The area around Kew
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Thanks Axel, any chance of you finding a nice big Jubaea around Kew.
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I love the first Image housing, and the out look of trees is also great.
I love the balcony type housing above.
I love how clean it is everywhere.
I am the worst at telling what palms are so what was that one?
I love the balcony type housing above.
I love how clean it is everywhere.
I am the worst at telling what palms are so what was that one?
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Hi Kata,
The first? Just a fortunei but really one of the best i have seen. Layers of perfect stiff fronds all the way down. A Trachycarpus like that is hard to beat.
In fact, im not certain if a washingtonia can look much better in London than this Trachycarpus.
The first? Just a fortunei but really one of the best i have seen. Layers of perfect stiff fronds all the way down. A Trachycarpus like that is hard to beat.
In fact, im not certain if a washingtonia can look much better in London than this Trachycarpus.
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Many years ago;
https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=londen&ll ... ,,1,0&z=19
Nice Trachycarpus to the left, really come on!
And across the road;
https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=londen&ll ... ,,0,0&z=19
https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=londen&ll ... ,,1,0&z=19
Nice Trachycarpus to the left, really come on!
And across the road;
https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=londen&ll ... ,,0,0&z=19
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kata wrote:I love the first Image housing, and the out look of trees is also great.
I love the balcony type housing above.
I love how clean it is everywhere.
I am the worst at telling what palms are so what was that one?
Kew being one of the most desirable, most expensive parts of London....
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The truth is that there are many Trachycarpus Fortunei in all parts of London but it's actually quite dissapointing how uninspired the residents of the borough of Kew seem to be when it comes to planting anything slightly exotic in their world famous area!
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I half expected it to be Trachicarpus, thanks Axel!The first? Just a fortunei
I think anything in London is very expensive Steph.
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I do not see a Wollemi but do see a Brahea armata, large cordyline and Fatsia. All looking good but all of which are quite hardy. I know Fatsia and Cordylines growing in Inverness and pulled through 2010 without issue and are 600 miles further north.
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Kata,
Kew is uber expensive, Ester Ranzten lives there to give you an idea, its still family territory but not quite foreign diplomats.
Its lovely, attracts plant people..... I'd like to live there myself.
Kew is uber expensive, Ester Ranzten lives there to give you an idea, its still family territory but not quite foreign diplomats.
Its lovely, attracts plant people..... I'd like to live there myself.
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Two houses away from the red Cordylines.Blairs wrote:I do not see a Wollemi but do see a Brahea armata, large cordyline and Fatsia. All looking good but all of which are quite hardy. I know Fatsia and Cordylines growing in Inverness and pulled through 2010 without issue and are 600 miles further north.
https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=londen&ll ... 14.56&z=16
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Perhaps moving off topic from the area around Kew but I thought I'd include two pictures of sizeable trachys that I'm aware of. The largest is in Nottingham and the other in my home town of Leicester - not the best looking though!
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Thanks for posting. Yes, this is the ' worn out' look that some trachies unfortunately have.
That's why i posted these links from the Kew area, they look really good.
In fact some of them have that suisse/northern Italy look, something you will hardly ever see in coastal area's in the UK. The coastal trachies usually have these battered leaves and those tiny brownish old fronds hanging down, pretty much like the one in Nottingham. Perhaps London has less wind than Leicester/Nottingham?
That's why i posted these links from the Kew area, they look really good.
In fact some of them have that suisse/northern Italy look, something you will hardly ever see in coastal area's in the UK. The coastal trachies usually have these battered leaves and those tiny brownish old fronds hanging down, pretty much like the one in Nottingham. Perhaps London has less wind than Leicester/Nottingham?
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Rob S wrote:The truth is that there are many Trachycarpus Fortunei in all parts of London but it's actually quite dissapointing how uninspired the residents of the borough of Kew seem to be when it comes to planting anything slightly exotic in their world famous area!
At least there is one nice armata in the area: (picture from GOTE):
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