2016 Palm Garden

[TikiRick]

A beautiful early morning in South Florida calls for a few camera shots of palmy goodness. I started collecting palms in 1987, and have never tired of them. These pictures are from my residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, zone 10B. My lowest low temperature this year has been 44F, and the all time lowest since I began in 2000, was 38. Fortunately, I am surrounded by warm brackish river water. My garden just turned 16 years old and many of these palms were planted from either a 3 gallon, 1 gallon, or 4" container.

I can identify any palms if you wish....just attempting to save some time here.

[doranakandawatta]

WOW, nice early morning pictures, how is it in the afternoon?

I am lost since I feel I am not able to identify any of the palms you show, besides cocos nucifera.
It seems you have a real nice tropical climate.

[Cocoa Beach Jason]

Fantastic 

[imapalmnut64]

looks awesome, I started my own little piece of paradise 2 years ago, I brought 4 Christmas palms and planted them from pots, there sky rocketing now, 4 royals, 3 bottle palms and 1 triple Christmas and 2 double which are all doing great, tks for the pics jeff from punta gorda fl

[George Sparkman]

Waterfront Paradise !

[RedRabbit]

Your garden looks great, thanks for sharing! I wish my yard could look like that...

If the coldest you've seen in 16yrs is 38 I think it is safe to say you're zone 11.

Edited March 6, 2016 by RedRabbit

[Kim]

So beautiful, thank you for posting, this really brightened my morning.

What is the lovely full palm in photo #13 with the tiki and the red spheres.  (Are those basket-woven and painted red? So decorative!)

[SouthSeaNate]

What an amazing collection, looks like a tropical resort on some Pacific Island, beautiful

[Hammer]

[samirbouag]

euuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWW! Magic! 

[Josh-O]

send me the coordinates to you tropical oasis and I'll be over shortly with my portable mai tai kit.

 

seriously, what a killer set up you have!!

 

 

[Hammer]

2 minutes ago, Josh-O said:

send me the coordinates to you tropical oasis and I'll be over shortly with my portable mai tai kit.

 

seriously, what a killer set up you have!!

 

 

Josh, you might have to rip out all your work and start over with this as the model!

[TikiRick]

Thanks everyone for the kind posts! Yes, I love tiki and everything Polynesian-mid century modern! 

Kim, post 13 is a bottle palm...Hyophorbe.

[Josh-O]

1 hour ago, Hammer said:

Josh, you might have to rip out all your work and start over with this as the model!

lol...

it would be worth it though.

[Hilo Jason]

amazing!!

[Moose]

9 hours ago, TikiRick said:

A beautiful early morning in South Florida calls for a few camera shots of palmy goodness. I started collecting palms in 1987, and have never tired of them. These pictures are from my residence in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, zone 10B. My lowest low temperature this year has been 44F, and the all time lowest since I began in 2000, was 38. Fortunately, I am surrounded by warm brackish river water. My garden just turned 16 years old and many of these palms were planted from either a 3 gallon, 1 gallon, or 4" container.

I can identify any palms if you wish....just attempting to save some time here.

You stopped cutting off the nuts to the Macapuna? 

[Jeff Searle]

Andrea and I have been to Rick's beautiful garden many, many times. Pretty much since the garden was started when he first bought his house. Per square feet, Rick has really incorporated one of the most diverse gardens you will ever see. It speaks volume of selection of palms and colorful crotons.

[BS Man about Palms]

BE YOU TEA FULL RICK!!!!

 

Looks to be well worth your effort as it looks very inviting! Well Done

[TikiRick]

Moose,

The Cocos nucifera "macapuna" has to be kept free of nuts because it hangs over my neighbors fence and possibly roof (in a good wind.)

For those of you unfamiliar with macapuna coconut, this tree is a seed from the late Paul Drummond's mature macapuna. He told me it's a Philipino cultivar grown specifically for the coconut meat. The smaller nuts are scooped with an ice cream scoop and taste exactly like vanilla. 

I'm not certain if there are any others in South Florida. Sadly, his original fell to bulldozers when his place was sold. 

[Palmaceae]

Very nice, I really like the Polynesian theme.

[Panamajack]

WOW. Absolutely stunning. 

[annafl]

Rick, your garden is amazing!  You obviously have an artistic eye and your horticultural skills are awesome.  I really do hope to come see it someday when I'm down your way.  My only complaint is that you didn't show enough of your beautiful crotons!

 

[Monòver]

Wow! Your garden is amazing!

A small paradise!!!

[Ben1]

Wow, really outstanding garden, congrats!

 

what species do you show on picture # 14?

 

thanks a lot for sharing with us!

[TikiRick]

Photo 14 is Chamberyonia

macrocarpa. 

[ChrisJordanDDS]

Wow!  I wish my garden could be so lush.  Beautiful!

[Ben1]

22 hours ago, TikiRick said:

Photo 14 is Chamberyonia

macrocarpa. 

Thanks, obviously I'm not familiar with them at that size  

[Palms4Steve]

Very stunning.