Random Single Pics

[_Keith]

I got in after dark today, as is usually the case in winter, but this caught my headlights coming in so I went out and snapped a pic.  The rose is a Lady of Guadalupe and palm is a Trachy (I think).  The palm is still pouting a bit from being transplanted in August.

[_Keith]

So, this post is a bit different.  This one is sound.  During the summer rains, the insect and amphibian noise can get louder than you might imagine.  So, I walked outside and thought I might turn on my little voice recorder.  This should bring up some thoughts of a good Louisiana humid sub-tropical night for you.  It is un-enhanced, just standing in the backyard.

Night Sounds at New Dawnl

BTW -  We named our garden "New Dawn"

PS - Don, I would love to hear sounds of the Amazon

[paulgila]

looks like a trachy to me...

[Caryota_gigas]

How do you sleep, thats worse than the traffic at my place.

[_Keith]

(Caryota_gigas @ Dec. 11 2007,03:17)

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How do you sleep, thats worse than the traffic at my place.

Well, two things.  One is it is not like that everynight, but in the summer after it has rained several days in a row, the crescendo can build up pretty loud like that.   But as you heard those noises are very rythmic.  Nothing keeps me up like a single danged kricket.  Second is sometimes if little noises bother us, we just flip the central HVAC to fan only which drowns out the remaining outside noise.

[Tad]

sorta like when our cane toads are in rut, you can hear yourself think outside at night!!

[Jeff Searle]

I like the sounds, but I'm sure you get use to that after awhile.

Jeff

[Gileno Machado]

I'll add a picture Keith. I like companion of the roses too...

My picture is of a Wallichia disticha trying to escape from the shade of a Ficus, in the backyard.

[Tad]

looking down the alley in the palm field!!

[Kim]

It's alive out there!  Keith, how did you record your "New Dawn" soundtrack?

Palmo-T:  Nice use of perspective in your photo!

This is pretty random, a night shot out back after putting up a few lights just because it's so dark so early and I like looking at the garden at night:

[Palmy]

(Gileno Machado @ Dec. 11 2007,21:49)

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I'll add a picture Keith. I like companion of the roses too...

My picture is of a Wallichia disticha trying to escape from the shade of a Ficus, in the backyard.

Is that a Caryota or Agrenga?

[bgl]

Cyrtostachys renda at night - always a visual treat!

[Daryl]

(keiththibodeaux @ Dec. 11 2007,12:23)

QUOTE

So, this post is a bit different.  This one is sound.  During the summer rains, the insect and amphibian noise can get louder than you might imagine.  So, I walked outside and thought I might turn on my little voice recorder.  This should bring up some thoughts of a good Louisiana humid sub-tropical night for you.  It is un-enhanced, just standing in the backyard.

Night Sounds at New Dawnl

BTW -  We named our garden "New Dawn"

PS - Don, I would love to hear sounds of the Amazon

That's great! Here is my version, taken tonight after a couple of inches of rain...

Frogs

Daryl

[DoomsDave]

Whoa!

I get pretty noisy, my-own-dang-self . . .

dave

[TikiRick]

This is what I hope to looking at when I am pushing up daisies.

[aussiearoids]

Me beside a Silver Joey just up the road in a very palmy garden .

btw I am 2m tall .. owners want to remain anon ..

[alex_7b]

Washingtonia in Atlanta

Bared T.fortunei

[ariscott]

Daryl,

Some cane toads among those frogs singing   .

Michael,

When was that? You look a bit different   .

Regards, Ari

[Daryl]

(ariscott @ Dec. 13 2007,19:23)

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Daryl,

Some cane toads among those frogs singing   .

Michael,

When was that? You look a bit different   .

Regards, Ari

Yeah, damn cane toads are everywhere. I'm surprised my frog population is so healthy considering the toads are all over the place. I have about 8 species in the garden.

Here is a palm for this thread...

Colpothrinax cookii

Daryl

[palmmermaid]

I love the frog and other critter nioses!  We have french doors in our bedroom that open to the back porch.  As soon as the nights get below 80, we open the windows and doors and listen to the night sounds.  You do get used to it after a while but I miss it when I have to close the house up and turn on the air-conditioner.

[Kris]

Dear Bo & Maicheal  

thanks for those lovely stills,my eyes will never feel tired seeing those...

love,

Kris  

[Kris]

Here is my favouriate still of our phoenix Sylversteris growing in our garden..

Love,

Kris  

[MattyB]

Syagrus orleracea at sunset, in Lemon Grove, CA

[Walter John]

Latest  pics of my red latan, losing it's red as can be seen by the following taken 18 months earlier.

18 months earlier

[Jeff Searle]

(aussiearoids @ Dec. 12 2007,16:38)

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Me beside a Silver Joey just up the road in a very palmy garden .

btw I am 2m tall .. owners want to remain anon ..

Now that's just plain SICK!! Damn!! Beautiful......

Jeff

[Jeff in St Pete]

Here is a random picture that I like.  I picked these up at a nursery labeled as Geonoma.  I like the pleating and the new reddish leaf.  

[Walter John]

Palms at my back deck have a series of fronds opening or recently opened, from close to far Cocos nucifera, Dypsis leptocheilos, Archontophoenix alexandrae, Dypsis lutescens and Caryota mitis.

[Walter John]

Here's a surprise, the Chambeyronia macrocarpa opening up it's second frond in 6 months, a world record for these parts. A nice touch of red in time for Christmas. I'll take a better pic later

[Carlo Morici]

My oldest coconut tree, two weeks ago.

Carlo, Tenerife

[Carlo Morici]

Kentiopsis oliviformis, started from seed in late 2000.

[deezpalms]

Here's a shot of a new frond an my Dypsis lanceolata

A shot of the whole tree

and a nice n' big spear on my D. "orange crush"

[JakeK]

Here's my newest addition, a very healthy Marojejya darianii seedling via eBay.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Excellent looking seedling Jake!  I wish I could get a hold of one here.  Right now I am waiting for Marojejya insignis seeds to germinate.

[Walter John]

From my back deck this morning, you can see down to a new chambeyronia red leaf.

and here's my dog Jackson.

[JakeK]

(Jeff in Costa Rica @ Dec. 14 2007,21:57)

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Here is a random picture that I like.  I picked these up at a nursery labeled as Geonoma.  I like the pleating and the new reddish leaf.  

Jeff, I like that geonoma. Nice coloration.

I didn't know D. lanceolata had such nice coloration on new leaves. Pretty cool in my book.

[JakeK]

(Wal @ Dec. 18 2007,16:00)

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From my back deck this morning, you can see down to a new chambeyronia red leaf.

and here's my dog Jackson.

Wal,

Nice palm shots. Is Jackson a Heeler? Sort of has that cattle dog/heeler look.

[_Keith]

(Wal @ Dec. 18 2007,16:00)

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From my back deck this morning, you can see down to a new chambeyronia red leaf.

and here's my dog Jackson.

Wal.

I'd sure like to have a beer on that porch.  I'll even give Jackson a pet, or 2, or 10.

[Walter John]

(Wal @ Dec. 15 2007,20:24)

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Here's a surprise, the Chambeyronia macrocarpa opening up it's second frond in 6 months, a world record for these parts. A nice touch of red in time for Christmas. I'll take a better pic later

And here she is today, 5 mornings later.

[_Keith]

Here is another I found.  This is nicknamed the Hurricane Lily here as they pop up in August.

[Carlo Morici]

Uh?, nobody dares to post the 40th post?!