Which Dypsis to plant?

[Sunnie]

procera look fantastic Sunnie. do you have one growing in Brissie?

Welcome to PT by the way.

Thank you Sorry for the late reply!

I only bought a Dypsis procera the other week so I'll keep you posted. I just love the photos I have seen online.

The other Dypsis I have in my garden are Lutescens (Golden Cane); Albofarinosa (White Powder); Leptocheilos (Redneck) and Cabadae (Blue Cane).

I would love a Pembana and Lanceolata.

[AndyR]

Have seen some beautiful Pembana in recent weeks and looking great despite a tough winter in Brissy. Well worth a place in your garden Sunnie

[Bismark]

Ok guys just a little bit of an update to my dypsis garden purchases etc.

[Bismark]

Sorry guys, the last post was the ambositrae.

This is the new kid on the block, for me anyway.

Dypsis sp new redneck

[Bismark]

And next but by no means least the lanceolata, due to go into the ground tomorrow.

[Bismark]

This is the retaining wall, made out of recycled railway sleepers. A pembana and a couple of lastelliana's will join the ambo up there when I earn a little bit more cash. Although it is Fathers day tomorrow. Hint hint Girls...

[comic097]

Starting to take shape nicely mate

[Kennybenjamin]

So far so good mate, few more palms with some rain and some mulch and that garden will look A1!

[Bismark]

Ok another update pre mulching which will take place next week. There are 11 palms purchased and planted which I hope will grow to give a stunning effect. Fingers crossed.

What do you think??????

Sp dark mealy bug in the foreground with a brevanoidies to the right. Behind the retainer to the left is a pembana with two lastelliana's to the right as we look.

[Bismark]

Hope this makes sense.

Left to right as we look.

pilulifera, pembana, lanceolata, carlsmithii, pembana, sp new redneck, lastelliana, sp dark mealy bug, lastelliana, brevanoisies. There is an ambositrae behind the mail box near the front door which I couldn't quite capture in this picture. More photos to come when mulching is complete.

Would love to have some feedback.

Cheers Ben for the help and advice and of course for the plants too.

[Bismark]

Sorry this is the right photo for the previous description.

[comic097]

Mate what a transformation, from bamboo to dypsis central, so next saturday is mulching day, have some beers ready in the freezer mate

[NApalm]

Looks the business. Mulch will really set it off

[Bismark]

I presume that means we are mulching in the arvo, unless you fancy "Brekkie Beers"

[comic097]

earlier the better mate, how many cube ?

[Bismark]

I'm going to get 4 delivered Friday arvo. We would be done and dusted for 9am.

[comic097]

Righteo mate Saturday morn it is, gonna look great once its mulched

[Kennybenjamin]

Looks great to me mate!! It's your garden though, as long as your happy with it? I don't think it would be out of the question to add another 1 or 2, but it does look good now and should look awesome in a few years!!

Btw I think it might be illegal to mulch without having a beer afterwards??

[Kennybenjamin]

Also maybe throw some gypsum and manure around before you mulch?

[comic097]

Very illegal

[Sunnie]

Looking good

[KennyRE317]

Have seen some beautiful Pembana in recent weeks and looking great despite a tough winter in Brissy. Well worth a place in your garden Sunnie

i think Dypsis pembana is very underrated. mine's going to be one of the top layer canopy palms and is one of the faster palms i have. it's handled a few heatwaves now and during this last spell it got to very high 90°F around where I live and i would bet that temps where it's planted was around 105° since it's right up on a wall and in full all day sun

[KennyRE317]

lanceolata isn't handling the sun as well or at least takes alot longer to get used to it

[Bismark]

Ok Dypsis project finished.

2 pembana, 2 lastelliana, 1 lanceolata, 1 pilulifera, 1 carlsmithii, 1 dark mealy bug, 1 brevanoidies, 1 sp new redneck and 1 ambositrae.

Thanks for all your encouragement and positive feedback. All I need now is an awful lot of patience.

[Kennybenjamin]

Looks great!!! Have you got a pic with the bamboo still there for comparison?

Great job

[NApalm]

Yeah, I'd love to see a before pic too. Looks awesome now. Super fly even ;-)

[Bismark]

Here's a photo taken in 2012, I'm slightly embarrassed by it now but it does give you an idea how far the garden has come along.

[comic097]

Well mate, you did it, there were times there I thought you'd never get rid of that bamboo, a real credit to ya, the place look amazing, no more raking up those leaves anymore, your biggest chore now will be watering your palms. Looking forward to future pics

[NApalm]

Yep. That is a million times better. Looks great mate. Can't wait to see it in a few years