Yet another new addition........

Nice one!

Thanks. Is now keeping company with some Windmills, and Chinese fan palm I'm over wintering in the garage, but anxious to get it planted in the spring.

In a few short months this palm "interest" of mine has turned into an obsession!

In a few short months this palm "interest" of mine has turned into an obsession!

The next stage is getting ticked off that the palms you want aren't available anywhere.

So you start germinating really exoticpalm seeds.
Or trying to (I'm reminded of Copernicia hospita, Pritchardia pacifica, Cyrtostachys renda etc.)
Then you need to move to a house with bigger windows 'coz exotics can only be outside for 4 months.
Then you start looking at Florida real estate.
They you wish you were younger to see them mature.
Then you wonder who you'll bequeath them to 'coz your kids would kill the palms.

It never ends, Scott. 🙄

The next stage is getting ticked off that the palms you want aren't available anywhere.

So you start germinating really exotic palm seeds.
Or trying to (I'm reminded of Copernicia hospita, Pritchardia pacifica, Cyrtostachys renda etc.)
Then you need to move to a house with bigger windows 'coz exotics can only be outside for 4 months.
Then you start looking at Florida real estate.
They you wish you were younger to see them mature.
Then you wonder who you'll bequeath them to 'coz your kids would kill the palms.

It never ends, Scott. icon_rolleyes.gif

Barb, I plan on trying germinating some seeds in the spring. Since I have a small green house better put it to use!

Won't move, but will do my best to buy palms that I can over winter in the garage. I have a lot of space in here I can use, even if I have to create a warmer environment that I already have in there.

I wish I was younger! but for even more reasons than to see plants mature, and yes I do wonder what I will do when some fast growing palms outgrow my house...but I have a good idea.

Now, for my two new additions today.

I knew my local Nursery (Mulhall's) was getting more new varieties of palms in today so just had to stop and look and brought home this Christmas Palm. $49.00 for a triple.

Then, out the corner of my eye I saw they also got in some choice looking Bottle Palms for just $79.00 I had no way to get it in the car, so will go back on Saturday to pick it up when I can take my truck. Bottle Palm wasn't on my "must have" list, but they just had 6 and didn't know if they would ever get them in again. I didn't think $79 was bad at all for the size. I had gal helping me to stand with plant for size idea.

Wow, good looking palms!
I adore Bottle palm - it's great that you get someone!
Please make more photos when you bring her home 🙂

but will do my best to buy palms that I can over winter in the garage

You're zero-for-two so far today 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

Wow, man oh man, we Canadians sure don't get specimens -- or deals -- like that.
They are absolutely beautiful Scott.

Re the zero-for-two comment, neither Christmas nor Bottle palms can spend winter in your garage 😆 😆

Mulhall's should have subsidiary nurseries...in Canada.
You found a great nursery there, Scott!

Yes, another pic when the Bottle comes home.
So what's wrong with picking it up Friday night? 😉

Barb

I knew ahead of time about the Christmas Palm not being cold hardy enough to be in garage. I didn't expect to see the Bottle palms there at all, and when I saw them from a distance I just assumed they would be more than I was willing to spend today..........but then I looked at the price and then didn't really care about how cold hardy it would be...I'd keep it inside over the winter...and possibly all year around. I might keep them BOTH inside all year around, not sure.

Mulhall's is on winter hours so close at 5pm, and I don't get off work till 5:30. I picked mine out and it's tagged and put away from others till I can get there on Saturday. I need to create some room in the living room for the Bottle. Right now the ever growing Eneste banana is taking up A LOT of space in that area. Might have to move it to the master bath, bath tub for the remainder of the winter.

Also, I would need my truck to bring it home as it won't fit in my work car at all. I can lay it down in the bed of the truck (they wrap all plants before they let them leave and give out care sheet) I have a tannau cover over the bed I can further protect it for the 5 mile drive to my house.

Christmas palm care sheet said it likes a more warm, more humid environment, so for the time being is in banana room. I'm not going to repot them right away because they just made the long trip from Florida to Omaha, then me moving them yet again to my house is putting them through a lot, so will let them accumlate to my house before putting them in their permanent pots.

Both the Christmas and Bottle should be outside on a patio in summer, morning sun only, when it's hot.
And they both like the same conditions...think of Hawaii, warm humid breezes, frequent warm showers. Never dry desert heat.

banana is taking up A LOT of space

sorry guys, but I'd toss 50 bananas to make room for those two palms. 😆

5 mile drive? 😯
Place a big piece of cardboard on the cold truck bed before laying down the palm.
Turn the heater on, vent it under the cover 😉 / drive fast.

Always good to let a new plant settle into a new spot before repotting it.

Might have to move it to the master bath, bath tub for the remainder of the winter.

You fit right in here, Scott, with the rest of the palm nuts...2 bathtubs and we sponge-bathe at the sink 😆 😆 😆 😆

Pics of newly acquired Christmas and Bottle Palm over the past two days. Still have to find new place for Eneste to over winter for a few more months.

Thanks for the next pictures of bottle palm and the others plants!
Now I see that not only me - during winter time change rooms into store for exotic plants 🙂 I have to show the pics to my wife, that I'm not the one he he :

This mild winter were having is giving me even more spring fever, and I'm officially out of space in my house and it's still only January! Good thing the nursery I buy most of my stuff at isn't getting the next palm I want (Canary Island Date Palm) till the end of March and at least I can over winter that one in the garage.

Your Bottle is a spectacular addition, Scott.
A beauty.

I have to show the pics to my wife, that I'm not the one he he :

My husband walks through the plants making monkey noises... 😉

Barb

Will the obsession ever end? found this Fish Tail Palm at one of our nicer nursery's today and even though I wasn't really looking or wanting a Fish Tail Palm, it was sure priced right and couldn't walk away. Now part of the collection. Heard they are kind of finicky.

I love these. Just saw a huge one in Miami last weekend.

Found this 1 gallon European Fan Palm at a small family owned nursery. It was the only palm they had and was just $16.95 I didn't need this palm since I have a big one of these already, but then though of a place outside that I will plant it next to the house in the spring.

That chammie even has a few suckers at the bottom!