Hi from another new member

Which palms do you have? and which ones ar in pots - how do you find the pot grown ones?

 

Welcome to the forum Gaz I'm sure I'm be able to get some ideas for my back garden from your lovely display.Hel.xxx.

 

Evening Gaz and welcome to the site.

 

Gaz
here is a pic of some last year, garden is paved so all in pots, trouble is that they need repotting and larger pots are harder to find, I haven't root pruned any (yet). There are 4 Chamaerops, 1 Butia and 2 Phoenix Roebelienii not in the pic.
I also have 6 Sabal Minor 6 Washys and more Trachys at work! Not to mention the 10 Albizia SC, Sesbanias, Thevetias, Bauhinias, Oleanders, Bouganvilleas and various acacias.

 

Nice collection Gaz, really like that large cycad in a pot and what looks like a butia.

Strange how, (and everyone does it) we plant palms and treeferns together.
Just something that crossed my mind.

Sorry BM,you do it as well dont you? :D :D :D

 

The larger palm near the treeferns is a Butia eriospatha. There was a small CIDP near them as well but thats gone now. The tree fern area is going to be a little more 'fern only' this year, with some ground cover ferns, plus a couple of fibrosa's going in.

The big cycad was an Ikea bargain

Gaz

 

It is strange, but they probably hung out together 80 million years ago. It's just that other things out-competed the tree ferns everywhere but Australia and New Zealand, so that's where they're associated with now, whereas palms kept strong in Africa, South America etc.

So it's unusual now, but probably palaeontologically correct...

 

I'm not being rude, but I cant help wondering,...... just how much does all this cost?
You dont have to answer that.
But how much is "a couple of fibrosas"?
And where do they come from?

BTW, whats that large bam
boo with the big new shoots.

 

Julia, I dont doubt that you are correct, its just that most of the plams that we tend to grow are of the drought tolerant high summer temp types, not the tropicals.
They grow in the kind of conditions that would fry a treefern in a couple of days, unyet we expect them to grow side by side.
Truth is we can get one day that really suits the palm followed by the next that would suit a tree fern.
Not a great gardening climate is it?
Or is it? :D

 

The fibrosas in question were small ones from wilkinsons. There can be some real bargains out there. But the tropical style can cost a lot, but it doesnt have to.

Which picture was the bamboo in?

 

Hi Tropical Gaz, Welcome to GC..

Love your Garden, Like Bananamans it inspires me to grow tropicals.

 

The palms that do well in the uk tend to come from higher altitudes, the trachycarpus species are from moutainous parts of china/india for example. Some tree fern and butia species grow in close proximity in south America.

Palms like water the same as aything else. A decent amount of water in a hot summer will bring them on really well. Its the cold wet winters that many are not so keen on.

 

We live in interesting times, Pete...

It's probably not ideal, but with more variable weather like this happening more frequently I suppose we have the freedom to grow a wider variety. I can't remember if it was on here or somewhere else that I read that the average Zone 9-hardy plant is much happier dealing with a couple of days of -8C than three weeks of -4C. So if we don't get prolonged frosts then we'll be able to grow more and more.

And it doesn't hurt to have drought-resistant plants because you know we're going to have a hosepipe ban this summer whether we merit it or not! And there's more water then for the ferns!

 

Bamboo, DSCo3192.

But its not the palms from the mountainous areas that everyone is being sold, true there are a lot of trachys around but the price is high compared to CIDP and chaemerops.
Once established, I doubt any palm would ever need irrigation in the UK.

 

Hi Pete, the bamboo is phyllostachys aurea, (golden bamboo), its an easy one to find - this one came from B&Q.

Bamboos love water, and are very hungry plants. So lots of water and feed from Spring.