happypalms Buying plants again

[Harry’s Palms]

Wow , nice size plants! Harry

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8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Wow , nice size plants! Harry

They grow em big in North Queensland!. Not to bad for 75mm tubes.

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Another batch of plants for the garden. A lanonia calciphila, chamaedorea tenella,  anthurium veitchii x tilarenense, Zamia variegata, roscheria melanochaetes, anthurium Jenmanii, dysis baroni black stem, crysophila warscewiczii, pachypoium,and a couple of other little understory plants. They will give the garden a tropical look in the years to come. 

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Another mail order batch of palms this time a dypsis CLBS,  geonoma pycnostachys and a Areca vidaliana. A few more to add to the collection and in a few years time they  can get planted somewhere in the garden. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice score . To me , they look almost ready for larger pots . I spy Spanish Moss! I have some hanging on my bamboo Tillandsia wall . The birds sometimes steal it for making nests. Harry

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36 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice score . To me , they look almost ready for larger pots . I spy Spanish Moss! I have some hanging on my bamboo Tillandsia wall . The birds sometimes steal it for making nests. Harry

Yes I did repot them. If I get them before winter I won’t repot until spring. Yes Spanish moss an old favourite for gardeners. I don’t have trouble with the birds knocking it off, but my mum does in her garden . 
Richard 

[tim_brissy_13]

The pycnostachys is now considered G stricta subsp arundinacea according to Henderson (2010) if you want to update the label Richard. But honestly I’d probably keep reference to the pycnostachys name because different types within the same subspecies can have different appearances in Geonoma. Fascinating genus. 
 

I got one last year and I’m thinking of planting it out here. Am I crazy? Probably. 

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8 hours ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

The pycnostachys is now considered G stricta subsp arundinacea according to Henderson (2010) if you want to update the label Richard. But honestly I’d probably keep reference to the pycnostachys name because different types within the same subspecies can have different appearances in Geonoma. Fascinating genus. 
 

I got one last year and I’m thinking of planting it out here. Am I crazy? Probably. 

I think I will keep it the same name. Humidity they need I have one already they take the cold but not sure about warm tropical Melbourne.🤣 out of the wind a warm corner near your brick wall.

[happypalms]

Another little batch of plants for the garden mail order. Local nurseries if there are any simply don’t stock such rare and exotic varieties the only way to get them is online. There are quite a few suppliers of exotics online if you do a bit of research to find them. A lot of times if you do find one nursery that has what you’re looking for is usually sold out so you have to keep on looking at there site constantly or you will miss out. This week an assortment of plants from all around the globe in different habitats. An arenga hookeriana, lagenandra meebooidii, Calpytrocalyx doxanthus, calathea croatailifera and a licuala triphylla. The Calpytrocalyx iam very interested in being a rare new palm and hopefully a cool tolerant one and the lagenandra that comes from India I will see if lives in the cool weather. Some great new plants for the garden.

[Harry’s Palms]

How long do you give them before planting newly acquired plants ? Harry

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3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

How long do you give them before planting newly acquired plants ? Harry

I repot most of the tubes into 140mm pots if I get them before summer. But if I get them late summer autumn I won’t repot them. I also give them the winter trial if they survive winter. At least 12 months time before I plant them. Some I give two years depending on how slow they grow and how rare they are. So a constant supply of new plants is needed well that’s my excuse to buy more so I can continue to plant more. I won’t plant in winter unless I have a lot of them and are proven winners or common. But the odd one three years time growing before planting them. I used to plant tube stock in the ground but now I want to give them a good start in life. 
Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Thank you for the info. I have only brought babies in from other environments once and I planted them immediately. They probably would’ve benefited from a year or so of settling in but I was still learning , and honestly , not very patient. Harry

[peachy]

I had a C doxanthus before they were on general sale.  A very pretty little palm and tough as old boots in my old garden for the couple of years before I moved house.  This is the best time of year to buy palms and other plants as they are in growth mode and can adjust to the climate more readily.  All the little things I bought from you this time last year are thriving and some of the chamaedoreas are even in the ground already. The fronds on the C. plumosa are higher than my side fence ! (1.8 metres)  Unluckily for me (but very lucky for the Vet) poor Pandora has developed an eye infection in both eyes,  so my life savings for new palms are now depleted.   Currently I am looking for a street corner with disabled access so I can finance my palm addiction.

