Palm nursery in Malaysia/ kuala lumpur

[ybhari2]

Hi,

Am traveling to kuala lumpur this weekend. Anybody can tell me where to look for palm nursery around the Area?

Thanks for the infor

Hari

[Cedric]

Wish I could help I have tried and tried to find decent nurseries there but not one have I ever found. Im sure there are though but just where????? Wild goose chase most of the time no one seems to know what on earth you are looking for exactly. This goes for any nursery.

I look everytime I go, traveling out to some far flung place just to find a few weed infested coleus cuttings in tin cans Still fun and the countryside is incredible one big botanical park if its not infested with oil palm.

If you find any good luck and please report back, I've never tried the internet but there is someone out there seeling palm seed let me have a look see if they are any where in the area of KL.

[Cedric]

There are quite a lot of nurseries out at the airport, unfortunately it 's a notoriously long drive from and to KL and no one in their right minds wants to do that more than once, but do a search some look interesting one with 50 species of palm, maybe worth a stop on the way out. Hopfully all malaysian species that would be good.

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[ybhari2]

Cedric,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I will try visit the SJH nursery.

I used to go kuala lumpur for short trips. One place I went is Lake garden.

This is just a garden inside the city, but they have lots of johannesteijsmania, Licuala spinosa, and some other common species.

Rgds,

Hari

quote name='Cedric' timestamp='1329900911' post='513946']

There are quite a lot of nurseries out at the airport, unfortunately it 's a notoriously long drive from and to KL and no one in their right minds wants to do that more than once, but do a search some look interesting one with 50 species of palm, maybe worth a stop on the way out. Hopfully all malaysian species that would be good.

http://my.88db.com/Home-Services/Gardening-Landscaping/ad-113043/

[Cedric]

Cedric,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I will try visit the SJH nursery.

I used to go kuala lumpur for short trips. One place I went is Lake garden.

This is just a garden inside the city, but they have lots of johannesteijsmania, Licuala spinosa, and some other common species.

Rgds,

Hari

Ya I will most definitely try to go to SJH next time, and will be contacting them anyway and most urgently as they have one or two of those elusive numbers Im constantly badgering people about.

I always see the same frozen distant glazed over look suddenly come across the most happiest of faces, its when presented proudly with four hundred species to choose from ranging in size from six meter trunked adults down to single embryos I will then mumble the dark palm mantra in a stifled sibilant hiss (I cant help myself).............. "Salacca, Salacca magnifica?"...............even the insects stop singing although briefly.

They do have the quality touch it seems with some of the maybe more refreshing or at least different at any rate alternatives to well known species like the strikingly handsome and raffish Roystonia Oleracea, the slender delicate little Normanbya normanbyi, Coccothrinax argentia, SALACCA MAGNIFICA etc etc

You never can know what they might have as seedlings or juv's.

I go to KL minimum twice a year, its always a bit of a tight schedule as I do Singapore and Mumbai same time always, I try to squeeze in trips to nurseries on the odd afternoons. Im usually caught escaping in the hotel lobby dressed like Robinson Crusoe by a posse of snappily dressed cohorts, to be honest most look profoundly disappointed that they haven't been invited.