pssc banquet 2008!!!

[Kim]

It's a pair from Madagascar, the beefy Dypsis decipiens and a chubby Ravenea rivularis:

Jeff in Trabuco Canyon for scale:

Bill has it made in the shade of a rather yellow Beccariophoenix madagascariensis.

Tall spiny palm (no tag, do you know your spinies?):

[Kim]

I like the Beccariophoenix madagascariensis no windows leaflets.

The yellow contrasts with the blue winter sky:

Soft bronzy newly emerged cycad leaves:

No-tag Dypsis with pretty trunk, couldn't be onilahensis could it?

More to follow...check back again....

[pogobob]

That dypsis looks just like Louis Hoopers "slick willy" Nice Photos Kim!

[pogobob]

Hey Paul, Nice Photos to! It's getting hard to keep track with all the postings. I bet this may just be what turns the real estate market around!

[BS Man about Palms]

(pogobob @ Jan. 30 2008,20:41)

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That dypsis looks just like Louis Hoopers "slick willy" Nice Photos Kim!

Sure does, doesn't it Bob?

[paulgila]

fantastic pix,kim!!! did ya get any of me at 6:00am looking like a zombie???

[Kim]

(BS @ Man about Palms,Jan. 30 2008,20:06)

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Kim!  I'm so glad you are posting your pics!  I love your coverage of these events!!  Thanks! Keep it up!

Just a little help.  "Max" is actually Bill Dickenson, see his garden and "Lytoagrus" on page 7 of the 007 and Ken thread.

I also believe post 37 is the Nannorrhops.  

Please continue.

Oh, I was afraid of that.  I was thinking, "Max? Larry??"  Apologies to Bill Dickenson, I am really bad with names.

And the Nannorrhops, I knew that didn't look like the other decumbens...  That's why I do this, just so you guys can set me straight...

More photos to come when I have more time;  sadly I do not have a photo of Paul at 6am looking like a zombie, sorry folks.

[Jeff Searle]

(pohonkelapa @ Jan. 30 2008,23:55)

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fantastic pix,kim!!! did ya get any of me at 6:00am looking like a zombie???

   

[Shon]

Bob or Bill,what is that palm to the right of Bill in post #2? The one with the v shaped leafs. Bob love your garden would like to see it sometime.

[deezpalms]

Great pix Kim!

[MattyB]

(I learned that excellent technique from MattyB who may have stolen it from Pohonkelapa.)

Wrong.  I've got the copyright on that one.  It's .001 cents royalties everytime you use it.  I'll be expecting a check in the mail soon, right?

BTW, I believe the bottom picture in post 41 is Acrocomia acueata, basically a spiny looking Queen Palm.

[osideterry]

Nice photos Paul and Kim. What's the third palm in post 36... Syagrus schizophylla?

[BS Man about Palms]

(Shon @ Jan. 31 2008,07:11)

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Bob or Bill,what is that palm to the right of Bill in post #2? The one with the v shaped leafs. Bob love your garden would like to see it sometime.

Pretty sure its a Hedy, Shon.

[BS Man about Palms]

(osideterry @ Jan. 31 2008,09:59)

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Nice photos Paul and Kim. What's the third palm in post 36... Syagrus schizophylla?

I want to say "Pusilla?

[PalmGuyWC]

Well, thanks a lot, but all I see is the trunk of a Parajubaea in post 38. I wonder what the crown looks like?

Dick

[paulgila]

dick i think yer right! are 2 parajubeas there & they are NOT doing well....

[bubba]

Great shots by all. Huntington looks awesome as do all the other private Gardens.The shots showing the Palms and the Snow topped Mountains are terriffic.Paul you are absolutely correct to be very careful around those cute girls at that age and heighth.I have a number of nieces,who I have watched grow up.They instinctively know just how to get your full undivided attention and while you are bent over or on the floor in pain, they are grinning at you! Our two boys at that size were equally dangerous but seemingly not quite as intentional!

[Kim]

Ahem....resuming my coverage of the Big Event with Florida Guests.

Checking out a mature Ravenea rivularis

The Jubeaeopsis caffra attracted a lot of attention.

[Kim]

There are many ponds and watercourses throughout the Huntington, and I can't walk past a chattering rivulet without pausing for a photo.  I try to capture the individual droplets of water in the photo:

Did you know I have a weakness for bromeliads?  Aechmea cylindrata (or so says the label, not sure I agree):

This lovely thing blooms in January, which can be a handy item for an otherwise dull winter garden; sorry, no name:

Must drag ourselves away from the garden, it's time to tuck into the barbecue.

