Bringing out the big guns for watering

[happypalms]

The only way I can successfully have that tropical look I want in the garden, and grow the tropical plant varieties that require water is hook up one inch sprinklers that soak the ground and create the humidity required for such tropical plants. Twenty minutes of watering with one will every second day in summer should do the job. I can’t move to Hawaii so I will bring Hawaii to me, the old saying if Muhammad won’t go to the mountain then you bring the mountain to Muhammad! 

[Slifer00]

8 minutes ago, happypalms said:

The only way I can successfully have that tropical look I want in the garden, and grow the tropical plant varieties that require water is hook up one inch sprinklers that soak the ground and create the humidity required for such tropical plants. Twenty minutes of watering with one will every second day in summer should do the job. I can’t move to Hawaii so I will bring Hawaii to me, the old saying if Muhammad won’t go to the mountain then you bring the mountain to Muhammad! 

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Were it not for the eucalyptus, I would have thought you were in some tropical rainforest!

[happypalms]

6 minutes ago, Slifer00 said:

Were it not for the eucalyptus, I would have thought you were in some tropical rainforest!

A subtropical climate, there is plenty of rainforest in my area and pockets of them, creeks lined with rainforest. But yes the gum trees are a moisture drinking curse for me they store so much water and drink so much water, if I was to bring out the chainsaw there would be a lot more moisture in the soil. But I have created a rainforest jungle garden it can be done amongst the gum trees.

[Harry’s Palms]

Impulse sprinklers get the job done for my hill . I would rather not have to use sprinklers at all but I can’t manually water the large area of the slope so the sprinklers work . Harry

[David B]

Do you have a good water source?

[Hu Palmeras]

You have a beautiful jungle, Richard. Your palm garden is very pretty. The more palm trees you have, the more protection you'll have and the better the microclimate will develop.

[happypalms]

12 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Impulse sprinklers get the job done for my hill . I would rather not have to use sprinklers at all but I can’t manually water the large area of the slope so the sprinklers work . Harry

I just don’t have the time to stand around with a hose as much as love hand watering. Even running around doing the irrigation shifts every 20 minutes is a chore. A computer solenoid set up would make life easier. 
At work I have seen $100000 dollar irrigation set ups and it’s the bees knees so to speak, and they are state of art setups that work to treat. Unfortunately I don’t have a hundred grand to spend, but given the chance oh yes I would spend that much. 
Richard

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, David B said:

Do you have a good water source?

Yes I have bore water. It comes at a cost electricity and the environment. So it is free unlimited water in a way. But I think of the environment first and the water table. 

[happypalms]

7 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

You have a beautiful jungle, Richard. Your palm garden is very pretty. The more palm trees you have, the more protection you'll have and the better the microclimate will develop.

Water is the key element in my garden that holds back growth. I have everything else great soil warmth and a unique microclimate. 

[Harry’s Palms]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

I just don’t have the time to stand around with a hose as much as love hand watering. Even running around doing the irrigation shifts every 20 minutes is a chore. A computer solenoid set up would make life easier. 
At work I have seen $100000 dollar irrigation set ups and it’s the bees knees so to speak, and they are state of art setups that work to treat. Unfortunately I don’t have a hundred grand to spend, but given the chance oh yes I would spend that much. 
Richard

In all honesty , it would be near impossible with 5 acres. I have 1/4 acre lot . Watering the small , flat portion of the lot takes quite a bit of time . My wife helps a lot when I am busy at work.

[Harry’s Palms]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

Water is the key element in my garden that holds back growth. I have everything else great soil warmth and a unique microclimate. 

Yes , Richard , you have the ideal situation . Not too tropical for Howea and cool evening palms but tropical enough for some of the really cool Licuala and Joey ….as well as a plethora of others ! I like my warm temperate climate here , in particular my micro climate up on my hill. I do wish I could introduce some of the more tropical palms but everything is a trade off . 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , Richard , you have the ideal situation . Not too tropical for Howea and cool evening palms but tropical enough for some of the really cool Licuala and Joey ….as well as a plethora of others ! I like my warm temperate climate here , in particular my micro climate up on my hill. I do wish I could introduce some of the more tropical palms but everything is a trade off . 

If i could just bump up my winter low temperatures by 3 or 4 degrees omg, I would have that sweet spot to grow, even a 2 degree difference I would be happy with. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

In all honesty , it would be near impossible with 5 acres. I have 1/4 acre lot . Watering the small , flat portion of the lot takes quite a bit of time . My wife helps a lot when I am busy at work.

I just like watching the sprinklers on a hot day you just work in garden underneath them it’s fantastic. 

Richard