Peachy

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On 10/17/2024 at 2:08 PM, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you for the info. I have only brought babies in from other environments once and I planted them immediately. They probably would’ve benefited from a year or so of settling in but I was still learning , and honestly , not very patient. Harry

Growing on a bit helps a bit. Plus the years are against us in palm time. So the best star5 now is my preference. 
Richard 

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On 10/17/2024 at 2:57 PM, peachy said:

I had a C doxanthus before they were on general sale.  A very pretty little palm and tough as old boots in my old garden for the couple of years before I moved house.  This is the best time of year to buy palms and other plants as they are in growth mode and can adjust to the climate more readily.  All the little things I bought from you this time last year are thriving and some of the chamaedoreas are even in the ground already. The fronds on the C. plumosa are higher than my side fence ! (1.8 metres)  Unluckily for me (but very lucky for the Vet) poor Pandora has developed an eye infection in both eyes,  so my life savings for new palms are now depleted.   Currently I am looking for a street corner with disabled access so I can finance my palm addiction.

Peachy

I did read cool tolerance as well so even better Iam definitely looking forward the doxanthus growing. Glad the little @happypalms are growing good I try my best to supply quality. If iam not happy with the quality I have trouble selling them. You did purchase fast fast growing palms but iam still trying to sell you a black petiole baronii the feared clumping palms you love. Yes the pets are not cheap nowadays vets want new spa and pool extensions. I had a 6 thousand dollar cat once and I would have spent a million on him if I had to. Pets cannot talk and we are responsible for there health and wellness actually it’s not about money with pets but the love of all creatures great and small. Now iam of too pet my 18 year old cat the little princess she is. Did you say you had a palm addiction I just look at as a complete OCD obsession that the only cure for is more palms Sigmund Frued told me so or the voices in my head did.😂

Richard 

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Another quality load of plants mail order this time around with a lot schismatoglottis sp, areca  warbo, licuala orbicularis,pinanga sp sarawakensis and a reinhardtia simplex. The simplex will live in my climate the warbo lives I had one live through winter not a problem at all tough as. They may need winter protection each year the pinanga and orbicularis So time for a zone push giving them the best chance to acclimatise in spring time will tell who lives the winter race.

[Harry’s Palms]

It is so nice to see the passion in which you introduce various exotic and rare plants to your collection . Pushing the boundaries so that some of us understand the tolerance of these varieties. Thank you. Harry

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15 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

It is so nice to see the passion in which you introduce various exotic and rare plants to your collection . Pushing the boundaries so that some of us understand the tolerance of these varieties. Thank you. Harry

You’re welcome I reckon a few growers out there have made purchases of new palms based on what I have tried in the cold weather. I have lost countless plants but I have also increased my collection immensely due to just buying new plants going against what you read or hear. 
Richard 

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At it again another fix of palms for the garden I can’t help myself. This time we have a small understory dypsis sp, nenga banaensis, calyptrogyne greisbregtiana, and another understory dypsis sp. All understory palms to be planted in the existing garden in gaps here and there most of them are small so perfect for what Iam doing in the shade of the garden. Some good winners that will eventually add to the collection of palms along with the others in the garden. The calyptrogyne iam looking forward to a group planting of them as challenge for hand pollinating them in the years to come seeing as we don’t have the species of bat in Australia to pollinate them it will a fun challenge to see if I can get seed to set. 

[Harry’s Palms]

New plantings give us something to look forward to. Once in the ground , watching them them grow is the reward that keeps us going. Harry

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7 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

New plantings give us something to look forward to. Once in the ground , watching them them grow is the reward that keeps us going. Harry

Any palm I plant new or old in the collection the feeling is the same. When I planted my bangalow I planted from seed I picked up from the rainforest floor it was a good knowing I held the seed in my hand giving it life to grow in my garden. That’s a plant utilising humankind for its advantage to keep its genes alive. One  book I recommend you read is the Botany of desire interesting book about plants. 
Richard 

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A couple more  palms to add to the garden. first up areca loaensis, philodendron BGB, dypsis lantzeana, lanonia calciphila, dypsis remotifolia, and a cyclanthacea carludovica. The remotifolia is of great interest iam definitely looking forward to growing this understory palm in the garden. The rest will eventually get planted  out somewhere in the garden. All got repotted into slightly larger containers the next size up. So plenty of time to get growing before winter gets here. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Seasonal boundaries keep us on track as we add to our collection. At least you have protective growing areas for the more sensitive plants. This helps for the first few years as you try to introduce more varieties to your environment. Harry

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4 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Seasonal boundaries keep us on track as we add to our collection. At least you have protective growing areas for the more sensitive plants. This helps for the first few years as you try to introduce more varieties to your environment. Harry

Yes the cursed cold weather keeps a palm grower in check that’s for sure. A protected environment certainly does help with acclimatisation also being able to have  room to grow them helps in getting them established in there containers before for planting them out. Making for a better survival chance in the ground with some of the exotics. As small plants they struggle, but plant them out past the seedling stage and they handle the cold a lot better.. 

