My contemporary home with a new born eclectic garden

[peachy]

3 years ago last month, I moved into  my new home. It sat proud and pretty in the middle of mud and builders rubble, with the odd prickle weed surviving here and there. Not a worm to be seen, not even slugs, slaters or snails.  It took me  4 months to clear all the rubble away and get the front yard level. The backyard is still like a roller coaster.  Add 6 months of soil amendment,  4 boxes of worms (only needed 3 but Toti and Rupert ate the first lot) and many many bags of compost, gypsum and soil. After 10 months I planted my first palms. I think you will agree they have grown quite rapidly.  The first photo is my Foxtail, brought home in a 20cm ( 9inch for the unlearned) pot and just under a metre tall.

Next is my Teddy Bear Dypsis lastelliana. This was bought the same day as the foxtail, also in a 20cm pot. As you can see it's fronds are over the roof.  The one at my old place reach 1 metre in 7 years. Okay you can all stop laughing at my chaotic backyard, it's a work in progress if you don't mind.

My perfect palm, Trachycarpus fortunei. Had no luck with them at the old place, moved house then could not find a Windmill anywhere.  I did have a pillage day at the 2021 PASCOA palm show and drove home loaded to the gunwhales with plants. They only had one Windmill for sale there, a very sorry looking specimen and it was adventurously price at over $100 ! Even a confirmed profligate like me said no way to that one. The following weekend I was dodging the peasantry at the local sunday market and saw a nice healthy, knee high Trachy in a 28cm pot for $20 ! The vendor assured me that it was a very healthy cabbage palm ! (Livistona australis)

Just a couple of Chamadoreas, tepejilote in front and oblongata behind it, both about to hit the patio roof, once again from the 2021 palm show and purchased in 13 cm pots. (6 inches or so) and 30 tall. They just shot up so quickly that I must make my mind up whether to sell or plant in the very near future.

Now everyone knows how perfect I am, but the next picture shows that even perfection can have a flaw. Here is mine.  Chamadorea klotziana. No matter how often or well I staked it, the rotten thing was determined to make a U turn and eventually did just that. (obtained at the same time, place and size as the previous Chamadoreas)

This is my mystery species Calyptrocalyx. It's a nice little thing, the new red leaves stay red for weeks.  Best of all it's a single trunked species. Any clever clogs out there in palm land who know what it really is ?

My posh lady's shade house.

Le Jardin de l'Ange. Every home should have one.

So now you lucky little people have had a glimpse into the home of Peachy,  Poochies, Pusses and Parrots.  I am not so vain, (almost humble in fact) to allow you to think that all my palms are sheer perfection but if you think I am going to show you photos of all my duds and failures, forget it !

[DoomsDave]

Keep at it!

Both the garden and sharing.

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, peachy said:

3 years ago last month, I moved into  my new home. It sat proud and pretty in the middle of mud and builders rubble, with the odd prickle weed surviving here and there. Not a worm to be seen, not even slugs, slaters or snails.  It took me  4 months to clear all the rubble away and get the front yard level. The backyard is still like a roller coaster.  Add 6 months of soil amendment,  4 boxes of worms (only needed 3 but Toti and Rupert ate the first lot) and many many bags of compost, gypsum and soil. After 10 months I planted my first palms. I think you will agree they have grown quite rapidly.  The first photo is my Foxtail, brought home in a 20cm ( 9inch for the unlearned) pot and just under a metre tall.

Next is my Teddy Bear Dypsis lastelliana. This was bought the same day as the foxtail, also in a 20cm pot. As you can see it's fronds are over the roof.  The one at my old place reach 1 metre in 7 years. Okay you can all stop laughing at my chaotic backyard, it's a work in progress if you don't mind.

My perfect palm, Trachycarpus fortunei. Had no luck with them at the old place, moved house then could not find a Windmill anywhere.  I did have a pillage day at the 2021 PASCOA palm show and drove home loaded to the gunwhales with plants. They only had one Windmill for sale there, a very sorry looking specimen and it was adventurously price at over $100 ! Even a confirmed profligate like me said no way to that one. The following weekend I was dodging the peasantry at the local sunday market and saw a nice healthy, knee high Trachy in a 28cm pot for $20 ! The vendor assured me that it was a very healthy cabbage palm ! (Livistona australis)

Just a couple of Chamadoreas, tepejilote in front and oblongata behind it, both about to hit the patio roof, once again from the 2021 palm show and purchased in 13 cm pots. (6 inches or so) and 30 tall. They just shot up so quickly that I must make my mind up whether to sell or plant in the very near future.

