happypalms Buying plants again

[Harry’s Palms]

Great news , new additions . Lovely batch of winners there . Yes , when we were at Dave’s to buy palms my wife fell in love with the coloring of his large Kentiopsis ( Chambeyronia ) Pyroformis. Of course , one of the slow growers , had to have it . I bought it small because there were a few different Dypsis I wanted to squeeze the budget . Dave makes it very easy on the pocketbook! She would not let me choose the spot to plant her wee gem , she wanted it near the C. Macropcarpa and the Roystonia . I told her that is the perfect spot partial to full shade for such a palm. Wife happy , palm happy ……me happy! It scared me because , of the batch , it was the last to show any growth. Very slow grower at the age it is but new spear emerged and now with it warming up , picking up a bit. Good luck with those , I’ve never had much luck with houseplants and cats. They like to chew the leaf tips! Harry

[gyuseppe]

Richard but how big is your garden? it must be huge

[happypalms]

Some doozies this week in the palm department. But first up an anthurium panamense a beautiful anthurium, followed by a philodendron Patriceae an iconic philodendron. Then we have some top palms worthy of any garden, Calyptrocalyx elegans sanumb, Calyptrocalyx doxanthus, licuala egregia, dypsis lantzeana, Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana, licuala triphylia var stenophylla such a unique unusual leaf and finally ptychococcus paradoxes. Some good ones in this batch. Now all I have to do is grow em up and plant them one day. Such healthy quality grown seedlings. And the packaging is absolutely perfect with plants arriving as if you picked them up at the local nursery. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Quite the haul . Are they imported or from Australia? Harry

edit: my palm expedition is coming….stay tuned! 🙄

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7 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Quite the haul . Are they imported or from Australia? Harry

edit: my palm expedition is coming….stay tuned! 🙄

Australian grown quality of course Harry. Nothing but the finest for us Ozzie’s. Could you imagine the import tariffs if trump had his way. We cannot import live plants, well you can but that’s out of my league for the headache and exspense. 
Richard 

[peachy]

I haven't been able to buy a palm for ages but after I sold some of my pottery last week I decided to have a little splurge and buy one. Found my dream palm on ebay, put in my bid and for 5 days I was the highest bidder. In the last minute I was outbid by someone offering $70 more than I could pay.  I was so disappointed as I had been through 2 weeks of hell and thought as no other bidders made an offer that it was going to be mine. I even started making it a special pot.  😥  What a coincidence you bought one exactly the same 😒

Peachy

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17 hours ago, peachy said:

I haven't been able to buy a palm for ages but after I sold some of my pottery last week I decided to have a little splurge and buy one. Found my dream palm on ebay, put in my bid and for 5 days I was the highest bidder. In the last minute I was outbid by someone offering $70 more than I could pay.  I was so disappointed as I had been through 2 weeks of hell and thought as no other bidders made an offer that it was going to be mine. I even started making it a special pot.  😥  What a coincidence you bought one exactly the same 😒

Peachy

Pm me peachy I might have a surprise for you just might never know your luck 🍀 

[happypalms]

At it again this time a few nice Japanese rhapis. The first one is a seikonishiki var while the second is a fujinoyuki, rhapis laosensis var with Snow White variegation hence the name Fujinoyuki after Mount Fuji. I just love them there so beautiful and easy to grow. These ones are for you @Harry’s Palms I was thinking of you when I purchased them after your trip to @DoomsDave mega nursery. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Thank you Richard , those are very nice! I was admiring Dave’s variegated Rhapis  when I was there . The Laosensis of his is very tall and thick. 
  Those that you just got should be valuable additions to an already impressive collection of variegated Rhapis . The first one I saw was about 30 years ago . I was at my mentors house . He had a small one in his house and I thought it was just a genetic flaw or something. It is probably very large now. Harry

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14 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you Richard , those are very nice! I was admiring Dave’s variegated Rhapis  when I was there . The Laosensis of his is very tall and thick. 
  Those that you just got should be valuable additions to an already impressive collection of variegated Rhapis . The first one I saw was about 30 years ago . I was at my mentors house . He had a small one in his house and I thought it was just a genetic flaw or something. It is probably very large now. Harry

You missed your chance @DoomsDave place you should have fell on it with a pair of secateurs. Oh sorry Dave would be the response as you say look over there at Conan what’s he doing. But please Dave can you take a pup of your one for our dear friend in need of a Japanese rhapis.

Richard 

[happypalms]

Some more winners this week with a dypsis minuta an adorable palm, a heliconia aemygdeana hot pink, lanonia hainensis, anthurium punctatum. So beauty’s in there for the garden. 

[peachy]

Yet another nice haul. You will have to put an extension on the verandah to hold them all.

Peachy

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10 minutes ago, peachy said:

Yet another nice haul. You will have to put an extension on the verandah to hold them all.

