Some palms I planted in my parent garden 15/18 years ago...

[kristof p]

When I still lived at my parents home I was free to plant all the plants I liked in their garden and most of them are still there enjoying the mild climate the western part of my country closer to the sea has to offer.  Natural selection over the years has left only the hardier plants of certain species like Butia, Trachycarpus, Chamaerops, Brahea, Sabal, Cordyline (not a palm ofcourse), to name a few.  

It has been a long cold and  windy winter followed by a abnormal cool spring and almost all the palms are showing this by looking hungry and looking a bit yellow with leaves being trashed by the winds but in a few months time they will look a lot nicer again. The B. edulis has taken some moderate damage but it's a fast grower so recovery is usually fast. A small Livistona nitida spearpulled  and some minor leaf damage on T. oreophilus but that is all the damage I could find on my palms after last winter. 

 

some random pictures of the palms. 

 

Pruned the older lower leaves of the B. armata today to give the T. oreophilus some more space. 

 

 some Trachycarpus

B. moorei and a Chamaerops 'vulcano' 

 

 

A Small slow growing B. armata. But it's starting to speed up a little since a few years....

 

Jubaea chilensis. Not so slow once they get to a certain size!

 

a big clump of Chamaerops humilis

 

random picture

 

 

one of my first palms ever planted. Planted as a one leaf seedling labeled T. takil....turned out to be nani tal ofcourse but still a nice palm.

 

trachycarpus...

 

Livistona chinensis

 

another Jubaea getting in the starting to grow much faster stadium

 

Brahea edulis already showing strong growth despite the cold spring. The B. edulis out grows the T. princeps that is to close next to it. To be honest I never thought B. edulis to be hardy at all in my climate and a colder then normal winter would kill it but it has proven me wrong. (But I am sure a winter like we had in 2010 would have a better chance of killing it without protection but who knows when we get one of those again).

 

Trachycarpus...note the big Arbutus unedo behind the Trachycarpus on the right

 

My old Agave attenuata is getting a bit to big haha

 

again not a palm but a nice big Tetrapanax  verry slowly coming to life this year as a result of the cool spring....

 

Some more Trachycarpus and big Cordyline australies on the rigth

 

Next time I take some more pictures off some off the potted palms and the ones not on this pictures. As my parents are in their seventies, garden maintenance is getting to much for them so I try to do some everytime I go there.  There is still a lot of space free for more palms and other plants and they told me to just plant what I is good for low maintenance so more palms and evergreens in the future will be a good idea. Nowadays the grass is only green during winter and spring anyway so who needs a lot of grass???

 

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2023 by kristof p
this was meant to be in the "cold hardy palms" section......

[Banana Belt]

5 minutes ago, kristof p said:

Jubaea chilensis. Not so slow once they get to a certain size!

That is correct.  I posted some pictures of a Jubaea I grew from seed and recorded the growth on chart with some observed changes in its growth.    The size and shape of a Jubaea is related to the health and size of the leaf fronds.  The bigger and faster the leaves grow, the bigger and faster the palm and eventual trunk will be.  Leaf fronds can growth up to 4 meters long and for some reason the longer the top spear (new leaves growing at the top), the longer and bigger the palm will be.

[Chester B]

Wow that yard is fantastic.

[kristof p]

10 hours ago, Banana Belt said:

That is correct.  I posted some pictures of a Jubaea I grew from seed and recorded the growth on chart with some observed changes in its growth.    The size and shape of a Jubaea is related to the health and size of the leaf fronds.  The bigger and faster the leaves grow, the bigger and faster the palm and eventual trunk will be.  Leaf fronds can growth up to 4 meters long and for some reason the longer the top spear (new leaves growing at the top), the longer and bigger the palm will be.

yes, this is correct. They are probably a little slower in my climate then in yours but I can see a simular pattern on my trees.

 

[kristof p]

10 hours ago, Chester B said:

Wow that yard is fantastic.

thx, I hope to keep it in the family in the future as my father built the house with his own hands and I put a lot of time in the garden.