A wander in the garden

[happypalms]

A nice walk to cool down after a moderately hot day we have been getting afternoon thunderstorms which is a good thing for the garden tropical plants just love the humidity and heat from what I can see all parts of the garden are very happy with the storms you can irrigate to water but you can’t beat the rain especially thunderstorms with the nitrogen rich atmosphere for plant growth 

[peachy]

The blue cycad is gorgeous ! What is the spiky palm leaf in the photo with flower (orchid ?) on the tree ? I saw a photo of a dwarf areca catechu. It has amazing leaves and now I can't live without one ! This humidity is awful,  but the plants like it.

Peachy

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, peachy said:

The blue cycad is gorgeous ! What is the spiky palm leaf in the photo with flower (orchid ?) on the tree ? I saw a photo of a dwarf areca catechu. It has amazing leaves and now I can't live without one ! This humidity is awful,  but the plants like it.

Peachy

Hi peachy i think the orchid photo one is a Sabal mauritiiformis and the cycad is a encepharlatos ferox but there is a lepidozamia in there as well you have been getting some good storms up there 

[Tyrone]

Love your garden.

Glad you missed the worst of those storms in the East. Been watching all the chaos on the news and Facebook.

Totally benign weather over here and a tad cool.

[happypalms]

3 hours ago, Tyrone said:

Love your garden.

Glad you missed the worst of those storms in the East. Been watching all the chaos on the news and Facebook.

Totally benign weather over here and a tad cool.

Thanks Ty actually I love the storms my area has missed out on the storms meaning no rainfall watching it go around my area and the big limb  that destroyed my greenhouse fell on a nice day not storm related bring on the thunderstorms I say we need the rain in my area most dams that are being used for irrigation are at critical level the only chance of rain is the storms they are saying February for sufficient rainfall social media likes to make news out weather now after all no money in good news wish it was cool weather now 

[happypalms]

A spot of gardening never hurt anyone the summer heat combined with the humidity of the summer storms has certainly helped the garden 30 years of collecting plants has certainly been fun forever searching for new plants with palms being the main obsession I will never stop collecting plants 

[peachy]

All the weeds I pulled up a couple of weeks ago are back have thickened up and almost double the height they were, It is mainly nut grass, a plant I have learn to hate. In the section I won't be using for a while I am covering in cardboard with mulch on it hopefully that will slow it all down

Peachy

[Frond-friend42]

Thanks for bringing us along.

[Jeff zone 8 N.C.]

Impressive!

[Harry’s Palms]

Thank you for the tour. Those of us in North America can take a break from the winter by browsing your southern hemisphere garden . I was out in my yard checking on my palms doing the same thing only with a sweater and a cup of coffee. I’m in Southern California so I don’t have it as bad as some but I am already counting down to Spring. As I reach my 70th birthday this year , I find that the winters (not that bad here) are less enjoyable. Palms , mentally , make me feel tropical even when it’s cold out . Touring your garden with you I could feel the tropical ambiance that you captured . 

[happypalms]

All I can say is enjoy a wonder in the garden and relax 🌱

[palmfriend]

Oh, that's beautiful!

Thank you for sharing!

If I may ask, what's the palm in the very first picture? 

 

Lars 

 

 

 

 

 

[Harry’s Palms]

Wow ! Almost Spring for you Richard , and from what I can see in these great photos , it will be glorious. How often do your cycads grow new fronds? Here , it is once a year in Spring or summer depending on the plant. When I was in Hawaii they told me up to three times a year! Now that is cheating. 😂Harry

[happypalms]

10 hours ago, palmfriend said:

Oh, that's beautiful!

Thank you for sharing!

If I may ask, what's the palm in the very first picture? 

 

Lars 

 

 

 

 

 

The picture is of a Areca vestria orange form. But if you can get the red leaf variety much better looking. Richard 

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Wow ! Almost Spring for you Richard , and from what I can see in these great photos , it will be glorious. How often do your cycads grow new fronds? Here , it is once a year in Spring or summer depending on the plant. When I was in Hawaii they told me up to three times a year! Now that is cheating. 😂Harry

Thanks Harry yes spring has  sprung. Usually one flush per year I think it’s the water situation that stops them flushing twice. Spring flushes mostly but lepidozamia peroffskyana in summer. And as for the Hawaii growers they are my idols for tropical plant growers. 
Richard 

[Harry’s Palms]

Yes , Hawaii is great , but they don’t do very well with Howea or Washingtonia. Go figure! Harry

[palmfriend]

On 8/31/2024 at 6:41 AM, happypalms said:

The picture is of a Areca vestria orange form. But if you can get the red leaf variety much better looking. Richard 

Thank you!

I haven't gave up the dream to grow a red-coloured crownshaft palm over here. 

(I still have indoors two healthy seed grown C. renda survivors but they are extremely slow. I am afraid 

our winters are borderline for them.)