Peachy

No I won’t have to if you do the hit and run once you get the B double truck organised, then @Harry’s Palms can be your driver and run for the hills with happypalms personal collection. But iam currently building a new greenhouse 40 meters by 6 do I might have to buy a few back of you to fill it😉

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Wow! Another greenhouse . That’s exciting. That will be a pretty big space for more plants. Mine was small in comparison , about 4 meter cubed with a gambrel roof . Mostly seedlings in bands but a few large specimens in there . I loved going in there and sitting on my plastic chair with a cup o’ tea. I could spend quite a bit of time just arranging and fussing with the plants. Harry

[happypalms]

22 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Wow! Another greenhouse . That’s exciting. That will be a pretty big space for more plants. Mine was small in comparison , about 4 meter cubed with a gambrel roof . Mostly seedlings in bands but a few large specimens in there . I loved going in there and sitting on my plastic chair with a cup o’ tea. I could spend quite a bit of time just arranging and fussing with the plants. Harry

Yes another greenhouse iam going to link it together with a shade house tunnel with the other one in the middle with a wide walkway with steps going down the hill and bench’s on either side for the personal collection, with a pitched gable end design, full overhead irrigation. Potting bench at one end and a small propagation hothouse on the other end. It’s mapped out in the brain so no design plans just going with the landscape. All the materials have been purchased, I just have to measure and cut the metal and weld away. The site has been leveled, winter is the best time to start this project as the palms will slow down and the garden will rest up, not to hot to work. It will be fun maybe a couple months of project fun.

Richard. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Sounds fantastic. That should increase your volume and flow dramatically. Harry

[happypalms]

On 5/15/2025 at 9:21 PM, Harry’s Palms said:

Sounds fantastic. That should increase your volume and flow dramatically. Harry

Don’t forget decrease the bank account trying to fill it!

Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Well it’s only money and plants fill that space where we get an incredible value for the $ and effort. I walk out and meander around the garden , it fills me with joy . As long as the budget works , thank you @DoomsDave , it is worth every penny . I can see I’m not alone! Harry

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8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Well it’s only money and plants fill that space where we get an incredible value for the $ and effort. I walk out and meander around the garden , it fills me with joy . As long as the budget works , thank you @DoomsDave , it is worth every penny . I can see I’m not alone! Harry

Iam pretty straight in the no alcohol no smoking no gambling, no kids, the biggest exspense I have is the wife and we won’t go there or we will find ourselves sleeping in the doghouse so to speak. But plants are  another level of happiness bring great joy no matter  how gray the day is. Only a true gardener knows the feeling. But if you want to watch a great Australian tv programme it’s called Gardening Australia on the ABC you can google or you tube it, it’s packed with great information and top rated show. 

[happypalms]

A few goodies this week to go in the greenhouse. Starting with an anthurium effusilobum, dypsis sp, monstera hybrid uno and a Brownea hybrid sp. some nice ones that will eventually get planted in the garden. 

[Harry’s Palms]

Good for the rotation . In the last pic , a real nice one . Harry

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2 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Good for the rotation . In the last pic , a real nice one . Harry

Monstera uno var a hybrid combination of monstera adansonia var x M deliciousa var borsigiana. So some homework done on this one.

Richard

[happypalms]

Another batch of garden goodies again. Even my plant therapist wants to buy a plant from me now, so here we go confessing to what I have purchased this week. A dypsis poiveana, licuala bracteata, iguanura wallichiana, Zamia variegata, anthurium large round velvet from Ecuador, ant plant myrmecodia beccarii, another anthurium podophyllum, 15 draceana goldieana again, monstera deliciosa var borigsiana variegated. That should do for another week or until my next therapists appointment. 

[peachy]

Another lovely haul of botanical loot. Now winter is here I can only buy locally or from nurseries further south from me or with similar climates.  That Zamia is rather special and the Iguanura is a good size too. Mine is having it's second winter and it's only a quarter that size.  I did a little acquiring this week myself but can't get the camera to download the photos onto the laptop and will probably have to wait for Chelsea (remember the 6 foot sulker ?) when she comes on the weekend and get her to do it for me. Good luck with the Ant Plant, I could never get them to take for me.

Peachy

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7 hours ago, peachy said:

Another lovely haul of botanical loot. Now winter is here I can only buy locally or from nurseries further south from me or with similar climates.  That Zamia is rather special and the Iguanura is a good size too. Mine is having it's second winter and it's only a quarter that size.  I did a little acquiring this week myself but can't get the camera to download the photos onto the laptop and will probably have to wait for Chelsea (remember the 6 foot sulker ?) when she comes on the weekend and get her to do it for me. Good luck with the Ant Plant, I could never get them to take for me.

Peachy

That ant plant I was wondering about, I assume it is somewhat a bit like a succulent? I have no idea about them at all. Iam willing to take the risk on the cold weather imports for the garden, no repotting that’s for sure going into winter. So it’s off to the greenhouse for that little botanical loot and iam off to the therapist for another plant buying therapy session wish me luck as I know it’s a waste of there time trying to cure the plant obsession. The only cure I want is another fix of botanical loot!!

