List your favorite or dream palms

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:56 pm

I think we play this game once a year and since it is winter it is time to play it again

List your favorite palms and keep them in order with #1 being your all time favorite.

I will list mine later.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 7:12 am

I guess it is later.

#1. My all time fav is w. filifera, I love this plant. Thick trunk, bold, big, looks good trimmed looks good with a beard, hardy, big leaves, drought tolerant, looks good in the desert looks good in the tropics.

I love photos, so post away.

I think thats all my pics.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:11 am

Always amazed at filifera's massive trunks...now that I've seen your 9th picture, I'll sink mine into the pond this summer!

I lean toward any blue palm, though germinating seeds of Copernicia hospita bombed totally.

Another nice blue:
http://www.about-garden.com/images_data ... r-palm.jpg

Great winter game, Aaron.
Thanks for resurrecting it.

Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:13 am

Barb, that is my #2 Brahea armata. Sorry I have no pics of my own.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:16 am

Ok, all the others I like just about the same hard to decide what palm comes next.
I think I will go with CIDP for #3

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:37 am

Yup, same with me

Here's mine, can't even remember when I got it, so it must be ~20 years at least:

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502/394 ... ded234.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="DSC02951" />

And another blue stunner, Copernicia hospita from a New Zealand website:

http://www.nzpalmandcycad.com/?pg=100
What a palm, huh?

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:33 pm

lucky1 wrote:And another blue stunner, Copernicia hospita from a New Zealand website:

http://www.nzpalmandcycad.com/?pg=100
What a palm, huh?

WOW!

That is nice!

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:04 pm

This is on "cold hardy palms" so does that mean we should leave out true tropicals?
In that case, I'm delighted to say I already have all my faves.

--Erik

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:28 pm

TerdalFarm wrote:This is on "cold hardy palms" so does that mean we should leave out true tropicals?
In that case, I'm delighted to say I already have all my faves.
--Erik

Whatever palms you like the most.

Besides there is no hardy palms that will grow in my garden.

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Sun Dec 12, 2010 8:39 pm

Well, even in Oklahoma I give some protection to all palms.
I think Brahea and Butia are amazingly beautiful, and being zone 8 hardy is just a side bonus. You could grow those in Idaho if you made a heated palm hut for the winter.
I like the woolly trunks of Trachycarpus, too. And Sabal minor when mature looks cool for the huge leaves coming right out of the ground. Actually, I like all the cold-hardy palms.

As for tropicals, I ate dinner tonight under Cocos and liked hearing their fronds bump against each other. Roystonea looks unreal. I'm growing a little one in a pot and it is actually doing rather well, whereas my one attempt at Cocos at home failed.
--Erik

JackLord · Post by **JackLord** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:01 am

Coconut palms epitomize the tropics and I love the curved trunks. But I think date palms win with me.

Their fonds remind me of fireworks exploding. Date palms are seen in desert, meditereanean, and tropical landscapes. Very versatile, yet not cold hardy.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 11:49 am

Hard to pick a favorite (maybe whatever am looking at,at the time!

),have to say
though that a silver Bizzy has to be at the top of ANY list!

http://www.nzpalmandcycad.com/imagedb/m ... _nooch.jpg

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:07 pm

So if there was one palm that I wish I could grow, it would be Bismarckia. In terms of 'hardy' palms I'm going to say I really like Butia, the blue form of Jubea looks nice (I've not seen one in person), xButrigus, Washgintonia filifera (you can throw W. robusta in the trash), and I also really like the Sabals (all of them, S. palmetto is a particular favorite). I don't think that I'd say Trachycarpus is a favourite (it really is coarse at the best, and ugly at the worst), from what I've seen the best forms seem to be Trachycarpus fortunei var. princeps and T. martianus.

Anyone going to bite on that one?

Edit- Jim, good to see that I'm not the only one freezing right now, the high today is 15f!

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 12:17 pm

Here is another good-looking palm:
http://www.rarepalmseeds.com/pix/LatLod.shtml

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:52 pm

Dream palm: A fast-growing jubaea that's hardy to -25 C

Favourite palms: Butia, Jubaea, Sabals, Trachycarpus

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:59 pm

I love the Bismarck Palm

and the Foxtail palm..