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The Palm Nut

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The Palm Nut

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This is a follow up to one Dave posted some time ago but unable to locate it. So started another one.

Cheers

 

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Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Las Palmas Norte Grand Master

Las Palmas Norte

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View from my lower level front window.

 

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Cool vantage point from my hotel room window in Kona last month. 

-dale 

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The Palm Nut Mentor

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1 hour ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

View from my lower level front window.

 

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Things looking a little dry up your way? On the news looks like lots of areas burning. I have seen some of your pictures of palms in your garden quite amazing for your part of the world. I grew up in Vancouver but moved to Australia back in the 70s. 

Cheers 

Mike 

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Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Las Palmas Norte Grand Master

Las Palmas Norte

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16 hours ago, The Palm Nut said:

Things looking a little dry up your way? On the news looks like lots of areas burning. I have seen some of your pictures of palms in your garden quite amazing for your part of the world. I grew up in Vancouver but moved to Australia back in the 70s. 

Cheers 

Mike 

Very dry is the key phrase every summer now. There's little to no summer rain anymore. Vancouver Island is spared to some extend because lightening strikes are rare here and it's the human caused fires that is more of an issue. It's hotter in summers and for longer periods than it was back in the 70's. We had a heat dome 2 years ago when it was 42°C / 106°F and the hot spot Lytton hit 49.6°C / 121°F and the entire town burnt to the ground. Regards, Barrie.

The Palm Nut Mentor

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That was a terrible fire storm that went through Lytton such a beautiful little town. My wife and I went though there in the summer of 2006 and watched the natives catch the salmon from the river. Courtenay is a beautiful place as well went through there on our way to Campbell River. I guess growing palms in around your area can be challenging. How many species of palms are you growing at the moment? Do you need to deal with water restrictions? Here in Port Macquarie we have had plenty of rain over the last couple of years but this summer could bring water restriction back. 

Mike 

 

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Kim Grand Master

Kim

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I remember that thread from 2020 when, you know…

This one is from outside my front door on the lanai looking east at the sunrise  

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A different  morning looking northeast 

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and through the window screen looking north

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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
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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Here’s one out my living room window from a couple days ago.

 

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Out the kitchen window.

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Millbrook, "Kinjarling" Noongar word meaning "Place of Rain", Rainbow Coast, Western Australia 35S. Warm temperate. Csb Koeppen Climate classification. Cool nights all year round.

 

 

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A couple out the back. They call me "Jungle Guy"....

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Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

Solid zone 9, I can expect at least one night in the mid to low twenties every year.

Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

Tracy Grand Master

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Here are some views out windows and doors from my house, but the favorite rooms don't have either windows or doors.

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Tracy Grand Master

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View from the dining room "windows" and view out the doorway from my favorite and most used shower.

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Tracy Grand Master

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Our indoor cats have a nice view out their screen windows too.  They enjoy being with us when we are in the outdoor family room.

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Kim Grand Master

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25 minutes ago, Tracy said:

Our indoor cats have a nice view out their screen windows too.  They enjoy being with us when we are in the outdoor family room.

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Wonderful views from indoors. It was fun wandering though the outdoors at the PSSC meeting last November, thanks for hosting us.

Very cool outdoor cat jungle space! Adorable cats, too! Could you share your source? A family member would appreciate this set up.

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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
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Tracy Grand Master

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2 hours ago, Kim said:

Very cool outdoor cat jungle space! Adorable cats, too! Could you share your source?

Thanks Kim, we actually got it a couple of years ago for a puppy for indoor space for him, then it went back into it's box until my wife had the idea of using it for the two kittens on our deck.  It is a "Cottage View Dog Kennel" nominal area of 5'x5' and came with the tarp cover which is attached with grommets and zip ties.  I don't recall where we ordered it, except I believe it wasn't in stock so had to get it online.  The kittens both love it.

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Kim Grand Master

Kim

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@Tracy, thanks for the info! I will check it out. It looks like a great solution for these cats.

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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The Palm Nut

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8 hours ago, Pal Meir said:

A thunderstorm is brewing …

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How old is yours and do you get viable seed from it. Must be a challenge to keep all those palms you have.

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Pal Meir Grand Master

Pal Meir

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12 minutes ago, The Palm Nut said:

How old is yours and do you get viable seed from it. Must be a challenge to keep all those palms you have.

L insigne N°1401 germinated on 2014-02-14, so it is now 9 1/2 yr old. I hope I will be more lucky with inflorescence #3 …

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5 minutes ago, Pal Meir said:

L insigne N°1401 germinated on 2014-02-14, so it is now 9 1/2 yr old. I hope I will be more lucky with inflorescence #3 …

That's a decent size for its age, well done. I guess keeping palms indoors for a large part of the year you don't want particularly fast growth height wise, unless you have high ceilings.

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Tracy Grand Master

Tracy

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An upstairs bedroom view and family room view at my old home in Carlsbad.

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Wow! that looks great. Do you miss the garden? 

Port Macquarie NSW Australia

Warm temperate to subtropical

Record low of -2C at airport 2006

Pushing the limit of palm survivabilities

Pal Meir Grand Master

Pal Meir

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12 hours ago, The Palm Nut said:

That's a decent size for its age, well done. I guess keeping palms indoors for a large part of the year you don't want particularly fast growth height wise, unless you have high ceilings.

This palm was almost all the year outdoors, except maybe about all together 2 weeks during frosty periods below -2°C.

My photos at flickr: flickr.com/photos/palmeir/albums

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Matured In Wai`anae

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Here’s a couple from my home office window. 

Chambeyronia hookeri, one of them watermelon type.
 

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Keeping this thread alive. If you have a circa early 2000's house then you know about the "TV nook", a pop-out so you can fit your old 4:3 entertainment center into a room. Well, if you remember 4:3 TV's then you probably remember In Living Color (where Jim Carrey got his first big break) and just like Homey the Clown, we don't play that! 

I knocked out the walls, reframed it, super supported the cantilevered "roof" and we put frameless windows in. I had to call people for the stucco and sheetrock. Oh and the glass guy too. I'm a snobby electrician lol. Actually, I'm just not that good at those crafts. Whatever you want to call it. It's just commercial glass stuck together with silicone. The walls became windows. 

This is that view. Now we can see the pond. TV is overrated, cancel your Comcast lol!

 

Arenga on the left of me, pygmy date on my right, here I am stuck in the middle (of my TV nook) with you

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Oakley, California

55 Miles E-NE of San Francisco, CA

Solid zone 9, I can expect at least one night in the mid to low twenties every year.

Hot, dry summers. Cold, wet winters.

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