Post Palms and exotics from England.

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Think I the original post may be in the wrong section, apologies.

Hi, I'm a new member and thought I'd share a few slide shows of the palms and exotics in England. The first is in Torquay in the southwest, ay 50.4 degrees north, its pretty mild and moderated by the Atlantic and southwest airflow for most of the time. The second is on the Wirral in northwest England at 53.3 degrees north, still some big suprises. The last 2 is of my garden in Cheshire 53.2 degrees north but more inland, from summer 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ0gI0OdsBg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJsuMKwDVMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hb-AxqZcwc

Posted : 26/01/2014 7:55 pm

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Nice looking garden.

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Posted : 10/03/2014 4:31 am

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Welcome John, thanks for posting. In the first vid, that CIDP at 1:40 looks great. Looks like your off to a great start with your own garden. Send more pics for this spring. Cheers!

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Posted : 10/03/2014 8:22 am

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What a nice place. Love the palms! 8)

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Posted : 10/03/2014 11:54 pm

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Welcome aboard PN, John! 😀
I'm speechless with envy at your area's zone.
All the palms--heck, ALL the plants--that I love.
Yup, that CIDP is jaw-dropping beautiful.

The bougainvilleas..congrats on those, and the figs! 😯

Great back yard retreat, how lovely.
Everything in the greenhouse looks fabulous.
You must spend many many happy hours out there.
I certainly would.

Looking forward to having your participation here.
And help 😆 😆

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Posted : 11/03/2014 11:39 am

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Welcome aboard PN, John! 😀
I'm speechless with envy at your area's zone.
All the palms--heck, ALL the plants--that I love.
Yup, that CIDP is jaw-dropping beautiful.

The bougainvilleas..congrats on those, and the figs! 😯

Great back yard retreat, how lovely.
Everything in the greenhouse looks fabulous.
You must spend many many happy hours out there.
I certainly would.

Looking forward to having your participation here.
And help 😆 😆

Barb

Thanks a lot, certainly a good start to the year, nice and warm and everything is making a great start. I'll try and get some updates on when I can. Chamearops in flower now too!

Posted : 21/05/2014 7:47 pm

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Chamearops in flower now too!

Would love to see a pic of that.

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Posted : 21/05/2014 7:57 pm

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Here's an update from today, as it was dry for the first time in the last week.

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Posted : 26/05/2014 11:48 am

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Lovely, John, especially the Chamey flower.
Know if it's male or female?

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Posted : 26/05/2014 6:01 pm

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I'm not sure how you tell 😆 Unless someone can make identification based on the picture?

Posted : 27/05/2014 11:40 am

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This site may help a bit, but it's when flowers are fully open that it's a bit easier to tell.
If you have "known" male and female trees, the males always flower first.
But obviously if you have only one, there's nothing to compare it with.

http://www.sunpalmtrees.com/About-Palm-Trees.htm#palm-tree-flowers

A short video from BananaJoe doesn't have flowers in full bloom but is interesting nevertheless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irRpKl-PYPI

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Posted : 27/05/2014 11:50 am

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This site may help a bit, but it's when flowers are fully open that it's a bit easier to tell.
If you have "known" male and female trees, the males always flower first.
But obviously if you have only one, there's nothing to compare it with.

http://www.sunpalmtrees.com/About-Palm-Trees.htm#palm-tree-flowers

A short video from BananaJoe doesn't have flowers in full bloom but is interesting nevertheless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irRpKl-PYPI

Barb

I'm not sure if that applies to Chamaerops as it does for Traccies? I'll update once the flowers open up, its been wet and cool the last 2 days, we need some more sun!

Posted : 28/05/2014 3:34 pm

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Nor do I.
Phoenix for instance are dioecious, having male and female on separate plants.

"The date palm is dioecious, having separate male and female plants"
from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_palm

Can't find my link to the palms list.

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Posted : 29/05/2014 1:28 pm

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I thought I would share some pictures of the garden from today as the sun has decided to make an appearance and it put me in the mood for some gardening, just cutting the lawn and a bit of tidying and pruning. Today is a world away from friday and saturday, where the sun failed to show its face and maximum temperatures were only 15c. Hope you like the pictures!

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