Maybe I will pay rps another visit one day...

 

Lars

 

[happypalms]

1 minute ago, palmfriend said:

Thank you!

I haven't gave up the dream to grow a red-coloured crownshaft palm over here. 

(I still have indoors two healthy seed grown C. renda survivors but they are extremely slow. I am afraid 

our winters are borderline for them.)

Maybe I will pay rps another visit one day...

 

Lars

 

Hi lars renda are super tropical warm weather water loving palm. Keep on trying your two you just never know. Your best chance is to grow Areca red form or orange form they take the cold weather taking 2 degrees Celsius in my garden. So fairly cool tolerant. I don’t know your import restrictions on importing live plant material but i have the red form seedlings?

Richard 

[happypalms]

On 8/31/2024 at 9:51 AM, Harry’s Palms said:

Yes , Hawaii is great , but they don’t do very well with Howea or Washingtonia. Go figure! Harry

Oh Hawaii they say jealousy is curse well if it’s a curse iam in for it. They have got the climate i dream of for my style of gardening. It’s the same for kentia in North Queensland they can’t grow them just to hot. We southerners in the subtropical climate have to have something to grow they can’t.

Richard 

[happypalms]

A nice evening in the garden relaxing just looking as we all do. Enjoying the beautiful weather with an electrical storm rolling making for some brilliant light conditions to capture the moment so enjoy the garden this afternoon strolling around.

[Harry’s Palms]

Thank you for the visit and window into your garden. Try not to step on any new life , tread lightly. I’m sure you have volunteers sprouting about! Harry

[happypalms]

15 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you for the visit and window into your garden. Try not to step on any new life , tread lightly. I’m sure you have volunteers sprouting about! Harry

Once again you’re welcome. There are many chamaedorea sp popping up some in strange places i cannot plant in amongst the rocks so a bonus. 
Richard 

[Navarro]

No me canso de mirar esas chamaedoreas😍

[happypalms]

9 minutes ago, Navarro said:

No me canso de mirar esas chamaedoreas😍

Thanks I have some great chamaedoreas in my garden and lots of them as well. 

[happypalms]

A couple pictures in the garden with some good electrical storms and rain the nitrogen has greened things up in the garden. I like th3 third picture the chamaedorea peering around the big gum tree having a look.

[TropicalGardenSpain]

Beautiful shots 😍

[Palms1984]

Gorgeous palm garden!  How much rain do you receive per year there?  Is your climate tropical or subtropical?  

[happypalms]

6 hours ago, TropicalGardenSpain said:

Beautiful shots 😍

Thank you🌱

[happypalms]

5 hours ago, Palms1984 said:

Gorgeous palm garden!  How much rain do you receive per year there?  Is your climate tropical or subtropical?  

Thank you it’s a palm paradise to me. Average rainfall is around 1650mm a dry season can be around 400mm subtropical climate with lows down to 2 degrees Celsius and high temperatures up to 42 degrees Celsius. 

[happypalms]

A late wonder around the garden starting at the house walking up the backyard. There is a transition from the tropical wet section of the garden, to a dry rocky area moving back down the hill towards the house again the garden changes again with dry tolerant plants on a north west facing slope so plenty of hot afternoon sun up there. It’s a complete transition in comparison to the bottom section below the house with joeys, licualas and all sorts of tropical palms and water loving exotics all within about 25 meters distance from each other its amazing what you can create with a canopy and a bit of irrigation if I was to irrigate the top section it would be a lot of water to create what is in the bottom section. 

[happypalms]

Time to free the mind and soul and wonder in life! 
Richard The seeds of life 🌱

[Harry’s Palms]

Thank you for the mental floss! Lovely garden , I know how much time you put in to make it what it is . Well done. Harry

[JohnAndSancho]

I know I've said this before, but I love how everything looks like it belongs there. It looks like it grew naturally. 

[happypalms]

8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you for the mental floss! Lovely garden , I know how much time you put in to make it what it is . Well done. Harry

Yes we all need a mind cleanse. The great thing about my garden is that there are many Merc psillakis palms in my garden that make it even more special. 
Richard 

[happypalms]

4 hours ago, JohnAndSancho said:

I know I've said this before, but I love how everything looks like it belongs there. It looks like it grew naturally. 

It’s a jungle out there. I know every plant personally! 

[happypalms]

As one does wonder in the garden. Day by gay the garden is growing. So enjoy a wonder in the garden!

[gyuseppe]

Richard I have these, here they call them sparaxis tricolor

[happypalms]

1 minute ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard I have these, here they call them sparaxis tricolor

Yes that’s the one ☝️ the wife gets the credit for planting those ones, a good lady knows her flowers I say. 

[happypalms]

A little afternoon wander in the garden. It makes you wonder! 

[Husain]

Beautiful and thank you for sharing 😍