happypalms Buying plants again

[ruskinPalms]

Just as a side note, anyone living in the Parrish FL area, the new Lowe’s they built here seems to carry more exotic things than most of the other big box stores around here. I’ve seen Latania there recently and they also had a couple Archontophoenix there today which I resisted. Not since the Home Depot in Sun City Center in Hillsborough county around 2005 or 2006 have  seen a box store this far north carry anything too interesting. Must be a palmy person in charge of ordering inventory there right now 😉

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, ruskinPalms said:

Just as a side note, anyone living in the Parrish FL area, the new Lowe’s they built here seems to carry more exotic things than most of the other big box stores around here. I’ve seen Latania there recently and they also had a couple Archontophoenix there today which I resisted. Not since the Home Depot in Sun City Center in Hillsborough county around 2005 or 2006 have  seen a box store this far north carry anything too interesting. Must be a palmy person in charge of ordering inventory there right now 😉

Yes they have stepped up there game a little bit it does depend on the manager and the climate (cold) but those grower supplying those good plants are taking a hit in money being locked into contracts and having to take what they offer in price or we don’t buy them I can supply a chain store in Australia but they don’t or won’t give me the money I want for my plants eg Johannesteijsmannia Altifrons for $15 aus dollars no thanks I will grow them on and sell to a real collector who will give me what I want and deserve for my hard work and knowledge not to mention how hard it is now to import such quality seeds but that being said i will admit they do have the odd good plant I did see monsteria borsigianum variegated for $260 two leaf cuttings for sale but no anthurium warocqueanum yet or sabinara magnifica 🤣

[ruskinPalms]

To be fair, I buy most of my native palms (and other native plants) from the native plant nursery here in Parrish called Sweet Bay Nursery. I totally know that it is best to support the local sellers. Just sometimes it is hard to resist a good deal at the box store. And the native nursery would not and should not carry Latania or Archontophoenix… so the box stores do have their place in proliferating interesting, and possibly successful palms to the masses. I do think if I ever move from this house I will try to create a “tropical looking” landscape utilizing only species native to areas within a 200 or 300 mile radius from where I move. I think I could pull off an incredible “native” landscape given those constraints and I bet you all in Australia could do even better 😉

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, ruskinPalms said:

To be fair, I buy most of my native palms (and other native plants) from the native plant nursery here in Parrish called Sweet Bay Nursery. I totally know that it is best to support the local sellers. Just sometimes it is hard to resist a good deal at the box store. And the native nursery would not and should not carry Latania or Archontophoenix… so the box stores do have their place in proliferating interesting, and possibly successful palms to the masses. I do think if I ever move from this house I will try to create a “tropical looking” landscape utilizing only species native to areas within a 200 or 300 mile radius from where I move. I think I could pull off an incredible “native” landscape given those constraints and I bet you all in Australia could do even better 😉

You gotta do what you gotta do in the situation at hand as they say I think from my failing memory there is only about 4 palm species native to my area and 3 species of cycas my property has macrozamia Fawcetti growing wild and lepidozamia peroffskyanna and macrozamia Johnsonii are in the adjacent valleys 

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, ruskinPalms said:

To be fair, I buy most of my native palms (and other native plants) from the native plant nursery here in Parrish called Sweet Bay Nursery. I totally know that it is best to support the local sellers. Just sometimes it is hard to resist a good deal at the box store. And the native nursery would not and should not carry Latania or Archontophoenix… so the box stores do have their place in proliferating interesting, and possibly successful palms to the masses. I do think if I ever move from this house I will try to create a “tropical looking” landscape utilizing only species native to areas within a 200 or 300 mile radius from where I move. I think I could pull off an incredible “native” landscape given those constraints and I bet you all in Australia could do even better 😉

You gotta do what you gotta do in the situation at hand as they say I think from my failing memory there is only about 4 palm species native to my area and 3 species of cycas my property has macrozamia Fawcetti growing wild and lepidozamia peroffskyanna and macrozamia Johnsonii are in the adjacent valleys 

