Few palms from last so Cal palm society meeting...

INcredible Garden!! San Diego county on tall hill overlooking many miles of county, on 2 or more acres of wonderfully landscaped property... sigh....

some royals and Coccothrinax barbadensis in the back yard...

Kentiopsis pyriformis with nice new bronze leaf

Gastrococos (Acrocomia) crispa with trunk... wow... in California??

Encephalartos longifolius blue (badly photographed, sadly)

Dypsis tsaratananensis

Dypsis florencei (paludosa)

nice Dypsis baronii with scarlet red bud

Those look great.

That first photo looks like it's got quite a mix in there, maybe even an Arenga just on the left. Not overly keen on the Royals, I've got one about that size and a few a bit smaller in a clump. The fronds, when they drop, a very large and flatten things underneath.

Red (or bronze) emergent fronds are a favourite of mine. Will have to look at getting a Kentiopsis pyriformis.

I have a palm with spines like Gastrococos crispa, but the spines run right up the back of the fronds. Forgotten its name, will have to look it up. Mine's still only a pup compared to that one.

Encephalartos are few and far between here, I wouldn't mind growing some. There's quite a few very attractive species.

The trunk on Dypsis tsaratananensis looks similar to D. madagascariensis, the fronds definitely not.

Really like the red on the Dypsis florencei contrasting with the yellowy colour and green lower down. That deep red is the same as on some of the Cyrtostachys renda

The Dypsis baronii does look a lot like a green trunked Golden Cane.

There are hundreds more to show, but it was a hard garden to photograph (things too tall and crowded, as so many older palm gardens get).

Cyphophoenix nucele

Very unusual palm to see in any garden... Desmoncus orthacanthos... a south American rattan species. Not a looker, but unique.

Dypsis pilulifera (normally has a brilliant orange crownshaft, but colors like that so muted in arid climates it seems... you can see the orange barely peeking out in the brand new crownshaft). This palm is huge for California... I know of no other trunking ones.

Pritchardia beccariana (huge specimen for California)- hard to photo as this was the only available angle, unless you have a helicopter)

This Syagrus botryophora is over 35' tall... tallest in California by a long shot (and out of range for good photos)

Acanthophoenix rubra another super rare plant (most have Acanthophoenix crinita)

Acrocomia aculeata

Aiphanes aculeata (hard to grow at all, even less to grow one over 25' tall and looking perfect.. and flowering)

and Aiphanes minima not supposed to be able to grow here at all... and this is 20' tall... amazing

may not look like much, but Arenga undulatifolia is another species supposed to be impossible to grow here... admittedly, it is growing very slowly, but it looks pretty good.

and to me, the most amazing palm (though one of the saddest looking) is this 15 year old plus Borassus flabilifer.. only 3' tall, but alive which is more than I can say for all the other attmepts at growing this palm in southern California

Brahea armata not a rare palm, but looks great in tropical setting like this

a not-so-impressively sized Coccothrinax borhidiana... but a very hard palm for most of So Cal people to grow... incredibly slow. this could be the largest in California (unless someone has cheated and driven one out from Florida).

there are a pair of Coccothrinax in the middle of this picture showing the age of the garden (takes a long time for any Coccothrinax to get that size in California... usually close to 50 years... and garden is NOT 50 years old, so these are growing pretty fast for California... still slow by Florida standards I think).

nice Dioon califanoi

best grown Dypsis affinis I have seen

Dypsis leptocheilos x cabadae (I think cabadae)... 20' tall or more. Nice plant!

Dypsis plumosa (what used to be sold as Dypsis ambositrae)

Encephalartos dyerianus... very large, older specimen.

Encephalartos hildbrandtii coning... a rarity

Encephalartos laurentianus coning... super rarity in this part of the world

enormous pair of Encephalartos turneris, one coning... just about unheard of outside of AFrica

last shot for now... here you get a feel for how the owner's garden hillside looks, covered with wooden bridges, huge rocks, tall plants and steep grade.

Great show, Palmbob. Thanks.

Jim

We missed this one :( Maybe they will invite us back again before too long. Have heard some terrific things about this garden.

SAdly he only tends to show his garden off once a decade or so... if you get to get sooner, don't miss the opportunity.

Fantastic Images. My Fave of these... (Hard to Choose) Gastrococos (Acrocomia) Ty for sharing.
I once lived in San Diego......Sadly I was too young to remember it at all.