Garden Palms

[Kennybenjamin]

Howdy everyone,

Its been about 12 months since I posted some photos of my garden so I thought it might be time for some new photos. I am currently on holidays and not at home but I took these photos before I left and now have the time to post post while I relax at the coast with a beer!!

As you may be aware this season has been pretty hard on some of our younger gardens and a couple of my palms have not appreciated the searing heat and lack of rainfall. I have spent countless hours hand watering recently but this only keeps the palms alive, it hardly has them powering along.

The weather has changed recently and some rains have arrived, this has kicked the palms up a growing gear or two, new leaves that have been stagnent recently are all now opening up at the fresh growth is great to see.

Last time I posted photos I had spent a solid 10 days cleaning, weeding, pruning, fertilising and mulching but time has not allowed that on this occassion so the garden is a little raw but still looking ok.

Backyard:

[Kennybenjamin]

My garden had many tall trees before I started work on it 3 or 4 years ago It was always my plan to slowly remove them as the palms started to gain some size, this year has seen some severe pruning / removal of said trees (some due to requests from neighbours and some due to the cyclonic weather we had here two weeks ago), the palms are starting to take over even though 1 or 2 have sustained a burnt leaf or two..... such is life..... they will recover fine I think.

I will break the photos into 2 sections here, first I will show the canopy or sunloving type palms then I will post my understory or shade lovers.

Dypsis pempana and D. lanceolata

Dypsis onilahensis "weeping"

Dypsis psammopylla

Dypsis saintelucia (1 month since planting).... I have tried 1 of these before and failed (these seem like weeklings here and never seem strong or vigorous) but after seeing many in Hawaii recently I have made a bold (or stupid) decision to try 3 or 4 in this prominant spot, fingers crossed!!

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Ptychopserma burretianum

Satakentia luikensis (another new planting with first leaf since being planted)

Dypsis pinnatifrons (apparently a hybrid..... I assume with D. sambiranensis?)

Dypsis "dark mealy bug"... awesome palm but slow, 1 leaf per year and now on its 3rd since planting.... each leaf much larger than the last. This leaf just starting to open.... ye haaaaa!

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Dypsis pilulifera (dont look NApalm), again first leaf since planting

Dypsis ampansindavae

Dypsis lastelliana

Combo shot

Carpoxylon

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Siphokentia beguinii

I try to have as many different sp. as possible in the garden which limits the number of each sp. allowable, except for Normanbya normanbyi of which i now have 4... this is the largest

Second largest

Third largest and Areca triandra

[Jastin]

Beautiful!!!

[Kennybenjamin]

Now for some front yard canopy palms

Bismarkia nobilis, powering along

My largest Kentiopsis oliviformis, nice new leaf

Coccothrinax sp. argentata??

The spit base of my Dypsis cab x mad

Dypsis sp. (maybe onilahensis "bef" but i am duboius on that id?)

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Dypsis cab x lepto (I think..... maybe lepto x pembana?)

Foxy's and Dypsis leptocheilos silouette

Foxy's and Mrs Smith

Red latan didn't like the cyclonic winds a couple of weeks ago

Poor chambyronias didnt like the hot hot heat minus the humidity!!! These palms have been planted 3 years and were beautiful until about 2 months ago, bit annoying..... going to be years until they grow out?? (might make you feel a bit better Wal!)

[Kennybenjamin]

Arenga australasica, slow but steady

Dypsis prestoniana (pretty fast for a big Dypsis) and newly planted Pigafetta.... I have lost about5 palms where this Pig is planted, 1 has to grow sometime..... This plant is getting of water and seems to be going ok so far

Last of the sun lovers is this Dypsis sp. (im going with kindreo at this stage), fastest palm I have and an easy grow. Doesn't mind hot dry conditions and I like it!

[Tassie_Troy1971]

very nice Ben

Lots of interesting Dypsis and i had no idea that mealy bug was so slow up there .

Will post those seedlings when you get back pm me !

Troy

[Kennybenjamin]

Now for some understory palms.

Newly planted Allagoptera caudescens (I still prefer the name Polyandrococcus)

Largest of my 3 Lyttocaryum weddellianum

Dypsis "pink crown" (Sambiranensis?)

Chamaedorea adscendens

Licuala ramsayii

Chuniophoenix hainanense

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Itaya amicorum

Calyptocalyx hollrungii

Asterogyne martianata

Areca vestiaria "orange", I like the single forms.... this is again my largest of 2

Linospadix monostachya

Bought as Dypsis florenceii but i don't really knbow what this is?

Chamaedorea tepejilote stem

[Kennybenjamin]

Linospadix minor with earlier mentioned D. florenceii

Chamaedorea metallica grouping

Recently planted Rhopalostylsis sapida (Will be canopy style now that I think about it)

Dypsis "mealy bug" (hovotriendra or something similar), This again is a weekly growing palm here but well worth a try!

Hope some of these photos were interesting for some of you, there are many more palms in the ground that I didn't manage to photograph this time around but I'm sure they will have their day on palm talk! Also many more in my ever increasing container ranch that will probably have to be saved for the next garden if I ever have to leave this one.

Thanks for looking

Ben (Kenny)

[Bill Austin]

Looking GOOD Ben very nice collections you have going there.

