happypalms Another day in paradise in the garden

[happypalms]

Now you guys have me worried about my one in the open needing to be supported 

[Brad52]

Mine is wobbly 

[D. Morrowii]

Just little 3-4 leaf seedlings over here. Planning to tease at least couple into maturity….eventually.

[happypalms]

My cocothrinax alta is growing in between the sandstone rocks in a gap with quite a deep crevice of sand I have several others all doing well in my garden a tough palm they take a lot of sun a neat easy to grow palm very ornamental the small stature makes it easy to work with in most garden situations 

[happypalms]

Another tough easy palm the arenga engleri a true winner for any cold garden I have more specimens planted in my garden easy to germinate a bit slow growing but it gets there in the end always a popular conversation starter the good old arenga engleri 

[zero]

Nice palm!  I believe Coccothrinax alta is an old name (along with Coccothrinax dussiana) which is now Coccothrinax barbadensis.  I prefer alta myself! 

[happypalms]

2 hours ago, Fusca said:

Nice palm!  I believe Coccothrinax alta is an old name (along with Coccothrinax dussiana) which is now Coccothrinax barbadensis.  I prefer alta myself! 

I agree I don’t know why they change the names must give them something else to do people ask me how do I remember all the botanical names now with all the name changes it’s even more confusing for my poor brain if I was sold a palm under a certain name I stick with that name 

[happypalms]

My girlfriend used some of my old propagation mix for her newly ordered (50 plants we can’t help ourselves) rose plants and this lucky little Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons popped his little leaf up and said what about me that’s almost 19 months after i started to propagate my joeys incredible survival skills if ever I saw it now my girlfriend has her very own Joey palm be interested in seeing what the difference is between two growers I have around two thousand my girlfriend has one I have I clue to who will have the best one and iam pretty sure it won’t be me 

[happypalms]

Another one in my collection is the iguanura it has been slow to take off but iam hopeful this summer it will improve having survived two winters one in the hothouse the other in the ground a true water lover in my climate I don’t water much in the winter months only when I feel it is necessary now all I have to do is wait ten years for that look iam after 

[PalmatierMeg]

Very neat little palm. I haven’t had any luck keeping any of the Iguanuras alive more than a few months. Your garden is the envy of any palm lover. Kudos to you.

[John hovancsek]

This is such an attractive palm. Really really slow at first then it kicks into gear. This is the var major 

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, John hovancsek said:

This is such an attractive palm. Really really slow at first then it kicks into gear. This is the var major 

Wooooh nice palm I have major as well in a pot iguanura would have to be one my new favourites absolutely gorgeous palms 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Very neat little palm. I haven’t had any luck keeping any of the Iguanuras alive more than a few months. Your garden is the envy of any palm lover. Kudos to you.

Thank you palmatiermeg there are dream palms and then there are dreams I will always dream of living in the tropics it has taken me around 25 years to get the dream into a vision and still planting and collecting I got hooked on palms at age 17 when my neighbour had semi trailer pull up in the street and unloaded a semi trailer full of styrofoam box’s of more than 500 thousand kentia sprouts that needed to be counted and sent to holland I loved palms from that day it was like Willy wonkas  chocolate factory only for palms 

[happypalms]

The chambeyronia hookeri Ian all time winner for colour in the garden and these beauties certainly do that enjoy 

[happypalms]

An all time winner the foxtail with its criminal background introduction to the Palm world quite a story involved in the wodyetia bifurcata original seed expeditions but whatever it’s past is it’s made into the Palm world with flying colours passing as a winner one tough palm fitting well into landscape design as we all know the dreaded seed dispersal with wheelbarrow loads of seeds to make any wood chipping home handy man machine go see a dentist but you gotta love this palm 

[sonoranfans]

Dont forget to drop pics when they flush those gorgeous new leaves.  I have found the same palm can be two different colors depending on placement.   Here are two successive leaves from the same palm that I moved around the yard in a container.  Not sure why the color changed 

 

 

[sonoranfans]

Note that the second red photo shows the underside of the leaf which means all transmitted light.  The first pic shows the top of the leaf so more reflected light.  When light passes through a leaf a different color shade can be expected.  reflected light will be mainly from the cuticle epidermis junction while transmitted light will pass through the whole leaf.

[Billy]

My biggest hookeri (still small) just shed two old leaf bases yesterday revealing some really nice yellow color to enjoy. It was a big moment for a small up and coming palm. 

[96720]

I think climate conditions have a lot to do with color I have so far never seen any color in the summer!!!

[sonoranfans]

1 hour ago, 96720 said:

I think climate conditions have a lot to do with color I have so far never seen any color in the summer!!!

I have observed the color fading notably faster to green in the heat.  Color can last to a week in winter, in this heat my most recent leaf of macrocarpa watermelon faded in the the first open leaves before the entire leaf opened.  Winter gives the best color for me on the watermelon which I have had for 10+ years 

[KrisKupsch]

3 hours ago, 96720 said:

I think climate conditions have a lot to do with color I have so far never seen any color in the summer!!!

every hookeri make red young leaves regardless of the climate

[96720]

Not so mine opened this summer 110 degrees + no red frond!!!

