Bluer than blue

[Gbarce]

Blue Grey - Dypsis decaryii

Use to be sold as Blue Triangle Palm over here

[aztropic]

Ravenea xerophilla and Pseudophoenix sargentii trunks

[Perito]

This photo is of the famous Brahea decumbens at Huntington Gardens.

Here's my poor mans version- Chamaerops humilis 'Cerifera'.

[Walter John]

What about the fruit of a triangle, with a nearby biz

[PalmatierMeg]

I've been waiting days to photograph the blue in my yard but the weather is in its 4th day of dreary rain and chilliness: so unlike a typical FL dry season. I'm sure it drives visitors crazier than the locals because all the cash cows spent good money to frolic in the sunshine. Mother Nature rains on the rich and beautiful as well as the peons who can't afford to leave.

Last night during a brief break in precipitation I went looking for blue.

Bismarckia nobilis

Chamerops humilis var. cerifera

Coccothrinax Azul. Its fronds are stiff like plastic but the blue tends to fade after cold snaps.

Closer look at blue frond

And even though this thread specified palms, I have blue succulents that clamor for admiration.

Agave blue wave in 3g pot. We have to figure out where on our property to plant this lovely.

Blue Echevaria

Euphorbia snowflake

Ferocactus

Melocactus

[Dave-Vero]

Well, my thumbnail picture is of a Serenoa repens that was planted some five years ago. This species is infamously difficult to move, even from a container into the ground, so of course it died back to a little ghost of itself before vigorously rebounding. It's now about 5 feet across and 4 feet tall.

The plant was grown from seed at a native plant nursery in Christmas, Florida and I'm pretty certain it was grown from wild seed gathered along the Atlantic Ocean in southern Brevard County, Florida. Some habitat for these beautiful palms is protected within Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge.

[Alberto]

Probably(Butia x Jubaea)x Butia (Seed from Dick Douglas BxJ)

[Alberto]

All blue:[butia odorata, Bismarckya and underside of Arenga engleri in background.

[Alberto]

Livistona saribus and Bizmarckya

[Alberto]

Spatha of a young Butia arenicola

[Alberto]

Puya berteroana,and green C.humilis and P.rupicola for contrast.

[BS Man about Palms]

My Kentiopsis piersoniorum in its glory days.....

[Kris]

Dear Ladies & Gentlemen

Lovely visuals...And i love it ! (Screaming in joy)....

Thanks & love,

kris

[Gallop]

Some pictures I've taken recently of my garden.

[Kris]

Okay lets have some more visuals from our collection...

B.A

Baby Bizie

Blue Med Fan

Nubiean Desert Palm

B.A

Baby Nubiean Desert Palm

Baby B.A

...

[Kris]

Cont..

Sabal Tamaulipas

Accelorrphape Wrightii

Copernica Hospita by the way this still was taken in our rany season,so no colour seen..

Copernica Alba,even this still was taken during rainy season,so no vibriant colour..

Bizie in the ground

Love,

Kris

[Peter Pacific]

The blue palms in everyone's posts are sensational! The thin leaves of the cerifera are wonderful, the in-your-face Bismarckias are incredible, and you're right, you can't have just one! Makes me miss my Brahea armata. A small seedling I planted directly into the ground but as I worked on that part of the garden, I had to move it and it hated the roots disturbed...DEAD! That hurts. Especially since it was a gift from a friend! Ouch!

Peter

[Peter Pacific]

I wasn't going to post but I walked past my D. decaryi and couldn't pass it up! Peter

[Cycadcenter]

Brahea sp. Clara

[olivier971]

My blue one :

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OOPS SORRY

[Gallop]

A few more pics from my trip to Caribbean Palms Nursery, Mike grows some awesome palms.....

[Exotic Life]

Here is a close up from mine Chamaerops humilis "Cerifera". I do grow three of them, two below Trachycarpus wagnerianus and other green stuff during the summer. Great pictures by the way in this treath, well done people and keep sharing please.

Edited February 10, 2010 by Exotic Life

[Kev Spence]

Enjoying the blue theme from here in the middle of the UK.

Here is my Brahea armata, picture from today, in the coldest month of the year for us Februrary -5 C/ 23 F it has seen just lately and I thought it would look a little washed out with all the snow we have had of late but not so.

Butia capitata is quite blue literally with cold.

[Alberto]

My blue one :

OOPS SORRY

Is it Catleya walkeriana var.caerulea (=blue)?