Jeff Searle's New Youtube Video - Phoenicophorium borsigianum

[Travis Searle]

Hey everyone! Here is another one for you!

 

[John hovancsek]

Thanks for the wonderful video.  This has to be in my top 5 favorite palms and have a few planted in the garden

[Jeff Searle]

39 minutes ago, John hovancsek said:

Thanks for the wonderful video.  This has to be in my top 5 favorite palms and have a few planted in the garden

Lucky you from my end! These are too cold sensitive to grow out where I am. I could get away with it for sometime, who knows. But eventually the cold will kill them. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'm coming out your way in July!

Jeff

[John hovancsek]

37 minutes ago, Jeff Searle said:

Lucky you from my end! These are too cold sensitive to grow out where I am. I could get away with it for sometime, who knows. But eventually the cold will kill them. I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I'm coming out your way in July!

Jeff

Mabe we will cross paths, its a small island. U will enjoy all the beautiful gardens here

[realarch]

Jeff, Travis,

Thanks for the 'live’ posts. I just love them, makes me grab the camera and run out to the garden to see how mine are doing. Also, makes me appreciate, (I guess that's still possible), my specimens even more. 

You have so much stuff that you see them, but really ’don't see‘ them all the time.

Tim

[palmfriend]

Jeff,

Thank you very much for this video!

I saw it the first time in Tokyo's Yumenoshima-dome for tropical plants...

...and it really impressed me.

I am so glad that I could purchase some seeds a while ago and since our winters are a tad warmer than your's there 

might be chance to plant them successfully out in a while.

Still small and taking their time but they are doing well so far.

Best regards from Okinawa -

Lars

 

[realarch]

Don't mean to crash your post Jeff, but just wanted to add a couple of photos of this unique palm. 

I only have one, but it puts out a beautiful maroon color new leaf and also has a unusual flower spike. 

Here are photos from the last few of days

Tim

[Kim]

Thanks for the video Jeff! Your videos remind me of how poorly I pronounce the latin palm names.  I am kind of surprised these can't be grown in the ground in more of Florida, that's a shame because it is such a beautiful palm.

John, Lars and Tim - great shots of your palms! Thanks for sharing your pics. I have several in my garden, and it's funny -- they all grow at different rates, even though all but one were planted at the same time.  

This is kind of a sad photo taken June 2018 during the eruption when my place was on mandatory evacuation. I had permission to go in for a few hours, and the garden is totally ungroomed,  but you can see the varying sizes of the Phoenicophorium borsigianum in this shot. Sorry about the untrimmed crispy leaves! Things have since been cleaned up.

[mike in kurtistown]

Here you are, Jeff, (just what you were looking for!) one of my orange-bucket (5-gal) pictures. This plant is in full sun, or what passes for it in cloudy, rainy, humid east Hawaii Island. Planted from a 2-gal pot in November 2013. I planted a couple others. One died and the other is making (much slower) progress.

 

[Jeff Searle]

Thank you to all for posting your pictures. I love it.  Sometimes I feel this species is over looked some from it's sister, Verschaffeltia splendida.  I coming out to Hawaii in July and hope to see some nice ones in some of these gardens!

Jeff