happypalms Buying plants again

[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. 

[peachy]

I love Alocasias most do well here. I've lost track of names and numbers now. Sometimes you think you have lost one (usually in winter) but be patient, it can take up to a year, but they always come back and seem to keep the cold resistance developed when they regrow. The tall species can be a menace if planted in the ground as they reproduce so rapidly, even in pots they have to be divided yearly. I avoided most Licuala and Lanonia for decades thinking they would be too touchy for my climate but I have been proven wrong as I now have 8 or 9 species and they have all grown steadily and look healthy too. I need a bit more ground though....I might have to dig up the driveway and footpaths.

Peachy

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2 hours ago, peachy said:

I love Alocasias most do well here. I've lost track of names and numbers now. Sometimes you think you have lost one (usually in winter) but be patient, it can take up to a year, but they always come back and seem to keep the cold resistance developed when they regrow. The tall species can be a menace if planted in the ground as they reproduce so rapidly, even in pots they have to be divided yearly. I avoided most Licuala and Lanonia for decades thinking they would be too touchy for my climate but I have been proven wrong as I now have 8 or 9 species and they have all grown steadily and look healthy too. I need a bit more ground though....I might have to dig up the driveway and footpaths.

Peachy

You can always plant on the roof peachy. Alocasias are a learning curve plant for me I used to fuss and keep them in the hothouse, now out in the greenhouse and tough it out now iam growing them a lot better. Leave them alone in the greenhouse and yes they do regrow after going dormant in winter, thinking you have killed them they bounce back. Don’t underestimate licualas quite tough just add water and quite a few cool tolerant ones as well, lanonia are even tougher iam currently germinating a few of the new varieties it will be interesting to see how they go.

Richard 

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At it again with some more beauties. This time a Zamia pseudoparasitica it’s cheaper to buy them than it is to import the seeds and risk customs along with no germination as they have a short viability. Also a antrophyum californium for the fern lovers an Australian fern, a Pinanga sarawakensis I will donate to the regional botanical gardens, a nice anthurium claudiae. And a Zamia variegata for the garden. Another nice batch of plants for the collection. You just never know what will grow and what won’t grow until you try. So I hope this is helpful for the zone pushers and anyone wanting to try new plants but we’re afraid to try, I’ll go out on a limb and try. 

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A nice little batch of triphylia. It was cheaper to buy seedlings than it was to import seeds. A fantastic little palm for the understory in the shade. They take temperatures as low as 2 degrees Celsius in my garden so a little cool tolerance from a little palm. Plus a lanonia magalonii that’s another great understory palm and a cyclanth sp from Peru which will be given some cold protection to see how it goes in winter, not to sure on this one in winter I guess a few months time I will know how it likes the cold weather.

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If last weekend’s plant sales at the pacsoa show wasn’t enough of a fix of palms, iam at again with some great little gems online. This time with a pholidostachys species, licuala poonsaki, Zamia nana new accumunata and a philodendron Bob Cee. This little haul along with last weekend’s plants might do for a week of plant fix’s. By then it will be time to buy some more for another plant fix.

[Harry’s Palms]

Probably spend the rest of the year hardening off a bit ? Harry

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1 hour ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Probably spend the rest of the year hardening off a bit ? Harry

They will not get potted up it’s too late to pot up the rare stuff. Next spring they will get done or planted in the ground. 
Richard 

[Kokioula]

Z nana leaves are so graceful, subtle undulation like obliqua and gorgeous drip tips!!

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At it again more plants for the collection, actually Iam quite lucky i didnt buy a whole nursery with the recent cyclone Alfred and a lot of rain and being flooded in stuck at home, with the internet it could have been a buying frenzy. Self control was in order I think. So with a dypsis lantzeana, Areca songthonensis, Zamia speudoparasitica, licuala ferruginea, browniopsis disepala and a Cerotazamia latifolia in the cart all I had to was press send to get that fix that cured the cyclone boredom. It should do me for another week or until another cyclone hits. 

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5 hours ago, Kokioula said:

Z nana leaves are so graceful, subtle undulation like obliqua and gorgeous drip tips!!

Iam hooked on zamias and Cerotazamia sp especially. The new leaf colours are amazing. I just purchased 3 Zamia pseudoparasitica now that’s one Iam definitely wanting to grow and keep healthy if I can. 

[gyuseppe]

I saw philodendron and ceratozamia

[Kokioula]

7 hours ago, happypalms said:

Iam hooked on zamias and Cerotazamia sp especially. The new leaf colours are amazing. I just purchased 3 Zamia pseudoparasitica now that’s one Iam definitely wanting to grow and keep healthy if I can. 

I am very focused on those genera too! Hope the psuedos grow great for you! They are so awesome! Huge leaves, and nice color, some of mine are 2m. Waiting for a female to show, have several males revealed. I’ve had some CZ species for many years, but the recent field work has brought amazing species to cultivation, like zoquorum, hondurensis etc. Happy planting!!

