Sunset Stroll

[LilikoiLee]

Mike took the following pictures during a sunset stroll through our garden.

Dont forget to put on your weed filtering glasses before looking at the pictures!

Beccariophoenix sp. window

Close up of Beccariophoenix frond

Cyphophoenix elegans

Dypsis procera

Chuniophoenix hainanensis

Heterospathe minor (If we have the wrong species please let us know.)

Hydriastele macrospadix

Mike and Lee

[LilikoiLee]

Licuala grandis

Licuala poonsakii

Licuala ramsayi

Metroxylon warburgii

Euterpe edulis

Reinhardtia latisecta

[LilikoiLee]

Rhopaloblaste sp. (Think this is augusta, if not please let us know.)

Wallichia densiflora

The little dark green and white plant sneaking up from under the Wallichia is Mickey Mouse taro.

As mice go they are very cute but they keep reproducing so they have to be 'trapped' and relocated on a regular basis.

Pistol, the orange cat on the left side of the picture supervises the trapping.

Wettinia sp. (If you know the species, please let us know.)

Borassodendron machadonis

Heterospathe sp. (Not sure if this actually is a Heterospathe. If we are wrong or you know what the species is, please let us know.)

Unknown (Please identify if you know what palm this is.)

Thanks for taking the walk with us.

Mike and Lee

[comic097]

Fantastic!!!!!!!

[fan palm]

Very nice! Especially the Hydriastele macrospadix. They have such a distinctive leaf shape.

Cheers

[Kennybenjamin]

Excellent palms and pics!!! Regarding the last 2 pics I will stick my neck out and say yes it's definately a heterospathe, I should know the sp. but it escapes me!!

The last pic is definately Dypsis ( you probably knew that much ) and my best guesses are boiviniana or poivereana, they do look slightly different to what I might expect them to look like though?? Looks like your loving your palms! Everyone has their palm problems and yours are definately not your climate or availability, pity it's hard to dig the holes for them!! I get the feeling Mike loves it!!

[Cindy Adair]

I didn't even need to find my weed filtering glasses as I wear them all the time. Even in Virginia, we cut the weeds in the back yard so they are proper grass height and that works for us. We do a bit better in the small front yard to keep the neighbors happy.

Of course in Puerto Rico we are concerned with trailblazing to get from one place to another between visits.

Seriously, your palms look happy and healthy and that is what I wish for you and Mike too.

[Alicehunter2000]

Warm tropics sounds pretty good right now......... that B. "windows" is a stunner. I really get the windows part now thanks to your picture. I purchased a "Micky Mouse" taro recently too....cool variegation on those. Ah....Hawaii

[Stevetoad]

Love those licualas! Great photos

[doranakandawatta]

Lee + Mike,

I love your "Hydriastele macrospadix and Pistol" picture since it tells me how my Hydriastele can be if I do well.

All your pics are lovely, how old are your palms?
...means ; how many years should I wait until I can see the same size in Doranakanda?

Until now, I have mostly "Cindy's palms size" babies! (I like Cindy's pics showing us very fragile seedlings planted in the wild jungle!)

Your Borassodendron is a promising youth, I have now seeds from this species just sprouting (from fruits collected in april)

in the bigger pot on this picture:

BTW. this is our seed-pots place, quite wild too, any way not sophisticate !

[LilikoiLee]

Lee + Mike,

I love your "Hydriastele macrospadix and Pistol" picture since it tells me how my Hydriastele can be if I do well.

All your pics are lovely, how old are your palms?

...means ; how many years should I wait until I can see the same size in Doranakanda?

Until now, I have mostly "Cindy's palms size" babies! (I like Cindy's pics showing us very fragile seedlings planted in the wild jungle!)

Your Borassodendron is a promising youth, I have now seeds from this species just sprouting (from fruits collected in april)

in the bigger pot on this picture:

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BTW. this is our seed-pots place, quite wild too, any way not sophisticate !

Philippe,

Almost all of our palms have gone into the ground over the last four years ranging in size from 3 to 15 gallon pots. The Hydriastele were purchased in 10 gal pots and planted two years ago. The Borassodendron was planted from a 5 G pot three years ago. It was very slow but is just now taking off.

We also enjoy following Cindy's babies planted in the wild jungle.

We think your seeding pots are great! Nice to see so many babies shooting up.

Lee and Mike

[doranakandawatta]

Lee & Mike,

We think your seeding pots are great! Nice to see so many babies shooting up.

This is where night guard is given by Lord Cobra protecting our seedlings from small wild pigs!

[Tassie_Troy1971]

WOW

Amazingly healthy perfectly grown palms !

Do you even have to feed them ???

Troy

[LilikoiLee]

WOW

Amazingly healthy perfectly grown palms !

Do you even have to feed them ???

Troy

Aloha Troy,

Thanks for your complements. We hardly ever fertilze. Some of our palms have been in the ground for three or four years and never been fertilized because I've read that over-fertilizing is not good. (Although 4 years is extreme!

Some of our palms don't look as good as Tim's (realarch) even though we purchased at the same time from the same nursery. He uses more fertilizer and also gets a lot more rain.

We do use an excellent compost which we mix in small quantity with the planting soil and also spread as a top dressing as we plant. We were just at a lecture by a very knowledable plant pathologist who mentioned that compost solves many problems. He also mentioned that it is better to apply a very small amount of fast release fertilizer every month than a handful of timed release fertlizer every six months. It will be a lot more work since we have about 400 palms but we're going to do it.

The pathologist has an excellent web site which is very easy to use. You can also download his app from the website. Tim will be posting a link to it from the Hawaii Island Palm Society website - or most likely has already done so.

Lee

[Jim in Los Altos]

No need for the weed sunglasses. Your palms look fantastic and I didn't notice weeds. That taro (weed) is interesting. I doubt it would be invasive here.

[humangenomaproject]

Those are some dank weeds!!! thanks for the post! How fast does that Metroxylon grow?

[LilikoiLee]

No need for the weed sunglasses. Your palms look fantastic and I didn't notice weeds. That taro (weed) is interesting. I doubt it would be invasive here.

Those are some dank weeds!!! thanks for the post! How fast does that Metroxylon grow?

It's been in the ground for 2 years. I don't remember the pot size, but it was probably 5 gal. It has grown approximately 4'. We were looking for an amicorum (because they don't die when they seed) but couldn't find one. Jeff Marcus of Floribunda had this warburgii and told us that it was the most beautiful Metroxylon. He was right and now we don't care if it dies after it seeds.

Lee