[happypalms]

A big fix of plants this time is what the doctor ordered. It’s a OCD obsession buying plants that has me hooked in a big way. With no real good nursery’s in my area only chain stores and one big retail nursery that has a huge selection of common landscaping plants that are so boring to me, that i constantly buy online or from some good suppliers that have the good stuff. This time around it’s a maprang dwarf mango, lanonia magaloni, Areca sp loas dwarf, arenga hookeriana, inguanura sp broad leaf, pandanus sanderi variegated, a few gruihaia  argyrata  and a beccariophoenix alfredii they all should do me for another week. That is until I want another fix.

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Another mail order lot of plants with some real special ones in this lot. The packaging is absolutely beautiful plants arrive in perfect condition, if I buy a plant in town and put them in the car to come home with sometimes they don’t like it especially if you  have to do a few things in town. These plants arrive as if just picked up from the nursery and if there sent on a Monday by Wednesday I have to pick them, and they come from a long way away it’s pretty well much a two drive or  longer to cairns with sleepovers from where I live. This week’s little haul of garden beauties is as  follows. Actinorhytis calapparia, dypsis minuta, Calpytrocalyx kainlas, geonoma atrovirens, Calpytrocalyx michlitzia and a memecylon umbellatum a stunning tree with blue flowers. A bit of a zone push on a few there have to see how I go in the cold weather with about 3 of them. I cancelled all my appointments with the therapist I figured a waste of time plus I didn’t want a cure anyhow what was I thinking making appointments obviously I wasn’t thinking must have had a Joey palm die that week. 
 

[Brad52]

Who is the’viney’ like scunner with the ovoid’ish leaves?

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1 hour ago, Brad52 said:

Who is the’viney’ like scunner with the ovoid’ish leaves?

If iam correct the second last photo is of the memycylon umbellatum a wonderful tree.

[Brad52]

Looks interesting, thank you!

[KrisKupsch]

Richard I’ve the native Memecylon which is basically a smaller version. That species you got is grown in Cairns and is relatively acquirable as seedlings come up beneath the parents. As do i have seedlings under my native one. 
looks like from Arden and Chris ?

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46 minutes ago, KrisKupsch said:

Richard I’ve the native Memecylon which is basically a smaller version. That species you got is grown in Cairns and is relatively acquirable as seedlings come up beneath the parents. As do i have seedlings under my native one. 
looks like from Arden and Chris ?

I got one in the ground slow to establish. Got a shade house cover over it. Definitely a thirsty tree. And yes equatorial exotics strike again with some real crackers of palms this time. Pot your seedlings up if there is a native one your onto something good. 

[CascadiaPalms]

haha I love it!

Life is plants 😀

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10 hours ago, CascadiaPalms said:

haha I love it!

Life is plants 😀

Yep I live for my and my garden lives for me.🌱

[happypalms]

Another little order of some garden beauties. A nice licuala triphylia, iguanura paddle leaf sp, alocasia aequiloba aka spotted papua and a alocasia lowii grandis. Hopefully they acclimate to the cool weather in winter. Some are already proven winners like the triphylia, it will be a few years before any are planted in the garden. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice looking haul. It amazes me they can be boxed and shipped and come out so unscathed . That Licuala looks amazing. Harry

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12 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice looking haul. It amazes me they can be boxed and shipped and come out so unscathed . That Licuala looks amazing. Harry

It is amazing they arrive in perfect condition. When you buy a few plants in nursery you put them in your car and drive around and do some shopping or something else and I have seen some poor results from that one stressed out needing water. I have had a few in the past lost in the mail system arriving in very bad condition not the sellers fault. The triphylia is a spectacular small palm well worth growing and cool tolerant one would live for you Harry.  
Ruchard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Yea , some day I’ll have to cut loose and order some unusual stuff from Floribunda or something. Harry

[gyuseppe]

 

behind the window I see a rhapis, is it excelsa?

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4 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yea , some day I’ll have to cut loose and order some unusual stuff from Floribunda or something. Harry

Anyday is a good day to buy palms. If icould order from florabunda I would be constantly broke and divorced. The wife wouldn’t like it floribunda has so many varieties. I will stick with importing seeds for now. But looking forward to seeing what you would buy. 
Richard 

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6 minutes ago, gyuseppe said:

 

behind the window I see a rhapis, is it excelsa?

diet

Yes a beautiful Japanese rhapis ayanishiki.