbean Palms Nursery

Loxahatchee, Florida USA

All who stopped by, Thanks for making some time to come out and support local growers. Ya'll really made the event come to life! Got to meet people for the first time that I have been mailing palms to for seasons. My only disappointment is that I get pulled 16 different ways with so many customers and I don't always have more than a few minutes to talk story.

Randy, thanks for your help setting up on Friday. Volunteers are the only way I could bring so much to the show.

Ron, I saw Moose's report on your newest acquisition, what else did you get?

Pedro, Really enjoyed speakin with ya. Lookin forward to seein' the Highwaymen, should be a real treat!

Meg and Tom, great to make your acquaintances. :) I'll be looking for your posts on the new Jungle!

Mike, good to see you as well. I'm interested in hearing what your mystery Dypsis turns out to be... I should have taken a pic and posted it here, email one to me and I'll do so for you.

Moose, It was fun talkin' shop with ya' on Saturday. BTW, what was in your cup? :D Thanks for photographin' the event and posting the pics here. I took a camera and really didn't get to use it very much. I was busy a good portion of the weekend, plenty of people were there purchasing palms!

Bubba, as always great to see ya'll. It was a treat to meet your better half and youngest. April and I will take ya'll up on a visit next time we are in your neck of the woods.

BigAl954, it was a pleasure to meet you guys and I'm sure we'll run into each other at the next sale!

This pic was taken courtesy of Broward's Mike Harris. (I'm certain he takes my camera so He stays on the other side of the lens!)

Thanks everyone. It is a ton of work to put these things on, but all the people make it worth it!

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www.dadluvsu.com

looks like it was alot of fun & the palm selection was off the scale! :greenthumb:

the "prince of snarkness."

 

still "warning-free."

 

san diego,california,left coast.

Here is an Areca macrocalyx cultivar "pink form" (5 gallon) aka The Pink Lady. Nice colors :blink: I have never seen this cultivar before.

Next: An remarkable Cyphophoenix elegans (5 gallon) native to northeastern New Caledonia. Not often encountered at this size at a sale. :huh:

After some negotiation, I bought one of the young ones...it wasn't cheap. I hope I don't kill it. I'm going to wait until next year to put it in the ground, but I think I will put it in a bigger pot.

The weight of lies will bring you down / And follow you to every town / Cause nothin happens here

That doesn't happen there / So when you run make sure you run / To something and not away from

Cause lies don't need an aero plane / To chase you anywhere

--Avett Bros

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    It truly was an awesome sale with some really incredible stuff for sale by all of the vendors. This has to be the best palm sale I have been to so far this year. Lots of great growers and it was nice to meet some fellow forum members, especially Mr. Moose Knuckles himself.

    I ended up with the following plants:

    -Zamia pseudoparasitica

    -Zamia purpurea

    -Zamia neurophyllidia

    -Gaussia attenuata

    -Licuala glabra

    -Geonoma schottiana

    -Coccothrinax pseudorigida

    -Dypsis carlsmithii

    -Johannesteijsmannia perakensis

    Ron

    Wellington, Florida

    Zone 11 in my mind

    Zone 10a 9a in reality

    13miles West of the Atlantic in Palm Beach County

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    what are all those funny-looking trees in the background with "needles" instead of fronds???

    the "prince of snarkness."

     

    still "warning-free."

     

    san diego,california,left coast.

    It was great seeing all of the palmaholics on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We had a great time and a super turnout.

    Ron, thanks for the great pictures. `````

    There

    Betty

    There is always enough room for another palm!

    here are a couple reandom shots from my phone

    Bill workin the crowd

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    over the verdant plain

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    The weight of lies will bring you down / And follow you to every town / Cause nothin happens here

    That doesn't happen there / So when you run make sure you run / To something and not away from

    Cause lies don't need an aero plane / To chase you anywhere

    --Avett Bros
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    All who stopped by, Thanks for making some time to come out and support local growers. Ya'll really made the event come to life! Got to meet people for the first time that I have been mailing palms to for seasons. My only disappointment is that I get pulled 16 different ways with so many customers and I don't always have more than a few minutes to talk story.

    Randy, thanks for your help setting up on Friday. Volunteers are the only way I could bring so much to the show.

    Ron, I saw Moose's report on your newest acquisition, what else did you get?

    Pedro, Really enjoyed speakin with ya. Lookin forward to seein' the Highwaymen, should be a real treat!

    Meg and Tom, great to make your acquaintances. :) I'll be looking for your posts on the new Jungle!

