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If you had to choose only ONE palm to plant in your garden what would it be?

Josh-O

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Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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If you had to choose only one palm to plant that would grow in your garden what would it be?

I would probably have to go with kentiopsis piersoniorum for my climate.

 

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Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

nachocarl Mentor

nachocarl

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Kentia!

 

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Carl

Vista, CA

Hammer Grand Master

Hammer

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8 minutes ago, nachocarl said:

Kentia!

 

All the way

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enigma99 Mentor

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44 minutes ago, nachocarl said:

Kentia!

 

I can only grow mine in shade:( just too dang hot in the Summer. Might be boring, but I am going with a standard Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. Super cold hardy and can take sun while looking good.. And that's why I have 60 of them!

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Hamal Collaborator

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Based on where I live the only option I have is a Trachycarpus species. Winters are either too cold or too wet. The most attractive in my opinion is Trachycarpus princeps.

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Frank

Pal Meir Grand Master

Pal Meir

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The only palms which actually survived the winters here in those places of Germany where I am or was living were Trachycarpus fortunei and T. wagnerianus, so I would choose T. wagnerianus. B)

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Pip Grand Master

Pip

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This is way to difficult 

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aivalima Explorer

aivalima

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I would choose for sure Dictyosperma Album and more specific var. Conjugatum. 

 

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rprimbs Mentor

rprimbs

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Maybe date palm.  Honestly I'd go for the fruit.

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Alicehunter2000 Grand Master

Alicehunter2000

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Mule!

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David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

30 ft. elevation and sandy soil

Ben in Norcal Grand Master

Ben in Norcal

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7 hours ago, enigma99 said:

I can only grow mine in shade:( just too dang hot in the Summer. Might be boring, but I am going with a standard Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. Super cold hardy and can take sun while looking good.. And that's why I have 60 of them!

+ 1 on Archies...we'll go with cunninghamiana here just because it is bullet proof/so easily available, even though I like a couple of the other species a bit more.

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Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

Danilopez89 Veteran

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That's a hard question... 

I couldn't go wrong with bizzies I guess :)

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Zeeth Grand Master

Zeeth

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Cocos nucifera.

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Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

Matt in OC Grand Master

Matt in OC

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This is ridiculously hard, so I'm just going to pick one and throw it out there. Kentiopsis oliviformis. This thing is getting FAT, loves my soil and takes all the water it can get. But ask me another time and you'll get a different answer.

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enigma99 Mentor

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So... What about what ONE palm you would grow that you can't?

I thought about Cyrtostachys Renda but nothing beats Cocos nucifera, the ultimate palm.

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Ben in Norcal Grand Master

Ben in Norcal

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10 minutes ago, enigma99 said:

So... What about what ONE palm you would grow that you can't?

I thought about Cyrtostachys Renda but nothing beats Cocos nucifera, the ultimate palm.

Oh God, you just opened the door for another California coco-love fest...what have I told you about doing that, Derrick? 

I'll go with a coconut. :lol:

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Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

enigma99 Mentor

enigma99

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5 minutes ago, Ben in Norcal said:

Oh God, you just opened the door for another California coco-love fest...what have I told you about doing that, Derrick? 

I'll go with a coconut. :lol:

hah sorry :D at least we can unofficially grow them here in California now in La Quinta. 

Danilopez89 Veteran

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Okay I change my mind...:rolleyes:

 

Fruiting coconut palms :yay:

 

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nachocarl Mentor

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Neoveitchia storckii

 

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Carl

Vista, CA

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GMann

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Blue Latanias, I would have a forest of them.

