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Your ultimate palmy day?

Neil C

By Neil C
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Neil C Mentor

Neil C

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I would love to know what others here would classify as their perfect palmy experience? Maybe a trip to Floribunda or day on the peak of Lord Howe Island? I'm sure most of you on here have something you dream of doing or may have done already.

I'd personally would love to visit Vakona lodge to check out the Dypsis black stems and maybe grab some seeds. A visit to Nong Nooch would be up there as well.

However my number one palm related day would be a trip to a wholesale nursery in maybe Spain or Italy to pick out a few good sized Chamaerops cerifera and vulcanos.

Please chip in with yours.

Regards Neil

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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I certainly would love to go back to Vallée de Mai, Praslin island, Seychelles, seeing again this Lodoicea-Deckenia-Nephrosperma-Verschaffeltia-Phoeniicophorium
wild boulder landscape. :)

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

Darold Petty Grand Master

Darold Petty

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My best palm day was the Mt. Gower hike on Lord Howe Island.  I will return, and stay longer ! 

The spadix of ripe seed is Lepidorrhachis.

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CLINODAVE Community Regular

CLINODAVE

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I would love to return to Sarawak to gaze again at the vistas of Oncosperma tigillarium palms cloaking the hillsides near Bako National Park.  This pic is from last summer's Biennial expedition to Borneo and Singapore.

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doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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This pic is from last summer's Biennial expedition to Borneo and Singapore.

Maybe I missed many many threads, or maybe most of IPS biennal expedition members never posted any pic, it's why I thank you very much for posting.

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

Neil C Mentor

Neil C

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Nice to see a good selection so far. Please feel free to add yours even if it's at a much less exotic location than already posted. 

Regards Neil

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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Just few pics of Vallée de Mai, Praslin island, Seychelles (you can find the thread with the search engine)

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Maybe you can understand why it was for me a very happy palmy experience.

 

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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38 minutes ago, Pal Meir said:

Not the ultimate, but a very palmy day in the (at present) largest Satakentia grove:

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Strange how the roots are developing above the soil level, how do you explain that, Pal Meir?

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

PalmTreeDude Grand Master

PalmTreeDude

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Hilton Head Island, many botanical gardens, a lot!

PalmTreeDude

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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5 minutes ago, PalmTreeDude said:

Hilton Head Island, many botanical gardens, a lot!

Where is that? (not very close to Switzerland I think)

Any picture?
Which species are growing there?

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

PalmTreeDude Grand Master

PalmTreeDude

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Just now, doranakandawatta said:

Where is that? (not very close to Switzerland I think)

Any picture?
Which species are growing there?

Hilton Head? Or botanical gardens?

PalmTreeDude

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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Just now, PalmTreeDude said:

Hilton Head? Or botanical gardens?

Hilton Head, Thanks

I understand that beside Hilton Head Island I don't know (sorry), you mentioned many botanical gardens you like elsewhere ( in USA, or ?)

BTW the botanic garden I liked was Singapore Botanic Garden but the one I love is the old Peradeniya Royal Botanic Garden in Kandy.

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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Not the ultimate, but a very palmy day in the (at present) largest Satakentia grove

Pal Meir, I can see the yellow Audi in the background :D

 
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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

PalmTreeDude Grand Master

PalmTreeDude

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Just now, doranakandawatta said:

Hilton Head, Thanks

I understand that beside Hilton Head Island I don't know (sorry), you mentioned many botanical gardens you like elsewhere ( in USA, or ?)

BTW the botanic garden I liked was Singapore Botanic Garden but the one I love is the old Peradeniya Royal Botanic Garden in Kandy.

Hilton Head Island, off of the coast of South Carolina, USA, was crazy with palms! The most I have ever seen in one area! There were only three natives, Saw Palmetto, Sabal palmetto, and Sabal minor. Here are some pictures. The woods were filled with palms and so was the coast line and they sprouted everywhere they could. (Posting more pics after this.)

 

 

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PalmTreeDude

PalmTreeDude Grand Master

PalmTreeDude

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Nice robusta with these pics.

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PalmTreeDude

PalmTreeDude Grand Master

PalmTreeDude

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Nice queen palm in this one. Hilton Head Island, S.C. 

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Kim Grand Master

Kim

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Yes, the Seychelles would be awesome.  Hope I get there someday.

Right now I truly appreciate the thought of simply spending a full day working in my Hawaii garden.  Get dirty, sweaty; remove a ton of weeds, fertilize and primp the palms. Finish the day with a beer in the tea house, admiring the results and giving a critical eye to what to do next. That is my ideal palmy day.

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Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
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Palm Tree Jim Grand Master

Palm Tree Jim

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4 minutes ago, Kim said:

Yes, the Seychelles would be awesome.  Hope I get there someday.

Right now I truly appreciate the thought of simply spending a full day working in my Hawaii garden.  Get dirty, sweaty; remove a ton of weeds, fertilize and primp the palms. Finish the day with a beer in the tea house, admiring the results and giving a critical eye to what to do next. That is my ideal palmy day.

Now that is a great palmy day!

doranakandawatta Grand Master

doranakandawatta

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Finish the day with a beer in the tea house, admiring the results and giving a critical eye to what to do next. That is my ideal palmy day.

OMG, Kim, I am so much looking forward to share the same feeling, maybe next week in my jungle.:D

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Philippe

 

Jungle Paradise in Sri Lanka

 

Steve Mac Grand Master

Steve Mac

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Well Neil, we are not hard to please, every time that we look out our backdoor,

we appreciate it as much as the other magnificent exotic places that we see when we travel

and when we armchair travel on this site to other gardens. I should have made these 3 pics a panoramic really.

Out the backdoor to the left,

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Straight out,

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and to the right.

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It does not look all that palmy and there are no rare palms here, and it is only a very small garden, 17m X15m,

but there are over 60 species stuffed in there including 2 dozen Chamaedorea, and that is enough, the garden is complete.

We are really happy and contented with what we have, so every day is a great palmy day for us.

It is an ultimate palmy day whenever we can show a fellow enthusiast through it, and let them pick some seeds. 

 

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Cheers Steve

It is not dead, it is just senescence.

   

 

 

Mandrew968 Grand Master

Mandrew968

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I have had many, hunting for deals in the Redlands with my Dad. Those days when you feel on top and you are with your best friend. Yeah, there are palms, but it's not about the palms. 

I want to go to Colombia to see the Ceroxylon with my wife, but it wouldn't be half as fun, if I see it without her...

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