So What Caught Your Eye Today?

[JohnAndSancho]

I went into the Spider Mite Factory© today to deep water everything and oh my god this hybrid cycad. It feels like just yesterday I potted it up and it had such a tiny little rootball and now it's busting out of this bottle! I'm literally having a big pot crisis. I need like 30 5 gallons and like pallets of soil. 

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56 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

The west side of Oʻahu is no palm paradise.  I average using about 68,000 gallons of water a month.  Last few months were very dry and cost about $700 to keep them alive.

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

[happypalms]

56 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

The west side of Oʻahu is no palm paradise.  I average using about 68,000 gallons of water a month.  Last few months were very dry and cost about $700 to keep them alive.

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

 

26 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Richard, my friend, listen to me. I think you should flood the land more. Make it wetter. With ground-level sprinklers. Bring everything to the habitat of those Hawaiian growers.

Oh iam doing just that, trying to make a rainforest! 

[JohnAndSancho]

5 minutes ago, happypalms said:

When one thinks of Hawaii, one doesnt think of it being a dry place. Like every where in the tropics I suppose dry areas and wet areas. 

 

Oh iam doing just that, trying to make a rainforest! 

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Of course, my friend, you said it. You must create a deep underground system, where the pipes or tubes carry the water, and then it comes out onto the surface with sprinklers or the water running out of control, and floods the entire land where you'll have your palm trees. (Tropical Garden. You must throw leaves and organic leaf material there. That land must be moist and soft with water. It's Hawaii in Australia, my friend. It's Hawaii in Australia, gentlemen.)

[Harry’s Palms]

3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

A few monkeys as well. The side of my house , by my neighbors with two small children ,they keep looking up into the canopy after I told them not to feed the monkeys! 🙄 Harry

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3 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

If you really want an authentic rainforest, you're gonna need to add some quicksand and some cannibals at some point. And a foul mouthed parrot. 

Polly wanna cracker, and I hear @Harry’s Palms he has monkeys, so they will live in a palm garden. I might hook up a few Tarzan jungle swings! And start swinging through the jungle in me undies looking for Jane. That’ll scare the neighbours, remembering they will only look once! 

[Harry’s Palms]

I really think , for a lot of us growing up visiting Disneyland as kids , The Jungle Cruise ride was an inspiration. Either consciously or unconsciously we fantasize about having our very own jungle cruise….nuthin wrong with that! Harry

Our private botanical tour of Disneyland , Anaheim. Jungle Cruise on a small boat modeled after the African Queen

[Hu Palmeras]

Richard, my friend, you made me laugh. It was a good joke and comment. Those monkeys are interesting too, my friend.

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2 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

I really think , for a lot of us growing up visiting Disneyland as kids , The Jungle Cruise ride was an inspiration. Either consciously or unconsciously we fantasize about having our very own jungle cruise….nuthin wrong with that! Harry

Our private botanical tour of Disneyland , Anaheim. Jungle Cruise on a small boat modeled after the African Queen

I thought gor a minute you had a new garden Harry. Disneyland one of those childhood memories old Walt was a brilliant man. 
Richard 

[MikeB]

New new leaves on some young Livistona saribus caught my eye.  Some are in the shade and one is colored from the sunshine.

[Tracy]

I had not walked on this street recently until this morning.   As my dog and I walked by, It was a Reunion of sorts...  a Hyophorbe verschaffeltii.

[realarch]

3 hours ago, MikeB said:

New new leaves on some young Livistona saribus caught my eye.  Some are in the shade and one is colored from the sunshine.

Beautiful Mike.

Tim

[happypalms]

A nice yellow chamaedorea adscendens flower gets my attention. 

[dalmatiansoap]

Chunnighamiana trunk colour 😍