[Eric F]

No clinostigmas? I expected you to have some

[Kennybenjamin]

No clinostigmas? I expected you to have some

Afraid not Eric, it was one of the 5 that i couldn't keep alive where the Pigafetta currently resides, pity!!!! I tried hard to keep it going!!

[Pedro 65]

Lookn Fantastic Ben, great work, keep it up, hey Ben do you have a few of those Cab/Lepto hyrids at P4B ? Pete

[Daryl]

C'mon Ben, don't kid us about a drought....your garden looks very healthy!

Daryl

[Tropicgardener]

Your garden looks great Ben and your collection, well all I can say is that I expected that from you ..........just one thing, tell the missus not to poke out her tongue......it's rude

[Kennybenjamin]

C'mon Ben, don't kid us about a drought....your garden looks very healthy!

Daryl

Looks can be deceiving Daryl, I lost quite a few palms despite my best efforts to tend to all of them, dead palms have been pulled and replaced. Easy enough to and get away with when your garden is young!

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Dypsis pilulifera (dont look NApalm), again first leaf since planting

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Another one! Dude, you are killing me here!!! Haha

[Walter John]

Nice Ben, it's a wonder what those rains have done to the garden.

[Jastin]

I was going to post my garden update but after seeing yours ill have to wait about 5 more years

[dan.vagnoni]

Great garden! Didnt see one species i don't enjoy. Funny thing, i have what I believe is a D. cab x mad with a two heads as well. Weird, but ill try and get a picture later

[Mandrew968]

Thanks for posting--I like the brown smooth rocks as a border. Are they local? Question: How can you be growing a Rhopalostylis sapida with all the HEAT you have been talking of? How hot are you getting??? I had a couple and they straight melted on me--I must be a lot hotter than you... It's a really interesting environment when you can grow obscure Dypsis, Rhopalostylis, and Pigafetta all in the same garden!

[LJG]

Great collection of palms.

[Kennybenjamin]

Post away Jastin, I'm certainly interested as I'm sure everyone else is!! I did start with a couple of larger palms in order to get some sort of instant effect.

Mandrew the R. Sapida is currently in the shade which may be helping it out a bit, it certainly doesn't seem to mind our recent weather. The highest recording I had in my backyard was 38 Celsius, sorry don't know the conversion?? Our biggest problem was that the air was dry as well as dry winds, humidity was well below 50 as the temps soared, IMO this is what hurts most of them!

I got lucky and the rocks were already there when I bought the property, the potential for the garden was a strong influence in choosing this particular property.

Cheers

[realarch]

Boy Ben, that's quite a collection. Surely enough to keep you busy on your garden rounds. Great job!

[Daryl]

Thanks for posting--I like the brown smooth rocks as a border. Are they local? Question: How can you be growing a Rhopalostylis sapida with all the HEAT you have been talking of? How hot are you getting??? I had a couple and they straight melted on me--I must be a lot hotter than you... It's a really interesting environment when you can grow obscure Dypsis, Rhopalostylis, and Pigafetta all in the same garden!

Mandrew, the climate in SE Queensland is quite mild and allows us to grow a surprising variety of palms. Somebody else commented on AndyG's garden and the fact he had Parajubaea growing near Pigafetta...in my garden I have the same type of thing...Parajubaea near Pigafetta, Coconut near Jubaea and Rhopalostylis next to Astrocaryum...weird eh!

Our main problem is periodic droughts, not temperature.

Daryl

[Pedro 65]

Thanks for all the messages Ben, sent Greg an email and as usual, "he's onto it' tracking some down for me Thanks again. Pete

[colin Peters]

Really nice. especially the color on the lepto? hybrid, love those Dypsis

aloha

[Hammer]

Why do I even bother looking at threads like this?! Just makes me suuuuuper jealous!!

[Kennybenjamin]

Why do I even bother looking at threads like this?! Just makes me suuuuuper jealous!!

Hi Hammer, I can appreciate your position. If I remember correctly you have started your garden around 18 months ago, maybe less? I took an interest when you posted photos of your place shortly after you moved in, I seem to recall you had what we in Australia call "purple fountain grass" and you were thinking of replacing with with D. Baronii or something similar?

I am sure with a couple more years and some dedication on your behalf you will have something special there!!

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Looking good Ben

Great selection of palm

the Rhopalostylis looks like the North island form with the finer leaflets .

I have another form from Wapitkiki beach and Great Barrier Island just germinated if you have room.

Troy

[Hammer]

Why do I even bother looking at threads like this?! Just makes me suuuuuper jealous!!

Hi Hammer, I can appreciate your position. If I remember correctly you have started your garden around 18 months ago, maybe less? I took an interest when you posted photos of your place shortly after you moved in, I seem to recall you had what we in Australia call "purple fountain grass" and you were thinking of replacing with with D. Baronii or something similar?

I am sure with a couple more years and some dedication on your behalf you will have something special there!!

Impressive memory! The fountain grass is gone. I have trenches and holes dug everywhere. Place looks worse than when we moved in. Actually thought about posting some in process pictures soon. I know when finished it will look good. It's in that ugly messy work in process stage. Que sara. It will get better.

[comic097]

Bump....Was in Ben's neck of the woods today so decided to duck in for a look, the garden was looking immaculate, took a few pics as I was too busy looking around, Ill leave that to you Ben for a garden update at your leisure

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Left and Right view of dypsis Presto

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Dypsis sp

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Dypsis dark mealy bug