Let's share palm-progression pics

[Jdiaz31089]

I was going through some old pictures on my photobucket accounts and thought it would be fun to share some before & now pictures of palmy landscapes. I use to take pictures periodically to help me track growth, but I stopped at some point. I really think I should pick this back up though.

Anyway, this should be a fun thread to see what some of our palmy creations have turned into over time! Go ahead and share some of yours!

This was my first landscape project in Chowchilla, CA. My parents were gracious enough to let me experiment with their front yard. This is from summer 2003.

This was summer of 2008, when the palm bug bit me. We planted queens, and a majesty palm.

This is the ravenea rivularis from Summer 2011. Unfortunately, my parents decided to move this palm in the fall of 2015 and it didn't take the move well at all. It lost all of it's fronds, then sulked through winter 2015, and the spear finally pulled in summer 2016. 

Lastly, this is a picture from this past New Year's weekend. The Butia was added sometime after 2008 - possibly in 2009 or so. AND of course, now that the queens are high up, I had to plant something to take up the empty space beneath! I planted a beccariophoenix alfredii and a butyagrus nabonnandii (not pictured). The beccariophoenix is just the right of the large agave in the middle, and the mule palm is to the right of that, along the property line. 

Edited January 4, 2017 by Jdiaz31089

[Pando]

Dypsis rosea or pinnatifrons (var. Maroantsetra)

[Flow]

Can't quite keep up with you guys but I believe my little Waggy hasn't done too bad:

2012

2016 seen from the other side.

[kinzyjr]

[Tracy]

May 2013 Dypsis pembana along a new wall which replaced a fence. That same wall in December 2016 with the Dypsis pembana, the aloes and Cycas thouarsii.  Two different angles, but the change is still easy to identify.

[Palmaceae]

Here is a 2 year span,

 

[Ben in Norcal]

I have posted these before, but I'll play nonetheless.  JxS I planted when my daughter was born in May 2014.  Next update coming May 2017!

May 2014:

 

May 2015:

 

May 2016: 

[enigma99]

42 minutes ago, Ben in Norcal said:

I have posted these before, but I'll play nonetheless.  JxS I planted when my daughter was born in May 2014.  Next update coming May 2017!

May 2014:

 

May 2015:

 

May 2016: 

You'll have another pic coming in few months! Time is really flying. Good idea, I wish I would done the same thing with my little ones

[coops 3214]

[coops 3214]

Just now, coops 3214 said:

Thats 18months apart really gaining girth, 

[coops 3214]

Theres another shot almost 18 months apart

[Pal Meir]

Trachycarpus wagnerianus (since 2007 outdoors in Heidelberg/DE) March 2014 vs Dec 2016:

[Jdiaz31089]

14 hours ago, Palmaceae said:

Here is a 2 year span

Wow! Those cocos look amazing. Great job. 

11 hours ago, coops 3214 said:

Is this a butia x syagrus? I have a young one of those. Great palm!

[coops 3214]

1 hour ago, Jdiaz31089 said:

Wow! Those cocos look amazing. Great job. 

Is this a butia x syagrus? I have a young one of those. Great palm!

Yeah it is i picked it up just over  2 years aho as a lucky score

[kinzyjr]

Found another one while hunting around on my hard drive.

[Jdiaz31089]

4 minutes ago, kinzyjr said:

Found another one while hunting around on my hard drive.

Awesome! Looks like phoenix roebelenii and phoenix dactylifera? Did I miss any?

[kinzyjr]

4 minutes ago, Jdiaz31089 said:

Awesome! Looks like phoenix roebelenii and phoenix dactylifera? Did I miss any?

Actually, you hit them on the head.  Pretty impressive since there is not even half of the dactylifera showing!  The Roebi's were bought from a big box store, the dacty's were seed grown.

If you want a better view of some of the plants, I have a few close up pics here:

http://www.palmtalk.org/forum/index.php?/topic/52296-palms-and-others-of-interest/

Edited January 5, 2017 by kinzyjr
Add link for closeups

[Tracy]

Day 2 of my remodel in October 2013 with the Kentiopsis oliviformis to the left which was planted in late 2010.  Also in the distance against the fence on the far side a Burretiokentia hapala and Dypsis pembana which were also planted late in 2010.  The second photo is now in 2017 from a similar perspective, with only The K.o. visible from the previous shot.  The B hapala and D pembana survived the construction, but just aren't visible yet.... eventually I hope they will be seen over the top of my roof from the back

[Jdiaz31089]

This is my latest project. I started with this in 2012. We removed all of the shrubbery. The lawn was removed in sections during 2013 and 2014. The ash tree on the left was removed this past summer 2016 to make room for... you guessed it! Palms! I have a 1-gallon beccariophoenix in it's place now.

