I just spent the last few days driving around Southern California and photographed the Newport Beach Hyatt Regency palms, the South Coast Plaza Mall palms, and the LA Arboretum up in Arcadia, CA!

Click here for the complete album with labels

Clinostigma savoryanum - Newport Beach

Veitchia arecina - Newport Beach

Coconut in Long Beach, CA

Coconut in Santa Ana, CA

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens - they are common, but I love them

Flawless Roystonea regia

Coccothrinax crinita - LA Arboretum

Thrinax radiata

LA Arboretum allegedly has some of the tallest Washingtonia robusta in the world

Ravenea xerophila

Livistona lanuginosa

Calamus caryotoides

Those are some really great finds. Beautiful!

Hit Kyle’s link. You won’t be disappointed!

Thank you so much! I would love to tour more gardens and see more palms, but it's great revisiting the same ones periodically and seeing how they grow.

Truly Amazing! Thank you for putting together such a thoughtful and well put together slide show! I always appreciate your work!

Jadd

23 hours ago, kylecawazafla said:

I just spent the last few days driving around Southern California and photographed the Newport Beach Hyatt Regency palms, the South Coast Plaza Mall palms, and the LA Arboretum up in Arcadia, CA!

Click here for the complete album with labels

Clinostigma savoryanum - Newport Beach

Veitchia arecina - Newport Beach

Coconut in Long Beach, CA

Coconut in Santa Ana, CA

Chrysalidocarpus lutescens - they are common, but I love them

Flawless Roystonea regia

Coccothrinax crinita - LA Arboretum

Thrinax radiata

LA Arboretum allegedly has some of the tallest Washingtonia robusta in the world

Ravenea xerophila

Livistona lanuginosa

Calamus caryotoides

As usual, Great stuff Kyle... Man has the stuff in the Mad. garden at L.A. grown since i saw it years ago.. BOTH Coconuts look great as well.



Only thing i saw in your album that you might change: Delonix flower you have pictured actually belongs to either D. pumila or decaryi..

D. floribunda has smaller, much less showy ..and kinda yellow - green flowers in branch end clusters that, to my eye, resemble flowers you'd see on some of the showier Agave, or some Grevillea sps. ..Still an interesting tree, but not like the other two.

Nice to see how large the flowers on my pumila might be once it starts flowering though.

From iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/191372-Delonix-floribunda/browse_photos

4 hours ago, Silas_Sancona said:

As usual, Great stuff Kyle... Man has the stuff in the Mad. garden at L.A. grown since i saw it years ago.. BOTH Coconuts look great as well.



Only thing i saw in your album that you might change: Delonix flower you have pictured actually belongs to either D. pumila or decaryi..

D. floribunda has smaller, much less showy ..and kinda yellow - green flowers in branch end clusters that, to my eye, resemble flowers you'd see on some of the showier Agave, or some Grevillea sps. ..Still an interesting tree, but not like the other two.

Nice to see how large the flowers on my pumila might be once it starts flowering though.

From iNat: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/191372-Delonix-floribunda/browse_photos

Thank you! I am not too familiar with all of the delonix species and my "system" for matching the ID with the tree isn't always perfect, so thank you for the correction! I believe it's a Delonix decaryi then. Just for fun, I'll share this photo of a Delonix regia I saw in Indio, CA yesterday!

Here it is! I was told they need dry winters to bloom, and while there are many much larger and much more lush looking Delonix regia in the area, this particular one is not growing in a lawn so I'm wondering if that's what contributed to its more prolific bloom.