Palms with flowers

[Exotic Life]

Hi,

It's really great weather again today with a blue sky and strong sunshine and not to much wind. Find some time this afternoon to take some pictures from palms with flowers at the moment, and thought he! why I would not share them over here for the people who like that After horror winter number 2 few palms still decide to show what they are.

Chamaerops humilis biggest trunc with more then 10 flowers ready to come.

Even a couple smaller truncs near the head trunc are going to give a few flowers.

Closer look to a smaller one.

Somehow don't have got flowers in the cerifera form.

[Exotic Life]

Then Trachycarpus, palms with no trouble for here during the winter only some wind damage sometimes.

My Biggest T.fortunei with only 3 flowers like last year.

Not my biggest but the fastest Trachycarpus fortunei in the garden with producing about 20-30 cm of trunc in one year at the moment, female. Got some seeds in the last 2 years but they where not growing very well, because a poor pollination maybe. This year it looks like the male and female going to flower at the same time and I will use some hand pollination. Got more then 10 flowers on it.

Then another Trachycarpus fortunei what's going to flower for the first time in her life, and 7 flowers for the first time is not to bad. Bit behind the other fortunei's, but thats doesn't matter.

Edited May 28, 2010 by Exotic Life

[Exotic Life]

Still a smaller fortunei in the garden without flowers but that one is growing very slow somehow and I don't see that producing flowers for the next few years. My new planted Trachycarpus wagnerianus from last year has also non flowers, but that doesn't matter either, leafes are growing very well again.

[Exotic Life]

Then the Phoenix canariensis what survived our horrible winter (Protected) with some leafburn as result, but it's very happy and growing again and got also 3 flowers this year.

The last one, just curious. Is there a possibility to get some flowers sometime on my Washingtonia robusta? How big our old should it be? This one survived also last winter with leafdamage but it's growing very well again. Normally it's growing about 15 leafes for sure so I guess that I can cut the bad leafes somewhere next month. It's about 7-8 year old now.

Robbin

[Exotic Life]

That's it for now, hope you will enjoy them

Going outside again to plant some new stuff

Edited May 28, 2010 by Exotic Life

[Gileno Machado]

Lovely flowers Robbin.

I've never seen Trachycarpus inflorescences before. I'm growing fortunei and wagnerianus here but they put out only one new frond/year... They'd probably enjoy very much your climate for a change...

[paulgila]

those pix of the med fan remind me of all the battle scars on my arms & hands from whenever i went near the one in my yard.

i tore it out so i finally won the war even though i lost most of the battles.

[DoomsDave]

Some palm blossoms look quite pretty, though none match orchids or hibiscus.

The common King Palm's lavender tresses look loverly, followed by the red RED RED! seeds, ahem.

[Exotic Life]

Thanks people.

@ Gileno, your hot climate is defitnely not one of the best climates for growing cooler loving palm trees like Trachycarpus. Maybe if we trade a bit of our climate? I would like to have some more heat, specially during the winters because I love Royals and that kind of stuff, but some palms don't even grow here in containers.

[Walter John]

Great shots Robbin, love flowers and flowers to be palm pics. "Real life" that's for sure.

[Exotic Life]

Thanks Wal!

Let's hope there will be more flowering palms and also from different species somewhere in the future...

[Alberto]

It´s great when you are heading summer!!... Lekker zomerweer!!!

Nice photos Robin.My Chamaerops aren´t flowering yet, but my Trackys also gave a good display sometimes.

This is a Butia eriospatha that opened an inflorescence very late. If it will freeze...........We are going to the winter..