Palms in Prague

[Grasswing]

Hello everybody,

It will be a year soon since I joined IPS and about year and half I first came to palmtalk. I am so grateful that I can share the knowledge of so many people interested in palms. When I came to palmtalk, I had four palms. Now it is much more than that.

I would like to thank everyone who helped me to develop my interest and sent me seeds as well. My first huge thank goes to Philippe (Doranakandawatta) who helped me from the start by sending many seeds of different kinds and showed me beauties of Sri Lanka. I would like to thank Cindy for Astrocaryum seeds, the small palms are just wonderful, I also found a great friend here Milos Srejic and my thank also goes to Maurice (mlovecan) who showed me his garden in Rhodes and was the first member I met live too. Palmtalk as a whole is a great source of information and friendly talk, thank you!

As I mentioned I live in Prague, in Czech Republic which is quite cold place to grow palms ( zone 7a/b), the differences between summer and winter temperatures are big and the winters are wet, consequently most of the palms can't be grown outside. I live in flat but I have also summer cabin for disposition near Prague. The conditions aren't optimal but I try my best to be successful with all different types of palms. Now let me show you some photos of them:

Euterpe oleracea (1,5 year old)

Stem detail:

Pinanga sp (0,5 y):

Areca concinna (1,5y) it surely needs bigger pot:

All the following pics are Astrocaryum ( less than one yo):

Stem detail with small thorns:

Here comes my polyembryonic Astrocaryum which I find really strange, it is not from Cocos family but it still made two palms from one seed and they look good. Any advice what should I do next, let them together or divide them?

Whole Astro family:

Mysterious Livistona from Peradeniya (half yo):

Trachycarpus fortunei (half yo):

Serenoa repens (less than one yo):

Sabal minor (less than one yo):

Bismarckia nobilis (2,5 yo):

Washingtonia filifera (almost 3 yo):

Washingtonia robusta (less than one yo, difference in the pot):

Jubaea chilensis (2,5 yo):

Syagrus romanzoffiana(1,5 yo) it has some strange illness i can't identify, leaves come out dead, can anyone help?:

Stem detail:

Nannorrhops ritchiana (1 yo):

Phoenix dactylifera (less than 1 year old) I have canariensis, theoprastii and roebelnii of the same age:

I hope you enjoyed my pictures, I had 4 palms when I joined palmtalk. I posted one picture for the species mostly but I have many more of the same kind.

Enjoy the summer.

Kindest regards,

Andrew

[Milos Srejic]

These are nice looking babies Ondra! Hope they will do well in pots.

Regards,

Milos

[Alicehunter2000]

Nice...any thought about what to do when they get bigger?

I would definitely do some palms that love interior conditions. Lot's of Chamaedorea's, Kentia etc.....I have even found that Rhopy's and Fishtail's do pretty well indoors.

Great article and species list by Phil at Jungle Music........

http://www.junglemusic.net/palmadvice/palms-houseplants1.htm

[doranakandawatta]

Nice botanic garden in embryo stage, nice pictures and nice comments too.

Thank you for posting. (Milos, we wait for your pictures too!)

Palmtalk friends should know that you belong to the young IPS generation (being only 16 years old); Next IPS director in few years

Kindest regards

Philippe

[Sabal Steve]

Nice...any thought about what to do when they get bigger?

I would definitely do some palms that love interior conditions. Lot's of Chamaedorea's, Kentia etc.....I have even found that Rhopy's and Fishtail's do pretty well indoors.

Great article and species list by Phil at Jungle Music........

http://www.junglemusic.net/palmadvice/palms-houseplants1.htm

Ever tried a Hedescepe indoors?

[Neel]

I commend you for being able to grow all these palms out there. Curious to see what happens when they get bigger. The seem to take there time there. A Washingtonia in 1&1/2 years would be so much bigger.

Btw..I stayed in Prague when I was 16. Nice city.

[redbeard917]

Nice job on the palms, they look very well-grown. Actually, Sabal minor and possibly Trachycarpus fortunei are hardy to zone 7, if I'm not mistaken. Other people mentioned some palms that do well indoors, I can add Chamaedorea oblongata and an unknown Rhapis sp. that have thrived in my kitchen. It would be neat to see some general pictures from your country sometime, as well.

