Christmas tour of my Palmetto garden.

[Zeeth]

Hi everyone. It's the end of the year, so I'm visiting my garden at my parents' house in Palmetto. I haven't posted any garden tours of the new garden yet, so I thought I'd start now.

 Everything has been in the ground for about a year, so everything is still pretty small. The garden should end up pretty nice after a few years.

(I only see the garden for a short time once every few months, so it hasn't been weeded since August.)

Front of the house:

 

Cyphophoenix nucele. It hasn't looked very good since I planted it, so I'm hoping it colors up once it's been planted for a few years

Chambeyronia macrocarpa

B. alfredii

 

Pritchardia beccariana being shaded a little too much. I usually clean out the beach sunflowers when I visit, but I haven't gotten to it yet this visit. The plant to the left is a lobster claw heliconia. 

Pritchardia schattaueri.

[Zeeth]

I've got a few epiphytes growing out front. Here's a Florida native Encyclia tampensis.

This is Encyclia pyriformis x tampensis I put on the oak.

This is Tillandsia fasciculata

Here's an unknown orchid.

 

[Zeeth]

Here's a Kentiopsis oliviformis I transplanted this at the beginning of the year.

A nice bromeliad growing under the Kentiopsis

A Medjool date I sprouted 2 years ago.

Heterospathe elata

A double B. alfredii

B. fenestralis

[Zeeth]

Pritchardia hillebrandii. I transplanted this last year and it's still getting acclimated. 

Another heliconia

My biggest royal that I sprouted from seed. This was transplanted from a more shady location, so it's taken a while to get acclimated. 

[DoomsDave]

Reminds me of houses in Ohio, no fences around the yards.

I'm sure your parents' garden will be awesome in a few years!

Love the K. oliviformis; I moved one earlier this year in June, and it's still not snapped out of the post-transplant funk.

[Zeeth]

Here's a shot of the side yard.

This is a Coccothrinax argentata that I sprouted from seed. I collected the seed two years ago at Bahia Honda state park

Here's a foxy lady I sprouted from seed.

You can see that it's got it's first ring of trunk now!

Here's a baby Carpentaria. I sprouted this from seed from a palm growing in inland Tampa. 

Coccothrinax crinita.

[Zeeth]

Panama tall coconut from Dave Romney

It's been such a warm winter that some of my plumerias haven't lost their leaves, and are even re-flowering!

Here's a Nawassi coconut from the super tall one growing at Fairchild.

Another Nawassi coconut

 

[Zeeth]

Here's a Fiji dwarf coconut surrounded by some other palm seedlings (Beccariophoenix fenestralis, Pritchardia beccariana, Pritchardia schattaueri and Sabal lisa)

Red spicata dwarf coconut

Satakentia liukiuensis

Veitchia out front, Tahiti red dwarf coconut behind.

Hawaiian tall coconut from Garrin Fullington in Hilo

 

[Zeeth]

Other Hawaiian tall from Gaia yoga nursery. This one has grown very fast since I planted it in the ground. It was waist height one year ago.

Jamaican tall from Kopsick. I accidentally defoliated it last year when I wrapped it with christmas lights, but it's recovered very nicely.

Coconut from Selby Gardens. This is from one growing naturally in the mangroves. I'm not sure of the variety, but it wasn't damaged when it was exposed to 32 F and frost when I first sprouted it.

Beccariophoenix madagascariensis (no windows)

My second largest Beccariophoenix alfredii. It's the same age as the one out front.

Attalea colenda

My other Attalea colenda. I'm keeping this one potted to plant at my house when I finish my schooling.

Coconut I got from a Jamaican tall growing in Palmetto not far from my house.

[Zeeth]

Beccariophoenix fenestralis that I sprouted from seed

Lemon zest mango

Coconut cream mango

Alphonso mango (I grafted this one in August)

Elaeis guineensis

[Danilopez89]

Love the collection 

Love the coconut palm variety

It's gonna be a super cool garden when all  palms gain some size.

[Zeeth]

Tamarind tree

Here's two royals I sprouted from seed. These were strap leaf seedlings that were exposed to 28 F in January 2010, and 27 F in December 2010 while they were in a small pot that was completely frozen. I originally had about 70 seedlings, but I kept these two because they had no damage. 

Baby Dypsis decipiens (this is actually one of the oldest palms in my collection)

A few plumerias. The one on the right is Key West red, the one in the middle is Puu kahea, and the one on the left is a white variety

[Zeeth]

Coconuts and B. alfredii. I sprouted the coconuts from ones I bought at Publix that came from the Dominican republic. They should be the Criollo variety, which is closely related to the Jamaican tall (the one on the right might be a hybrid though)

B. alfredii

Bambusa chungii barbelata

Banana grove

[Zeeth]

Sabal miamiensis

Archontophoenix purpurea

Sabal mauritiiformis

Pritchardia seedlings in treepots (and also a Pelagodoxa on the right)

[Zeeth]

Kentiopsis oliviformis seedlings (the pots with soil in them have Sabal lisa seeds planted in them)

Bentickia condapanna

Hot peppers I'm growing for my dad. I think they're scorpion peppers

Jubaea chilensis 

[Zeeth]

Sabal domingensis

I sprouted this one from a monster palm labelled Sabal umbraculifera

Pritchardia munroi

Pritchardia remota

Pritchardia schattaueri

[Zeeth]

Bismarckia

xButiagrus

Butia capitata

Sugarcane (this area was once the site of a sugarcane plantation run by Robert Gamble)

Dypsis leptocheilos

 

[Zeeth]

This is the patio section. There stuff here is somewhat tender, so I'm hoping the screen above will help keep it warmer in freezes

There's a ground orchid on the left. Here's a flower from it: 

Okay, that's it! Thanks for stopping by

 

 

 

[Josh-O]

outstanding collection Keith!

thanks for sharing all these excellent pictures

[Palmaceae]

Looking great, especially like the coconuts.

Merry CHRISTmas.

[DoomsDave]

Wow!

Such a garden! All that water, just laying around . .. .

[Mr. Coconut Palm]

Keith,

I love it, and I am so jealous you live in an area where you can easily grow all that.  If my climate was just about 2F to 3F warmer in the winter, I could grow all sorts of stuff here including lots of different types of coconut palms, which by the way, I love your coconut collection!

John

[Cluster]

Congratulations, the collection is amazing and of course those coconuts... I am so jealous  Just wanted one hehe.

[redbeard917]

Looks great. I saw some Beccariophoenix at Leu Gardens recently and they're stunning palms in person, so your parents' property will only improve with time. Nice palm choices.

[Hammer]

On 12/24/2015, 10:55:12, Zeeth said:

Veitchia out front, Tahiti red dwarf coconut behind.

Hawaiian tall coconut from Garrin Fullington in Hilo

 

Zeeth, what is that sweet looking red leafed plant?

[Zeeth]

That's Acalypha wilkesiana, or "copper leaf plant".