Tropical Zone Gardening: First tentative steps ..., 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Bignonia, I think the palm you're talking about is Calamus caryotoides. They don't grow around my area. I think they prefer a cooler and wetter climate. I brought a little one back with me that I found a couple of years ago but it didn't survive. I'd still like to sucessfully grow one.

This is a photo of my dam which is the centre of my garden. By the end of the dry season it's dry and looks very different. About 5 metres deep at its deepest point, and about 35 metres long, a little less wide.