[WaianaeCrider]

To hot to plant the last half of my last order and I placed another yesterday.  LOL  The wife gonna brain me one day.  LOL 

[happypalms]

35 minutes ago, WaianaeCrider said:

To hot to plant the last half of my last order and I placed another yesterday.  LOL  The wife gonna brain me one day.  LOL 

Oh that is so wrong how horrible you’re wife will flip you have completely forgotten the golden rule in buying your palms it’s your list it should read 15 of each variety might as well make it worth your while getting into trouble of the wife you know the code now you have broken it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[happypalms]

I did it again I got a cochliostema a browneopsis ucayalina and a arenga hookeriana this time 

[happypalms]

As usual my weekly buying (spending) budget goes on plants again with some nice quality rare palms a dypsis lantzeana licuala platydactyla socrotea rostrata and a dypsis species also a garcinia brasiliensis tree 

[peachy]

They are all lovely but the wide leaved ones are really beautiful.

Peachy

[happypalms]

56 minutes ago, peachy said:

They are all lovely but the wide leaved ones are really beautiful.

Peachy

So you love the tropical look wide leaf affect you are a true gardener peachy 

[happypalms]

Another fix of plants some I already have some in my collection but what’s a few more it won’t hurt only the budget gets hurt this time inguanura wallichiana calytrocalyx pachstachys inguanura species GF Gustavia species orchid cymbidium aloifolium syagrus schizophylla and a strobilanthes Darwin bells my vision is to have a botanical garden paradise to live in and leave a garden legacy for the future generations 

[Jadd Correia]

awesome

[happypalms]

Received my new palms today 7 geonoma Moore Ana and 2 lanonia calciphila thanks Tim Brisbane quality professional well packaged fast postage honest absolutely perfection plus buy your palms from Tim you won’t regret it 🌱

[marc84]

Please, Tim mail and website ? 

[happypalms]

7 hours ago, marc84 said:

Please, Tim mail and website ? 

What are your important regulations I also have palms for sale 

[tim_brissy_13]

@happypalms glad the new palms arrived safely! The reality is I’m far from professional and operating on a very small scale but I like to think I take a lot of care with packaging and have a pretty effective strategy now. 
 

@marc84 unfortunately I’m only experienced with selling within Australia and don’t have a website, I’m only a small hobby grower. 

[marc84]

Thank you Tim! 

I reçive seeds to Australia with eBay, no problème. 

But I don t know whith seedling. 

Soy, I think you can send germinated seeds into damp sphagnum Moss without any probleme... 

 

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

@happypalms glad the new palms arrived safely! The reality is I’m far from professional and operating on a very small scale but I like to think I take a lot of care with packaging and have a pretty effective strategy now. 
 

@marc84 unfortunately I’m only experienced with selling within Australia and don’t have a website, I’m only a small hobby grower. 

Thought i would give you a sales pitch definitely quality it’s all about presentation you nailed it well it’s a pity we can’t go sending plants overseas and importing them customs have taken the fun out of hobby growing 

[happypalms]

Another small order of some of mother nature’s gifts of beauty this time a Zamia variegata dypsis lantzeana calyptrocalyx benga dawn and five browneopsis ucayalina seeds they shall get potted up and put into the greenhouse for a couple of winters and see what happens as to where and when they get planted the benga dawns may live in pots pushing the calyptrocalyx zone in my area it might be to cold so indoors in winter an all round winner in palms for my collection 

[happypalms]

Some more plants for the collection this time a licuala triphylla heliconia Irrasa and a rothmania longiflora now all I have to do is wait around two or three years to plant them out when they get a bit bigger I used to plant a lot of tube stock plants originally when I established my garden but that was when it rained a lot more but now my established garden eats tube stock plants alive with so much competition for water and light and falling branches and palm leaves doing damage but I still get some tube stock to grow through just not super rare palms that need attention unless I have a couple of hundred to throw around like chambeyronia or chamaedorea palms 

[happypalms]

