My Weekend Fun

[DippyD]

my weekend fun started about 2 weeks ago starting with round up. after the 2 weeks all the weeds finally dies. my yard looked like bills.  so i went down grabbed myself a rototiller and gave the yard a good stiring. then spreaded out 200 lbs of gypsum to hopefully do some miracle work on my clay.(this was fri.)..Sat. i went down and got 10 yards of compost with soil conditioner and rototilled it one more time. sun we enjoyed our easter and monday the fun started again. i planted 3 large Chambeyronia macrocarpa watermellon var. 5 nice sized kentias. 2 rhopalostylis sapida. 3 large rhop. buari. 1 dypsis decipiens and one plumeria. some of this work rolled over until this morning but its a good start!... any help on what i should add next?

[DippyD]

heres another...

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cham mac watermellon..

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another view of that coner...

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couple sapidas, couple bauri

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another view of that corner..

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kentia, little dypsis decip. and some buari and plumeria behind that

[_Keith]

That is gonna look really awesome in a couple of years.  

I lilke the fence too.  Classy.

[DippyD]

the rusty fence gives it character... thats another project want to donate! im planning on adding a asortment of dypsis in also..few hedyscepes its an on going project but have to start somewhere!

[FRITO]

dont forget to top it all off with mulch. looks great, must have been a lot of work going to weeds to that.  all that soil looks nice.

[DippyD]

im thinking river rock around the islands where you can see the drawn out lines. maybe slate or grass walk ways, deff have a molch on top but theres still alot more to plant...me and palmzill(braden de jong) are having fun with this one... nothing like your parents supporting your palm addiction!

[DippyD]

suggestions anyone?.... what should i add. one day this will hopefully be my own little botanical garden!

[el-blanco]

Looks great!  Where did you get those Chambeyronia?

By tilling in all the compost you will be paid huge dividends.  Every year I till in about 10 yards and can now plant most areas without using a shovel, just my hands.

MAybe one thing to think of is your irrigation.  You will want to add a lot of other plants underneath these trees when they get some size.  Get the irrigation in now while there is room.  Very easy to do.

Grass walkways are much cheaper than concrete.  Saint Augustine would look great and it spreads fast so you can plug it instead of sodding.

DO NOT PLANT A QUEEN PALM - put in Ceroxylon!!

Looking good!

Jeff

[DippyD]

thanks jeff, those are the cham. i got from you about 2 weeks ago... they where miracle growers.. i will add in irragation but i want to finish planting my palms first and then add it according to where they get the best water. if anyone has any decent sized dypsis specie id be happy to take it off thier hands to add to the yard...

[BS Man about Palms]

MULCH, Like you said, do it sooner than later.....

You will get some sunburn on those leaves, but not to worry much...each leaf will acclimate more.  

[BS Man about Palms]

Oh yeah,

 I"M JEALOUS. :D

[DippyD]

yeah i have noticed a little burn but i thought it was going ot be worse than it really is. im sure everything i have started planting should be able to take our socal sun especially living close to the beach... dont be jealous you have some beauties of your own...(im jealous)!

[Palm Hound]

How about a Sabal mauritiformis for  variety of form?

[DippyD]

that could be an option. im not sure how appealing that is to me. havnt seen one in person....

[DippyD]

anyone have some dypsis species they would like to sell????????

[Palmzilla]

I got some nice size dypsis sp. "black stem" if your interested! Got the seed at very high elevation, a socal must!

[DippyD]

maybe a betafuka or a hydrophorbe

[DippyD]

maybe someones gotta betafuka for me?

[freakypalmguy]

Nice work fellow Freek    

[DippyD]

thank you thank you...its a start! yet alot more to come

[MattyB]

I got some Joey butafukos for sale.

Hey Brett, like Bill said, expect some fries with that shake, especially on the Kentia and the Rhopies.  They'll aclimate eventually.  Keep 'em wet.  One thing I've learned about clay soil is that most of your waterings only need to be a surface watering to keep the mulch/compost layer from drying out.  The clay will pretty much stay perpetually wet with the moist mulch on top.  Then every once in a while, maybe once a month in summer, you've gotta soak it deep.  With clay that means many hours of a hose or sprinkler on very low.  If it's running off, don't waste water and let it run, just turn it down until you get it to absorb at that watering rate.....then just let it run for several hours.  This may take a few days moving the hose around until your entire garden is watered.   Looks great man!  Keep us posted.

[DippyD]

yeah that is a plan i am going to do is the watering deal as the kentias i know they are small but i have had them in sun for a couple years so they might do alright the rhops they are taking a little hit but i will deff keep you all posted as i keep adding more and more.. im sure ill invest in some stuff this weekend and Jungle Music..hopefully they have some nice hedyscepes i can get started out in the back yard.

brett

[Jeff in St Pete]

(MattyB @ Mar. 26 2008,16:37)

QUOTE

I got some Joey butafukos for sale.

:laugh:  LMAO

[Palm Guy]

Brett,

I wanna see your yard in about 5 years or so. That looks like you have a good setup. Always nice to see people starting off their garden afresh. I will be doing the same in about a year or two.

If you want Dypsis I think that a grove of Leptocheilos would look really nice in there also consider some Hedyescepe.

Cheers,

Mike F

[DippyD]

yeah mike your more than wolcome to come by in the future to check it out.. this is something i am trying to build up where people like us can all enjoy looking.our private botanical gardens. im planning on putting in some leptocheilos maybe a pembana or two a baronii maybe a cabadae. i have alot of roome to play with i also am going to add that i have a couple hookeri and houailous that way i have the variation of all chambeyronias. im thinking a tripple hedyscepe somewhere in the center of the yard with maybe a houailou and a hookeri in the same little island. i need to figure out what i am going to be using as a ground cover, whether is bark or actual tropical plants...bromeliads gingers ect. whatever i can do in socal...any advice?

palmfreek

[Palm Guy]

Brett, to be honest, my experience with bark as a groundcover has not been that great. It has to be replaced about every six months and that means more money out of your pocket. It will probably blow away fairly easily in high winds, and it takes more water initially to penetrate deep into the root zone but does keep the roots nice and moist for longer periods when there is already water present.

I would go for topical plants like moses in the cradle(poisonous), purple heart(poisonous),bromeliads and small crotons or ixora bushes mixed with some flowering plants like the compact forms of Osteospermums (African daisies) or trailing lantanas for smaller ground covers. They will keep most weeds at bay as they are relatively fast growing and compact to the ground. You can then mix in your Ti plants, gingers, bird of paradise for your taller growing accent plants.

Woah...I think I sounded like Martha Stewart for a second there. Please slap me if I did...

[DippyD]

haha easy martha... well your speaking a whole new language with all the tropical poisionous plants im into palms and thats about it and i know you cant have to many palms but i need some color. i will have to look around to find something that intrests me. ill deff. check out some of the stuff you have listed. im not sure some of that will even grow here in southern california.. but for the wind factor we dont get much. maybe a little afternoon breeze here and there.

palmfreek

[DippyD]

well after 5 years, here are a few before and afters.. as you can see most of the palms i originally planted are not in the same location and there are still a few around some lived some didn't... here we go...

rhopalostylis

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dypsis plumosa

rhopalostylis sapida

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Dypsis sp.

dypsis dicepiens

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ravenea glauca

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dypsis ambositrae

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dypsis decaryi

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a view of one corner howing a couple bismarkia nobelis a few howeas and a couple other mix ins

[DippyD]

this is a dypsis pembana that always seems to struggle in the winter and just about pull out of its funk right when winter is starting again