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Palm donations to Brisbane’s botanical gardens

Jonathan Haycock

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Some of the palms being donated to Brisbane’s Mt. Coot-Tha and City Botanic Gardens. Hopefully just the beginning. Looking forward to seeing them planted.

Mt. Coot-tha 

Chrysalidocarpus plumosus x 1 

Jubaea chilensis (115 L pot) x 1

Hyophorbe indica (Red form) x 1

Syagrus flexuosa x 1

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Mt. Coot-Tha

Hyphaene petersiana

Also 6 x Pritchardia thurstonii seedlings

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Future visitors to the garden will get to enjoy them in the years to come. Harry

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Mt. Coot-Tha: 

Chamaedorea ernesti-augustii x 3 (1 is flowering)

Chrysalidocarpus sp. 213

Chrysalidocarpus lanceolatus x 2

Chrysalidocarpus pembanus x 2 (little bit sun scorched, but healthy)

Jubaeopsis afra x 1

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A worthwhile endeavor! Hopefully they will thrive and enhance the diversity of the garden. 

Tim

 

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City BG 

Butia odorata x Syagrus schizophylla F1

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City BG 

Butia odorata x Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi F1

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City BG 

Butia odorata x Jubaea chilensis F1

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City BG

Chamaerops humilis ‘Vulcano’ x 3 (at least 1 has just started flowering)

Jubaea chilensis × Butia odorata F2 ‘Tauranga’ x 1

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6 hours ago, realarch said:

A worthwhile endeavor! Hopefully they will thrive and enhance the diversity of the garden. 

Tim

 

All being well Tim, my aim is to help increase the number of palm species across both City and Mt. Coot-Tha BG's ahead of the 2032 Olympics. I have a meeting next Tuesday with the Curator to agree planting locations for Medemia argun and Borassus flabellifer, 3 of each. 

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6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Future visitors to the garden will get to enjoy them in the years to come. Harry

I often stand close to the large Tahina we (PACSOA) donated to Mt. Coot-Tha BG and listen to the comments from visitors that are amazed by its scale and beauty. Donating palms to BG's is an extremely rewarding endeavour.

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I met up with the Curator and senior staff this afternoon and was treated to a vehicular tour around the gardens as we travelled to each of the proposed planting sites. I was told all donations will be in the ground within the next two weeks.

Took the opportunity to check out both Tahina. Pleased to report the small one has finally started to grow out the funk it went into immediately after planting mid-2024. Still a ways to go, but it’ll get there I think. The large one is really starting to look the business.

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Very high-quality palm trees, well cared for. It's a pleasure to see them, my friend.

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I too have donated palm trees to the botanical garden of Naples in the past.

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How are the Coot-Tha plantings organized? By geography?

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4 hours ago, SeanK said:

How are the Coot-Tha plantings organized? By geography?

By continents yes.

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Chuffed to bits to see my F1 hybrids being planted in Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens. 

Some of our NZ members will know Malcolm Thomas, who sent me the seed of the Jubaea chilensis x Butia F2 “Tauranga” that also went in.

First up the Butia odorata x Jubaea chilensis F1.

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Butia odorata x Syagrus schizophylla F1.

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Jubaea chilensis x Butia F2 “Tauranga”. I couldn’t give it enough sun at my place, so it’ll tighten up in a few months.

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Butia odorata x Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi F1.

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Watered in and mulched today. Garden staff are doing a fine job with them. 

Butia odorata x Syagrus schizophylla F1

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Butia odorata x Parajubaea torallyi var. torallyi F1

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Butia odorata x Jubaea chilensis F1

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Jubaea chilensis x Butia sp. F2 “Tauranga”

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Nice one Jonathan H, although I'm not quite on board with the hybrids...neither fish nor fowl sir, neither fish nor fowl!

Having said that, I have to admit to a certain curiosity as to how they'll turn out, particularly the Parajubaea crosses. Will be interesting to see how they react to the climate up there...is anyone growing the species Parajubaeas in SE Qld?

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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45 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

Nice one Jonathan H, although I'm not quite on board with the hybrids...neither fish nor fowl sir, neither fish nor fowl!

Having said that, I have to admit to a certain curiosity as to how they'll turn out, particularly the Parajubaea crosses. Will be interesting to see how they react to the climate up there...is anyone growing the species Parajubaeas in SE Qld?

