happypalms Another day in paradise in the garden

[gyuseppe]

Boys and girls, let's be positive! In the morning I can't even get out of bed, especially this morning, but I take courage and get up at 6 in the morning (I don't wake up my wife who is sleeping, she works three times as much as me, what's the point of waking her up?) at 6 I go to the kitchen, first I take the medicine 4 tablets plus 10 drops, then I have breakfast, then I go to the bathroom, I shave and brush my teeth, then around 6.45 I go to my brothers' shops, and I help them, my job is to select the chickens and turkeys, there are 3 workers, they are boys, we turn on the radio and we joke, in the meantime everything passes, this makes me understand that mine is above all a mental situation, one last thing being the brother of the owner, I could command the boys, and give orders to them, but I always behave in a kind way, I always say please and then after I say thank you, one of the boys has a bad back, I do the hard work instead his, and he loves me so much that when it's 10 in the morning, that I'm leaving, he tells me come on stay here and keep us company, unfortunately I have to go home and lie down in bed

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8 hours ago, donpachino1983 said:

Beautiful garden. Congratulations 😎

Iam still working on my garden, a total makeover, hopefully to double the size it is now packing more into it, especially the understory! 

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6 hours ago, John2468 said:

@happypalms What's this palm?

Iguanura spectabilis var major, a little cool tolerance as well, but don’t let it dry out! 

[happypalms]

I got these ones in a roundabout way, but I got them. Hopefully I can get a few more flowers from them soon, and put them in a group planting with my other one thats flowering and get a few seeds from such a lovely rare palm! 

[Nico971]

In the beginning I was obsessed with big large palms. Now the this kind of little gem is my goal 🥰

[Mazat]

7 hours ago, happypalms said:

I got these ones in a roundabout way, but I got them. Hopefully I can get a few more flowers from them soon, and put them in a group planting with my other one thats flowering and get a few seeds from such a lovely rare palm! 

Beautiful, Richard 🤗 

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16 hours ago, Nico971 said:

In the beginning I was obsessed with big large palms. Now the this kind of little gem is my goal 🥰

I started to get more intrest in the small understory palms, more for the deep shade of the understory created by such large palms. A win win situation I would say. Best of both worlds the big and the small! 

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14 hours ago, Mazat said:

Beautiful, Richard 🤗 

Hopefully I can produce a few seeds! They would grow for you as well in your climate just put them in your grow room each winter, and with them being a small palm easily done! 

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A couple of nice ones ready to get planted in autumn after the summer heat. I could plant them now but the watering for new palms and a busy lifestyle would not suit them. Autumn, winter and spring are the best planting times for my climate, summer can be brutal living in the bush especially for newly planted panted palms and a trees! 

[gyuseppe]

needless to say I had these species and I lost these too 

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58 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

needless to say I had these species and I lost these too 

Such a tragedy you lost most of your collection, it takes years too build up a collection, and a lot time looking for new palms, you come across the ones you have and pass on them, but I still buy proven winners to plant out. If they grow good in my climate I like to plant more of them as pioneer palms, this helps in expanding the new gardens! 

[Phoenikakias]

1 hour ago, gyuseppe said:

needless to say I had these species and I lost these too 

Do you grow also Sabal maritima in your garden?

[Phoenikakias]

5 hours ago, happypalms said:

A couple of nice ones ready to get planted in autumn after the summer heat. I could plant them now but the watering for new palms and a busy lifestyle would not suit them. Autumn, winter and spring are the best planting times for my climate, summer can be brutal living in the bush especially for newly planted panted palms and a trees! 

The Sabal in the second picture resembles a lot a maritima, which grows in my garden!

[gyuseppe]

1 hour ago, Phoenikakias said:

Do you grow also Sabal maritima in your garden?

no Konstantinos, I only now have minor, palmetto, bermudana and causiarum 

[Harry’s Palms]

That is the perfect planting size . Easy to dig holes for 10” pots and under. The last time I planted a larger palm I had to excavate two large rocks from the earth . 
   Those are nice ones and it would be a shame to put them into the ground while temps are higher. You would have to water them frequently. Harry

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13 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

That is the perfect planting size . Easy to dig holes for 10” pots and under. The last time I planted a larger palm I had to excavate two large rocks from the earth . 
   Those are nice ones and it would be a shame to put them into the ground while temps are higher. You would have to water them frequently. Harry

Temps in the high 30s I can live with, not knowing when any decent rains are forecast is the problem, it could get drier and drier for the next 3 months it’s difficult to tell and with summer in full swing already, I have enough to water as it is. So no knew plantings for a while unless it’s in a heavily watered area under irrigation. 
Richard 

[Mazat]

On 12/21/2025 at 7:17 AM, happypalms said:

A couple of nice ones ready to get planted in autumn after the summer heat. I could plant them now but the watering for new palms and a busy lifestyle would not suit them. Autumn, winter and spring are the best planting times for my climate, summer can be brutal living in the bush especially for newly planted panted palms and a trees! 

also very very special, Richard - everyone together 🤗

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23 hours ago, Mazat said:

also very very special, Richard - everyone together 🤗

The Sabal will be a great one for the hot dry part of the garden! 

[Mazat]

29 minutes ago, happypalms said:

The Sabal will be a great one for the hot dry part of the garden! 

Absolutely🌴👍🤗

[happypalms]

Might as well get a couple more in the ground, with some good irrigation they will be fine in the house garden. With a little soil amended and a good watering from the grey water septic system they will certainly get a lot moisture and nutrients, Thanks to a bio cycle system, a great way to water palms. 

