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5 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Very cool my Friend Richard

The season has only just begun!

[Hu Palmeras]

I'm also at full speed, friends. I'm germinating Chambeyronias like crazy, as well as Bismarckias and many other beautiful varieties. I hope they continue to bring life and joy to my heart.

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24 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

I'm also at full speed, friends. I'm germinating Chambeyronias like crazy, as well as Bismarckias and many other beautiful varieties. I hope they continue to bring life and joy to my heart.

Some good varieties to choose from @Hu Palmeras nice tough hardy varieties. How did your meeting go that you had arranged, for your palm project?

[Hu Palmeras]

The director of the agricultural service thought I was crazy. I looked very different. But I managed to get everyone's attention on the great, exotic proposal I presented to them. Her entire team listened to me and showed interest. However, they suggested I speak to the mayor of my city and the government of my region. They've already accepted me back. I hope to present all the details to the other authority. The team that assisted me explained that those seeds were prohibited from entering Chile. They were surprised because I have such exotic and rare things. I showed them my entire collection of already germinated seeds with photos. They were extremely amazed, and an atmosphere was created between them that they had never had before in their subconscious.

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2 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

The director of the agricultural service thought I was crazy. I looked very different. But I managed to get everyone's attention on the great, exotic proposal I presented to them. Her entire team listened to me and showed interest. However, they suggested I speak to the mayor of my city and the government of my region. They've already accepted me back. I hope to present all the details to the other authority. The team that assisted me explained that those seeds were prohibited from entering Chile. They were surprised because I have such exotic and rare things. I showed them my entire collection of already germinated seeds with photos. They were extremely amazed, and an atmosphere was created between them that they had never had before in their subconscious.

That’s a positive direction to start with, but I find it unusual there approach with the negative comments on the seeds, does it really matter. Keep on trying dont give up you will be ground breaking for future generations to come, paving the way for palms in chile. But you have set there minds thinking, make your appointments with the mayor. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Richard, my friend. You know there's a lot of ignorance among people. They believe there's only one world. They're more interested in other things or issues. Imagine this underdeveloped region of Latin America. They prefer to build stadiums. More stadiums. Instead of something more important and elevated.

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21 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Richard, my friend. You know there's a lot of ignorance among people. They believe there's only one world. They're more interested in other things or issues. Imagine this underdeveloped region of Latin America. They prefer to build stadiums. More stadiums. Instead of something more important and elevated.

There forgetting about public places to relax in. Less stress and people relaxed can build a better country. I guess a sports stadium would make more money. 

[Hu Palmeras]

That's right, Richard. The palm trees are in another world. A world full of wisdom and the most beautiful private gardens. And not just anyone, ignorant or not, can get there. Only knowledgeable and wise people know how to know and conquer it.

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1 hour ago, Hu Palmeras said:

That's right, Richard. The palm trees are in another world. A world full of wisdom and the most beautiful private gardens. And not just anyone, ignorant or not, can get there. Only knowledgeable and wise people know how to know and conquer it.

If you get the palm garden up and running it’s a great educational tool.

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A couple more for the garden mail order. This week a Calyptrogyne ghiesbreghtiana,  Zamia standelyi, lanonia magaloni, licuala yall brall and a iguanura Wallichiana var major. This little haul should see me out until another fix of plants is required, which with my obsession until I get on the internet later on tonight! 

[Harry’s Palms]

Some good ones there. Harry

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18 minutes ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Some good ones there. Harry

Top shelf stuff!
Richard

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Another fix of some plants, no therapy needed for this ocd obsession. Just more plants for the garden. plants always arrive as if just picked up from the nursery. Adira legslis a small Brazilian tree, Pinanga sarawakensis, Dypsis  lantzeana, anthurium claudiae and a Zamia angustifolia. Some for the collection. Quality packaging as usual. 

[Hu Palmeras]

Your palm trees are beautiful, Richard. Enjoy them a lot.

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18 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Your palm trees are beautiful, Richard. Enjoy them a lot.

If you got em plant em!

