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Designing with Palms - my new book

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Hello, fellow palm enthusiasts,

My new book, Designing with Palms, has been released and is shipping now! The book is about the many ways that palms can contribute to a beautiful landscape.
After 30+ years of being a member of the International Palm Society, and five years of working on the book (with lots of help from IPS members), I'm very excited to share it with everyone who loves palms and gardens. My photographer colleague, Caitlin Atkinson, and I photographed and learned about gardens on the Big Island of Hawai`i, South Carolina, Miami, Key West, Naples, Broward County, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Caitlin's photographs are beautiful. 
The publisher is Timber Press, who brought out the Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palms by Robert Lee Riffle, Paul Craft, and Scott Zona.
I will have copies to sell so please get in touch if you would like a copy -- and I'm glad to sign them if you would like that.
I will be doing slide lectures in the SF Bay Area this spring, and I hope to be announcing events beyond the Bay as well -- Southern California, South Carolina, Florida -- and maybe Texas and Louisiana and the Pacific Northwest, too. Let me know if you've got ideas for where I should present.
The first event is at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco on March 14, 2018, at 7pm.

Thanks,
Jason Dewees

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Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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Congrats! What an accomplishment!

 

David

Hollywood Hills West, Los Angeles, CA USA

Southwest facing canyon | Altitude 600 - 775 feet | Decomposing granite
USDA Zone 10b | AHS 6 | Sunset Zone 23 | Köppen Csb | No frost or freezes
Average Low 49 F°/9.4 C° | Average High 79 F°/28.8 C° | Average Rainfall 20"/50.8 cm

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I am ordering a copy, I'm working to become a licensed architect, but i want to do landscape design so I think I'll find this book very useful!

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Looking for:  crytostachys hybrids, Pseudophoenix sargentii Leucothrinax morrisii, livingstona canarensis

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@JasonD  Looks like this would be an outstanding read, and I'll be getting a copy.  Let us know if you do a lecture/signing in Florida; especially Tampa or Orlando.

Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

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I love books (and palms) so just ordered this one! if it gives me just one workable suggestion or saves me from one planting mistake it will be well worth the cost. Thanks!

Cindy Adair

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Received my book this weekend. Great photography. Really pretty. Thanks!

Tracy

Stuart, Florida

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So many palms, so little room

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Just got my copy and started reading some today.  Very nice work!  I like looking through the book for landscape ideas already.

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Lakeland, FL

USDA Zone 1990: 9a  2012: 9b  2023: 10a | Sunset Zone: 26 | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962) | Record Low USDA Zone: 9a

30-Year Avg. Low: 30F | 30-year Min: 24F

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JasonD Mentor

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On 3/10/2018, 2:22:36, Josue Diaz said:

Just got my copy! Fantastic job!

Thank you!

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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On 3/14/2018, 4:30:26, ChrisJordanDDS said:

Just got a copy, great work!  Beautiful photography and very well put together!

 

Thanks so much!

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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On 3/12/2018, 5:55:04, kinzyjr said:

Just got my copy and started reading some today.  Very nice work!  I like looking through the book for landscape ideas already.

Many thanks!

 

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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On 3/11/2018, 3:38:46, Tracy S said:

Received my book this weekend. Great photography. Really pretty. Thanks!

Thank you!

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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On 3/10/2018, 4:51:45, Cindy Adair said:

I love books (and palms) so just ordered this one! if it gives me just one workable suggestion or saves me from one planting mistake it will be well worth the cost. Thanks!

It was great to meet you in Colombia.

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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Hello folks,

I'll be doing a slide talk about my book tonight, July 9, at 6pm at the San Diego Horticultural Society meeting in La Jolla. The charge is $15 for non-members, free for members.

Tomorrow night, July 10, 2018, I'll be at the Sherman Library and Gardens in Corona del Mar, near Newport Beach, at 7pm. Free admission.

Come say hi!

Jason

Jason Dewees

Inner Sunset District

San Francisco, California

Sunset zone 17

USDA zone 10a

21 inches / 530mm annual rainfall, mostly October to April

Humidity averages 60 to 85 percent year-round.

Summer: 67F/55F | 19C/12C

Winter: 56F/44F | 13C/6C

40-year extremes: 96F/26F | 35.5C/-3.8C

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Jason, 

Out of curiosity how is this book tailored?

I'm new to palms, but I'm also in a warm 8a cold 8b. So I don't have a lot of the palm options that many folks have here on palm talk enjoy. Is the book grouped into say, Cold hardy Palms for landscaping, then perhaps sub tropical, then tropical sections? 

 

I'm certainly interested in your book, especially since my wife and I are having a house built next year. We purchased a few acres and very much want to create a tropical look. Especially since we have moved from nearly the tundra two years ago. 

 

For now I've pretty much been just lurking in the background learning what I can grow and what I can't, but putting it all together into a landscape is a chapter I haven't even scratched. 

 

Cheers

 

-RJ

 

 

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