What kind of a home would go well with a palm garden?

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I know a lot of us don't get a choice as to what house we get to start with, but if you could start from scratch, what sort of look would you go for? There are some amazing architectural things that can be done to bring about a tropical vibe even before the first palm is planted. What would it be for you? The Hawaii plantation look with a lush tropical forest? A mediterranean surrounded by beautiful bismarckia, brahea and copernicia? I spent some time looking around the net for some cool houses. Here's what I found:

Guess where this house is. Don't cheat by looking at the URL.

The tropical plantation look:

A tropical hut:

The Bahamas beach house:

[Umbrae]

all houses, save the igloo

[Sabal Steve]

Spanish style. Lots of wrought iron and clay tile. With drought tolerant palms.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I don't agree, not all homes lend themselves well to a palm garden. However, the igloo does go well with palms:

[Jeff Searle]

I like exactly what I have. A semi tropical garden, with house décor from many areas of the world ( tropical ) from some of our travels. My wife and I wouldn't want it any differently.

[Dypsisdean]

I don't agree, not all homes lend themselves well to a palm garden. However, the igloo does go well with palms:

Igloo??? That looks like something Hugh Hefner would go for.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I don't agree, not all homes lend themselves well to a palm garden. However, the igloo does go well with palms:

Igloo??? That looks like something Hugh Hefner would go for.

Dean, I missed that the first time around but now that you mention it... So we now know what's on your mind.

[Trópico]

Well that igloo resembles a certain club in Lee Road. I'm sure it's the winner after a hurricane.

[Tropicgardener]

Who cares what the house looks like........If you have planted the garden right you won't even see the house

[sergiskan]

the tropical plantation look is awesome!

...but here in our islands the "Ibiza style" is my choice.

[Danilopez89]

I like the first house. Looks like it could be one of the many homes located on the mountains surrounding the Coachella Valley. What a view that would be. I would start with copernicias and Bismarcks. And that would just be the beginning

[LJG]

Balinese style all the way.

[waykoolplantz]

Balinese style all the way.

I also like the Balinese style....tho live now in a log cabin

[Palmdude]

This would be pretty close to what would work for me. In my dreams the home would be bridged across a canyon looking at a waterfall like this one

Or bridged across that big gap on top of the waterfall but I think I'd rather be looking right at it

Edited April 6, 2014 by Palmdude

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

That bahamas beach house is where it's at.

[_Keith]

I know a lot of us don't get a choice as to what house we get to start with, but if you could start from scratch, what sort of look would you go for? There are some amazing architectural things that can be done to bring about a tropical vibe even before the first palm is planted. What would it be for you? The Hawaii plantation look with a lush tropical forest? A mediterranean surrounded by beautiful bismarckia, brahea and copernicia? I spent some time looking around the net for some cool houses. Here's what I found:

Guess where this house is. Don't cheat by looking at the URL.

The tropical plantation look:

A tropical hut:

The Bahamas beach house:

This one is my style all the way.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

Who cares what the house looks like........If you have planted the garden right you won't even see the house

That would be called the DoomsDave HidaAHouse of Doom™ garden design, I believe plans for that are available on PalmTalk.

[MattyB]

Houses never did it for me. I don't really like being inside. When I have to work inside the house I just feel like smashing everything. I throw stuff away as often as I can. Stuff is... stuff. I wanna go simpler.

[MKIVRYAN]

Note to self. If Matty ever comes over to see my garden don't envite him inside I vote for plantation

[Palmdude]

Matt I'm with you so a minimalist Bamboo hut overlooking a waterfall out the back and the beach out front will do for me I don't ask for much all dreaming aside I'm grateful to be right where I am. However if I won the lottery, which I hardly ever play, an upgrade might be in order

[Sabal Steve]

Houses never did it for me. I don't really like being inside. When I have to work inside the house I just feel like smashing everything. I throw stuff away as often as I can. Stuff is... stuff. I wanna go simpler.

Amen brutha!

I'm in the process as well. Only I keep acquiring plants...

[Dypsisdean]

Houses never did it for me. I don't really like being inside. When I have to work inside the house I just feel like smashing everything. I throw stuff away as often as I can. Stuff is... stuff. I wanna go simpler.

