Portuguese Palms

[petiole10]

A new palm garden still under construction and yet to be tidied and landscaped so the quality of some of the pictures is not doing the justice it might.  A mix of cold hardy palms that are familiar and need no introduction and were imported from my English garden where they were kept in pots. Followed by a work in progress selection of purchases of palms that were (mostly) not suited to the UK but can be grown in my new garden in a 10b zone

Imports:

 

 

Existing palms: on buying the house  Two tall Washingtonia

New palm purchases: Potted inside the porch

Chamaedorea Metallica

Syagrus schizophylla

Archontophoenix Cunninghamania

 

Nuresery seedlings acclimatizing before being put outside full-time:

Dypsis Leptocheilos

 

 

Newly planted palms from recent purchases

Queen palm assortment

Ravanea Rivularis (Majesty Palm)

Brahea Armata (and Rita the dog!)

 

Another Majesty and Queen palm (there are Chamaedorea hooperiana and radicalis under the gazebo which can't be seen clearly in first picture)

Wodyetia bifurcata (Foxtail) seedling:

 

 

Juvenile Livistona decipiens:

Another juvenile Livistona decipiens and Seronoa repens

 

 

 

 There are others, but that will do for the time being

 

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by petiole10

[awkonradi]

Lovely.  Looking forward to updates as they grow.

[PalmatierMeg]

Should be lovely. You've got a great location.

[realarch]

Beautiful property that will only become more so as time goes by. 

Tim 

[lzorrito]

Looking good, J! Looking good!

[Antti]

Very promicing! Like it very much! Don't forget to share them, please! Best regads!

Antti

[petiole10]

Updated.

Finally left chilly northern europe and got to my new home in early June.

Since then its been a case of slowly adding a few new palms to the garden and at the same time dealing with the expanse of weeds that have been able to grow before arrival.

A few of those newcomers :

Chamaedorea seifrizii in the shaded canopy of the porch :
 

 

Juvenile Archontophoenix Cunninghamania next to seifrizii. This is acclimatizing in the shade, and to prevent scorching, before being planted out in time.

 

 

Jubaea chilensis in a section of garden which is still being cleared of weeds ahead of landscaping and a pool put in

 

  

 

Next a few general shots of other sections of garden and their colours. Ahead of plenty more work to come:

 

[awkonradi]

Thanks for the update!  I would not be surprised if the ancestors of that American anole lizard arrived in Europe in a shipment of American palms...or bananas.

[palmfriend]

Thank you for posting! Beautiful pictures! 

It looks like there's a lot that can be grown! 

Please keep us updated!

best regards from Okinawa -

Lars

 

[awkonradi]

22 hours ago, awkonradi said:

Thanks for the update!  I would not be surprised if the ancestors of that American anole lizard arrived in Europe in a shipment of American palms...or bananas.

I know this is PalmTalk, not LizardTalk, but upon closer inspection I realize I was wrong, and that is not an American anole, and it most probably is native Portuguese.

Edited July 24, 2021 by awkonradi

[petiole10]

On 7/24/2021 at 5:37 PM, awkonradi said:

I know this is PalmTalk, not LizardTalk, but upon closer inspection I realize I was wrong, and that is not an American anole, and it most probably is native Portuguese.

Its the youngest lizard I have seen so far - some of the larger ones have an almost prehistoric look to them. Fascinating creatures!

Archontophoenix cunninghamania juvenile palm in the ribbed pot in one of the pictures above is now planted out at the very beginning of what I call 'palm alley' - a section of one of the main gardens.

Its next to a Musa banana and a juvenile Syragus schizophylla

 

Palm alley constitutes 5 Washingtonia one side and on the other side in addition to the newly planted palms, is a Butia, two Queen palms, a Trachycarpus, a  very young Foxtail palms and a Beaucarnea recurvata (or Ponytail palm)

 

 

[petiole10]

Some more latest pics: