Some of my favorites

[O'o Bar Master]

Lee is attending the Biennial in Miami so I'm left to my own devices in trying to get the genus and species correct for this post.

In truth I resorted to describing the location of a couple of these with her by phone to get a name, but if I've misidentified any of these or left out a species name, please feel free to correct!

On my own for a week I thought I'd post the palms that I am particularly fond of.

Please enjoy.

Mike

Areca alba

Areca macrocalyx

Areca vestiaria (Maroon)

Areca vestiaria

Beccariophoenix (Windows)

Bentinckia nicobarica

Caliptrocalyx spicatus

Carpoxylon macrospermum

Caryota zebrina

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

Chuniophoenix hainanensis

Coccothrinax

[Kennybenjamin]

Perfect id's so far I think!! Well done!!

[O'o Bar Master]

Cocos nucifera

Cyrtostachys renda

Dictyosperma album

Dypsis decaryi

Dypsis leptocheilos

Gaussia maya

Howea forsteriana

Hyophorbe indica

Kerriodoxa elegans

Lytocaryum weddellianum

Marojejya-darianii

Mauritiella-armata

[O'o Bar Master]

Metroxylon

Neoveitchia storckii

Normanbya normanbyi

Phoenicophorium borsigianum

Pigafetta elata

Pritchardia

Ravenea rivularis

Rhopalostylis sapida

Syagrus

Thrinax parviflora

Trachycarpus

[comic097]

Oh man what a collection, great pics, great palms, keep em coming, Mike !!

[NApalm]

BEST. THREAD. EVER!!!!

[LJG]

Wow, I never knew Pigafetta elata was so colorful.

[MattyB]

Some? That's all! Nice photos.

[sur4z]

This is the first time I've see this palm...great looking...thanks for sharing.

Phoenicophorium borsigianum
Phoenicophorium-borsigianum-2.jpg

[Zeeth]

Coconuts, Pigafetta, Trachycarpus and Rhopalostylis all grown in the same garden and all look perfect? I envy you guys who live in Hawaii!

[Bill Austin]

Looks like you hit a home run to me Mike.

[O'o Bar Master]

Some? That's all! Nice photos.

Aloha Matty

Lee's passion for palms began in 2009 with her first purchases and planting. Five years later the one acre garden has over 500 palms including more than 200 species so these really are just "some" of my favorites. And the beat goes on!

Mike

[doranakandawatta]

Oh man what a collection, great pics, great palms, keep em coming, Mike !!

Yes!

Mike,

90% of the species you show us are the species we try to grow in Doranakanda, so I enjoy seeing your palms and get even more jealous, it's why there is so much fun on Palmtalk!

Do we have to understand that the oldest palms of your collection is only 5 years old?

[doranakandawatta]

Can your Coccothrinax be a Thrinax radiata ? and your Thrinax parviflora be a Sabal mauritiiformis?

Anyway one day I'll come and help you to weed...

[LilikoiLee]

Oh man what a collection, great pics, great palms, keep em coming, Mike !!

Yes!

Mike,

90% of the species you show us are the species we try to grow in Doranakanda, so I enjoy seeing your palms and get even more jealous, it's why there is so much fun on Palmtalk!

Do we have to understand that the oldest palms of your collection is only 5 years old?

Aloha Philippe,

There were two mature coconut palms on the property when I purchased it about 40 years ago and we planted a handful of Archontophoenix that were given to us as a gift before 2009, but basically our planting began in 2009 after a visit to Bo Goren's original Lundkvist Palm Garden that year. Between 2009 and 2012 I was still pre-retirement so planting took place fairly slowly on the week-ends. Most of our palms have actually gone in the ground between 2012 and today.

Mike

[doranakandawatta]

Oh man what a collection, great pics, great palms, keep em coming, Mike !!

Yes!

Mike,

90% of the species you show us are the species we try to grow in Doranakanda, so I enjoy seeing your palms and get even more jealous, it's why there is so much fun on Palmtalk!

Do we have to understand that the oldest palms of your collection is only 5 years old?

Aloha Philippe,

There were two mature coconut palms on the property when I purchased it about 40 years ago and we planted a handful of Archontophoenix that were given to us as a gift before 2009, but basically our planting began in 2009 after a visit to Bo Goren's original Lundkvist Palm Garden that year. Between 2009 and 2012 I was still pre-retirement so planting took place fairly slowly on the week-ends. Most of our palms have actually gone in the ground between 2012 and today.

Mike

Either you can buy plants of a good size in Hawaii or (and) you have a wonderful growth, it gives me hope about our seedlings in Doranakanda garden.

[O'o Bar Master]

Got some breaks in the weather today (three weeks of daily rain) and took a few more pictures.

Mike

Carpentaria acuminata

Dypsis rivularis

Dypsis fibrosa

Pinanga caesia

Roscheria melanochaetes

Wallichia densiflora

[comic097]

It's like a daily treat of palm pics, thanks again Mike, those caesia look amazing

[NApalm]

So good Mike!

[fan palm]

wow mike, so many perfectly grown palms in one place! those Lytocaryum weddellianum look nice in a group planting. good to see some Roscheria melanochaetes, just planted a trio recently and cant wait to they are that size. they remind me a bit of areca gupppyana.

cheers for the pics

Harry

[comic097]

Feel free to post any more of your favourites Mike

[doranakandawatta]

Mike,

Is Lee back in your garden?

