Fall Tour of the Gulf Coast Palm Society Saturday, October 19, 2024

[apriliarider15]

Tour starts at 10 AM prompt at the Ankers 
 
Doug & Marilyn Akers - Tour starts at the Akers at 10:00 AM, Sat. Oct 19, 2024
13212 Alabama St., Elberta, AL .  
Order: 1) Tour, 2) Presentation: Preparing Palms for Winter by Joe Taverniti 3) Palm Auction and Plant Sales

The Akers purchased their 4-acre small town property in the Spring of 2014. Doug and Marilyn work as a team but each has their favorite plants. Marilyn enjoys bromeliads, cordylines, vegetable gardening and perennials while Doug’s favorites are palms, citrus, bananas, gingers, and tropical clumping bamboos.  They enjoy creating a private space for themselves and habitat for songbirds.
The Akers started their landscape with screening plants. They planted numerous types of hollies, viburnums, tropical clumping bamboos and other plants to seclude the property. Large beds of tropical and subtropical plants are featured. Palm planting began in 2015 and continues through 2024. Most of these palm plantings began in 2016-2018 from seedlings, palm auction plants, and 1 and 3 gallon container plants.
Palm Species -  Outdoors   
Arenga engleri – Dwarf Sugar Palm
Butia spp. – Pindo Palm
xButiagrus nabonnandii – Mule Palm
Chamaedorea microspadix
Chamaedorea radicalis
Chamaedorea ‘Ilene/Gulf Coast Hybrid’
Chamaerops humilis – Mediterranean or European Fan Palm
Chamaerops humilis ‘Ceriferae’ Blue Mediterranean Fan Palm
Chamaerops humilis ‘Vulcano’
Cycas spp. and crosses – Cycads are not palms, but similar
Jubautia x splendens – Dick Douglas Hybrid Chilean Wine Palm
Livistona chinensis – Chinese Fan Palm
Sabal causiarum – Puerto Rico Palmetto
Sabal domingensis – Hispaniola Sabal
Sabal mexicana – Texas or Mexican Sabal Palm
Sabal minor
Sabal ‘Louisiana’
Sabal ‘Cape Hatteras’
Sabal palmetto – Sabal Palm
Sabal rosei – Savannah Palmetto Palm
Sabal x texensis – Brazoria Palm
Sabal uresana – Sonoran Palm (blue and green form)
Serenoa repens – Saw Palmetto (blue and green form)
Syagrus romanzoffiana – Queen Palm
Trachycarpus fortunei – Windmill Palm
Trachycarpus wagnerianus – Bonsai Windmill Palm
Washingtonia robusta & filibusta – Mexican Fan Palm and hybrid
 

[kinzyjr]

I hope this meeting goes well for your chapter.  Our chapter has an event that weekend or I'd probably make the trip for a garden visit.  If you have a Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), or website to share, this is a good spot. 

Good luck all the way around.

[apriliarider15]

Three more species I forgot to add:

Phoenix canariensis

Phoenix sylvestris

Sabal 'Tamaulipas'