What’s for sale in retail nursery land in Australia

[happypalms]

A visit to a public nursery today with the wife to see what was up for grabs in the retail not so big chain store style of nursery. It was great to see an old school nursery still going strong. The usual common stuff but a few goodies mixed in there. Some great landscaping specimens out the back of the nursery. And even a few coconuts up for grabs. And one of the thickest and most robust chamaedorea elegans for sale, in fact I had to question what variety it was but it was a solid elegans and labeled as such. 

[tim_brissy_13]

I think we’ve all seen Chamaedorea elegans grown as 20 to a pot that we’ve forgotten what they look like when kept separate and happy. Actually a great looking little palm!

[happypalms]

3 minutes ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

I think we’ve all seen Chamaedorea elegans grown as 20 to a pot that we’ve forgotten what they look like when kept separate and happy. Actually a great looking little palm!

Yer it was a beauty that’s for sure! 

[SeanK]

What's special about that Wodyetia? Aren't they weeds in Australia?

[peachy]

Was that foxtail gold plated ?  It's about time someone started selling single specimen good old Parlour Palms again. Until Oxley Nursery closed, he used to have the occasional single one but also charged like a wounded bull.  From my declining memory, they were about $80 with a couple of cm of trunk.  I bought a pot with a million and seven seedlings crammed inside, split them into individual pots and have never been without an emergency gift ever since. Plus I have the bigger specimens in nice pots around the house, a double bonus for a $9 outlay.

Peachy

[JohnAndSancho]

What's this one? It's freaking gorgeous. 

[Harry’s Palms]

When I see Wodyetia at our nursery they are about half that price and look very healthy and full. My budget is very tight for palms so I have to buy little ones and watch them grow😄. I would rather have a few smaller palms for my $200 budget . Harry

[Tyrone]

2 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

What's this one? It's freaking gorgeous. 

Looks like Livistona australis. 
They’re a beautiful underrated and much overlooked palm. 

[Tyrone]

That $330 Wodyetia will sit there for decades until it’s worth that much. That’s a mind numbing price for such a small one. 

[Rubberboots]

3 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

When I see Wodyetia at our nursery they are about half that price and look very healthy and full. My budget is very tight for palms so I have to buy little ones and watch them grow😄. I would rather have a few smaller palms for my $200 budget . Harry

@Harry’s Palms do we have any nurseries in our area that sells harder to find palms ..I went to one 10 years ago in LaMirada 🤔

[happypalms]

13 hours ago, SeanK said:

What's special about that Wodyetia? Aren't they weeds in Australia?

Nothing special about that one except the it will go to some rich yuppie who watched a garden makeover show and went out the next weekend and wanted to do the same spend his money on an outrageously expensive palm! 

[happypalms]

11 hours ago, peachy said:

Was that foxtail gold plated ?  It's about time someone started selling single specimen good old Parlour Palms again. Until Oxley Nursery closed, he used to have the occasional single one but also charged like a wounded bull.  From my declining memory, they were about $80 with a couple of cm of trunk.  I bought a pot with a million and seven seedlings crammed inside, split them into individual pots and have never been without an emergency gift ever since. Plus I have the bigger specimens in nice pots around the house, a double bonus for a $9 outlay.

Peachy

I think they thought it was gold plated what a ridiculous price! I wish I could get that sort of money for a foxtail! 
Richard 

[happypalms]

11 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

What's this one? It's freaking gorgeous. 

A livistona Australis I think it was $160 bucks! 

[JohnAndSancho]

3 minutes ago, happypalms said:

A livistona Australis I think it was $160 bucks! 

It ain't that pretty. 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

It ain't that pretty. 

I got them for $20 bucks in 140mm containers that make my ones pretty for you!

[JohnAndSancho]

16 hours ago, happypalms said:

I got them for $20 bucks in 140mm containers that make my ones pretty for you!

Shipping would probably be a nightmare, god only knows how long customs would keep them, and lol I don't think you understand just how broke I am. 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Shipping would probably be a nightmare, god only knows how long customs would keep them, and lol I don't think you understand just how broke I am. 

Free to you! But the customs fee and postage! Did you get your lotto tickets! 

[JohnAndSancho]

5 minutes ago, happypalms said:

Free to you! But the customs fee and postage! Did you get your lotto tickets! 

No, but the few bucks I scraped up did go to palms. Sabal King offered to donate a couple Sabal Maratima to the John and Sancho East Mississippi Palm Conservatorium if I covered shipping. Lotto tickets jumped up to $5/EA here so I figured palms were a better investment. 

[SeanK]

1 hour ago, JohnAndSancho said:

No, but the few bucks I scraped up did go to palms. Sabal King offered to donate a couple Sabal Maratima to the John and Sancho East Mississippi Palm Conservatorium if I covered shipping. Lotto tickets jumped up to $5/EA here so I figured palms were a better investment. 

I saw news on the MegaMillions. Since jumping from $2 to $5, $$ sales have increased however, number of tickets sold has dropped. Consequently, all those big prizes have not materialized.

[JohnAndSancho]

32 minutes ago, SeanK said:

I saw news on the MegaMillions. Since jumping from $2 to $5, $$ sales have increased however, number of tickets sold has dropped. Consequently, all those big prizes have not materialized.

Someone famous once said that the lottery is just another tax on the poor, and I believe it. 

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

Someone famous once said that the lottery is just another tax on the poor, and I believe it. 

We have state run lottery system (scratches) to pay for government stuff. What they don’t tell you is that when the jackpot has been won and they keep on selling the tickets. Scammers 

[JohnAndSancho]

25 minutes ago, happypalms said:

We have state run lottery system (scratches) to pay for government stuff. What they don’t tell you is that when the jackpot has been won and they keep on selling the tickets. Scammers 

I was a kid in Florida when they first started doing the Lotto there, and they said all the money was going to education. What they didn't tell us was they were going to cut the same amount of money out of education so nothing improved.