[peachy]

How dare you plant those palms I was going to buy

Peachy

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5 hours ago, peachy said:

How dare you plant those palms I was going to buy

Peachy

Iam sure the buddha statue can rest easy under the pinnatafrons for now.

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

@peachy , the palm squad can go over to Happypalms and retrieve whatever you need . Harry

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice job Richard. Happy to see more palms going in the ground . Us palmy folks around the world , collectively keeping the faith , one (or three) palms at a time! 
  I haven’t planted any in a while but I just did a walkabout the garden in between down pours of rain and I have some new additions sprouting up! Not sure what they are but time will tell… Merry Christmas from Mother Natue. Harry

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7 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

@peachy , the palm squad can go over to Happypalms and retrieve whatever you need . Harry

Your mission is should you choose too take it………

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6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice job Richard. Happy to see more palms going in the ground . Us palmy folks around the world , collectively keeping the faith , one (or three) palms at a time! 
  I haven’t planted any in a while but I just did a walkabout the garden in between down pours of rain and I have some new additions sprouting up! Not sure what they are but time will tell… Merry Christmas from Mother Natue. Harry

Glad to hear you’re getting the rains you much needed. 
You can’t beat a bit of Xmas planting fun! 
And you and family have a merry Xmas holiday season!

Richard and Jodie 

[happypalms]

No budget was spared in this little makeover, with 5 dypsis louvelli and a lovely dypsis minuta as the stars in the makeover. And a trio of chamaedoreas with the usual winners metallicas, adscendens and a few Ernie’s, so a bit seed production in the years to come with this nice trio of exotics. And for a bit colour a nice draceana goldieana along with an anthurium vietchii, there will be no shortage of eye candy in this corner of the garden! 

[happypalms]

Two of the finest palms from South America definitely worth having. Germinated the bondaria and they have been slow as seedlings. And the socratea purchased a couple of seasons back. The socratea show a little cool tolerance surviving in the ground and in the greenhouse. Two palms worth growing if you can track them down! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Those look lovely . So many palms but so little room here. I am getting hard pressed to find spots in my wee little slice of earth. Harry

‘Most of my near quarter acre is very steep and home to palm root eating gophers!

[Jonathan]

Those louvelii are gorgeous things Richard!

Is that minuta the one you bought with seeds on it? Looks like you might get some more next year!

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1 hour ago, Jonathan said:

Those louvelii are gorgeous things Richard!

Is that minuta the one you bought with seeds on it? Looks like you might get some more next year!

They are fantastic little palms, I will go out on a limb and say a little cool tolerance as well. The minuta I did purchase and in flower, that was two years ago and i managed to germinate all 16 seeds, this is the second lot of flowers, I will be expecting a few more seeds if iam lucky. But iam lucky as I two now that are flowering that produce viable seeds, a good investment. It’s one rare palm that’s wanted and I for one will be selling seedlings soon, and on another limb I will say they too have some cool tolerance.

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice addition to that corner . No shortage of unique species to view. Harry

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3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice addition to that corner . No shortage of unique species to view. Harry

Some good ones in there for sure, if I was to buy them the total cost of all plants would be around $1200 for all the plants that got planted, depending on where you get them! That’s the going rate for exotic palms nowadays, and that’s buying of the wholesaler, imagine full retail prices, for 5 louvelli, 1 vietchii, 5 adscendens, 3 Ernie’s, 3 metallica, 1 dypsis minuta, and one goldieana. 
Richard 

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Some interesting colours in there for sure garden, red is one colour that stands out in the Aussie bush garden. 

[Harry’s Palms]

…..and if you have the money , worth every cent! Harry

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3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

…..and if you have the money , worth every cent! Harry

Like the man said, if you have the money we can do anything you want!

Richard

[Mazat]

On 12/27/2025 at 10:33 AM, happypalms said:

No budget was spared in this little makeover, with 5 dypsis louvelli and a lovely dypsis minuta as the stars in the makeover. And a trio of chamaedoreas with the usual winners metallicas, adscendens and a few Ernie’s, so a bit seed production in the years to come with this nice trio of exotics. And for a bit colour a nice draceana goldieana along with an anthurium vietchii, there will be no shortage of eye candy in this corner of the garden! 

Step into the wonderful fairy-tale world of exotic plants. Wait a minute, it's a real fairy tale 🤗🌈

[Jonathan]

23 hours ago, happypalms said:

They are fantastic little palms, I will go out on a limb and say a little cool tolerance as well. The minuta I did purchase and in flower, that was two years ago and i managed to germinate all 16 seeds, this is the second lot of flowers, I will be expecting a few more seeds if iam lucky. But iam lucky as I two now that are flowering that produce viable seeds, a good investment. It’s one rare palm that’s wanted and I for one will be selling seedlings soon, and on another limb I will say they too have some cool tolerance.

Small size equals greenhouse potential, even if not cold hardy. Maybe one day when you get hundreds of seeds we could try them out in Siberia. In the meantime you should capitalise on your investment!

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9 hours ago, Mazat said:

Step into the wonderful fairy-tale world of exotic plants. Wait a minute, it's a real fairy tale 🤗🌈

I woke up and looked out the bedroom window, and bingo living the dream of exotic plants, Hawaii may have the climate for such tropical beauties, but my climate is good enough for me. Just a couple more degrees warmer in winter and it’s on par with a lot of other places for that exotic look! 

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32 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

Small size equals greenhouse potential, even if not cold hardy. Maybe one day when you get hundreds of seeds we could try them out in Siberia. In the meantime you should capitalise on your investment!

Good thinking 99 as maxwell smart would say, very lucky to get seeds from such a rare palm. I will put one spare plant for you in the back of the greenhouse for you to collect one day! 🌱