Will you make nice pics soon?

We look forward to seeing these new! (Tahina, neighbors and all)

[Tassie_Troy1971]

Fantastic Mike ! :greenthumb: :greenthumb:

What a collection

So surprised to see Rhopalostylis sapida and Howea looking perfect in your climate ! Have you tried Hedyscepe ??

[O'o Bar Master]

Mike,

Is Lee back in your garden?

Will you make nice pics soon?

We look forward to seeing these new! (Tahina, neighbors and all)

Aloha Philippe,

Lee will return from the Biennial this week-end.

I am always taking palm pictures but the past four weeks of rainy weather (unheard of in Kona) has limited the good picture taking light to just a few minutes a day if that.

Our Tahina is healthy but growing very slowly and hardly impressive at this point. Tahina on the rainy side of the island are growing at least twice as fast as ours and virtually every other Tahina I know of is outpacing ours. We may have planted it in too much rock. We’ll have to see. It may need to relocate.

The other issue is that I know which palms I love but I often can’t come up with the name. Lee is the resident palm expert and I am the expert hole digger. I have made some progress and can now often guess the genus but frequently I’m a blank on the species.

At any rate here are a small handful of additional palms that I both like and think I know their names. Hope you enjoy.

Mike

Areca catechu dwarf

Archontophoenix purpurea

Dypsis saintelucei

[comic097]

I'm running out of superlatives Mike, really fantastic looking palms, keep em coming mate

[O'o Bar Master]

Fantastic Mike ! :greenthumb: :greenthumb:

What a collection

So surprised to see Rhopalostylis sapida and Howea looking perfect in your climate ! Have you tried Hedyscepe ??

I know Lee has the Hedyscepe canterburyana planted somewhere in the garden but with my limited expertise, I couldn't walk out in the garden and identify it without her.

Except for the limited rainfall we get, we luckily seem to be at an elevation and temperature range that almost every palm alive seems to love. We are at 1500 foot elevation, with temperature ranges that are generally between 72 and 85 degrees. It rarely drops below 60 degrees or gets above 90 degrees. We generally have bright sun in the morning hours and high overcast in the afternoon so burning our palms is never much of an issue. And much to my surprise volcanic rock/soil is very nutritious so we only fertilize if a specific palm asks for it.

Mike

[doranakandawatta]

Again pictures which couldn't be better! and a ocean of Neomarica gracilis blooming below the Dypsis saintelucei!

Really a wonderful garden I dream about every night!

[Zeeth]

Fantastic Mike ! :greenthumb: :greenthumb:

What a collection

So surprised to see Rhopalostylis sapida and Howea looking perfect in your climate ! Have you tried Hedyscepe ??

I know Lee has the Hedyscepe canterburyana planted somewhere in the garden but with my limited expertise, I couldn't walk out in the garden and identify it without her.

Except for the limited rainfall we get, we luckily seem to be at an elevation and temperature range that almost every palm alive seems to love. We are at 1500 foot elevation, with temperature ranges that are generally between 72 and 85 degrees. It rarely drops below 60 degrees or gets above 90 degrees. We generally have bright sun in the morning hours and high overcast in the afternoon so burning our palms is never much of an issue. And much to my surprise volcanic rock/soil is very nutritious so we only fertilize if a specific palm asks for it.

Mike

How much rain do you usually get?

[O'o Bar Master]

Fantastic Mike ! :greenthumb: :greenthumb:

What a collection

So surprised to see Rhopalostylis sapida and Howea looking perfect in your climate ! Have you tried Hedyscepe ??

I know Lee has the Hedyscepe canterburyana planted somewhere in the garden but with my limited expertise, I couldn't walk out in the garden and identify it without her.

Except for the limited rainfall we get, we luckily seem to be at an elevation and temperature range that almost every palm alive seems to love. We are at 1500 foot elevation, with temperature ranges that are generally between 72 and 85 degrees. It rarely drops below 60 degrees or gets above 90 degrees. We generally have bright sun in the morning hours and high overcast in the afternoon so burning our palms is never much of an issue. And much to my surprise volcanic rock/soil is very nutritious so we only fertilize if a specific palm asks for it.

Mike

How much rain do you usually get?

A good month would see us getting about 3 inches of rain. So getting 14 inches of rain in May has been incredible. It has rained 27 out of 30 days with 1/2 to 1 inch of rainfall most days. Weed control has been difficult but today I finally had a clear morning and went out with a Round-up and Surflan mix to wrestle back some control over the situation.

Mike

[Sabal Steve]

Very nice, those are all grown to perfection. Nice framing on the photos as well - there's definitely an art to this. Do you irrigate, or is that all done with rainwater?

[humangenomaproject]

Nice work and great photos (and I know you have labored hard to accomplish that level of garden). Thanks. I have about three acres here with about as many palm species as you and I'm running out of real estate to plant (given their eventual size and the fact that I plant in groups of three). Do you have the same issue? Have you reached the so called "event horizon" of running out of space? I finally carved out paths into the primary rain forest of my property to plant out several of the more understory subjects (Iguanuras, Joeys and some Hydriasteles for instance) but if I keep planting I'll have to buy more property here soon. Saludos from Costa Rica. Jason.