A couple more plants for the collection a licuala corneri Areca Tonku and a philodendron davidsonii they will get winter protection for a couple of seasons then it’s into the greenhouse and eventually in the ground I repotted them I only repot my exotics in the warmer months never in autumn or winter only when it has warmed up to around 15 to 20 degrees Celsius in the night temperature the same for fertiliser only in the warmer months for exotics and tropical varieties 

[peachy]

Oh those palms are so pretty, I love them both.  I planted a Philo. Davisonii in the garden a couple of years back and it sulked so I dug it up, shoved in a pot and put it on the back porch. It's now taking up too much space so I am going to have to plant it again. Same story with the bird nest anthurium. It was so pretty and cute but turned into a giant monster in 18 months. Palms and Aroids are too beautiful to resist most of them time and I pay the penalty with lack of space eventually.   

Peachy

[Palmfarmer]

13 hours ago, happypalms said:

A couple more plants for the collection a licuala corneri Areca Tonku and a philodendron davidsonii they will get winter protection for a couple of seasons then it’s into the greenhouse and eventually in the ground I repotted them I only repot my exotics in the warmer months never in autumn or winter only when it has warmed up to around 15 to 20 degrees Celsius in the night temperature the same for fertiliser only in the warmer months for exotics and tropical varieties 

Nice palms 🌴  yes I agree even cold hardy palms if shipped from a warmer climate I have killed from planting in November and such when it is 25 in the day and 10 in the night mostly. 

Even a really small Parajubaea torallyi died after planting in winter, without watering it too much. 

I had a Butia as well that died in the same tempratures. arguebly I was overwatering that one like hell.  

My first Bismarck died in like a week in fairly warm wheater as well. 

25/10 celcius  

[happypalms]

On 11/8/2023 at 11:03 PM, peachy said:

Oh those palms are so pretty, I love them both.  I planted a Philo. Davisonii in the garden a couple of years back and it sulked so I dug it up, shoved in a pot and put it on the back porch. It's now taking up too much space so I am going to have to plant it again. Same story with the bird nest anthurium. It was so pretty and cute but turned into a giant monster in 18 months. Palms and Aroids are too beautiful to resist most of them time and I pay the penalty with lack of space eventually.   

Peachy

Hi peachy I have only just become hooked on aroids anthuriums can get expensive also the cold is not there friend either but it’s good news you’re philo has survived the cold weather plus they don’t like cold and wet conditions 

[happypalms]

On 11/9/2023 at 9:26 AM, Palmfarmer said:

Nice palms 🌴  yes I agree even cold hardy palms if shipped from a warmer climate I have killed from planting in November and such when it is 25 in the day and 10 in the night mostly. 

Even a really small Parajubaea torallyi died after planting in winter, without watering it too much. 

I had a Butia as well that died in the same tempratures. arguebly I was overwatering that one like hell.  

My first Bismarck died in like a week in fairly warm wheater as well. 

25/10 celcius  

True the palms that died for you are pretty tough palms it’s heart breaking to kill a rare plant the cold wet combination is not a good thing for exotics and tropical plants I try to overwinter new plants for a couple of years also any tropical growth even in good conditions they still cop a hard time with the tropical leaves needing to have new leaves acclimatised which is usually another two years of growing in the ground so around 4 years to get new rare tropical varieties established in the garden 

[happypalms]

Buying a couple more for the collection that’s forever getting bigger it’s an addiction that can only be cured by buying more plants there is no cure for plant addiction I didn’t even try to stop no use iam only going to buy more this time a lanonia calciphila memeycylon species and a anthurium terticollectivium should supply my fix for another week mail order just gives you more choices of rare plants as the local nurseries (the ones still in business) have mostly been shut down for various reasons and they only supply common money making plants that’s not for my style of gardening 

[Tom in Tucson]

I'm also guilty of being a compulsive plant buyer. I received 6 shipments today (3 of seedlings and 3 seed orders), and more are in the "pipeline". As far as I can tell, there is no cure for this addiction.

