Gifted some archontophoenix maxima

[happypalms]

A lovely gesture of some archontophoenix maxima from @palmtreesforpleasure. Any palm is welcome @happypalms retirement home for unwanted palms. A few will get planted in the garden and the rest distributed to gardens around the place. I know they grow well in my climate I have a couple that are doing quite well.

[Harry’s Palms]

Those will be nice palms , all the Archontophoenix are really nice looking palms . The Maxima can be a statement when they mature.

I was gifted a community pot of about 6-7 Archontophoenix that were old enough for pinnate leaf. My friend said they were seeds from Purpurae and Maxima . I didn’t have time to seperate them and frankly the roots are sensitive enough that if broken can set the palm back or even kill it. I just planted the group and now they are fully hardened off and growing well . It will be a few years before I will be able to tell which is which . At this point all I can tell is that they are not Cunninghamiana. They have the silver undersides . I probably could have separated them but just didn’t have the time and they were in the pot for years in deep shade , I wanted to get them sun hardy . Harry

[gyuseppe]

Richard is the only archontophoenix I can grow here, and only cunninghamiana, while I can grow alexandrae under a shed.

[Harry’s Palms]

@gyuseppe The Cuninghamiana and Alexandrea are both lovely palms . Harry

[Mazat]

11 hours ago, happypalms said:

A lovely gesture of some archontophoenix maxima from @palmtreesforpleasure. Any palm is welcome @happypalms retirement home for unwanted palms. A few will get planted in the garden and the rest distributed to gardens around the place. I know they grow well in my climate I have a couple that are doing quite well.

wonderful, magnificent specimens, Richard.

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6 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Those will be nice palms , all the Archontophoenix are really nice looking palms . The Maxima can be a statement when they mature.

I was gifted a community pot of about 6-7 Archontophoenix that were old enough for pinnate leaf. My friend said they were seeds from Purpurae and Maxima . I didn’t have time to seperate them and frankly the roots are sensitive enough that if broken can set the palm back or even kill it. I just planted the group and now they are fully hardened off and growing well . It will be a few years before I will be able to tell which is which . At this point all I can tell is that they are not Cunninghamiana. They have the silver undersides . I probably could have separated them but just didn’t have the time and they were in the pot for years in deep shade , I wanted to get them sun hardy . Harry

It’s funny overseas there so prized, yet here  only the chain stores and landscapers use them for the common new housing projects and retail landscaping jobs. The more rarer varieties like tuckeri and myolensis are a bit sought after by collectors but once they have a few of them that’s it, the purperea seems to be in demand a bit more with collectors, but the purperea in my opinion doesn’t always have that purple pop they go on about in the crownshaft. Plus they grow so fast for me and drink so much water I don’t really grow them. Got a few purperea and now maximas now but they will go to the botanical gardens projects. 
Richard 

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6 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard is the only archontophoenix I can grow here, and only cunninghamiana, while I can grow alexandrae under a shed.

I have seen the Cunninghamiana in some very cold places in the highlands. Alexander are from a warmer area. But the Bangalow takes a lot of cold weather. 

[James B]

How would you compare A.Maxima to A.Alexandrae in terms of size and growth rate in your garden?

[Hu Palmeras]

Another Archontophoenix worthy of admiration. A luxury, my friends.

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18 minutes ago, James B said:

How would you compare A.Maxima to A.Alexandrae in terms of size and growth rate in your garden?

Hi James there pretty well much the same in both traits of growing speed and size, just add water as you know they love it, but a lot larger flowers. Grow them if you got them! 

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40 minutes ago, Hu Palmeras said:

Another Archontophoenix worthy of admiration. A luxury, my friends.

I like them and would not really want to plant any other archontophoenix sp, except for the Cunninghamiana. 

[Hu Palmeras]

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7 hours ago, Hu Palmeras said:

They grow to fast for me to do them in my nursery, I don’t mind growing a few to plant out. They require so much water and repotting constantly. I love them as palms go, but I will archontophoenix sp for the chain stores.