    Mike, good to see you as well. I'm interested in hearing what your mystery Dypsis turns out to be... I should have taken a pic and posted it here, email one to me and I'll do so for you.

    Moose, It was fun talkin' shop with ya' on Saturday. BTW, what was in your cup? :D Thanks for photographin' the event and posting the pics here. I took a camera and really didn't get to use it very much. I was busy a good portion of the weekend, plenty of people were there purchasing palms!

    Bubba, as always great to see ya'll. It was a treat to meet your better half and youngest. April and I will take ya'll up on a visit next time we are in your neck of the woods.

    BigAl954, it was a pleasure to meet you guys and I'm sure we'll run into each other at the next sale!

    This pic was taken courtesy of Broward's Mike Harris. (I'm certain he takes my camera so He stays on the other side of the lens!)

    Thanks everyone. It is a ton of work to put these things on, but all the people make it worth it!

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    Wow - the Booty Booth, I missed that photo op - LOL :lol:

    Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

    Outstanding photos, Ron, thanks a lot for posting them here.

    That Zamia hamannii is really a lovely cycad...I bet it would cost a big $ to take it home, hm??

    Hope you're enjoying your Whitelock Cycads book as much as I do with mine... :greenthumb:

    Sirinhaém beach, 80 Km south of Recife - Brazil

    Tropical oceanic climate, latitude 8° S

    Temperature extremes: 25 to 31°C

    2000 mm average rainfall, dry summers

    Anybody know what the gross sales were?

    I DIG PALMS

    Call me anytime to chat about transplanting palms.

    305-345-8918

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    Anybody know what the gross sales were?

    Hey Ken, you shouldn't call palm and cycad shoppers gross. :huh:

    Zone 10a at best after 2007 AND 2013, on SW facing hill, 1 1/2 miles from coast in Oceanside, CA. 30-98 degrees, and 45-80deg. about 95% of the time.

    "The great workman of nature is time."   ,  "Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience."

    -George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon-

    I do some experiments and learning in my garden with palms so you don't have to experience the pain! Look at my old threads to find various observations and tips!

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    It truly was an awesome sale with some really incredible stuff for sale by all of the vendors. This has to be the best palm sale I have been to so far this year. Lots of great growers and it was nice to meet some fellow forum members, especially Mr. Moose Knuckles himself.

    I ended up with the following plants:

    -Zamia pseudoparasitica :drool:

    -Zamia purpurea :wub:

    -Zamia neurophyllidia :blink:

    -Gaussia attenuata

    -Licuala glabra :blush:

    -Geonoma schottiana

    -Coccothrinax pseudorigida B)

    -Dypsis carlsmithii

    -Johannesteijsmannia perakensis :rolleyes:

    Ron - :drool: very very impressive aquisitions. Sorry we didn't get to spend more time together. l had to leave to watch the game as well but did not have to drive as far as you. See you at the next PRA!

    Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

    Dypsis carlsmithii, the greatest Dypsis of them all.

    Happy Gardening

    Cheers,

    Wal

    Queensland, Australia.

    Wow, another great sale & a whole bunch of forum members!

    I bought a

    -Gaussia princeps

    to add to my Gaussia group B)

    -Coccothrinax miraguama

    -Coccothrinax pseudorigida

    -Coccothrinax scoparia

    kinda getting hooked on these slow "stiffies" :wub:

    -Licuala cabalionii ???

    never heard of it, so I took a shot :unsure:

    -Bentickia niocobarica

    a double, nice blue/green crownshaft :D

    -Copernicia prunifera

    I have no place in mind for it, but I fell in love :mrlooney: Ah,........theres always room somewhere!

    Oh yeah, a couple of bags of fert. Once again, nice to see all the forum members. Great coverage, Ron. We need to do more droolfest PRAs!

    "If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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    You caught me loading my truck !! wasn't expecting that when I logged on :) . Great show..really the best i've seen in years at Caloosa. Hope it was a sucess for all involved
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    Wow - :rolleyes: I missed another forum member. Sorry Chris I didn't know you were a forum member. Watching you guys jamming all those palms early Saturday into the back of the truck with fervor, I had to take the pics. Wanted to peak at what you guys got but I don't bother people when they are loading. Sorry we didn't get a chance to meet and chat a bit.

    By the way, what did you get?

    Best regards,

    Ron. :)

    Coral Gables, FL 8 miles North of Fairchild USDA Zone 10B

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