A little trip into the gardens today for a spot of planting with the garden team. Rick ackland the garden curator is right behind getting the palms into the garden. And I will say it’s not only palms he is working on with the garden, the major improvements he is implementing are going to change the botanical gardens into something that will be a must see on any botanical gardens list.

And if we can get a lot more palms in there even better, all palms that get planted are going into the database Hortis which is linked to Kew botanical gardens. So this project will be a vital link in the chain for palm conservation in the future.

And iam in it for the long run as long it’s permissible to do so, and a big thank you to @palmtreesforpleasure Mr Colin Wilson for donating a lot of the palms you see and backing me up.

Future generations will have something to look at!

Thank you all! As one who enjoys botanical gardens , even when on holiday , I often try to picture the volunteers responsible for the enjoyment of others. A day spent touring one of these treasures is a day well spent. Harry

8 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Thank you all! As one who enjoys botanical gardens , even when on holiday , I often try to picture the volunteers responsible for the enjoyment of others. A day spent touring one of these treasures is a day well spent. Harry

I also have some real special palms at home, that where given to me as seedlings that need to grown before they can go in, plus theres the rare stuff I have in my collection give it another 5 years and then the garden will really be underway. They also want to go around the whole garden and identify all the palms they have just as a revised checklist. As things die or get misidentified. Even yesterday there was two palms with lost tags, I had some sort of an idea but when it comes to a botanical garden it’s a lot more important than just guessing. I was with Colin Wilson in Sydney botanical gardens and even there palms were mislabeled it mostly happens when staff are cleaning up or renovating around the palms the label gets moved and just put back on any palm in the case of found signs accidentally moved during gardening activities.

Richard

A lot of work , for sure. Harry