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OverGrown Mentor

OverGrown

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kentiopsis piersoniorum or pyriformis 

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LA | NY | OC

Pal Meir Grand Master

Pal Meir

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If the question would not be “to plant in your garden”, but only “to plant (maybe: at home / in a pot)” I would choose Lytocaryum weddellianum (= Syagrus weddelliana).:greenthumb::D

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Kim Grand Master

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Impossible question to answer seriously. :mrlooney:

For my San Diego garden, if I could only have a single species, it might be Howea forsteriana for the full, elegant symmetrical crowns and the green trunks.  But then again, Rhopalostylis sapida makes such a bold, vertical statement, and Dypsis decipiens has that nice, fat trunk... but I digress!  :rolleyes:

 

Making such a limited decision in my Hawaiian garden is just plain ridiculous!  Should I choose color over form?  Size over elegance?  Which one of the 90+ species growing could I not live without?  Which palm is the essence of the exotic East Hawaiian palm garden?  Would it be Licuala peltata var. sumawongii with its enormous deep green pleated fans?  Or the fabulous Kerriodoxa elegans, with its shiny black petioles and huge arching fans with white undersides?  The every-more-massive Dypsis prestoniana?  Or the slow-growing, but colorful and rare Lemurophoenix halleuxii?

You sure know how to ask some tough questions!!

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Xenon Grand Master

Xenon

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If I had a garden in my current climate: Livistona decora 

Irrespective of climate: coconut! Combination of ornament and utility :greenthumb:

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Jonathan

Katy, TX (Zone 9a)

PalmatierMeg Grand Master

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Sabal palmetto Lisa. A distinctive, unforgettable palm - no other quite like it. And it's a native.

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Meg

Palms of Victory I shall wear

Cape Coral (It's Just Paradise)
Florida
Zone 10A on the Isabelle Canal
Elevation: 15 feet

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopus' garden in the shade.

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Cocos Nucifera, LOTS of them. 

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Palos Verdes Estates - coastal Los Angeles - 33°45'N 118°24'W

On a cliff, 2 blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Zone 10b - Sunset zone 24

Brad Mondel Grand Master

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I choose Butia odorata. It's graceful silver, arching fronds that flutter in the wind and it's cold hardiness, along with variability make it my favorite species. Each one has its own "personality".

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Los Angeles, CA and Myrtle Beach, SC.

Really full garden Grand Master

Really full garden

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Cyrtostachys renda. They do well in both my gardens. They do well in both shade and full sun.I cannot think of a more spectacular palm!

These two are growing at the beach.

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This one in my highland garden

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El Oasis - beach garden, distinct wet/dry season ,year round 20-38c

Las Heliconias - jungle garden ,800m elevation,150+ inches rainfall, year round 15-28c

Palmaceae Grand Master

Palmaceae

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As many others have said, Cocos nucifera. Always has been my favorite palm and I am blessed to live in an area where I can grow them!

 

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Lived in Cape Coral, Miami, Orlando and St. Petersburg Florida.

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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17 hours ago, nachocarl said:

Kentia!

 

:mrlooney:

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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16 hours ago, Hamal said:

Based on where I live the only option I have is a Trachycarpus species. Winters are either too cold or too wet. The most attractive in my opinion is Trachycarpus princeps.

Excellent choice. They are so beautiful 

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

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11 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

The only palms which actually survived the winters here in those places of Germany where I am or was living were Trachycarpus fortunei and T. wagnerianus, so I would choose T. wagnerianus. B)

T. wagnerianus would also be my choice for your climate.

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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11 hours ago, Pip said:

This is way to difficult 

for sure!!

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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16 hours ago, enigma99 said:

I can only grow mine in shade:( just too dang hot in the Summer. Might be boring, but I am going with a standard Archontophoenix Cunninghamiana. Super cold hardy and can take sun while looking good.. And that's why I have 60 of them!

post a picture of your archie grove 

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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11 hours ago, Rafael said:

I would choose between Ceroxylon Parvifrons or Dypsis Decipiens.

I really did  Ceroxylon Parvifrons such a killer plant

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

Josh-O Grand Master

Josh-O

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9 hours ago, Alicehunter2000 said:

Mule!

I saw a really big mule the other day. I sometimes forget how majestic they are when they mature. good choice!

Carlsbad, California Zone 10 B on the hill (402 ft. elevation)

Sunset zone 24

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