Last weekend on saturday morning I left my house in Corona, Riverside county to go on a two day PRA!

My first destination is (surf city)Huntington Beach, Orange County. The gardener chooses to remain private. The couple that lives there wanted to let all of you see his efforts! His wife said he's plant crazy and she doesn't mind it a bit.

With this thread there are going to be lots of pics posted. I would like to ask of you to please not post while I am posting. I will let you know on my last post when I am done for the moment. Also if you wouldn't multi quote any post with pics in it. It will take me a few trips to the computer to complete this thread. Click on the pics to enlarge them.

This trip to the computer will be brief as I have things to do.

The start:

I know almost nothing about frost tender palms! Feel free to ID palms.

These are front yard pics;

I liked this palm alot!

more pics comming

This is a Sabal he wants to remove because it's to big. I think it looks great there! What do you think?

I like this grouping of plants.

Can you ID this palm?

Look at the crownshaft on this one!

I was there for over an hour. Fortunatly I am invited to go back to thier garden to see what I missed do to lack of time!

That's all for now,

Regards,

Randy

Oceanside in San Diego County is my next destination! The one and only BS Man about palms! Unfortunatly I was 10 minutes away when he got a call and had to leave . I did a drive by anyways!

With these pics what can I say?

I like the long shot!

More to come

What are all the boxes for?

I heard this noise (please plant me)

This is what I found!

I left this.

Next stop is Bags in Encinitas!

matt are you asking that question or is that a response to randys question in post # 3?

nevermind,it doesnt really matter

Is that an old fallout shelter behind the palms in the long shot?

an old one and a new one.

Very nice Randy, Ed

I heard this noise (please plant me)

Whenever I'm there it's more like a scream from hell.

I haven't seen palms like that since Vega!! Nice

Edited August 2, 201015 yr by velutina

Aaron(Bags) was busy when I pulled up.

From the street you see the work Aaron has put into his garden. I like the way it kinda hides the lawn.

I just like this pic! I don't know what kind of palm it is.

Aaron has plenty of room for understory palms once the canopy is up!

more pics coming

I like this plant!

Not only has Aaron worked hard on his garden he has done an over the top remodel of his house!

Aaron thanks for the tour!

On to Urban Rain Forest, Steves!

Tomarro I will finish posting the many gardens!

Regards, Randy

It was good hanging with you Randy. Stop by any time.

The palm you posted is Burretiokentia viellardii and the elephant ear is Colocasia Gigantea "Giant Thailand Strain" a real monster.

Here is a pic from 2008 when I first planted everything.

Steve's garden has alot of BIG palms. There is a new thread about Steve's palm trees with better pics and with descriptions!

Steve's garden has alot of BIG palms. There is a new thread about Steve's palm trees with better pics and with descriptions!

Somehow I only took two pics in the front yard .

Steve with a hot palm!!!

The above pics are Steve and I on opposite sides of the most amazing palm I have seen . I looked so foward to seeing and touching this palm. It could only have been better if Matty were here to try to eat it! One more pic of this palm. A close up of the very white crownshaft!!!!!!

Two sweet palms!

I like this palms color!

Thanks for showing me a good time Steve!

I'm off to Tara the sailboat I will be staying the night on. My friend Ed and I had a good time eating dinner at Fiddlers. Then we relaxed on the boat to the music being played near by at Humphrey's. The live band was Boney James. Onto Matty B's

Is that a mattress buried behind the double-headed Dypsis? I just know it's serving a purpose.. a sponge to hold water perhaps?? Helping the roots in some way.. Curious.

Thats a railroad tie John.

Thats a railroad tie John.

Yes of course, well spotted Bill. I knew the heat would get to me!

Is that a mattress buried behind the double-headed Dypsis? I just know it's serving a purpose.. a sponge to hold water perhaps?? Helping the roots in some way.. Curious.

John, Good eye! That is my swooning mattress .

Stevo

Randy, It was great to finally meet you and give you the tour! I'm glad your pra was a success. Thanks for the Dioon also. Looking forward to the rest of the pics!

Stevo

Vey nice, Stevo! What is the last palm in post # 17? Thanks !

I got to matty's at 8:00 am ready to go!

Right to the pics!

The first five are shots of palm trees

Matty has the touch !

You know in that last pic I am not sure if I like the way Matty's shadow is looking at me?

Here's a couple garden view shots. Look at the background of some of these pics!

Matty must have set my camera to shorten my legs!

Fill in the caption!

Matty is thinking Palm salad! His lettus in his garden isn't ready.

The rain forest

I took this pic of Matty house on the fly while holding the camera out the window!

I was last at Matty's in October. His plants have grown well! His hard scape is shaping up too.

I want to be there for the falling of the bridge beams!

Thanks for the tour and palm salad!

Off to Palmzilla's

Braden's garden has a jurasic desert feel. It's about a year old and alot of neet stuff has been put in the ground. I like the use of rocks. Braden used them well!

Warning to the faint hearted(Paul) cycads abound in the pics!

Some views of Braden's garden.

Braden for scale

When I got there I could smell the smoke from the fire they had the night before!

The house has been remodeled and looks very nice.

This is a cool palm tree!

Another great job of planting!

Braden grows plants well! I can't wait to go back.

Next Calvin's garden just 2.6 miles away!

Dang Braden, those rock walls are amazing!

I have two more stops. I will post them tomarro!

Randy

You are close to the big milestone! I'm at about 295,170 miles. As soon as I hit the 300,000 the car is off to the junker. Maybe I should do a PRA Florida style and speed it up.

Vey nice, Stevo! What is the last palm in post # 17? Thanks !

Darold, I bought it as Dypsis Onilahensis but your guess is better than mine. I planted it as a 1 gal. and it now has 8 trunks and grows very fast!

Stevo

Nice coverage, Randy! This is interesting because although each garden includes palms as a central interest, they are all wildly different. Looking forward to the rest of the trip pix.

Very adventurous thread. Not a bad way to spend some time. hope the traffic was moving for you. Great pictures.

Thanks for all the kind comments!

I will post the last three gardens tomarro!

Kim, I noticed the pattern of everyones garden feeliing different. The next three gardens that will continue

Everyone of the gardens I went to I could have spent twice as much time as I did and still miss things.

Also I could have taken alot more pics than I did!

Randy

Calvin's garden is one acre and has a nice slope. It's in Vista. He has a number of large plants creating nice canopy. A concrete pathway meanders thru the garden. He built two observation decks (unfortunately no pic of the backyard one ) that overlook the palms from above!

I am going to let these pics speak for themselves!

A future planting! A nice choice for a jurrasic feel!

My host of a well thought out garden next to a palmtree.

Thank for the tour Calvin I'll be back.

Onto Jasons house also in Vista

Justin like Calvin has a large property with large plants and several micro climates. He has used a big variety of uncommon plants mixed with plants we know to create intresting areas!

Have you ever seen a white banana plant!!!

me and Jubea

This is a very long tunnel trail at the bottom of his property.

Justin next to bamboo

I have to get one of these!

Prosopis chilensis.

Maybe 3

Here's a link I stole W/O permission from Justin!

Check it out

http://socaltropics....801/100801.html

Thanks for the tour, I look foward to your party Justin!

Onto LJG's