Delivery from Floribunda

[PalmatierMeg]

Recently, someone posted a request for postings of members' palm purchases from Floribunda. Yesterday, I found a box on my front porch at Prices' (0.61) Paradise Acre when I got home from the grocery store. I documented my expedition of discovery in the following photos

Unopened box so tantalizing

I opened my box - lots of packing

Just underneath, the first palm takes a look at its new home. Pelagadoxa henryana

Shipping container is unloaded. I spent a couple hours potting up all the bareroot seedlings and gathered everything together.

Contents of 1g pots in black container

Back row: Linospadix palmeriana, Heterospathe cagayensis, Heterospathe delicatula, Heterospathe woodfordiana

Front row: Areca novohibernica, Chamaedorea sartorii, Linospadix minor, Heterospathe woodfordiana

Left of container: Rear - Areca oxycarpa; Front - Pelagadoxa henryana

Palms to right of container: Rear - Areca ipot; Front - Calyptrogyne costatifrons v occidentalis

Palms in front of container in 1g pots, left to right: Linospadix palmeriana, Chamaedorea deckeriana, Iguanura tenuis, Dypsis bosseri

Palms in front of container in small pots: Dypsis forcifolia x2, Dypsis coriacea x2, Pinanga ridleyana

Dypsis coriacea x2

Dypsis forcifolia x2

Pinanga ridleyana

 

[Alicehunter2000]

Are you trying to make Mandrew jealous?  .... don't think I recognize a single species you mentioned....wait a minute....your making me jealous. ...because I don't recognize a single species you got AND the fact that you can grow them there. 

[Josh-O]

keep us posted on how they all do for you

sounds like a very fun project

[Palmaceae]

Looks great Meg, I have yet to order anything from Floribunda, looks like I am missing out!

[PalmatierMeg]

Thanks, Randy & Josh.

David, remains to be seen whether I can grow them here. The Linospadix spp will be a challenge because of my long, sultry summers. In a few weeks this latest one will be over.

[Walt]

In the sixth photo (group, showing all the palms), what are the sizes? I was going through their palm list the other day (I have never ordered before), and wondered just what the sizes looked like (e.g. seedling, 4-inch, 1-gallon, etc.).

After seeing your lovely order it is starting to get my adrenaline going, so as to order some new species of palms. Nice haul.

[topwater]

Wow!  Will you attempt to plant the P. henryana or keep it potted? My understanding is that its cold tolerance is still uncertain due to its rarity in cultivation.  Are you 10 a or b?  Awesome group of palms, congrats!  

[GoatLockerGuns]

Nice!

[PalmatierMeg]

24 minutes ago, Walt said:

In the sixth photo (group, showing all the palms), what are the sizes? I was going through their palm list the other day (I have never ordered before), and wondered just what the sizes looked like (e.g. seedling, 4-inch, 1-gallon, etc.).

After seeing your lovely order it is starting to get my adrenaline going, so as to order some new species of palms. Nice haul.

Walt, no 1g in this order, although the Arecas in 4" pots qualify as 1g in my book. Everything in 1g pots are seedlings I potted up. Some are quite small but they are so hard to find as seeds, I took the risk. Normally I order 4" or 1g size. Floribunda doesn't skimp on size. Everything wrapped in foil is 4". This morning I removed the foil and put them in the shade to acclimate to their harsher climate. I won't repot them till I have to. Floribunda pots its stuff in black lava rock.

[PalmatierMeg]

31 minutes ago, topwater said:

Wow!  Will you attempt to plant the P. henryana or keep it potted? My understanding is that its cold tolerance is still uncertain due to its rarity in cultivation.  Are you 10 a or b?  Awesome group of palms, congrats!  

The P. henryana will probably stay potted. I don't think it can deal with my alkaline soil. Recent posts on PT gave me confidence this palm may not be as cold sensitive as I thought. Its leaves are quite thick like my Hydriastele dransfieldii now in the shade garden after it outgrew the lanai. I'm normally a 10a but the past several winters have been 10b bordering on 11. That will probably change with La Nina. The winter of 2009/10 was closer to 9b.

[realarch]

Wow Meg! Going for the gold there, impressive batch of babies. Best to Tim

Tim

[topwater]

The difference in half a grow zone is amazing. My place is 9b, but since I've lived here (26 years), over half of my winters have been 10b, most of the rest 10a, but the handful of low twenties are a game changer.  

 

 

 

[topwater]

Here's a pic of C. costaifrons (tiny and suffering), and A. oxycarpa (loving it so far).  If they can hang, they they get planted in my atrium.  If not, compost.     I'm curious as to how yours do. 

 

[PalmatierMeg]

32 minutes ago, realarch said:

Wow Meg! Going for the gold there, impressive batch of babies. Best to Tim

Tim

Thanks, Tim. Our best to you too.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

That's a really nice group, Meg..... wishing the best of growing for them all!

[topwater]

[PalmatierMeg]

22 minutes ago, topwater said:

The difference in half a grow zone is amazing. My place is 9b, but since I've lived here (26 years), over half of my winters have been 10b, most of the rest 10a, but the handful of low twenties are a game changer.  

 

 

 

The low 20s are killer temps for anything tropical. We got down top 28.5F once and I lost 30 species of palms.

[PalmatierMeg]

1 minute ago, Rusty on Pine Is. said:

That's a really nice group, Meg..... wishing the best of growing for them all!

Thanks, Rusty. They'd love life on Pine Island. Oh well.

[topwater]

There. 

