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PRA in the Californian desert

Josh-O

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I decide to drive out to visit my buddy who lives in down town palm springs last week. Bad timing on my part with a major heat wave foretasted for my trip with temps hitting 120F. Anyways it was a really great time. I met up with Danny from palm talk who lives in Coachella valley later in the day. Danny was nice enough to take us on an afternoon PRA tour to a few different gardens he has discovered since he has been bitten by the palm bug. We drove by and saw lots of HUGE royals, Bizzy's brahea, ETC that look perfect along with a bunch of really nice copernicia's that look flawless.

enjoy the pictures below 

Thanks for being such a great host that day Danny. :)

IMG_6193.JPG.50f649230e7d20c6c29eb98aff4when I arrived in Palm Springs at 10 am I was kissed by 108F temps. YIKES!!!!!

IMG_6195.JPG.5e3adc7cb09279cdc27c263936bDanny standing by a nice copernicia prunifera in a pot with my good friend JB

IMG_6196.JPG.089ceddd520bcd5d1e236336327practically walking distance from my friends house was this really tall Copernicia prunifera growing along the side of the street. to the right you can see a really silver bizzy.

IMG_6199.JPG.6fa0b06593f60b7385cc2e131b0we decided to drive over to see the the legendary desert garden of Alan Valley. Alan was not home but we were able to see some of what he had growing in the front yard and street area. Danny and I posing with a massive copernicia hospita blue. This garden is was mind blowing even just from the street view! Top left is a HUGE livistona alfredii that is very yellow.

IMG_6204.JPGtowering over the house is an acrocomia Sp.

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IMG_6205.JPG.6f574b37bf05c3e2d66c045dbd9if you look real close you can see a monster sized serenoa repens with 6' long multiple trunks that that are creeping along the ground. in the foreground is a delonix regia trunk

IMG_6206.JPG.9377f20ee52b1729ebf074779f2delonix regia in bloom

IMG_6207.JPG.ae8f45c12ed3bb1dfece91e86b5a HUGE hyphaene petersiana towering over Danny along the street

IMG_6208.JPG.d0d16568d0f485f63b8ce8ffa16 hyphaene petersiana  petiole detail

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After we left Alan's wonderful garden viewed from the street Danny took us to see what is now arguably the largest coconut growing in California.

This palm resides at the house of Mr. Greg who lives in palm desert. Greg was so kind to open his house up to a PSSC tour a few months ago. Since I missed the tour I was able to go see it myself in person.

IMG_6209.JPG.8dcde86cba8fbfc628ed641d14f20' tall coconut growing in palm desert...WOW!!! unbelievable!!!!

IMG_6210.JPG.ab3c708928e185430cf7a4ab177some kind of really fragrant red plumeria. It was picture perfect.

IMG_6211.JPG.6a1d68909322fbb23aff804b73btowering over some really nice plumeria and a caryota mitis

IMG_6212.JPG.68f09a75fcd7a27f60b9dd010b0

IMG_6213.JPG.2129aa7f1dc814006e1db4bcd5e2' wide base

IMG_6214.JPG.e49a29f286c1c849e16a0b1088fcrown shaft

IMG_6217.JPG.e9740acfe07da7637f3a1e1471dme posing for scale next to the HUGE trunk

IMG_6225.JPG.58c1ad26e24f6b96ec42a480dacMr Greg himself (a super nice guy)

 

 

 

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Some random medjool dates farms on the way to Danny's house after we left Greg's coconut. there were 10' of thousand of dates on dozens of date palm plantations.

IMG_6227.JPG.734943cd3a6c389e9b52c5fb735IMG_6228.JPG.45655470e3c299369cc3cee2cb8IMG_6229.JPG.057c192451409fa03e05d4aab0cto the left of this picture was some mule palms that were field grown. I couldn't snap a picture fast enough :(

 

We Ended the long day at Danny house who hosted the PSSC a few months ago. Danny has done a very good job zone pushing and testing the limits of what you can grow in the desert 26' below sea level..WOW!

cheers Danny and thanks again for the fun PRA

IMG_6231.JPG.c884f1a39c86f25c7fa86923602Danny posing next to one of his nice royals that looks perfect. His yard was AWESOME!!

IMG_6230.JPG.0e45eb60560e6dbcc216a33a428

IMG_6194.JPG.e3eb10294de0f9d005de123977dwhen we left Danny's house it was 120F at 7pm (WOW!!!) I almost melted

 

 

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on the way home I saw a semi hauling a load of date palms to some lucky person

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cheers and thanks for looking :)

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Sounds like a great day! I've done similar tours in our region and it's always great to see other growers gardens. 120°F is punishing for many plants and palms. The ones you all saw that day (date palms for sure) take it all in stride.

Cheers, Barrie.

