Palm Colour

[Daryl]

Here's a few photos of colourful palms in my garden from the last couple of weeks. They would be much more boring if they were only green. Feel free to add your own photos...

A little Madagascan colour...

Lemurophoenix petioles and spears

Dypsis leptocheilos

Dypsis fibrosa

Young Orange Areca vestiara

Archontophoenix purpurea

And a chambeyronia 'hookeri' just opened up today

Daryl

[nomolos]

Those vrotons go well with the areca

[Tyrone]

I love the red in the garden. I love the Lemur. I wish I could get my hands on one. They are just awesome.

Best regards

Tyrone

[edric]

Very nice! Ed

[Gbarce]

Hydrastelle Affine- blushing new leaf.

The spent inflorescence of Chamaedorea Sefritzii

[Paul The Palm Doctor!]

Wow, Daryl! Absolutely fan-tas-tic!

Now I know what I lost when my one and only Lemur. "kicked off" last year! I love every one of your photos; it's not too difficult to understand why we hold palms in such high esteem, eh?

Thanks for sharing your "bounty" with us!

Paul

[Walter John]

Wasn't there a mutiny on the bounty ?

great great great.

[Jeff in St Pete]

Thanks for the nice palm colours Daryl. That Lemurophoenix is amazing!

Gene, that Hydriastele leaf is beautiful!

[Brad-Tampa]

Physco Ptycho

[el-blanco]

Dang! If California had humidity and rain we would be stoked.......... but it would not be California, huh?

NIce photos! Spring is tomorrowso I am sure all the color and pizazz from Cali will be showing up soon.

Jeff

[Gileno Machado]

Mauritia flexuosa fruits:

[Exotic Life]

Great colors! I guess that Dypsis fibrosa is really a tropical species, so they need high temperatures for growing well?

Robbin

[Shon]

Awesome pics once again Daryl. Yours and Newcal's have to be my favorite gardens on the board. Relax BSman yours is a close third.

[Daryl]

Great colors! I guess that Dypsis fibrosa is really a tropical species, so they need high temperatures for growing well?

Robbin

Hi Robbin, I guess they do like warm temperatures. This one has seen down to -1C without any significant damage, but we do have a long, warm growing season here.

regards,

Daryl

[Daryl]

Bump!

Here's a few more recent photos of other colourful palms growing at home...

Dypsis crinita..seems to have better colour than D.fibrosa or D.utilis

Chambeyronia macrocarpa 'hookeri'

Here is my Dypsis 'fakey ambositrae orange crush'!

The white stems of Dypsis onilahensis make a good contrast to the greens and reds...

Daryl

[palmislandRandy]

D. utilis with one comming & one going

[newcal]

Nice colour Daryl, i'll have to get outside and take some pics, if only it would stop raining!...and thanks Shon for your ripper comment about the garden. ....cheers Mike Green(Newcal)

[rockos82]

Thanks!!! That hookeri pic is now my new background pic on my computer it is lookin really good.

[Howeadypsis]

Fabulous colours,love the Dypsis. Now that colouration on new leaves,is that a protection against strong sunlight?

[Shon]

Your welcome I hope it stops raining so we can get some pics.

[Daryl]

Glad you liked it Rock. Howeadypsis, I have heard a few reasons behind the colouration, but nothing to indicate that it's true. One of the ideas is that a 'red' new leaf looks brown to insects and herbivores, so they don't eat it, saving the new growth on the plant. Another is that chlorophyll development is slower in some species, so the leaves take a while to 'green up'.

Shon, maybe Mike will dust off the camera today, but it is still raining here, and has been all night and day. Can't complain though! Palms are loving it and spitting new leaves all over the place.

Here are some more photos from this morning (keeping careful not to get the camera too wet)...what else can you do when its raining?

Dypsis leptocheilos, retaining leafbases after all of it's leaves were burnt off in winter '07

Dypsis 'Red Triangle' with orange colouration

Kentiopsis oliviformis always throws a cream coloured leaf, then turn glaucous as it matures

Daryl

[Howeadypsis]

Great shots there,and thats some real rain you're getting! Good stuff!

BTW what are the streamers hanging down in pics 1 and 2? At first I thought it was just the rain you'd caught but then I zoomed in and saw they looked green/yellow

Edited April 13, 2009 by Howeadypsis

[Walter John]

Back to work tomorrow..........by boat.

Love that Kentiopsis leaf Daryl. Mine seems to be stuck in time, no action.

[brodklop]

Great colour Daryl, like Wal I love that Kentiopsis.

I've got a bit of colour happening at the moment also. I'll have to post some photos.

Cheers

Brod

[brodklop]

Here are a few colour shots in my garden at the moment

Chamby says to Pinanga I'm redder than you

[brodklop]

Dypsis utilis

Not normaly red Princess

[brodklop]

Colourfull Kentiopsis

One more of Chamby

[brodklop]

Other colour amongs the palms

[Howeadypsis]

Fabulous Helliconids there!

Funny I've never seen them as houseplants! In fact the only time I've seen them for real was at a Butterfly World recently.

[Ntheastpalms]

Here's a bit of colour from the garden

Areca vestiaria

Dypsis leptocheilos

Archontophonix purpurea

[Ntheastpalms]

A couple more

Laccospadix austalasia

Licuala dasyanthus

[Daryl]

Great colour on that A.vestiaria Matt!

Daryl

[Ntheastpalms]

G'Day Daryl

Yeah it's looking pretty good after all the rain.

[Howeadypsis]

G'Day Daryl

Yeah it's looking pretty good after all the rain.

The colour really does pop out at ya!

[palmislandRandy]

Fresh Dypsis pinnatifrons this morning!

[Howeadypsis]

Here's a few photos of colourful palms in my garden from the last couple of weeks. They would be much more boring if they were only green. Feel free to add your own photos...

Dypsis fibrosa

Daryl

my god I'd love a garden like that! But what are the dark green glossy plants in the background there? Cant get over how lush and glossy they are, obviously well taken care of!

Edited April 15, 2009 by Howeadypsis

[Peter]

Chambeyronia leaf opening today:

[Howeadypsis]

Chambeyronia leaf opening today:

Wow that IS vivid!

[Daryl]

Here's a few photos of colourful palms in my garden from the last couple of weeks. They would be much more boring if they were only green. Feel free to add your own photos...

Dypsis fibrosa

Daryl

my god I'd love a garden like that! But what are the dark green glossy plants in the background there? Cant get over how lush and glossy they are, obviously well taken care of!

The palms in the background are Chamedorea cataractum...tough as nails here and always look good.

regards,

Daryl

[Howeadypsis]

The palms in the background are Chamedorea cataractum...tough as nails here and always look good.

regards,

Daryl

Great stuff!