I've got a house for you Matty.

[sgvcns]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

[wimmie]

I know a lot of us don't get a choice as to what house we get to start with, but if you could start from scratch, what sort of look would you go for? There are some amazing architectural things that can be done to bring about a tropical vibe even before the first palm is planted. What would it be for you? The Hawaii plantation look with a lush tropical forest? A mediterranean surrounded by beautiful bismarckia, brahea and copernicia? I spent some time looking around the net for some cool houses. Here's what I found:

Guess where this house is. Don't cheat by looking at the URL.

The tropical plantation look:

A tropical hut:

The Bahamas beach house:

Alex, the Bahama beachhouse would be my choise, but that's very personal of course. About the iglo's, I must acknowledge that I love titties, but I don't want to live in them.!

Wim.

[Brad Mondel]

I like the Mediterranean style, with clay tiles and stucco.

[NorthFlpalmguy]

x4 for the bahamas beach house. It does not even have to be an actual house just a hut so I could spend more on the palms!

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

Steve, you just notice it now? This is the reason I asked for a scientific sub forum. It would however be a very dry forum. With that being said, just because someone might be a taxonomist doesn't mean they would have to be dry and stuffy. I am sure they would enjoy the main PalmTalk forum. After all they're also human.

[Mandrew968]

a SMALL one.

[MattyB]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

You're right, there might be a better subforum in which to post this particular topic; "Off Topic" subforum perhaps. But the fact that you think the "Discussing Palm Trees Worldwide" forum should have some sort or "seriousness", I think, is a mistake. Let's not fool ourselves. Palmtalk is a discussion forum open to the entire internet. There is nothing that you can ever do to control the thousands of forum goers who want to participate in this forum. If the taxonomists and botanists want an official scholarly forum/closed group then I'm sure they know where to go for that, but Palmtalk is not it.

[Mandrew968]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

You're right, there might be a better subforum in which to post this particular topic; "Off Topic" subforum perhaps. But the fact that you think the "Discussing Palm Trees Worldwide" forum should have some sort or "seriousness", I think, is a mistake. Let's not fool ourselves. Palmtalk is a discussion forum open to the entire internet. There is nothing that you can ever do to control the thousands of forum goers who want to participate in this forum. If the taxonomists and botanists want an official scholarly forum/closed group then I'm sure they know where to go for that, but Palmtalk is not it.

This seems very off topic for this thread, but I would like to add to the deliniation: Sure there is a sense of layman/beginner tone to some Palmtalkers, but I maintain that some of the most knowledgeable people in palms post here, if not frequent this site. My message was not to bash any taxonimists, but to implore them to share with their biggest fans, more. I do not think I ask too much.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

You're right, there might be a better subforum in which to post this particular topic; "Off Topic" subforum perhaps. But the fact that you think the "Discussing Palm Trees Worldwide" forum should have some sort or "seriousness", I think, is a mistake. Let's not fool ourselves. Palmtalk is a discussion forum open to the entire internet. There is nothing that you can ever do to control the thousands of forum goers who want to participate in this forum. If the taxonomists and botanists want an official scholarly forum/closed group then I'm sure they know where to go for that, but Palmtalk is not it.

This seems very off topic for this thread, but I would like to add to the deliniation: Sure there is a sense of layman/beginner tone to some Palmtalkers, but I maintain that some of the most knowledgeable people in palms post here, if not frequent this site. My message was not to bash any taxonimists, but to implore them to share with their biggest fans, more. I do not think I ask too much.

I agree, I would love to engage with taxonomists. There are two genera that I would love to be able to discuss at a more scientific level: brahea and sabal.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

To bring the thread back on topic, I agree with Matty and Andrew, the smaller the better.

I had the opportunity to visit Dean's garden. His house is small, with almost 360 degree lanai, and all around are palms, palms and more palms. The house itself is a modest but beautiful Hawaiian plantation style house with a nice green metal roof that has a polynesian shape. if I were to re-do a place from scratch, I'd opt for a small place with lots of lanais from which one could sit and dream about palms.

