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Panorama- General Palmyness

Really full garden
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This is an attempt at capturing my palmy vistas in my tropical monsoonal beach 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

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    Second attempt, a little brighter.

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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

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    Very nice! Looks like you could squeeze in a few more palms. :innocent: Is that your home with the thatched roof on the far right?

    Guatemala is on my list of places to visit sometime soon.

     

    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
    All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

    I love how coconuts get that round crown of leaves in the right climate

    I agree definitely got the palmy thing going haha 

    T J 

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    Kim, that is my house. This is currently my weekend place. In the next two years I plan to make it my primary residence.

    I do have an insane amount of palms in pots to plant out. My next big project is a more sophisticated irrigation system.

    This garden is about to be completely transformed.

    I will be posting the improvements.

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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

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    Scott, If I come knocking on your door sometime, you better let me in! :rolleyes:

    Tim

    Tim

    Hilo, Hawaii

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    Just let me know in advance.

    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

    13 hours ago, Really full garden said:

     

    I do have an insane amount of palms in pots to plant out. My next big project is a more sophisticated irrigation system.

    This garden is about to be completely transformed.

    I will be posting the improvements.

     

    How much rain do you get there? What do you do now for irrigation as its pretty spectacular!

    -Krishna

    Kailua, Oahu HI. Near the beach but dry!

    Still have a garden in Zone 9a Inland North Central Florida (Ocala)

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    1 hour ago, krishnaraoji88 said:

    How much rain do you get there? What do you do now for irrigation as its pretty spectacular!

    At the beach we get about 80 inches,but this is just during the rainy season May-September. Then we get absolutely nothing. I do have a semi automatic irrigation system,but want to expand the number of zones and make it fully automatic. I have two acres.

    It is surprising to most people that we have abundant freshwater right next to the ocean. The ground water is fairly close to the surface ( 15ft or so) so when palms or other plants roots reach that wet zone they really take off. Some palms just never develop a deep root system and those are the species I have the most problems growing in this beach garden.

    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

    49 minutes ago, Really full garden said:

    At the beach we get about 80 inches,but this is just during the rainy season May-September. Then we get absolutely nothing. I do have a semi automatic irrigation system,but want to expand the number of zones and make it fully automatic. I have two acres.

    It is surprising to most people that we have abundant freshwater right next to the ocean. The ground water is fairly close to the surface ( 15ft or so) so when palms or other plants roots reach that wet zone they really take off. Some palms just never develop a deep root system and those are the species I have the most problems growing in this beach garden.

    Thanks! I’m sandwiched in between a freshwater marsh and the ocean(a little more than half a mile each way) so I’m assuming that similar to you I have a high water table. I think I get about half the rainfall you do but just like yours it’s highly seasonal. Thanks for photographing such an inspiring landscape!

    -Krishna

    Kailua, Oahu HI. Near the beach but dry!

    Still have a garden in Zone 9a Inland North Central Florida (Ocala)

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    Palm genera that are easy for me here are Carpentaria,Wodyetia,Bismarckia, some Veitchia, some Licuala, some Arenga, most Syagrus, every Coccothrinax Ive tried and goes without saying Cocos are almost a nuisance in my 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

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    On 7/13/2019 at 9:35 PM, Really full garden said:

    Kim, that is my house. This is currently my weekend place. In the next two years I plan to make it my primary residence.

    I do have an insane amount of palms in pots to plant out. My next big project is a more sophisticated irrigation system.

    This garden is about to be completely transformed.

    I will be posting the improvements.

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    Giving up the other jungle garden or switching that to the weekend? Both are stunning.

    Jupiter FL

    in the Zone formally known as 10A
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    2 hours ago, redant said:

    Giving up the other jungle garden or switching that to the weekend? Both are stunning.

    I am trying to simplify my life. It is a lot of work and expense to maintain two homes and large gardens. Having an active volcano as a neighbor is another factor to consider.

    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

    21 hours ago, Really full garden said:

    I am trying to simplify my life. It is a lot of work and expense to maintain two homes and large gardens. Having an active volcano as a neighbor is another factor to consider.

    LOL, it's hard maintaining 1 home and a large garden, totally understand.

    Jupiter FL

    in the Zone formally known as 10A

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