Richard 

[peachy]

4 hours ago, happypalms said:

That ant plant I was wondering about, I assume it is somewhat a bit like a succulent? I have no idea about them at all. Iam willing to take the risk on the cold weather imports for the garden, no repotting that’s for sure going into winter. So it’s off to the greenhouse for that little botanical loot and iam off to the therapist for another plant buying therapy session wish me luck as I know it’s a waste of there time trying to cure the plant obsession. The only cure I want is another fix of botanical loot!!

Richard 

Treat it like an orchid. I can't remember if it is an epiphyte or parasitic but as they are FNQ natives I would wait until spring to put it outside.

Peachy

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1 hour ago, peachy said:

Treat it like an orchid. I can't remember if it is an epiphyte or parasitic but as they are FNQ natives I would wait until spring to put it outside.

Peachy

Thank you so an orchid mix I assume. Richard 

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1 hour ago, peachy said:

Treat it like an orchid. I can't remember if it is an epiphyte or parasitic but as they are FNQ natives I would wait until spring to put it outside.

Peachy

Thank you so an orchid mix I assume. Richard 

[peachy]

59 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Thank you so an orchid mix I assume. Richard 

Yes orchid mix. 

Peachy

[DoomsDave]

@happypalms

Sanity SCHMANITY!

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3 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

@happypalms

Sanity SCHMANITY!

@DoomsDave serenity before insanity. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest!

[happypalms]

And this weeks crazy plant purchase is a good one with a actinorhytis calapparia, a Rothmannia longiflora a beautiful small tree, an anthurium marmoratum x affine rugulosum a new hybrid, and an absolute beauty of a Geonoma atrovirens, a nice rare Zamia encephalartoides and a beautiful Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana a nice South American palm. So another fix of some beautiful plants for the garden. 

[happypalms]

Time to increase the collection again. First up is a nice Pinanga sarawakensis a cool tolerant Pinanga, and a nice little licuala triphylla possibly one of the cutest small licualas around. And a nice microsorum whiteheadii a fern from Sumatra that is cool tolerant. All proven winners in the greenhouse! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice batch there! Helping keep the horticulture business alive , a few plants at a time . Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

Me too 😬 I don't have the money, but the deal was too good to pass up. 2 12" blue Java bananas (confirmed, not namwah) for the price most people are selling like 3" plants for? I sell my first pup and I've made my money back. Hell I could keep one and sell the 2nd and profit right now if I want to. 

 

I never thought I'd start thinking of this hobby as a business, but here we are. 

 

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12 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice batch there! Helping keep the horticulture business alive , a few plants at a time . Harry

Living the dream! I had two other pinanga I keeped one and have one to the Coffs botanical gardens, thinking they die in winter, my one lived which amazed me. And the one in Coffs garden went into a climate controlled environment. So I thought get a few more Pinanga there quite pretty. 
Richard 

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6 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Me too 😬 I don't have the money, but the deal was too good to pass up. 2 12" blue Java bananas (confirmed, not namwah) for the price most people are selling like 3" plants for? I sell my first pup and I've made my money back. Hell I could keep one and sell the 2nd and profit right now if I want to. 

 

I never thought I'd start thinking of this hobby as a business, but here we are. 

 

Good one John, you will be surprised how easy it is to sell plants. Your little banana is a bold choice for indoor growing, some how I think it will get rather big indoors. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Very cool my Friend Richard

[JohnAndSancho]

18 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Good one John, you will be surprised how easy it is to sell plants. Your little banana is a bold choice for indoor growing, some how I think it will get rather big indoors. 

😂😂😂 I've uhhh I've got a few bananas now and I think every damn one of them is gonna be too big for the house. I seriously need a hookup on cheap big nursery pots, man. I've got 4 or 5 Dwarf Cavendish, one I think is an Orinoco or a Namwah, a Mekong Giant that's gonna be an absolute monster, a red Cuban and an Ensete Marelli. The Mekong showed up with 2 leaves and like 2 tiny roots maybe 3 weeks ago so I just put it in a Coke bottle. Welp, it's almost rootbound and puts out a leaf a week. Supposedly they'll grow anywhere between 10-30 feet here with water and fert. You know Ensete get huge. A "Dwarf" banana just means it rarely gets over 10 feet. Plus all these damn papayas I'm germinating? 

At least I'll have something to watch grow while I wait on the palms to do something. 

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5 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

😂😂😂 I've uhhh I've got a few bananas now and I think every damn one of them is gonna be too big for the house. I seriously need a hookup on cheap big nursery pots, man. I've got 4 or 5 Dwarf Cavendish, one I think is an Orinoco or a Namwah, a Mekong Giant that's gonna be an absolute monster, a red Cuban and an Ensete Marelli. The Mekong showed up with 2 leaves and like 2 tiny roots maybe 3 weeks ago so I just put it in a Coke bottle. Welp, it's almost rootbound and puts out a leaf a week. Supposedly they'll grow anywhere between 10-30 feet here with water and fert. You know Ensete get huge. A "Dwarf" banana just means it rarely gets over 10 feet. Plus all these damn papayas I'm germinating? 

At least I'll have something to watch grow while I wait on the palms to do something. 

Your gunna need a bigger hothouse!