I reckon they will do very well here Jonathan due to Butia being in the mix, which thrives in SE QLD. Daryl planted P. torallyi in his old Mt. Nathan garden that was getting quite large and looked pristine last time I checked. I've been growing P. torallyi var. microcarpa, P. sunkha, and P. cocoides in pots for 3.5 years with no real dramas also. 

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13 hours ago, Jonathan Haycock said:

I reckon they will do very well here Jonathan due to Butia being in the mix, which thrives in SE QLD. Daryl planted P. torallyi in his old Mt. Nathan garden that was getting quite large and looked pristine last time I checked. I've been growing P. torallyi var. microcarpa, P. sunkha, and P. cocoides in pots for 3.5 years with no real dramas also. 

Good to hear, hopefully they thrive.

I reckon the best looking Butias I've ever seen were growing in the middle of a roundabout in Townsville...such an adaptable genus.

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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Great to see my Chamaerops humilis “Vulcano” planted in City Botanic Gardens. 

I’ve always pulled the suckers off as I wanted them to grow into solitary specimens. Grant (garden staff and fellow palm nutter) has promised to continue this practice.

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@Jonathan Haycock good home for your palm. I am sure visitors will enjoy that in years to come. I have one that has been in the ground over 25 years and never sent a sucker out. I think they look great either way. Harry

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Very cute little palm! 

A bit off topic @Jonathan Haycock, but it's interesting how few Queenslanders are active on this forum these days - I feel like there used to be far more ten years ago? For such a palm packed place, we don't seem to hear much about what's going on up there... you and @peachy are our undercover agents!

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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7 hours ago, Jonathan said:

Very cute little palm! 

A bit off topic @Jonathan Haycock, but it's interesting how few Queenslanders are active on this forum these days - I feel like there used to be far more ten years ago? For such a palm packed place, we don't seem to hear much about what's going on up there... you and @peachy are our undercover agents!

The majority of QLD palm nutters tend to have more presence on social media these days Jonathan, although that side of things isn’t exactly exploding with activity either. We (PACSOA - BPACS) meet up every few months for a private garden visit, and the numbers are generally pretty healthy. 

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1 hour ago, Jonathan Haycock said:

The majority of QLD palm nutters tend to have more presence on social media these days Jonathan, although that side of things isn’t exactly exploding with activity either. We (PACSOA - BPACS) meet up every few months for a private garden visit, and the numbers are generally pretty healthy. 

I was wondering whether that was the case, having a healthy local palm society helps everyone get their fix, so to speak. I was a PACSOA member for a while, many years ago but living down here the benefits were pretty dubious!

Maybe you could ask them to put together a care package for us palm starved southerners...a huge box of all the seeds that never seem to be available in Australia but must be lying around on the ground in every second garden up there, or do we need to send in the marines? Lol.

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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1 hour ago, Jonathan said:

I was wondering whether that was the case, having a healthy local palm society helps everyone get their fix, so to speak. I was a PACSOA member for a while, many years ago but living down here the benefits were pretty dubious!

Maybe you could ask them to put together a care package for us palm starved southerners...a huge box of all the seeds that never seem to be available in Australia but must be lying around on the ground in every second garden up there, or do we need to send in the marines? Lol.

I just rejoined Pacsoa this year. Was a member many years ago but as you say it was more of a donation than for any particular benefit. Re joined just to make a small contribution really. 
 

Perhaps we could set up a Vic/Tas branch? I think nearly every other state and territory is represented and the SA branch just had an annual sale. 

Tim Brisbane

Patterson Lakes, bayside Melbourne, Australia

Rarely Frost

2005 Minimum: 2.6C,  Maximum: 44C

2005 Average: 17.2C, warmest on record.

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I just rejoined Pacsoa this year. Was a member many years ago but as you say it was more of a donation than for any particular benefit. Re joined just to make a small contribution really. 
 

Perhaps we could set up a Vic/Tas branch? I think nearly every other state and territory is represented and the SA branch just had an annual sale. 

Not a bad idea, we can hold our meetings on Flinders Island!

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South Arm, Tasmania, Australia - 42° South

Mild oceanic climate, with coastal exposure.

 

Summer: 12°C (53°F) average min, to 21°C (70°F) average daily max. Up to 40°C (104°F max) rarely.

 

Winter: 6°C (43°F) average min, to 13°C (55°F) average daily max. Down to 0°C (32°F) occasionally, some light frost.

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