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Another little haul of mother natures finest eye candy. A few collectors palms for the garden, and a Etlingera sp hot lava, a beautiful cut flower plant. A few zone push’s in there I will see what happens in winter with that lot. mauritiella aculeata licuala sp north sumatra Rothmania longiflora Areca sp Rabaul  Dypsis forcifolia 

[Harry’s Palms]

Some nice plants there.  They have plenty of time to get ready for next winter , and your winters are fairly mild temperature wise. Harry

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1 hour ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Some nice plants there.  They have plenty of time to get ready for next winter , and your winters are fairly mild temperature wise. Harry

A couple of winners for sure, mild winters in comparison to some zones. But still cold enough to kill tropical palms.

Richard

[Harry’s Palms]

Yes , true , but you have greenhouses to help . I understand you would like the plants in the garden . It could go either way but you don’t know until you try ! Good luck , you have a few tropical species that have surprised you . We are starting to see mid to upper 50f in the wee hours now . A series of storms are due to hit starting this evening . My temps here aren’t too bad but we lack humidity in summer to fall . I have spread tons of beach pebbles and wood chips that get wet down when I water to try some evaporative cooling in the summer and fall. We do what we can with what we have! If you were any warmer , some of the palms that grow so well for you would struggle . The first time I visited a collector in Maui , he told me Howea are a challenge to grow as well as Washingtonia . Go figure , eh? Harry

[Mazat]

 

Richard, is that the flower or not?
Beautiful collection.

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15 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , true , but you have greenhouses to help . I understand you would like the plants in the garden . It could go either way but you don’t know until you try ! Good luck , you have a few tropical species that have surprised you . We are starting to see mid to upper 50f in the wee hours now . A series of storms are due to hit starting this evening . My temps here aren’t too bad but we lack humidity in summer to fall . I have spread tons of beach pebbles and wood chips that get wet down when I water to try some evaporative cooling in the summer and fall. We do what we can with what we have! If you were any warmer , some of the palms that grow so well for you would struggle . The first time I visited a collector in Maui , he told me Howea are a challenge to grow as well as Washingtonia . Go figure , eh? Harry

Yes a greenhouse helps a lot and especially one with hothouse plastic on the walls to keep out cold draughty air. It’s a bit like Joey palms if I had only 4 of them I would be super worried about them and be fussy over them, killing them with too much kindness, but fortunately I have  a lot of them and I found out how easy they are to grow, throwing them in with not a lot of worry. But my recently purchased sabinara are a different story they shall be getting all the growers attention. It’s strange how a rare palm has an affect on a grower. 
I find with humidity trying to increase it goes beyond the immediate area you wish to create that microclimate in. 
I go beyond that boundary as well and create a microclimate beyond the one I wish to create. This way it has a better affect on the garden. A bit like wetting down the road as well as the garden. Pushing that desert away even further. Have you though at about a misting system in the heat of the day, they are quite cheap and easy to set up, I see them being used at coffee shops and a lot of restaurants with outdoor seating to keep the customers happy in a hot situation in summer.

Richard

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15 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , true , but you have greenhouses to help . I understand you would like the plants in the garden . It could go either way but you don’t know until you try ! Good luck , you have a few tropical species that have surprised you . We are starting to see mid to upper 50f in the wee hours now . A series of storms are due to hit starting this evening . My temps here aren’t too bad but we lack humidity in summer to fall . I have spread tons of beach pebbles and wood chips that get wet down when I water to try some evaporative cooling in the summer and fall. We do what we can with what we have! If you were any warmer , some of the palms that grow so well for you would struggle . The first time I visited a collector in Maui , he told me Howea are a challenge to grow as well as Washingtonia . Go figure , eh? Harry

Yes a greenhouse helps a lot and especially one with hothouse plastic on the walls to keep out cold draughty air. It’s a bit like Joey palms if I had only 4 of them I would be super worried about them and be fussy over them, killing them with too much kindness, but fortunately I have  a lot of them and I found out how easy they are to grow, throwing them in with not a lot of worry. But my recently purchased sabinara are a different story they shall be getting all the growers attention. It’s strange how a rare palm has an affect on a grower. 
I find with humidity trying to increase it goes beyond the immediate area you wish to create that microclimate in. 
I go beyond that boundary as well and create a microclimate beyond the one I wish to create. This way it has a better affect on the garden. A bit like wetting down the road as well as the garden. Pushing that desert away even further. Have you though at about a misting system in the heat of the day, they are quite cheap and easy to set up, I see them being used at coffee shops and a lot of restaurants with outdoor seating to keep the customers happy in a hot situation in summer.

