Garden pictures

[Borosbobo]

As summer and the heat arrived to Hungary I will post some pictures of my garden 😁

Palms and plants that I have planted outside:

Phoenix canariensis

Phoenix Sylvestris

Butia Capitata

Brahea Armata

Sabal Palmetto

Trachycarpus fortunei

Trachycarpus fortunei x takil

Chamaerops humilis

Syagrus Romanzoffiana

Rhapis excelsa

Washingtonia Filifera

Cyathea Australis

Dicksonia Antarctica

Cycas Revoluta (and another type of cycas which I have no idea how is it called)

Lots of type of yuccas, agaves, alocasias, colocasias and others 🙂

 

 

[Kim]

It's a lovely garden with wonderful views and a fine collection!  Very nice! I wouldn't have expected to see such a tropical look in Hungary, well done.

I hesitate to mention, but ... If it were me, I would not be so hasty trimming up the Brahea so high and tight. I like the look of a fuller crown. 

[Borosbobo]

38 minutes ago, Kim said:

It's a lovely garden with wonderful views and a fine collection!  Very nice! I wouldn't have expected to see such a tropical look in Hungary, well done.

I hesitate to mention, but ... If it were me, I would not be so hasty trimming up the Brahea so high and tight. I like the look of a fuller crown. 

Thank you!

 

I agree! But I bought the Brahea, Sabal and Sylvestris this year they were all trimmed up like this. But I will def kerp their crowns fuller

[bruce Steele]

Bananas in Balaton. Good on you . Grapes still have an appeal however,  Hungary is beautiful , great apricots and cherries. Farmers markets are great, food is great if you can handle the calories. 
 Hungarian pigs on my farm in Calif.

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[Borosbobo]

7 hours ago, bruce Steele said:

Bananas in Balaton. Good on you . Grapes still have an appeal however,  Hungary is beautiful , great apricots and cherries. Farmers markets are great, food is great if you can handle the calories. 
 Hungarian pigs on my farm in Calif.

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Excatly! We love going to farmer’s market.

oh wow 🤣 their fat is the best and healthiest to eat!

[Axel Amsterdam]

What a great collection and beautiful location. Can you tell us a bit more about the age of the garden and the winter climate?

[happypalms]

Argh lake Balaton such a beautiful lake to swim in a beautiful collection great garden I recommend a lanonia dasyantha and chamaedorea radicalis to add to your collection.

[happypalms]

9 hours ago, bruce Steele said:

Bananas in Balaton. Good on you . Grapes still have an appeal however,  Hungary is beautiful , great apricots and cherries. Farmers markets are great, food is great if you can handle the calories. 
 Hungarian pigs on my farm in Calif.

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You forgot to mention langos pickles cold cherry soup unicum and palinka and the best pork I have eaten in my life and the Hungarian Grand Prix what wonderful place it is.

[bruce Steele]

Barack palinka , tokaii , an easy to use train system that takes you about anywhere you want to go as long as you are not in a hurry. Sunflower fields to the horizon , Nonius horses, and Hungarian warm blood sport horses.  
 I don’t think I ever saw a palm there in my travels but they look beautiful with Balaton in the distance. 

[Borosbobo]

On 7/18/2024 at 9:53 AM, Axel Amsterdam said:

What a great collection and beautiful location. Can you tell us a bit more about the age of the garden and the winter climate?

Thank you!
The Yuccas are 10+ years old they do not need winter protection because they are very cold hardy
I got most of the palms 2-3 years ago. some of them need heating as winter protection. In the last 5 years winters were not that harsh in Hungary, Balatonfüred. -15 rarely occurs.
The tropical part (colocasia, alocasia and bananas) are 2 years old for winter we have to dig them up and store them in a dry and not too cold (15 celcius) area. This summer is extremely hot here 40 degrees celcius and no rain or humidity so we have to water them 2-3 times daily 

[Borosbobo]

On 7/18/2024 at 11:05 AM, happypalms said:

Argh lake Balaton such a beautiful lake to swim in a beautiful collection great garden I recommend a lanonia dasyantha and chamaedorea radicalis to add to your collection.

Thank you!

Oh wow I really like them and I see that chamaedorae radicalis is cold hardy till -10C is that true? What about the lanonia? google says it is not cold hardy. Sadly palms like Bismarckia nobilis are not cold hardy and they do not survive here  even with a professional winter protection it's almost impossible to keep a bismarckia here.

[Borosbobo]

On 7/18/2024 at 11:13 AM, happypalms said:

You forgot to mention langos pickles cold cherry soup unicum and palinka and the best pork I have eaten in my life and the Hungarian Grand Prix what wonderful place it is.

Im glad you liked all of these!
I had way too much palinka this weekend so now I can't say that I have a good relationship with palinka  

[Borosbobo]

On 7/18/2024 at 10:06 PM, bruce Steele said:

Barack palinka , tokaii , an easy to use train system that takes you about anywhere you want to go as long as you are not in a hurry. Sunflower fields to the horizon , Nonius horses, and Hungarian warm blood sport horses.  
 I don’t think I ever saw a palm there in my travels but they look beautiful with Balaton in the distance. 

If you ever come back to Hungary you should definitely check out Egzotikus Kertészet in Balatonalmádi. We are in a good relationship with them and got most of our palms from them + their garden is amazing it feels like you are in mexico.
 

[Borosbobo]

3 minutes ago, Borosbobo said:

If you ever come back to Hungary you should definitely check out Egzotikus Kertészet in Balatonalmádi. We are in a good relationship with them and got most of our palms from them + their garden is amazing it feels like you are in mexico.
 