[happypalms]

On 9/9/2023 at 11:42 PM, sonoranfans said:

Dont forget to drop pics when they flush those gorgeous new leaves.  I have found the same palm can be two different colors depending on placement.   Here are two successive leaves from the same palm that I moved around the yard in a container.  Not sure why the color changed 

 

 

Definitely will post when they get the new leaf 

[happypalms]

I have two Caryota maxima and they are a massive palm towering through the garden cold tolerant responds better with water but this one has only had minimal watering it’s around twenty years old a lovely palm when you remember to look up 

[happypalms]

Another good growing chameadorea plumosa a real winner cold tolerant loves water but will get by without it a very tall variety and prolific seeder it prefers the understory but will poke its head out of the canopy and have a look around a beautiful easy palm to grow 

[peachy]

I had one at the last house and would have sworn that I have bought one since but if I did then it went walkabout. (that or dementia finally has me in it's grasp) The house and the shade house are full of baby palms, hereby hangs a tragic tale. I went on an all day repotting rampage, writing labels as I finished each one. The total nong nong who was meant to help me by carting the soil and putting in labels as I wrote them waited till I was finished before pulling all the labels out of it's pocket and asking what I wanted done with them. With my memory it's hard enough recognising grown palms but seedlings ? Forget it !

Peachy

[peachy]

Mine was growing beautifully until I went to Mt Coot Tha gardens and saw some fully grown specimens. Magnificent things but bloody YOOJE so I dug mine out. I am cowardly like that.

Peachy

[Cindy Adair]

Peachy, how horrible!

I can only blame myself for failing with labels.

Mostly my writing disappeared (leaving useless blank labels) although occasionally birds tossed them. 
 

Now I am putting sturdy labels on everything including these seedlings given to me yesterday. If I lose the seedling it is quick and cheap for me to reprint a label and use the marker on another palm. 
 

Of course time will tell as to long term legibility. 

And this would not have helped with your less than stellar employee!
 

 

[Cindy Adair]

Back to Chamaedorea plumosa, I am a fan. I only have 3 and wouldn’t mind adding a few more. 

[Rivera]

I didn't have any shade when I started planting my garden, which is part of the reason I planted a bunch of these. Besides sun tolerance, I heard they could take the wind, which we have lots of.

They're tough. I agree that they favor water and shelter though. 

Gorgeous photo @Cindy Adair, love all the tree ferns in the background.

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

Back to Chamaedorea plumosa, I am a fan. I only have 3 and wouldn’t mind adding a few more. 

Nice plumosa Cindy they can get quite tall they set seed fairly easy and germinate very well it won’t be long and you will be weeding them out 

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, Rivera said:

I didn't have any shade when I started planting my garden, which is part of the reason I planted a bunch of these. Besides sun tolerance, I heard they could take the wind, which we have lots of.

They're tough. I agree that they favor water and shelter though. 

Gorgeous photo @Cindy Adair, love all the tree ferns in the background.

Some nice chamaedorea they are tough and easy I don’t get much wind but iam pretty sure they would tolerate some wind 

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

Peachy, how horrible!

I can only blame myself for failing with labels.

Mostly my writing disappeared (leaving useless blank labels) although occasionally birds tossed them. 
 

Now I am putting sturdy labels on everything including these seedlings given to me yesterday. If I lose the seedling it is quick and cheap for me to reprint a label and use the marker on another palm. 
 

Of course time will tell as to long term legibility. 

And this would not have helped with your less than stellar employee!
 

 

I can relate to the labeling situation that’s why now I have problem of asking for Pam identification on this site thankfully the Palm community may help my ageing brain but it’s reassuring knowing it’s not brain as I can see the rest of us palm growers have the same symptoms of being mad collector’s of plants 🌱 ps another nice haul of palms you have cindy

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, peachy said:

Mine was growing beautifully until I went to Mt Coot Tha gardens and saw some fully grown specimens. Magnificent things but bloody YOOJE so I dug mine out. I am cowardly like that.

Peachy

Yes you need a rather large yard for this monster of a palm just one leaf would fill up a wheelie bin and even then only half a leaf they can destroy an understory palm in 1 second flat 

[Cindy Adair]

Thanks Happypalms and Rivera. 

Thanks too for sharing information and photos on this species. 

[peachy]

9 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

Peachy, how horrible!

I can only blame myself for failing with labels.

Mostly my writing disappeared (leaving useless blank labels) although occasionally birds tossed them. 
 

Now I am putting sturdy labels on everything including these seedlings given to me yesterday. If I lose the seedling it is quick and cheap for me to reprint a label and use the marker on another palm. 
 

Of course time will tell as to long term legibility. 

And this would not have helped with your less than stellar employee!
 

 

At the old garden I used the little copper labels but those days of extravagance are long gone. I am back to plastic and laundry markers.

Peachy

[peachy]

9 hours ago, Cindy Adair said:

Back to Chamaedorea plumosa, I am a fan. I only have 3 and wouldn’t mind adding a few more. 

Aha, thanks Cindy, I do have one of those so I can logically (that's a word rarely used in relation to me) assume it's the missing plumosa. Mine is in sun and rather a sad little specimen but it is clinging dearly to life. Your tree ferns are amazing. I have lost more of the indigenous to this area

Cyathea cooperi over the years than I care to mention. When I started this garden I went the more expensive route and planted Dicksonia antartica, which are natives to the mountains in Victoria and Tasmania and they are still thriving but so bloody slow. (about 13 cms a year)

Peachy

[Cindy Adair]

Glad one of your missing label palms now gets a name, Peachy. 
 

I see a pattern with me that I take better care of a palms whose name I know. Silly but true.

[happypalms]

Got a couple of Chambeyronia growing next to each both flowering at the same time. It’s the first time the macrocarpa has flowered the hookeri  has flowered twice but with no seeds set yet. It’s the first will be interesting to see if I get any seeds set this season I would be confident in a cross pollination if I do get seeds ( not really a fan of hybrids) either way it will e a long wait to find out if I have created a hybrid. 

[WagnerMX]

How old are your beauties?