Richard

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10 hours ago, Mazat said:

 

Richard, is that the flower or not?
Beautiful collection.

These pictures are the plant i received! So not quite I think the one you have a bit different.

[peachy]

It looks like a Bromeliad flower to me. They come in all wonderful colours, shapes and sizes.

Peachy

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2 hours ago, peachy said:

It looks like a Bromeliad flower to me. They come in all wonderful colours, shapes and sizes.

Peachy

I think you’re on the right track. Although it may be a ginger of some sort definitely not an alpinia.

Richard 

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At it again more plants for the collection, it’s a great addiction to have and one that is very rewarding so to speak. A nice little heterophylla scitula will go well in the garden, an iguanura broad leaf form, and every good collection has to have an Anthurium dark velvet crystalline hybrid, hybrid anthurium do better in my climate. A nice tree Barringtonia procera a new one to me. And a nice Geonoma pycnostachys for the container collection, and lastly a white Etlingera a great cut flower I purchased for the wife! A few more for the garden in the years to come. 

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On tonight’s show we have some lovely exotics that are straight from a jungle nursery near you! First we see the fabulous packaging from such a fantastic grower of the finest gifts Mother Nature has to offer! 
Then from the great land of Madagascar we have a lovely little Dypsis just simply known as CLBS. Just looking a picture perfect for this evenings show. 
Next we have a beautiful little Areca tunku that looks to be a baby! 
From there we go all the way to the jungles of Panama with a gorgeous zamia nesophila, a lovely understory Zamia. 
Staying in the understory we have a armorphallus lacourii, followed by a nice anthurium talmancae that’s also perfect for the understory.

And to finish of tonight’s show we a lovely Etlingera cornerii aka Siam Rose these would definitely make a wonderful gift for that certain someone in your life! 
So thank you all for watching tonight’s show and stay tuned for nexts weeks show! 

[gyuseppe]

Richard, congratulations on your plant collection, it's growing bigger and bigger!👌

[Harry’s Palms]

Nice display and narrative! I love it . I have only once bought palms that were shipped to me . It still amazes me how they can endure the trip unscathed . Harry

 

P.S. Keep em coming , I look forward to your posts that introduce me to so many different palms that I never heard of. Harry , the seed sowing newbie!

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20 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, congratulations on your plant collection, it's growing bigger and bigger!👌

Just the tip of the iceberg my dear friend gyuseppe! 

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19 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Nice display and narrative! I love it . I have only once bought palms that were shipped to me . It still amazes me how they can endure the trip unscathed . Harry

 

P.S. Keep em coming , I look forward to your posts that introduce me to so many different palms that I never heard of. Harry , the seed sowing newbie!

How shall I say it that’s as good as it gets, you gotta put some humour into somewhere sooner or later. The whole world needs a laugh now and then. 
They handle it well in the pots in the mail, I have shipped internationally and the only problem is when they go bare rooted you get a couple of loses. If in containers not a problem ten thousand miles later. 
Oh I got plenty of content material for posts don’t worry about that!🤣

Richard 

[gyuseppe]

51 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Just the tip of the iceberg my dear friend gyuseppe! 

First of all, I always read your posts so I can learn about palm trees and more tropical plants, which I can't grow here.

Secondly, be careful, the iceberg could melt and we could you lose everything   😄(obviously, I'm joking, as you know, I always want the best for you and for everyone. Jesus said, love your neighbor as yourself).👌

 

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10 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

First of all, I always read your posts so I can learn about palm trees and more tropical plants, which I can't grow here.

Secondly, be careful, the iceberg could melt and we could you lose everything   😄(obviously, I'm joking, as you know, I always want the best for you and for everyone. Jesus said, love your neighbor as yourself).👌

 

I don’t have children and my family are not living near me, so I just want to share my garden and knowledge with the world. 
My garden to me is my life the same as my container palms. 
Iam no Einstein when it comes to knowing all there is about plants and learn every day something new about plants.  I have been living in my home for 27 years, living the quite reclusive lifestyle in the bush not wanting the world to bother me, an old hippie with idealistic views of peace and love for the planet, then the world changed about 5 years ago and I got my nursery growing again. I mean no harm to anyone or any living creature, I just want to love my life in peace with my wife my cat and garden oh and my palms. 
I live for my garden and my garden lives for me! 