[Kim]

The tables are set up inside because of threatening rain; however, precisely because the tables are set up inside, it does not rain.  l-r Jeff Searle, Paul Denton, Bill Sanford, Bob Weas, Jeff in Trabuco Canyon.

l-r Gary Wood, Bud Zager, Not Sure, Dave Bleistein (did I spell it wrong?), Ken Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Not Sure But I Should Know.

After enjoying the chicken, beef, beans, green salad, fruit salad, and cherry pie or german chocolate cake, there is time to wander into the conservatory before the auction begins.  

Bill cannot take his eyes off the Lodicea maldivica seed.

See what I mean?

[Kim]

Inside the glass conservatory is all the cool stuff that is so challenging, if not impossible to grow here in Southern California.

The leaves of this flowering plant made me think of crinum, but no tag to reveal its true ID:

Bob deJong, in his special collectable  CLARK FOAM shirt explains the facts of palms to Paul.

It must be the Cyrtostachys renda that is making them get all philosophical about palms:

Meanwhile, Palmgrover's forearm is being consumed by this hungry aroid, last seen running amok in Hawaii dressed like Pohonkelapa.  (If you don't get that reference, you haven't been paying attention to the Travel Log Forum.)

[Kim]

Bec...

Beccar...

Beccario...

Beccariophoe...

[Kim]

Beccariophoenix!

I could have spend an hour just photographing that one palm, it was glorious.

But have to catch up with the boyz.  Jeff likes it in here because it's warm.

Conservatory roof structure:

We love Licuala :

[Kim]

Repeat slowly, Li-cua-la!

Salacca magnifica not looking ready for its closeup.  Really, a lot of the plants inside the conservatory looked a bit ragged around the edges, like they were struggling a bit.  I remember things being a lot more pristine a year ago.

But the jackfruit look perfectly healthy:

Gorillas in the mist?

No, we were missing Palmazon.

[happ]

Nice photos Kim   of a beautiful botanical garden [guess I need to attend pssc meetings after scanning those palms for sale

[Kim]

Coccothrinax proctorii

BIG bromeliad, don't fall in!

Cool flowering plant:

Deep green cycad sworl:

[Kim]

Yes, there were orchids, orchids, and more orchids:

[Kim]

Back in the conference area, after the Costa Rica slide show by Ralph Velez, it was time for the auction and raffle action.  Jeff Searle brought several palms from Florida, and they were eagerly snapped up.  Here Kevin Weaver talks up a Clinostigma savoryanum.

The bidding is slow at first...

...but it soon starts to heat up.

Going, going,...

[Kim]

"You can't kill this one..."

Oh, the joy of winning a raffle palm!

Dave captures the moment

And a fun time was had by all.  (End of my pics.)  If you have pictures, please add yours too!

[Matt in SD]

Great photos Kim,

I can't believe they have a fruiting Jackfruit tree in there.  I have a plant outside that seems pretty happy, but I really doubt I'll ever get an fruit off it.

By the way, the "cool flowering plant" in post 66 is a  Pleurothallis, a type of orchid.

Matt

[BS Man about Palms]

Fantastic photos as usual, Kim!!   I remember Kevin held up a "Chaemerops" I believe for the auction and said "if you kill this palm you don't belong at these meetings"...

Yeah Happ- You should show up to these meetings......I know the Huntington was so far from you, what with it being in Pasadena and all...   ???  

[bgl]

Kim,

ALMOST like being there!  Really enjoyed the commentary and excellent photos and seeing everybody have a great time!

Bo-Göran

[Palmarum]

Great view of the event Paul and Kim, I enjoyed every moment of it. All these threads make it impossible not to feel as if I was there. The Huntington looks very elaborate and well taken care of. I wish I was there for that auction, there looked to be a wealth of species we can not find here. Great work with the Nikon, Kim.

Ryan

[paulgila]

thanks to everyone & kim especially for taking some

GOOD photos for this thread

[Kris]

Dear Paul & Dear Kim  

lovely coverage and both of you have covered the gardens so beautiful,even if had visited that place personally,i would have miss few of those beautiful places & plants...

And Kim lovely stills of palms & i assume that they were taken using the Nikon_D40x.the colours of stills ar very life like and with no or minium colour artifacts,which is not a possibility with regular digital camera's.

since most of the times i see the roads appearing more blueish than blackish in most of our cameras..!

And since iam having sever bandwidth problems here in india due to submersible internet cables snaped near port alexandera_Egypt ! so kindly bare with me on my late participation since the page does not load at all properly!_Paul.

lots of love to you both,

Kris  

[bubba]

Old threads are fun!