 

[happypalms]

42 minutes ago, Borosbobo said:

Thank you!

Oh wow I really like them and I see that chamaedorae radicalis is cold hardy till -10C is that true? What about the lanonia? google says it is not cold hardy. Sadly palms like Bismarckia nobilis are not cold hardy and they do not survive here  even with a professional winter protection it's almost impossible to keep a bismarckia here.

Yes the chamaedorea radicals will take that temperature from what I read about them on palm talk my temperatures never get that also another one is arenga engleri tough as and quite tropical looking also a clumping palm that makes a great screen the lanonia are quite tough with reports of them taking frosts you could protect it over winter as it doesn’t get tall trunk the temperatures Hungary gets are a bit to much for the  Great Plains of Hungary the coast of Croatia maybe amazing garden you have I could only imagine the work that has gone into creating your piece of paradise thanks for posting.

[Axel Amsterdam]

1 hour ago, Borosbobo said:

Thank you!
The Yuccas are 10+ years old they do not need winter protection because they are very cold hardy
I got most of the palms 2-3 years ago. some of them need heating as winter protection. In the last 5 years winters were not that harsh in Hungary, Balatonfüred. -15 rarely occurs.
The tropical part (colocasia, alocasia and bananas) are 2 years old for winter we have to dig them up and store them in a dry and not too cold (15 celcius) area. This summer is extremely hot here 40 degrees celcius and no rain or humidity so we have to water them 2-3 times daily 

Is the syagrus a new planting or did you trim the fronds for winter protection? And do you maybe measure it’s daily growth with a marker, as i am interested how much growth a syagrus shows in hot summer weather in Europe.  

[Borosbobo]

10 hours ago, happypalms said:

Yes the chamaedorea radicals will take that temperature from what I read about them on palm talk my temperatures never get that also another one is arenga engleri tough as and quite tropical looking also a clumping palm that makes a great screen the lanonia are quite tough with reports of them taking frosts you could protect it over winter as it doesn’t get tall trunk the temperatures Hungary gets are a bit to much for the  Great Plains of Hungary the coast of Croatia maybe amazing garden you have I could only imagine the work that has gone into creating your piece of paradise thanks for posting.

Oh wow pretty one as well. Thank you for the suggestions. These are all unique palms and Im sure no one has these planted in their garden in Hungary so I will try my best to find some  

 

Thank you! Yes we work a lot every day to make this pretty. 

[Borosbobo]

9 hours ago, Axel Amsterdam said:

Is the syagrus a new planting or did you trim the fronds for winter protection? And do you maybe measure it’s daily growth with a marker, as i am interested how much growth a syagrus shows in hot summer weather in Europe.  

Yes it is a new planting we bought it in April. So far it literally did not grow anything. Now I see the new leaves starting to get bigger. Im guessing it was going for the roots. I know some people that have queen palms planted outside and it does not grow quick for them but still it survived winter and it grows 3-4 new leaves per summer. Hopefully we will take good care of it and it will grow better next summer. Or even this summer. I will keep you updated!

[happypalms]

12 hours ago, Borosbobo said:

Oh wow pretty one as well. Thank you for the suggestions. These are all unique palms and Im sure no one has these planted in their garden in Hungary so I will try my best to find some  

 

Thank you! Yes we work a lot every day to make this pretty. 

What are the import laws for Hungary I have all three varieties for sale as tube stock rare palm seeds in Germany are worth a look at for the seeds of the varieties you are after I know they have lanonia dasyantha seeds there medium paced growers the arenga engleri are slow at first then pick up the pace I have chamaedorea radicalis seeds also ready to pick there fast growing once past the seedling stage iam not sure if you’re into growing from seed.

[Borosbobo]

3 hours ago, happypalms said:

What are the import laws for Hungary I have all three varieties for sale as tube stock rare palm seeds in Germany are worth a look at for the seeds of the varieties you are after I know they have lanonia dasyantha seeds there medium paced growers the arenga engleri are slow at first then pick up the pace I have chamaedorea radicalis seeds also ready to pick there fast growing once past the seedling stage iam not sure if you’re into growing from seed.

I love growing palms from seeds
I have a lot of 2 year old sabal seedling a year old bismarckia seedling. I have salak palm seedlings as well I bought some snake fruit in Bali this year and germinated the seeds successfully  

I checked rare palms seeds website and Im planning to order these seeds as well. But I will ask a lot of palm nurseries here if they can get their hand on these type of palms
 

[Borosbobo]

Sorry I do not know the proper english term but does the chamaedorea radicalis grow smaller palms as well? Like the rhapis excelsa it grows 2-3 new trunks every year

I doubt that the arenga engleri does that

[happypalms]

3 minutes ago, Borosbobo said:

Sorry I do not know the proper english term but does the chamaedorea radicalis grow smaller palms as well? Like the rhapis excelsa it grows 2-3 new trunks every year

I doubt that the arenga engleri does that

The chamaedorea radicals does not sucker it remains a single stem  up to 3 meters and there is a stemless form as well that doesn’t get a stem but the arenga engleri does sucker like the rhapis growing new canes every year.

[Borosbobo]

6 hours ago, happypalms said:

The chamaedorea radicals does not sucker it remains a single stem  up to 3 meters and there is a stemless form as well that doesn’t get a stem but the arenga engleri does sucker like the rhapis growing new canes every year.

Oh interesting! I thought it is the other way around! Thank you for the information!