No Small Thing

[realarch]

In the garden it seems that most of the action is on the ground and I often forget to look up. After finding this frond, my memory was refreshed remembering how tall this Chambeyronia macrocarpa had gotten. This was one of the first palms I planted back in late 2008, such a small wispy thing back then.

Let’s see the ones in your garden. 

Tim 

[realarch]

Couldn’t get a shot of the entire palm, too mucho their stuff in the way. So, here’s a couple more photos.

Tim

[Bazza]

It's a beautiful palm. Mine got killed in the 2010 winter. It never got higher than about 6 feet in height though. It was a double trunk.

They are gorgeous when they get a little size on them......absolutely gorgeous......

[Tracy]

4 hours ago, realarch said:

This was one of the first palms I planted back in late 2008, such a small wispy thing back then.

Let’s see the ones in your garden. 

Amazing growth.  I planted one about that time but put it in a partially shaded spot under a large established Syagrus romanzoffiana.  It struggled due to competition for water with the Syagrus before I removed the Syagrus.  I paid someone to remove all my Syagrus romanzoffiana in Carlsbad, because I also had about 50 I was pulling from the new garden in Leucadia at the time.  They did a lousy job extracting the Chambeyronia next to the Syagrus and it died, so I had to start over in late 2010.  Mine aren't anywhere near the size of yours, just a couple of feet of trunk last time I was in the back yard in Carlsbad.  I planted two C hookeri in the replanting of 2010.  What a difference a climate will make!!   No current photos of those two and only one smaller one here in Leucadia with no trunk.

What we measure here in years of growth, you seem to measure in months there on the Big Island!    I also learned a lesson. If I want to transplant something, I dig it myself.