[gyuseppe]

5 minutes ago, happypalms said:

I don’t have children and my family are not living near me, so I just want to share my garden and knowledge with the world. 
My garden to me is my life the same as my container palms. 
Iam no Einstein when it comes to knowing all there is about plants and learn every day something new about plants.  I have been living in my home for 27 years, living the quite reclusive lifestyle in the bush not wanting the world to bother me, an old hippie with idealistic views of peace and love for the planet, then the world changed about 5 years ago and I got my nursery growing again. I mean no harm to anyone or any living creature, I just want to love my life in peace with my wife my cat and garden oh and my palms. 
I live for my garden and my garden lives for me! 

Richard, you don't know how happy I am to read what you wrote. We are so far away and yet we are similar. I think just like you and my lifestyle is like yours. If we lived close by, we would certainly get along very well, like two old friends who have known each other for a long time.

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1 minute ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, you don't know how happy I am to read what you wrote. We are so far away and yet we are similar. I think just like you and my lifestyle is like yours. If we lived close by, we would certainly get along very well, like two old friends who have known each other for a long time.

The doesn’t seperate us only distance, it’s great to meet a person who is as genuine as yourself. Colin Wilson told me about you how you had dinner together like two brothers. It’s a beautiful world and people such as yourself and yhe palm community make it even better! 

[gyuseppe]

8 hours ago, happypalms said:

The doesn’t seperate us only distance, it’s great to meet a person who is as genuine as yourself. Colin Wilson told me about you how you had dinner together like two brothers. It’s a beautiful world and people such as yourself and yhe palm community make it even better! 

Richard, how can you not love Colin? He's a very generous person, he distributes seeds all over the world without asking for anything in return.

I'll take this opportunity to say hello to my friend Konstantinos from Greece (otherwise he'll get jealous 😄)

[Tropical Toni]

21 hours ago, happypalms said:

How shall I say it that’s as good as it gets, you gotta put some humour into somewhere sooner or later. The whole world needs a laugh now and then. 
They handle it well in the pots in the mail, I have shipped internationally and the only problem is when they go bare rooted you get a couple of loses. If in containers not a problem ten thousand miles later. 
Oh I got plenty of content material for posts don’t worry about that!🤣

Richard 

I have purchased a geonoma atrovirens from ecuador, shipped bare root & the palm did not make it !!

I soaked it in a bucket of water with super thrive over night, then potted it up & into my green house cabinet. The soil was well draining but did not dry out. The palm slowly started to dry up & die, it was the strangest process. to this day I'm not sure what the cause of death was, as when I unboxed the palm, it seemed so healthy. my guess is transpiration loss ? 

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4 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, how can you not love Colin? He's a very generous person, he distributes seeds all over the world without asking for anything in return.

I'll take this opportunity to say hello to my friend Konstantinos from Greece (otherwise he'll get jealous 😄)

Colin is a warm hearted gentleman. And quite a character, one great moment with him was a tour of Sydney’s botanical gardens with him. I will never forget his knowledge and love for the palms in that garden!

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2 hours ago, xtazia said:

I have purchased a geonoma atrovirens from ecuador, shipped bare root & the palm did not make it !!

I soaked it in a bucket of water with super thrive over night, then potted it up & into my green house cabinet. The soil was well draining but did not dry out. The palm slowly started to dry up & die, it was the strangest process. to this day I'm not sure what the cause of death was, as when I unboxed the palm, it seemed so healthy. my guess is transpiration loss ? 

Iam not surprised the geonoma atrovirens died, there tricky in perfect healthy conditions, let alone bare rooted in a box. 
I have purchased a few atrovirens and the longest they where in the postal system was 3 days, all of them arrived in perfect condition. 

Sucha shame to kill such a beautiful palm, it most likely succumbed to transplant shock and transpiration. We learn as we go with palms!

[peachy]

Well I recognise that handwriting !!  One day I will be able to go shopping again. (if my damned car ever sells) At least all the pooches have had their dental work done so that one big expense finally taken care of. (and the Vet loves her new Range Rover)

I saw something about Brassiophoenix schumanni yesterday too.  Someone who lives not far from me has grown  them succesfully in Brisbane whereas I lose them at the first touch of winter. I think you had the same issue.

Peachy