These are pictures from summer 2016. Since then, the hopseed bushes were removed - they were only put there to give vertical interest while other plants filled in. 

And this is a side of the side yard where we have our dog run. See if you can spot a small caryota mitis

 

 

[Jdiaz31089]

18 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Day 2 of my remodel in October 2013 with the Kentiopsis oliviformis to the left which was planted in late 2010.  Also in the distance against the fence on the far side a Burretiokentia hapala and Dypsis pembana which were also planted late in 2010.  The second photo is now in 2017 from a similar perspective, with only The K.o. visible from the previous shot.  The B hapala and D pembana survived the construction, but just aren't visible yet.... eventually I hope they will be seen over the top of my roof from the back

That Kentiopsis!! 

[Tracy]

Same timeline, with the poor little Burretiokentia hapala and Dypsis pembana which were getting beat up during the construction in 10/2013, and now looking from my front porch in 1/2017.  The Dypsis lanceolata was there in 2013, but just out of the frame, to the left of the Burretiokentia.  The lanceolata has been the slowest of the three.

[enigma99]

Using a before/after iOS App, I was able to make these. 2009 -> 2016. 

 

 

[Palmaceae]

Here are a couple more, about a 2 year span,

 

 

[enigma99]

2 hours ago, Palmaceae said:

Here are a couple more, about a 2 year span

I think it is amazing how fast coconits grow when they are happy and get plenty of heat

[Danilopez89]

March 2012 - December 2016

[GottmitAlex]

Great before and after pictures, folks!

 

[Danilopez89]

Notice not a clowd in sight...

I live in the "City of Eternal Sunshine"

Doesn't get any better...

Edited January 6, 2017 by Danilopez89
eternal eternity

[Sabal Steve]

12 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

Trachycarpus wagnerianus (since 2007 outdoors in Heidelberg/DE) March 2014 vs Dec 2016:

What other plants do you have in the ground, Pal?

Your Trachy looks great.

[Brett in Mission Viejo]

[DoomsDave]

Brett, when was that first picture taken?

2001?

[Pal Meir]

7 hours ago, The Steve said:

What other plants do you have in the ground, Pal?

Your Trachy looks great.

Only a second T wagnerianus, planted in March 2014 in the ground as substitute for another one frozen in February 2012:

PS: The palm in the former photos germinated in *2003 too, not in *2004.

[Brett in Mission Viejo]

10 hours ago, DoomsDave said:

Brett, when was that first picture taken?

2001?

Dave, that picture was taken on February 16, 2003. The Royal had been in the ground for about 18 months from a 5 gallon.

[Palm Tree Jim]

Great thread!

[Palm Tree Jim]

12 hours ago, Brett in Mission Viejo said:

Very cool Brett!

Some difference.

[Pando]

1 hour ago, Brett in Mission Viejo said:

Dave, that picture was taken on February 16, 2003. The Royal had been in the ground for about 18 months from a 5 gallon.

15 years from 5g, dang, that royal has gone to the moon!

[sur4z]

I bought this guy at a Fairchild Gardens sale

[PalmatierMeg]

I'll play!

Hemithrinax ekmanii: 2009

Hemithrinax ekmanii: 2012

Hemithrinax ekmanii: 2014

Hemithrinax ekmanii: 2016

[PalmatierMeg]

Also -

Sabal palmetto Lisa: 2011

Sabal palmetto Lisa: 2012

Sabal palmetto Lisa: 2014

Sabal palmetto Lisa: 2015

Sabal palmetto Lisa: 2016

[Tracy]

1 hour ago, PalmatierMeg said:

I'll play!

Hemithrinax ekmanii: 2009

A little more subtle changes, but rewarding all the same with this one.  Great sequence of its growth!

[Mohsen]

as I am very new in palm world, dont expect 10 - 15 years progression, the most noticeable I can offer is my Ravenea rivularis,

planted 13 months ago, from a 200 cm pot from Bunnings... it gets fatter, now its girth is bigger the pot it was in 13 months ago, I water it as much as I can  

13 months ago,

now :