[PalmnutVN]

Wow! Nice job!

My seedlings never look that good and I live in the tropics.....

As far as your Syagrus is concerned, if you give the brown spear a gentle tug you will probably find that it will come away in your hand. Larger palms can often be saved in a situation like this, however the same cannot be said of seedlings unfortunately. Emerging spears usually go brown due to root damage, possibly from over watering or the potting medium not being able to drain quickly enough.

[Hammer]

Congratulations on an excellent container ranch!

I have to say that I particularly happy that a palm nut lives in Prague. My maternal family originates from Plzen, Bohemia. In fact our family here in the US still owns the original family farm just a few miles from Prague, Nebraska. Which is located in an area affectionately known as the "Bohemian Alps."

Good luck growing and I wish you all the best!

[bgl]

Andrew,

That's an impressive collection of good looking palms! Best of luck, and hopefully you'll be able to acquire more species that will do well for you!

Bo-Göran

[Grasswing]

Thank you all for your kind comments, they made me happy. I expect that growing them will get harder and harder.

I am thinking about building some greenhouse which could be used whole year, but it is quite expensive fun to heat it in winter.

Actually, Sabal minor and possibly Trachycarpus fortunei are hardy to zone 7, if I'm not mistaken. Other people mentioned some palms that do well indoors, I can add Chamaedorea oblongata and an unknown Rhapis sp. that have thrived in my kitchen. It would be neat to see some general pictures from your country sometime, as well.

Yes they can be grown here with winter covering, the main problem isn't the temperature but humidity in winter which causes rotting of palm hearts. Are you interested in palm places or in the czech nature as a whole. I posted some topics about czech greenhouses:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/37646-botanic-garden-of-universitas-carolina-in-prague/?hl=%2Bbotanic+%2Bgarden+%2Buniversitas

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/36087-tropical-greenhouse-fata-morgana-cz/?hl=%2Bfata+%2Bmorgana

Here is also a post from one czech palm nut: http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/39419-my-experimental-garden-czech-republic-usda-6b/

I am going to visit botanic gardens this week again to observe the news, I hope I will find something interesting.

[Grasswing]

Congratulations on an excellent container ranch!

I have to say that I particularly happy that a palm nut lives in Prague. My maternal family originates from Plzen, Bohemia. In fact our family here in the US still owns the original family farm just a few miles from Prague, Nebraska. Which is located in an area affectionately known as the "Bohemian Alps."

Good luck growing and I wish you all the best!

Thank you, that is interesting i didn't know that there is another Prague in U.S.

Do you know some czech words?

[Grasswing]

Wow! Nice job!

My seedlings never look that good and I live in the tropics.....

As far as your Syagrus is concerned, if you give the brown spear a gentle tug you will probably find that it will come away in your hand. Larger palms can often be saved in a situation like this, however the same cannot be said of seedlings unfortunately. Emerging spears usually go brown due to root damage, possibly from over watering or the potting medium not being able to drain quickly enough.

Thank you,

the brown leaf doesn't come out if I pull, the base of it is still grean but only a small part, it still produces new leaves, now I came back from Slovakia trip and found new leaf which is green from the top so I hope it will recover now.

[Grasswing]

Thank you all once again,

if you wish to compare the year progress here is one of my first seedling posts:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/1762-palm-seedlings/page-8

Stay tuned

Kindest regards,

Andrew

[Hammer]

Congratulations on an excellent container ranch!

I have to say that I particularly happy that a palm nut lives in Prague. My maternal family originates from Plzen, Bohemia. In fact our family here in the US still owns the original family farm just a few miles from Prague, Nebraska. Which is located in an area affectionately known as the "Bohemian Alps."

Good luck growing and I wish you all the best!

Thank you, that is interesting i didn't know that there is another Prague in U.S.

Do you know some czech words?

I know only a few words and phrases in Czech. I only know how to say them. I wouldn't be able to spell them correctly. Czech was my grandfather's native language and he was third generation American! So the language survived for quite a while. But it died out about the generation before me. Too bad really. But that is the way of things here in America. Eventually memories of the old country are forgotten and then so is the mother tongue.