San Diego garden update

[Matt in SD]

I was out in the garden with a camera and some extra time (cut my wrist washing dishes so can't surf for a bit) so decided to take a few photos to post.  I'll try to post groups of related palms.  This is the time of year when things look their best in our climate.

Some background info on our garden.  We have ~0.6 acres (24,000 square feet) about 1 mile inland, but are behind a large hill and on the edge of a canyon so we do get pretty cold (several nights of frost every year.  We moved to this house in Oct 2008, but spent the first 2-3 years working on grading and hardscaping so most plants have been in the ground 5-6 years or less.  Most plants were planted out of 3-5g pots.

 

Starting with Madagascar palms of course:

This is a special palm to me and should be to all Palmtalk members, Tahina spectabilis.  The discovery of this palm essentially happened live on Palmtalk in 2007 (pretty sure of the date, maybe someone can bump the old historic thread).

 

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis leptocheilos x decaryi

Beccariophoenix alfredii (from seed obtained in 2008)

[nachocarl]

3 minutes ago, Matt in SD said:

I was out in the garden with a camera and some extra time (cut my wrist washing dishes so can't surf for a bit) so decided to take a few photos to post.  I'll try to post groups of related palms.  This is the time of year when things look their best in our climate.

Some background info on our garden.  We have ~0.6 acres (24,000 square feet) about 1 mile inland, but are behind a large hill and on the edge of a canyon so we do get pretty cold (several nights of frost every year.  We moved to this house in Oct 2008, but spent the first 2-3 years working on grading and hardscaping so most plants have been in the ground 5-6 years or less.  Most plants were planted out of 3-5g pots.

 

Starting with Madagascar palms of course:

This is a special palm to me and should be to all Palmtalk members, Tahina spectabilis.  The discovery of this palm essentially happened live on Palmtalk in 2007 (pretty sure of the date, maybe someone can bump the old historic thread).

 

This was a real eye catcher among your many fine specimens for sure! 

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis species, purchased as Dypsis basilonga from Floribunda (2 leaf seedling ~2007)

 

Dypsis onilahensis 'upright'

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis lanceolata

Ravenea sp. giant

[Matt in SD]

Ravenea sp., purchased as albicans

Orania ravaka (can't believe this is surviving and actually growing.  3 years in the ground)

Dypsis robusta

 

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis canaliculata

Dypsis prestoniana

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis oropedionis

 

Dypsis sp. (purchased as D malcomberi from JDA nursery...many years ago as a seedling)

 

[Matt in SD]

Plenty more to come later today/tonight...

[bgl]

Matt,

Lots of great looking palms and your Tahina is spectacular.  Here's a link to the original Tahina thread, started by Bruno in early Dec. 2006. Of course we didn't know it was going to be named Tahina at that time - that took another year. Heck, we didn't even know that it was a new genus!

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/2299-borassus-or-corypha-in-madagascar/&page=1

And in the future maybe stay away from dangerous activities like washing dishes?

Bo-Göran

[Pal Meir]

9 minutes ago, bgl said:

Matt,

Lots of great looking palms and your Tahina is spectacular.  Here's a link to the original Tahina thread, started by Bruno in early Dec. 2006. Of course we didn't know it was going to be named Tahina at that time - that took another year. Heck, we didn't even know that it was a new genus!

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/2299-borassus-or-corypha-in-madagascar/&page=1

And in the future maybe stay away from dangerous activities like washing dishes?

Bo-Göran

And this is the article published in 2008:

http://www.palms.org/palmsjournal/2008/v52n1p31-39.pdf

[Monòver]

Thanks for show us your garden!

[Matt in OC]

Just outstanding. That Prestoniana is gorgeous! Dare I say your "basilonga" looks a bit like "mahajanga?"

[PalmTreeDude]

[Ben1]

Wow, your garden looks amazing!

thanks for sharing. 

Looking forward to see more!

 

Ben

[Zeeth]

Amazing!!! Which species of Pritchardia is in the left of this picture:

4 hours ago, Matt in SD said:

 

Everything is super well grown. I love the B. alfredii! It's now at that coconut lookalike stage. 

