Palm donations for Oakland Lakeside Palmetum

[NorCalWill]

The volunteer gardening team at the Oakland Lakeside Palmetum is looking for palms to add to the already amazing collection that is growing there. If you're not familiar with this garden, it was started in the mid 1980's, and has been maintained by members of the Northern California Palm Society since then. It is a showcase for palms and other exotic plants that thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it attracts many local and distant visitors each day.

Currently, we are working to expand the Brahea collection (though other palm species are also appreciated). If you are palm grower or collector with a palm tree that is looking for a good home, please contact me and I will find the perfect spot for it in this garden. Brahea palms that we don't yet have growing include:

Brahea clara

Brahea decumbens

Brahea dulcis

Brahea elegans

Brahea moorei

Brahea pimo

Brahea salvadorensis

Brahea 'Super Silver'

In addition to these palms, we are also wanting to begin adding Dioon cycads within this area, such as:

D. angustifolium, D. califanoi, D. edule varieties, D. holmgrenii, D. merolae, D. spinulosum, and others.

Thank you for reading this posting, and please come out to see the work that we've been doing to maintain a palmy escape from what can sometimes seem like a non-palmy world.

-Will