Now everyone knows how perfect I am, but the next picture shows that even perfection can have a flaw. Here is mine.  Chamadorea klotziana. No matter how often or well I staked it, the rotten thing was determined to make a U turn and eventually did just that. (obtained at the same time, place and size as the previous Chamadoreas)

This is my mystery species Calyptrocalyx. It's a nice little thing, the new red leaves stay red for weeks.  Best of all it's a single trunked species. Any clever clogs out there in palm land who know what it really is ?

My posh lady's shade house.

Le Jardin de l'Ange. Every home should have one.

So now you lucky little people have had a glimpse into the home of Peachy,  Poochies, Pusses and Parrots.  I am not so vain, (almost humble in fact) to allow you to think that all my palms are sheer perfection but if you think I am going to show you photos of all my duds and failures, forget it !

H I peachy love the garden especially the potted plants there all healthy which is a indication to me you can garden quite well in fact a green thumb is present also I see a space for a kerriodoxa right in the middle of the front lawn it is prime real estate for a show piece eg kerriodoxa and in the front yard for all to see your gardens finest specimen plus make the neighbours look at the palm not at you through your window keep up the gardening and remember retirement is only a hose in the hand away 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, peachy said:

3 years ago last month, I moved into  my new home. It sat proud and pretty in the middle of mud and builders rubble, with the odd prickle weed surviving here and there. Not a worm to be seen, not even slugs, slaters or snails.  It took me  4 months to clear all the rubble away and get the front yard level. The backyard is still like a roller coaster.  Add 6 months of soil amendment,  4 boxes of worms (only needed 3 but Toti and Rupert ate the first lot) and many many bags of compost, gypsum and soil. After 10 months I planted my first palms. I think you will agree they have grown quite rapidly.  The first photo is my Foxtail, brought home in a 20cm ( 9inch for the unlearned) pot and just under a metre tall.

Next is my Teddy Bear Dypsis lastelliana. This was bought the same day as the foxtail, also in a 20cm pot. As you can see it's fronds are over the roof.  The one at my old place reach 1 metre in 7 years. Okay you can all stop laughing at my chaotic backyard, it's a work in progress if you don't mind.

My perfect palm, Trachycarpus fortunei. Had no luck with them at the old place, moved house then could not find a Windmill anywhere.  I did have a pillage day at the 2021 PASCOA palm show and drove home loaded to the gunwhales with plants. They only had one Windmill for sale there, a very sorry looking specimen and it was adventurously price at over $100 ! Even a confirmed profligate like me said no way to that one. The following weekend I was dodging the peasantry at the local sunday market and saw a nice healthy, knee high Trachy in a 28cm pot for $20 ! The vendor assured me that it was a very healthy cabbage palm ! (Livistona australis)

Just a couple of Chamadoreas, tepejilote in front and oblongata behind it, both about to hit the patio roof, once again from the 2021 palm show and purchased in 13 cm pots. (6 inches or so) and 30 tall. They just shot up so quickly that I must make my mind up whether to sell or plant in the very near future.

Now everyone knows how perfect I am, but the next picture shows that even perfection can have a flaw. Here is mine.  Chamadorea klotziana. No matter how often or well I staked it, the rotten thing was determined to make a U turn and eventually did just that. (obtained at the same time, place and size as the previous Chamadoreas)

This is my mystery species Calyptrocalyx. It's a nice little thing, the new red leaves stay red for weeks.  Best of all it's a single trunked species. Any clever clogs out there in palm land who know what it really is ?

My posh lady's shade house.

Le Jardin de l'Ange. Every home should have one.

So now you lucky little people have had a glimpse into the home of Peachy,  Poochies, Pusses and Parrots.  I am not so vain, (almost humble in fact) to allow you to think that all my palms are sheer perfection but if you think I am going to show you photos of all my duds and failures, forget it !

H I peachy love the garden especially the potted plants there all healthy which is a indication to me you can garden quite well in fact a green thumb is present also I see a space for a kerriodoxa right in the middle of the front lawn it is prime real estate for a show piece eg kerriodoxa and in the front yard for all to see your gardens finest specimen plus make the neighbours look at the palm not at you through your window keep up the gardening and remember retirement is only a hose in the hand away 

[Kim]

Your garden is much larger than I imagined from your descriptions! Looking good!

About Calyptrocalyx with red leaves, my very reddest is C. albertisianus, but I can't ID yours for sure. The new red leaf goes straight vertical when first open and is flaming red, amazing when backlit. Leaves are a darker shade of green.