Dean's place made me realize how spectacular it is to just sit on a lanai and enjoy beautiful palms. He doesn't have any ocean views because he lives in a forest of ohia trees. But IMHO the palmy view is worth more than any ocean view. I didn't take pics from his lanai at his place but I did take some nice shots of Bill Austin's nice pritchardia! This is what he gets to look at every day.

At my house, we have a nice palmy view from our lanai, it sorta looks like this. To imagine Dean's place, replace that parajubaea with enormous chambeyronia!

[Zeeth]

To bring the thread back on topic, I agree with Matty and Andrew, the smaller the better.

I had the opportunity to visit Dean's garden. His house is small, with almost 360 degree lanai, and all around are palms, palms and more palms. The house itself is a modest but beautiful Hawaiian plantation style house with a nice green metal roof that has a polynesian shape. if I were to re-do a place from scratch, I'd opt for a small place with lots of lanais from which one could sit and dream about palms.

Dean's place made me realize how spectacular it is to just sit on a lanai and enjoy beautiful palms. He doesn't have any ocean views because he lives in a forest of ohia trees. But IMHO the palmy view is worth more than any ocean view. I didn't take pics from his lanai at his place but I did take some nice shots of Bill Austin's nice pritchardia! This is what he gets to look at every day.

At my house, we have a nice palmy view from our lanai, it sorta looks like this. To imagine Dean's place, replace that parajubaea with enormous chambeyronia!

What species of Pritchardia are those? They look like P. beccariana but I'm not good with this genus yet.

[Mauna Kea Cloudforest]

To bring the thread back on topic, I agree with Matty and Andrew, the smaller the better.

I had the opportunity to visit Dean's garden. His house is small, with almost 360 degree lanai, and all around are palms, palms and more palms. The house itself is a modest but beautiful Hawaiian plantation style house with a nice green metal roof that has a polynesian shape. if I were to re-do a place from scratch, I'd opt for a small place with lots of lanais from which one could sit and dream about palms.

Dean's place made me realize how spectacular it is to just sit on a lanai and enjoy beautiful palms. He doesn't have any ocean views because he lives in a forest of ohia trees. But IMHO the palmy view is worth more than any ocean view. I didn't take pics from his lanai at his place but I did take some nice shots of Bill Austin's nice pritchardia! This is what he gets to look at every day.

At my house, we have a nice palmy view from our lanai, it sorta looks like this. To imagine Dean's place, replace that parajubaea with enormous chambeyronia!

What species of Pritchardia are those? They look like P. beccariana but I'm not good with this genus yet.

Bingo!

[Zeeth]

Thanks Axel!

[Alicehunter2000]

I would like to make an observation .

Recently there was a topic that started off re Becc "windows".

This turned into some negative comments re taxonomists & palm academics including their "attitude" to Palm Talk.

This seems a bit gratuitous to me when this topic is in a forum supposedly discussing palms in the world.

If I was an academic and looked up palm talk and saw this post I would certainly wonder at the seriousness of the forum.

Surely there is a more appropriate forum on this site for these sort of discussions?

You can't have your cake and eat it too as my mother was fond of saying

Steve

I consider the living quarters part of the garden hardscape. Maybe there should be a hardscape subforum to discuss, waterfall features, viewing decks, pathways, sitting areas etc.

Agree that you would have to be a pretty dry individual not to appreciate the total asthetics of a garden, including structures and hardscapes.

[Dypsisdean]

I had the opportunity to visit Dean's garden. His house is small, with almost 360 degree lanai, and all around are palms, palms and more palms. The house itself is a modest but beautiful Hawaiian plantation style house with a nice green metal roof that has a polynesian shape. if I were to re-do a place from scratch, I'd opt for a small place with lots of lanais from which one could sit and dream about palms.

Axel,

Thanks for the kind and complinentary words. I'm in the camp with those who like small houses and big gardens. The only thing I feel lacking in is closet space and/or a garage.

As to the discussion about taxonomists/scientists and PalmTalk - let's discuss that in another topic if need be. But, a new proposed IPS website with more venues for content and discussion is in the works - with one of the main ideas being to have a more structured atmosphere for the scientific "crew" to contribute. It may be more appropriate and to their liking than the somewhat free-for-all that we engage in here.