Hi 79°, Lo 61°

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, Tom in Tucson said:

I'm also guilty of being a compulsive plant buyer. I received 6 shipments today (3 of seedlings and 3 seed orders), and more are in the "pipeline". As far as I can tell, there is no cure for this addiction.

Hi 79°, Lo 61°

I trie plant rehab gave up in fact I didn’t even go to the meeting no point iam hooked and anyway who wants to cured of this not me iam in for the long haul 😂

[peachy]

My addiction to palms and aroids doesn't get fed anywhere near as often as I would like it to be. My succulent addiction is also similarly controlled but due to lower prices (not always though) and easy availability I fall off the wagon every couple of weeks.  Permanent penury and and a glorified courtyard for a garden limits my insatiable desire to purchase every new palm or aroid I learn about.

Peachy,  a self confessed plantaholic

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, peachy said:

My addiction to palms and aroids doesn't get fed anywhere near as often as I would like it to be. My succulent addiction is also similarly controlled but due to lower prices (not always though) and easy availability I fall off the wagon every couple of weeks.  Permanent penury and and a glorified courtyard for a garden limits my insatiable desire to purchase every new palm or aroid I learn about.

Peachy,  a self confessed plantaholic

I could only image an addictive personality on top of a plant obsession a recipe for disaster you would tremble just walking past a weed in a nursery wanting to buy it  🤣

[wimmie]

I quess we all are familiar with this "problem".........

[happypalms]

16 hours ago, wimmie said:

I quess we all are familiar with this "problem".........

Iam going to start a support group it seems there are a lot of suffering plant addicts out there unfortunately it would only become a swap meet for plants there is no cure 

[happypalms]

Another fix of palms for the Garden this time a Mauritia flexuosa pinanga distichia lanonia centralis Socrates rostrata a rothmania longifolia a philodendron hybrid Jerry Horne and some cycas species silver form seeds some real winners in there for the garden the standard treatment awaits them winter protection for two seasons giving them some time to develop more roots then planted in the ground although I don’t think the pinanga will go in the ground pushing the palm limits with that one 

[tim_brissy_13]

Lanonia centralis should do well for you. It can get quite chilly in their habitat, but I’d expect they’d have good heat tolerance too. Definitely on my wish list, good potential for cooler climates. 

[happypalms]

1 hour ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

Lanonia centralis should do well for you. It can get quite chilly in their habitat, but I’d expect they’d have good heat tolerance too. Definitely on my wish list, good potential for cooler climates. 

Thanks Tim iam pretty confident in all varieties of lanonia doing well in my climate 

[happypalms]

Buying more palms for the collection starting with satakentia liukiwensis dypsis carlsmithii licuala kunsterii syagrus schizophylla brassiophoenix shumannii and calyptrocalyx yamutumane only a around two hundred all up something about potting up palms that’s very therapeutic and calming 

[peachy]

Okay you made me envious of the new Satakentias, Licualas and Calyptrocalyx. The others are nice palms too but so slow growing ....I like to get results quickly.  Speaking of which, I thought I got an amazing deal on some palms this week. Posted monday,  arrived on tuesdays and potted up. Dead by thursday !! 2 seem to be just hanging on ....that will teach me not to deal with people not in the Palm Talk family.

Peachy

[KrisKupsch]

I have all but the Calyptro inground and they grow well here except Satakentia but we both know it grows fine for others and I’ve more in pots…here in the moderately wet subtropics of far nensw au 

Edited December 14, 2023 by KrisKupsch

[happypalms]

20 hours ago, peachy said:

Okay you made me envious of the new Satakentias, Licualas and Calyptrocalyx. The others are nice palms too but so slow growing ....I like to get results quickly.  Speaking of which, I thought I got an amazing deal on some palms this week. Posted monday,  arrived on tuesdays and potted up. Dead by thursday !! 2 seem to be just hanging on ....that will teach me not to deal with people not in the Palm Talk family.

Peachy

Yes good Xmas present for myself a few palms and I suppose you spent a fortune on your palms only to have them die and yes there is is a lot of respect on Palm talk in regards to plant sales