Spring Blooms

[Chester B]

A few spring blooms around the front yard.  Pictures were a little difficult to take due to all the bees.

Trachycarpus fortunei - male flowers

 

Rhapidophyllum histrix - needle palm female flowers

[Chester B]

A few more of the non palm variety

Ceanothus "victoria"

 

Cistus

 

Mixed

[Chester B]

And to my surprise I think my Pindo is going to flower this year too!

[Rickybobby]

Awesome!! I’ll buy some trachy seeds from you if you get some 

[Silas_Sancona]

Palms look great!  Like the Ceanothus, and Cistus salvifolius also. Haven't seen it much since i'd planted some at my Grandparents years ago back in San Jose.

 

[Trustandi]

Your butia looks very nice. I wish mine were that big.

[E_Rose]

So pretty! I saw an old post of your pindo a while back and it sold me on getting one! 

[Las Palmas Norte]

2 hours ago, Trustandi said:

Your butia looks very nice. I wish mine were that big.

 

There was a guy in Bremerton on the Northwest Palm forum (before it folded) that grew a really nice good sized Butia.

Cheers, Barrie.

[Chester B]

13 hours ago, Rickybobby said:

Awesome!! I’ll buy some trachy seeds from you if you get some 

If I get some I'll send them for free.  Last year I harvested one branch of seeds off a palm in a strip mall and now have about 300 seedlings.   Fresh seeds germinate within a week or two.

11 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

Palms look great!  Like the Ceanothus, and Cistus salvifolius also. Haven't seen it much since i'd planted some at my Grandparents years ago back in San Jose.

 

Thanks.  These do really well here. It's a lot hotter and drier than most people realize in the summer, as it is considered a Mediterannean climate here.  These were planted out as smaller plants last year and are already huge.

10 hours ago, Trustandi said:

Your butia looks very nice. I wish mine were that big.

Thanks.  It will be 3 years in the ground this August.  It has grown surprisingly quick.

9 hours ago, E_Rose said:

So pretty! I saw an old post of your pindo a while back and it sold me on getting one! 

I'm sold too, I plan on adding another.  I originally planted two but the first one died the first year as we had a terrible winter.  This one is in a more protected spot.

8 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

There was a guy in Bremerton on the Northwest Palm forum (before it folded) that grew a really nice good sized Butia.

I've seen a pictures of a few larger ones in the PNW.  The palm nursery I bought from had a massive one in the ground but it died during our bad winter three years back.  The nursery is located in an exposed spot with a lot of winter wind, and a half growing zone cooler.

[Chester B]

Pindo update. Two bloom stalks now. 

[Chester B]

Make that 3, and the aloe is sending up a bloom stalk too.

[Chester B]

Yucca filamentosa "color guard", Pineapple guava and Pink Oleander.

[Chester B]

[Marius]

Some of my Southern Hemisphere winter blooms. Aloe arborescens and arum lilies