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14 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

I saw philodendron and ceratozamia

Yes a bob cee philodendron and a Zamia nana I just love them. Philodendron and anthuriums are a new plant to me to start collecting. My only wish is I should have started my collection years ago.

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7 hours ago, Kokioula said:

I am very focused on those genera too! Hope the psuedos grow great for you! They are so awesome! Huge leaves, and nice color, some of mine are 2m. Waiting for a female to show, have several males revealed. I’ve had some CZ species for many years, but the recent field work has brought amazing species to cultivation, like zoquorum, hondurensis etc. Happy planting!!

The new varieties of CZ are not available in Australia at the moment but iam sure given time they will be. There are so many cycas species to collect it never ends. Only problem with collecting plants is you get sidetracked on one particular species only to miss out on something better that has not caught your attention.

[gyuseppe]

58 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Yes a bob cee philodendron and a Zamia nana I just love them. Philodendron and anthuriums are a new plant to me to start collecting. My only wish is I should have started my collection years ago.

there's still time to star

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6 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

there's still time to star

That’s right gyuseppe your never to young to start collecting plants, no age limits in life.

[peachy]

I started collecting philodendrons, anthuriums and other assorted aroids 30 years ago and still see ones I have never heard of before. I have been after a Licuala poonsaki for years but only ever see the very tiny plants and everyone knows how quickly I kill anything under 25cm high. You scored a lovely big sized one so now I am going to crawl off and sulk for  a week. (after I delete my ebay account)

Peachy

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On 3/14/2025 at 11:32 PM, peachy said:

I started collecting philodendrons, anthuriums and other assorted aroids 30 years ago and still see ones I have never heard of before. I have been after a Licuala poonsaki for years but only ever see the very tiny plants and everyone knows how quickly I kill anything under 25cm high. You scored a lovely big sized one so now I am going to crawl off and sulk for  a week. (after I delete my ebay account)

Peachy

I fell in love with them they are so addictive and beautiful plants. If I had  started 30 years ago I could dream of what I would have, so now iam off to sulk and spend up big on eBay buying more anthuriums. But on the bright side you get my entire collection if I start pushing up daisies any time soon. 
Richard 

[Mazat]

On 6.3.2025 at 04:19, happypalms said:

Falls der Pflanzenverkauf vom letzten Wochenende auf der Pacsoa-Messe noch nicht genug Palmen für Sie war, bin ich wieder mit ein paar tollen kleinen Schätzen online. Diesmal mit einer Pholidostachys-Art, Licuala Poonsaki, Zamia nana new accumunata und einem Philodendron Bob Cee. Diese kleine Ausbeute zusammen mit den Pflanzen vom letzten Wochenende reicht für eine Woche Pflanzen-Fix. Bis dahin wird es Zeit, weitere Pflanzen für einen weiteren Pflanzen-Fix zu kaufen.

your palms as always a poem

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10 hours ago, Mazat said:

your palms as always a poem

Poetry in motion! 

[palmtreesforpleasure]

Nice hall Richard

regards

Colin

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6 hours ago, palmtreesforpleasure said:

Nice hall Richard

regards

Colin

Indeed it is. I think the wife is onto me about buying so many plants. It will be a tough decision the wife or palms. What advice would you give me as iam pretty sure you might have the same problem. 
Richard 

[Mazat]

48 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Indeed it is. I think the wife is onto me about buying so many plants. It will be a tough decision the wife or palms. What advice would you give me as iam pretty sure you might have the same problem. 
Richard 

My wife just told me this morning that she was glad that our space is limited.

She then surprised me with the daffodils she bought before 12.00 noon.

So the answer is both 🤗😁

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33 minutes ago, Mazat said:

My wife just told me this morning that she was glad that our space is limited.

She then surprised me with the daffodils she bought before 12.00 noon.

So the answer is both 🤗😁

I like the way you think, clever man! And the best part is I get to buy more palms!

[Mazat]

8 hours ago, happypalms said:

Ich mag deine Denkweise, kluger Mann! Und das Beste daran: Ich kann mir noch mehr Palmen kaufen!

likewise. you thought it through immediately and so we can both continue to buy and plant palm trees 😃

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6 hours ago, Mazat said:

likewise. you thought it through immediately and so we can both continue to buy and plant palm trees 😃

I will say one thing and that is a good lady knows her flowers well. We may know our palms well but when it comes to flowers the wives know best. 😆

[Mazat]

9 hours ago, happypalms said:

I will say one thing and that is a good lady knows her flowers well. We may know our palms well but when it comes to flowers the wives know best. 😆

yes, that's absolutely right.

these are the ones Sabine bought yesterday.

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9 hours ago, Mazat said:

yes, that's absolutely right.

these are the ones Sabine bought yesterday.

Beautiful unfortunately I can’t grow daffodils or tulips it’s not cold enough for them to grow and produce flowers. On the plus side I can grow lots of tropical palms, so there’s a balance between the two palms and if I want daffodils I have to buy them for the wife because I buy so many palms gotta keep the wife happy as you know 🤣