[Ben in Norcal]

Pics not dead for anyone else?  I can't see them on my Mac or iPhone.

[BS Man about Palms]

FINALLY! Glad you posted an update Matt! you have so many well grown palms that are hard to see of any size in the 48 state area, its a treat. Your "D. malcomberi" and orepedionis in particular will serve as a marker of what many can hopefully look forward to in many years!

MORE! (please)

 

and loading fine here Ben..

[Pete in Paradise Hills]

Thanks for sharing!

[realarch]

Nice Madagascar collection, nice specimens! Thanks for the update.

Tim

[Matt in SD]

Zeeth, the Pritchardia I believe is shataueri.  I collected 1 seed from a plant in front of the Hilo zoo, I keyed it out from memory as shattaueri, so maybe, maybe not.

A few more Madagascar plants...

Dypsis saintlucei

 

Dypsis sp.  purchased seed as 'anavakaka' from Ortanique in ~2008.  Looks like 'slick willy'/'bef' but isn't suckering and has been growing much faster for me.

[Matt in SD]

Dypsis sp. 'big red', this is one of my favorites.  For those of you from tropical climates, it may just look like lastelliana, but lastelliana does NOT grow well here.  This one grows great here as you can see.

 

And a smallish Dypsis mananjarensis that is ready to explode

[Matt in SD]

More tomorrow...

[Bill Austin]

Out standing job Matt those are as good an specimen as one could ask for.

[OverGrown]

Awesome garden!

[Pedro 65]

 

 

 

Great growing Matt  looks like the tons of deep rich soil I assume bought in  are paying off well    Can you take a snap of Big Reds streaky spear, they are as you say a hardier Lastelliana indeed..    Pete

 

 

 

[Zeeth]

6 hours ago, Matt in SD said:

Zeeth, the Pritchardia I believe is shataueri.  I collected 1 seed from a plant in front of the Hilo zoo, I keyed it out from memory as shattaueri, so maybe, maybe not.

This one?

[Daryl]

Fantastic collection of beauties there Matt! Keep up the good work.

 

[Ricigliano]

Thank you for sharing pics of you garden. Just beautiful. Keep up the good work Matt.

[Matt in SD]

Forgot to comment on the 'basilonga'...I agree it seems like mahajanga/madagascariensis, or something in that group.  I have true basilonga as well, it's in the background of a few pics.

 

OK, on with New Cal:

Kentiopsis oliviformis

Kentiopsis piersoniorum

Kentiopsis pyriformis

and magnifica

 

 

 

[Matt in SD]

Cyphokentia (moratia) cerifera

Cyphophoenix nucele

[Matt in SD]

Bassenlinia pancheri

Basselinia gracilis sp. dwarf (from RPS seed)

[Matt in SD]

Pritchardias:

P napaliensis

P gordonii

P hardii

 

[Matt in SD]

Pritchardia mitiaroana - Is anyone else growing this?  It's a south pacific species, but unlike others this one is actually doing well here.  Through two winters in the ground and growing fine.

[Alicehunter2000]

 Cool Dypsis Collection 

[Palm Tree Jim]

Outstanding garden......thanks for sharing!

[Chris Chance]

Looks amazing! Everything is so healthy looking! 

[Matt in SD]

3 hours ago, Zeeth said:

This one?

That looks like the palm, but I thought it was on the other side of the entrance.

[Matt in SD]

Some odds and ends...

Lanonia dasyantha (this has only been in the ground a few months, but I did grow it from seed, so not totally cheating).  I have high hopes for this spot.  I tried a couple others in a spot that ended up being windier than I realized and they didn't like it at all.

 

Licuala fordiana

 

Licuala peltata - when I planted this I forgot to put a dripper on it...realized about a year later, which is why the lower fronds are brown, and it perked up nicely.

[Matt in SD]

Veitchia metiti (?) - This was a freebie from JDA and I figured it wouldn't grow here, but it was a 1g so not much work to plant.  It's done really well.  Not really sure of the species.

Latania lontaroides - very surprised how happy this palm seems to be