Edited September 10, 2016 by topwater

[PalmatierMeg]

4 minutes ago, topwater said:

Sorry, C. costaifrons (tiny, suffering), and A. oxycarpa (so far so good).  If they live they get planted in the atrium, otherwise,  

hay.  

I tried Calyptrogyne on a hunch. Your Areca looks great. Arecas generally do during rainy season. Winters are another matter, which is why all mine live in pots that sit on rolling dollies so I can pull them inside and out. Watch out for spider mites when dry season comes. Arecas seem to attract them like they were magnetized. Problems begin when dry season does. Check them often and keep a really good miticide handy. I lost an A. hutchinsoniana when those monsters swarmed it last autumn.

[dmc]

Looking forward to see how these do for you Meg!  Thanks

Dominic 

[Palms4Steve]

Very nice.  Great selection.

[PalmTreeDude]

Well this helps me out with online stores, I only trust a few, Floribunda looks trusted! 

[PalmatierMeg]

Floribunda is the best. Minimums are high but I pack money into my Paypal acct to make a purchase about once a year. Makes the arrival that much more fun. Some people combine orders to reach the minimum.

[PalmTreeDude]

33 minutes ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Floribunda is the best. Minimums are high but I pack money into my Paypal acct to make a purchase about once a year. Makes the arrival that much more fun. Some people combine orders to reach the minimum.

The only thing I don't like, well, about the site, is that it looks outdated and is kind of, at least for me, confusing to use.

[Walt]

4 hours ago, PalmatierMeg said:

Walt, no 1g in this order, although the Arecas in 4" pots qualify as 1g in my book. Everything in 1g pots are seedlings I potted up. Some are quite small but they are so hard to find as seeds, I took the risk. Normally I order 4" or 1g size. Floribunda doesn't skimp on size. Everything wrapped in foil is 4". This morning I removed the foil and put them in the shade to acclimate to their harsher climate. I won't repot them till I have to. Floribunda pots its stuff in black lava rock.

Thanks for the info, Meg. Your photos help me a lot. I've been wanting to place an order for months now. I would prefer to purchase 1-gallon sizes as a minimum, but I understand due to availability and rarity and demand, etc., one must sometimes take what's available, even if they are only seedling sizes. I would much prefer to buy a seedling than seeds -- so as to save all the germination to seedling stage time.

[Kris]

Dear Meg,

Wish you all the best.And happy palm growing.

Love,

Kris.

[doranakandawatta]

Dear Meg,

 I share the happiness one has when opening such a parcel.
Very kindly I offer asylum in Doranakanda gardens to all your palms you can't make growing in your garden. don't worry 

[Alicehunter2000]

15 hours ago, PalmTreeDude said:

The only thing I don't like, well, about the site, is that it looks outdated and is kind of, at least for me, confusing to use.

Don't be confused. Download the price list,  mark what you want, meet the minimum, call Jeff if any issues. I faxed my order and spoke with him on the phone a couple of times. He will let you know any of his thoughts on your order. He is probably one of the most knowledgeable dudes on the planet concerning germinating and growing the largest variety of palms. Responsible for the spread of little known species worldwide. He may be in some weird destination like Borneo collecting seed so sometimes you have to be patient.

[PalmTreeDude]

6 minutes ago, Alicehunter2000 said:

Don't be confused. Download the price list,  mark what you want, meet the minimum, call Jeff if any issues. I faxed my order and spoke with him on the phone a couple of times. He will let you know any of his thoughts on your order. He is probably one of the most knowledgeable dudes on the planet concerning germinating and growing the largest variety of palms. Responsible for the spread of little known species worldwide. He may be in some weird destination like Borneo collecting seed so sometimes you have to be patient.

So that is how it works! Thank you, I kept thinking that I would have to just click on a palm, and click order, thank you for letting me know, I will sure order from them in the future!

Edited September 11, 2016 by PalmTreeDude

[Alicehunter2000]

Nah....he's old school...lol

[PalmatierMeg]

1 hour ago, Alicehunter2000 said:

Don't be confused. Download the price list,  mark what you want, meet the minimum, call Jeff if any issues. I faxed my order and spoke with him on the phone a couple of times. He will let you know any of his thoughts on your order. He is probably one of the most knowledgeable dudes on the planet concerning germinating and growing the largest variety of palms. Responsible for the spread of little known species worldwide. He may be in some weird destination like Borneo collecting seed so sometimes you have to be patient.

David is correct. I print the price list & order blank, then comb through the list for possible candidates. I mark those with arrows (definite choice) or ? (maybe). Then I get out my palm books to research all my choices. I spend a couple days rejiggering my list - I'm a natural egghead, so it's a blast. Finally I draft my list on an order blank, calculate total cost, then ink it onto another order sheet. I scan that into my computer, save as a pdf file which I attach to an e-mail to Jeff to confirm he has stock available. I do that rather than play phone tag but you can call him. And I don't have to deal with snail mail, checks or money orders that take more time.  After he answers I transfer payment from my Paypal account to Floribunda's. He e-mails me when the parcel goes out. When I receive my palms, he includes a shipping/handling charge with the packing slip. I pay that within 24 hours.

[Kim]

Oh man.  You know how to make us drool!  Sometimes I think I don't "need" any more palms, then along comes a thread like this! The heart rate increases while looking at your new treasures...   If looking at the price list gets your adrenaline going, try showing up in person.  Sensory overload, and making choices becomes a real dilemma.

Thanks for sharing your bounty!

[jardinierpalmiertrat]

amazing!!!!!!, merry christmas!!!!!!

[topwater]

Iguanura is a genus that has taken me a while to appreciate, but now I adore.  I. tenuis was a new one on me, I hope it does well for you.