Another old frond removal today. This one is particularly special as it's the only solitary maroon leaf,  red vestiaria I've ever been able to find. And believe me I've looked.

Absolutely beautiful, keep looking for more single stem beauties I say.  I just managed to germinate a stack of them, I will keep an eye for the elusive single stem! 

A few intresting varieties of palms caught my eye,  as watered away! Dypsis rosea Rhapis nanzanishiki Dypsis tsaravoasira synecanthus warscewiczianus I

13 hours ago, happypalms said:

Absolutely beautiful, keep looking for more single stem beauties I say.  I just managed to germinate a stack of them, I will keep an eye for the elusive single stem! 

There's more out there somewhere. I'm sure of it. The hunt will continue. 

These two caught my eye so much I had to buy them at the Annual PACSOA show, best bit is they are both flowering! Geonoma atrovirens licuala sallehana 

It was a flamethrower when it came into this world and it’s going out as a flamethrower as well.

Even if my garden is young, for some palms The circle is complete 

Bismarkia

 

Two new Dypsis procera certainly got my eye attention after I planted them today! 

Clinostigma samoense

Clinostigma with Astrocaryum, Pritcharia, and Attalea in the foreground. 

Tim

Red Latania new frond 

 

 

Okay, it's in the grow room, Sabine just said, Phönix canariensis is doing well 🤗

Sabal Yapa new frond 

 

 

Chuniophoenix nana!

My golden Christmas ready to go in the ground caught my eye. Full sun for full yellow color. 

5 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

That is a lovely flower . I’m not sure , but I think a neighbor , two doors down planted one a few years back and it literally took over her yard. If it is the same plant , they tend to be invasive if not kept trimmed. Harry

Old photo. Accidentally caught a bird while taking a picture of a Borrasus 

Couple of dypsis species basilonga and prestonia 

Double flames?

Hetrospathe scitula looking pretty good!

@bubba never disappoints! Harry

Thanks Harry!

I believe these might be the oldest Pseudophoenix ekmani in the continental US. Happened by them at Mounts Botanical Garden in the back. No signs! Do not tell Aztropic!

Chambeyronia pyriformis finally.... opening its first new leaf since planting 6 months ago. I'm impressed by how much sun it has taken here in seq. 

Shade grown dictyosperma album. 

24 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Shade grown dictyosperma album. 

I'm looking forward to having that much shade. 👌

29 minutes ago, Booyong ridge said:

I'm looking forward to having that much shade. 👌

It’s an understory dream planting project, totally changes the palms you can grow not to mention the tropical ornamental plants!🌱 

I've been using tithonia cuttings as an instant canopy while the canopy plants underneath find their feet. Ram it into the ground and it grows. Good mulch too, grows so quick that the canopy is complete again after selective pruning the week before. 

2 hours ago, happypalms said:

It’s an understory dream planting project, totally changes the palms you can grow not to mention the tropical ornamental plants!🌱 

  3 hours ago, Booyong ridge said:

I'm looking forward to having that much shade. 👌

It’s an understory dream planting project, totally changes the palms you can grow not to mention the tropical ornamental plants!🌱 

I've been using tithonia cuttings as an instant canopy while the canopy plants underneath find their feet. Ram it into the ground and it grows. Good mulch too, grows so quick that the canopy is complete again after selective pruning the week before. 

A nice Joey followed by a dypsis lantzeana with a nice platycerium! 

3 hours ago, Booyong ridge said:

  3 hours ago, Booyong ridge said:

I'm looking forward to having that much shade. 👌

It’s an understory dream planting project, totally changes the palms you can grow not to mention the tropical ornamental plants!🌱 

I've been using tithonia cuttings as an instant canopy while the canopy plants underneath find their feet. Ram it into the ground and it grows. Good mulch too, grows so quick that the canopy is complete again after selective pruning the week before. 

Anything for a canopy is better than no canopy at all. I have even seen botanical gardens use tobacco bush as a canopy when stag rainforest section.

10 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Anything for a canopy is better than no canopy at all. I have even seen botanical gardens use tobacco bush as a canopy when stag rainforest section.

Lots of tobacco bush here. Birds spread them everywhere. I leave them alone wherever they come up. They make good shade quickly. Eventually they can be easily chopped out. It's not like they get huge. 20 years time they'll be considered a pioneer for native rainforest. 🤣 that's how I treat them.

9 hours ago, bubba said:

I believe these might be the oldest Pseudophoenix ekmani in the continental US. Happened by them at Mounts Botanical Garden in the back. No signs! Do not tell Aztropic!

They don’t look like P eckmanii to me. P vinifera I’d say. 

Tim,

Thank you for your correction. I am getting back into palms and after reading Palmpedia I believe you are correct. Palmpedia made the distinction between P ekmani and P vinifera by the skinny bottom base of the P ekmani's trunk. That is definitely not the case with these palms, which have very thick trunk bases.

Loads of P. vinifera at Montgomery but the P ekmani they have are still quite small. I got over excited and need to look closely before making bold statements. They are still beautiful palms and  rare in this area. Curb my enthusiasm!

7 hours ago, bubba said:

Tim,

Thank you for your correction. I am getting back into palms and after reading Palmpedia I believe you are correct. Palmpedia made the distinction between P ekmani and P vinifera by the skinny bottom base of the P ekmani's trunk. That is definitely not the case with these palms, which have very thick trunk bases.

Loads of P. vinifera at Montgomery but the P ekmani they have are still quite small. I got over excited and need to look closely before making bold statements. They are still beautiful palms and  rare in this area. Curb my enthusiasm!

@tim_brissy_13 is palmpedia, Australia’s answer to cold climate growing knowledge! I can only imagine if he lived in a warm subtropical climate what his garden would look like! 

A beautiful Cham adscendens that’s about 4 years old and flowering, so it seems they take 4 years  to become mature. Then two licuala triphylla both with seeds got my attention again today! Chamaedorea adscendens 4 years old. Licuala triphylla var stenophylla licuala triphylla 

Yellow Latania 

 

 

 

A nice new planting area with a nice pacsoa Pinanga sarawakensis!