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My Bali palm garden

Harmless Games

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A small sampling of my palm garden here in Bali. Mostly coco nacifura (9 currently) 3 originals on the land and 5 transplants. Of the 3 originals 2 are fully mature around 6-7 meter trunks, and one might be a different species as it’s also mature but only 3 meter trunk and what they call Kepala mas (golden coconut) here. Which I’m told never gets very tall and has golden yellow coconuts. Ive also planted plenty of butterfly palms, a sago palm, and a few travelers palms which seem to be doing ok despite the hot and extremely dry climate here. 

    I had some Issues with the newly problematic palm rhino beetle in my area and saved the two mature palms despite the crowns being heavily damaged early on, 1.5 years later the crowns are finally back to their original glory. Now that the house build is finished I’m very much looking forward to seeing how these palms mature and fill in the landscape. Thought I’d share some photos from my side of the work as it seems I’m uniquely blessed to live somewhere where cold weather and more importantly cost are not prohibitive to having a lush mature palm plantation. 

     Enjoy! And any advice is gladly received. 

 

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Serene and wonderful.

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Very nice setting there.  I like it

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What a wonderful place to putter in the garden.

You mentioned treating some of the cocos for beetles -- I wonder if in photo 5, taken from the perspective of the hammock, if the palm that looks upside down is one that was treated? I only ask because the leaflets on the fronds appear to have an unusual shape.

Nice to see a hammock actually in use! :)

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and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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On 3/7/2019 at 4:14 AM, Kim said:

What a wonderful place to putter in the garden.

You mentioned treating some of the cocos for beetles -- I wonder if in photo 5, taken from the perspective of the hammock, if the palm that looks upside down is one that was treated? I only ask because the leaflets on the fronds appear to have an unusual shape.

Nice to see a hammock actually in use! :)

Yes these two mature palms are in the process of being treated, in that hammock photo you can see the diagonal lines cut by the rhino beetles in the fronds. I’ll try to find some photos of the heavily damaged crowns before and after treatment.

 

before:

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After 1 year of treatment:  I was giving these guys about a 50/50 shot of surviving as the crown was heavily damaged and nearly all the new fronds were chewed down to 1/5 their natural size. Thankfully I got to it in time before the heart got damaged! Now they’re looking lush and healthy again 

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Lucky you caught it in time! Nice recovery.

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
All characters  in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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Can you say relaxed tropical beauty...Thank You!

What you look for is what is looking

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Beautiful garden - thank you for posting! Saya di pulau Bali 18 tahun dulu... Indah sekali! :D

If I may ask - how and with what do you treat such tall palms...? We have got similar beetles over here

and I was wondering how to protect my palms when getting taller...

 

best regards from Okinawa and 

Sampai nanti ;)

Lars

 

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5 hours ago, palmfriend said:

Beautiful garden - thank you for posting! Saya di pulau Bali 18 tahun dulu... Indah sekali! :D

If I may ask - how and with what do you treat such tall palms...? We have got similar beetles over here

and I was wondering how to protect my palms when getting taller...

 

best regards from Okinawa and 

Sampai nanti ;)

Lars

 

Pintar skli bahasa Indonesia ya, senang ketemu anda Lars.

So to treat the palms I use a systemic insecticide called Confidor sprayed into the crown twice a month. Sadly when the palms are tall Like this it means someone has to climb them and spray manually, so it’s a bit of a mission. Thankfully lots of the guys around here are skilled climbers and not afraid of heights! I’ve heard you can also drill into the trunk and install a tube and syringe to inject the medication, as it’s systemic it’ll move up to the crown on its own, but that’s just what I heard, no personal experience myself.491EB049-0C40-4A68-ABC4-F5495187028B.thumb.jpeg.11543f2bc0ac653007e5b81b66bfecde.jpeg491EB049-0C40-4A68-ABC4-F5495187028B.thumb.jpeg.11543f2bc0ac653007e5b81b66bfecde.jpeg

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On 3/10/2019 at 7:29 PM, Harmless Games said:

Pintar skli bahasa Indonesia ya, senang ketemu anda Lars.

So to treat the palms I use a systemic insecticide called Confidor sprayed into the crown twice a month. Sadly when the palms are tall Like this it means someone has to climb them and spray manually, so it’s a bit of a mission. Thankfully lots of the guys around here are skilled climbers and not afraid of heights! I’ve heard you can also drill into the trunk and install a tube and syringe to inject the medication, as it’s systemic it’ll move up to the crown on its own, but that’s just what I heard, no personal experience myself.491EB049-0C40-4A68-ABC4-F5495187028B.thumb.jpeg.11543f2bc0ac653007e5b81b66bfecde.jpeg491EB049-0C40-4A68-ABC4-F5495187028B.thumb.jpeg.11543f2bc0ac653007e5b81b66bfecde.jpeg

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Nick,

Thank you very much for the explanation and the additional images. 

(I have a friend from Fiji over here, may be he can help me out with the climbing ;) )

I am going to check the insecticide out, it is possibly available over here as well -

however, thank you very much again,

best regards

Lars

 

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On 3/13/2019 at 3:40 AM, wimmie said:

Where's the Lipstick?:huh:

Ahhh the lipstick palm, I do have one small one which has been struggling on for about 2 years now, basically done nothing but lose fronds. I was too ashamed to post pictures

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I know it’s not a true palm but rather a cycadaceae but I’m crazy psyched to see my sago palm sending up new fronds this week!! Crazy what a plant that saves energy all year can do in 5 days... I think when my wife gets on me about being lazy I’ll give her the ol’ sago palm argument.

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1 hour ago, Harmless Games said:

Ahhh the lipstick palm, I do have one small one which has been struggling on for about 2 years now, basically done nothing but lose fronds. I was too ashamed to post pictures

Lipstick palm loves lots of water and can grow right in it. I have this palm and the pot is half submerged in water. 

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On 4/5/2019 at 10:56 PM, Harmless Games said:

And finally 5 days later, so happy

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I agree!

It is amazing how fast those new leaves are growing - they are soft and look weak at the beginning but turn immediately into something 

almost "non-destroyable" quite soon. We have plenty of them down here on our island, I have got one close to my main door, looking at

it every day I come home from work - absolutely amazing! 

If it is ok, I am going to provide a photo as well - but at the moment we are close to midnight - so I'll be back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

best regards from Okinawa -

Lars

 

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