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120.....that's hot Josh!

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

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It sure was hot last week even at my area. Happy it wasn't 120! way too hot! Thanks for sharing Josh. Always cool to see what the guys out in the desert can get away with.

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Monòver Grand Master

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What are you doing with 120° F?

You are crazy!!!:floor: crazy palm lovers!!!

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Hey Josh it was cool hanging with you and John the other day :)

I had a blast checking out Johns place. Incredible how much awesome stuff he managed to plant in his garden since just May. That place is gonna be a site to see in the future. 

Did you get any planting pics of that huge attalea?:yay:

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Great PRA!

Props to Mr. Greg for entertaining more Palm PilgrimsTM to new holy site in Palm Desert. :greenthumb:

Mega Props to Mr. Lopez for creating what will be a new Holy Site of his own! :greenthumb::greenthumb:

The best part is: I'm seeing it from the Dark Tower, which is air conditioned up the wazoo.

First time I went to Palm Springs in 1985, it was 120+ and the AC in the car wasn't even close to the job.

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IMG_20160725_41260.thumb.jpg.ffc055e6145And thanks again for the palms and the rainbow euc. you brought me out here

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My favorite right now is the Kerriodoxa Elegans... I hope it makes it.:(

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Does anyone think it will handle 120°F in the shade?

 

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Hey you two, thanks for posting your hot and sweaty PRA. Some nice stuff thriving in that heat. 

Tim

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6 hours ago, Danilopez89 said:

My favorite right now is the Kerriodoxa Elegans... I hope it makes it.:(

IMG_20160725_4416.thumb.jpg.e554f8cb2611

Does anyone think it will handle 120°F in the shade?

 

We'll soon find out!

It just might. They're a lot tougher than I thought.

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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That was a nice tour ....liking that Acrocomia for some reason....they don't look like queens to me.

David Simms zone 9a on Highway 30a

200 steps from the Gulf in NW Florida

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11 hours ago, Danilopez89 said:

My favorite right now is the Kerriodoxa Elegans... I hope it makes it.:(

IMG_20160725_4416.thumb.jpg.e554f8cb2611

Does anyone think it will handle 120°F in the shade?

 

I bet it will do ok. Mine saw 111f in the shade with no issues. 

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Nice pra Josh! 

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9 minutes ago, Stevetoad said:

I bet it will do ok. Mine saw 111f in the shade with no issues. 

Sweet! That sounds like good news to me. 

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15 hours ago, Palm Tree Jim said:

120.....that's hot Josh!

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

it was a great day indeed

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12 hours ago, Danilopez89 said:

Hey Josh it was cool hanging with you and John the other day :)

I had a blast checking out Johns place. Incredible how much awesome stuff he managed to plant in his garden since just May. That place is gonna be a site to see in the future. 

Did you get any planting pics of that huge attalea?:yay:

I was tempted to hop the fence for a quick picture..that thing was the biggest one I have ever seen in cali.

do you have any pictures laying around?

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

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15 hours ago, Chris Chance said:

It sure was hot last week even at my area. Happy it wasn't 120! way too hot! Thanks for sharing Josh. Always cool to see what the guys out in the desert can get away with.

I was shocked at all the stuff that can grow there. It really has opened my eyes

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Josh-O Grand Master

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12 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Great PRA!

Props to Mr. Greg for entertaining more Palm PilgrimsTM to new holy site in Palm Desert. :greenthumb:

Mega Props to Mr. Lopez for creating what will be a new Holy Site of his own! :greenthumb::greenthumb:

The best part is: I'm seeing it from the Dark Tower, which is air conditioned up the wazoo.

First time I went to Palm Springs in 1985, it was 120+ and the AC in the car wasn't even close to the job.

the AC in my truck went out on my way home the next day.poops!

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

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12 hours ago, Danilopez89 said:

My favorite right now is the Kerriodoxa Elegans... I hope it makes it.:(

IMG_20160725_4416.thumb.jpg.e554f8cb2611

Does anyone think it will handle 120°F in the shade?

 

I think your the first guy to try one out there. let us know how it does.

I was shocked to see your cyphophoenix nucele was doing so good!!

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

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Josh-O Grand Master

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1 hour ago, Stevetoad said:

Nice pra Josh! 

I'm very inspired to plant a bunch of this stuff at the Vista garden very soon :)

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1 hour ago, Josh-O said:

I'm very inspired to plant a bunch of this stuff at the Vista garden very soon :)

What, coconuts?  :mrlooney:

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9 hours ago, Josh-O said:

I was tempted to hop the fence for a quick picture..that thing was the biggest one I have ever seen in cali.

do you have any pictures laying around?

Yeah I do have some older pics of Allans attalea. I'll look for them so I can post here.

But did you get any pics of Johns new attalea being planted...?

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