It's amazing what a little rain does to palm growth. A couple of days of rain and everything pops new leaves. We are having great palm weather lately with warm temps and high humidity....all of the palms are loving it!

Beccariophoenix 'windows'

Dypsis lanceolata

Areca vestiaria

Neoveitchia storckii

Kerriodoxa elegans

Livistona jenkinsiana

Daryl

These palms certainly do look happy!

Nice shots Daryl, glad the weather is cooperating. Everything looks really heathy.

You have several of my favorites there! Looking really good!

Whaaaa!

(Sniff. Snort!)

Cool Daryl, might take some here as well.

Looking good Daryl. Great weather for palms and ducks

Hello folks, guess who bought a new camera ? You guesed it, Alan did. No he didn't, I did , just kidding ya. It's a Nikon S8200 point and click, lickety Splits. 16.1 megahertz with 14 multiplied zoom of doom and HiDef everything.

Here's the first shots I took earlier of some new leaves, after the rains as Daryl has commented. Chambeyronia in the east garden and a Laccospadix down by the creek.

This Laccospadix has been at least 2 feet under water.

The redness should look even better in a few days.

Shows how close to the creek it grows.

A couple more from today, in between showers...

Wallichia disticha

Another D.lanceolata

The rain really does wonders. Love post No.1, especially that Kerriodoxa elegans.

KPL

Here's some more...lagging a little behind, but the colour makes up for it!

Dypsis fibrosa

Kentiopsis magnifica

Calyptrocalyx

regards,

Daryl

Great plants and great photos! Thanks!

It just so happens I took some photos after work this afternoon of some recent "after the rain" leaf openings.

Roystonea oleracea

Beccariophoenix windows

Satakentia lukeskywalker

Kentiopsis pyriformis, an amazing looking bronze leaf, man I love this palm. A palm for royalty.

a triple play on the pics..

A couple more.

Cyphophoenix nucele

Bismarkia front and back

Dypsis sp.

And the transforming recently new red Chambeyronia leaf on it's journey to green and mean.

I wonder if anybody's looking at these, oh well, who cares, I'm going to keep posting.

The same Roystonea ollie is opening on quick mode now that the warm sun is raging here today.

Caryota gigas new leaf has the leaflets folded in readiness to open like it's brother lower centre of the pic. Here's a selection of pics of this palm showing it's locale with other plants. It'll be a monster one day with bamboo as backdrop. I've been told I need more red in the garden, I'm not so sure, I don't mind a train crash of green.

Licuala ramsayiis are looking a treat with the two smaller ones both opening leaves.

Pritchardia minor on course for another leaf

This Archo maxima keeps getting it's new leaves chewed upon, must cut back the neighbouring sugar cane, I sense there's a correlation between the sugar cane and the maxima leaves being eaten. I'm smart like that, these brilliant things just come to me.

Livistona humilis opens again.

Foxtail new leaves are coming to town, and so is Troy..

Great shots guys. Wish we could get some more rain.

what shon said on both counts

It is nice and sunny now, and that is great for growth...

Totally variegated Foxy Lady...no leaf burn yet...not until the humidity drops...

Young Attalea butyracea has hit top gear

Ptychosperma elegans

More D.fibrosa colour

Daryl

Pppppffff! I guess those look good if you like your palms to look perfect, healthy and wonderful. I prefer mine frost bitten, brown and barely hanging onto life...

You should have seen these palms after winter 2007... a freak cold snap burnt half of them down to a spear...some are amazingly resilient!

Daryl

In your previous post you said,"I wonder if anybody's looking at these, oh well, who cares, I'm going to keep posting."

As to who's looking, include me , all the way from Virginia, USA. Thanks! I really enjoy seeing your palms (and chickens, too).

In your previous post you said,"I wonder if anybody's looking at these, oh well, who cares, I'm going to keep posting."

As to who's looking, include me , all the way from Virginia, USA. Thanks! I really enjoy seeing your palms (and chickens, too).

Thanks Cindy, noted.. , and here's a couple more from this morning, this is really exciting times for palm nuts, so many palm trees bursting with new growth, and we are able to go out in the yard and view/observe up close finally after all those sodden days. I bet Daryl and Mike and all others from around Sth East Qld and Northern NSW have hundreds of palms doing the same. NQ is always bursting with new growth so they don't count

Livistona nitida, (from little things, big things grow)

Livistona decora(s)

Archo purpurea

That Caryota new leaf is changing fast with the leaflets opened up. Fascinating to watch.

And before I scrape the heavy frost off my windshield and head to work tomorrow, I'll get to admire your lovely palms enjoying good weather on the other side of the world. With Palmtalk it's always perfect palm growing conditions somewhere for some palm species and I get to see photos!

A couple more from downunder (and across the ditch)

D. pilulifera with reins.

Clinostigma savoryanum getting established.

Got 0.8" or rain today - the first in 2 months.

A couple more from downunder (and across the ditch)

D. pilulifera with reins.

Clinostigma savoryanum getting established.

Love that Dypsis Rich, quite an intricate leaflet arrangement, can we see a larger photo ?

Here's a higher res version Wal. Photo doesn't really show it but I love the way the rachis keel becomes a knife-edge.

cheers

Richard

Leaf is about 3m long. Here's a shot of the new leaflets which are still expanding and hardening.

That is a really well grown plant. Just outstanding. Can't keep mine from getting tip burn.

Here's a higher res version Wal. Photo doesn't really show it but I love the way the rachis keel becomes a knife-edge.

cheers

Richard

That's a beauty Richard...grown to perfection!

Some more new leaves...the palms are certainly loving this weather...

Laccospadix australasica

Volunteer Alexandras

Daryl

Continuing on with our wonderful bounty of new leaves after the rains and with sunny days in between.

Dypsis fibrosa or crinita (one of the two)

Roystonea oleracea with a spider from Mars

Livistona nitida

Ptychosperma elegans

Archontophoenix alexandrae, bursting with pride.

I'm going in.

A couple of native bangalows on my back property also joining in on the new leaf fanfare. The first palm shown was damaged by falling tree branches recently, it's spear was bent and a leaf or two were belted but still life finds a way as can clearly be seen.

Veitchia joannis

and what the blazes am I going to do with these Cyrtostachys renda new leafer sprouters ? Brother in law just returned from Mareeba/Cairns trip gave them to me yesterday..

and what the blazes am I going to do with these Cyrtostachys renda new leafer sprouters ? Brother in law just returned from Mareeba/Cairns trip gave them to me yesterday..

Here's what I did...

Potted up a batch and placed them in water in a plastic container. Another little group I bagged in hessian and placed on the edge of the pond and one more in a pot I placed in the oxygenator plant pot in the centre of the pond. All a total experiment, as soon as things get colder then I'm up for a new hot house I suppose..

and what the blazes am I going to do with these Cyrtostachys renda new leafer sprouters ? Brother in law just returned from Mareeba/Cairns trip gave them to me yesterday..

Here's what I did...

Potted up a batch and placed them in water in a plastic container. Another little group I bagged in hessian and placed on the edge of the pond and one more in a pot I placed in the oxygenator plant pot in the centre of the pond. All a total experiment, as soon as things get colder then I'm up for a new hot house I suppose..

Nice Wal!!! I've often wondered how lipsticks would go around here. Lookin forward to the results