Some palms in my garden in Santa Marinella, Roma

[Tomas]

I have been growing exotic plants for nearly 40years, on balconies, terraces and now, since 2016, I also have a garden, 50 km north of Rome, about 300 m distant from the sea. To give an idea about the climate, zone 9b, there were nice big Ficus elastica trees, some 5-10 m high, but they nearly all got wiped out by two consecutive winter freezes in 2017 and 2018.

Some of the palms you will see were grown in pots on my terrace in Rome for nearly 20 years and then transplanted into the garden

The garden was quite empty so except the Araucaria, these are all new plantings

 

I really like King palms

Bismarckia nobilis

Jubaeopsis caffra

 Blooming like crazy, but no fruits

Parajubaea, lost the spear after being planted and stayed for 2 years without any sign of life, but is resuming normal growth now

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana and Brahea armata

Beccariophoenix alfredii

Copernicia alba

Ravenea glauca

Pritchardia hillebrandii

Caryota obtusa

A Brahea

Another Bismarckia

Rhopalostylis sapida

Jubaea chilensis

Caryota urens

Brahea edulis

A Sabal

Dypsis decaryi

Butiagrus nabonnandii

Caryota ochlandra and Phoenix roebelenii

Edited June 4, 2022 by Tomas

[el-blanco]

Fantastic!!!!  Bucket list to visit your country!

[EPaul]

GREAT collection Tomas!! I've been trying to get my hands on Caryota obtusa and urens for quite some time.  The only kind they like to sell in Florida 9B is Caryota Mitis - but they are not that cold hardy and will die back in a freeze.

[palmfriend]

This is an impressive collection of very good looking palms!

Thank you very much for sharing it with us!

best regards from Okinawa -

Lars

 

[pietropuccio]

Hi Tomas, years ago you told me you had a dream, that of a tropical garden, the dream has become a great reality, my compliments and best wishes to enrich it again as you wish.

[Cindy Adair]

These are just beautiful and I am so glad you are now able to live your dream!

[pohonkelapa]

Wow! Wonderful garden!!! 

[Jadd Correia]

Such an amazing garden. Each individual species looks great and will only get more established with time. I have a lot of the palms that you have in your garden, but only planted in the past 1-2 years so much smaller. Seeing your palms further along is inspiring and I hope you continue with updates. One of the best posts in a while. 

[Kim]

Great collection! Congratulations on the thriving garden. Nice to see the Jubaeopsis caffra and the Ravenea glauca in the mix. Everything looking very healthy.

[gilles06]

Good job

[Tomas]

Thank you all for your comments, yes, as Pietro says, years ago I had a dream, I even had time to abandon it, could not find anything suitable and there were other preferences.  And then it came, unexpectedly, the nearly perfect garden. The more I garden there, the more I realize all the things a good garden must have. And I can say this one is a good one. But still, after nearly six years of battle, I can say only small parts of my ideas got realised, it is far far from being finished. At the other side, as long as I will like gardening, I will never be bored in my life.  

 

Lars, my greetings to Okinawa, I follow your posts and I really like your palms, so different from what is grown in the Mediterranean climate

 

Jadd Correia, I remember Pietro Puccio saying, years ago, that he couldn't wait to be able to walk UNDER his palm trees. When, on the other hand, some of my palms were still in the pots, I could already walk under them, but by transferring them to the ground, they lowered by 2 feet or more, and therefore I have to wait again 

 

Kim, those two rarest palms miraculously ended up in my hands and have survived all years in pots, but my goal is to achieve a look of a palm-filled garden rather than have a collection of rare plants, I feel too old for the second option. In addition, it will also be a problem to make many of my palms live well in a climate where they are certainly at the limit

Edited June 7, 2022 by Tomas

[happypalms]

On 6/5/2022 at 2:37 AM, Tomas said:

I have been growing exotic plants for nearly 40years, on balconies, terraces and now, since 2016, I also have a garden, 50 km north of Rome, about 300 m distant from the sea. To give an idea about the climate, zone 9b, there were nice big Ficus elastica trees, some 5-10 m high, but they nearly all got wiped out by two consecutive winter freezes in 2017 and 2018.

Some of the palms you will see were grown in pots on my terrace in Rome for nearly 20 years and then transplanted into the garden

The garden was quite empty so except the Araucaria, these are all new plantings

 

I really like King palms

Bismarckia nobilis

Jubaeopsis caffra

 Blooming like crazy, but no fruits

Parajubaea, lost the spear after being planted and stayed for 2 years without any sign of life, but is resuming normal growth now

Archontophoenix cunninghamiana and Brahea armata

Beccariophoenix alfredii

Copernicia alba

Ravenea glauca

Pritchardia hillebrandii

Caryota obtusa

A Brahea

Another Bismarckia

Rhopalostylis sapida

Jubaea chilensis

Caryota urens

Brahea edulis

A Sabal

Dypsis decaryi

Butiagrus nabonnandii

Caryota ochlandra and Phoenix roebelenii

Nice collection of palms some unusual ones at that nice gardening skills the older we get the better our palms get 

[DoomsDave]

@Tomas

Belissimo! Or belissima….

[The Palm Nut]

Nice!