I've found Washie's Mum :0)

[Dave Brown]

After hours and hours of searching images, and searching again and again. I have finally found a pic on the web with Washie's Mum in it. I thought one must exist somewhere as she was in a promeneant position. I didn't think to take a pic at the time as just grabbed a couple of dozen seeds off the ground, and didn't ever believe I'd have a 10 foota 17 years later

Here is Washie's Mum from the Bouganville Playa Hotel, Playa de las Americas, Tenerife, where we were staying in back in 1992.

And here is washie at 16 years of age.

[bobbyd44]

thats definatley an atcheivement over here dave!!

[mixiepalms]

Well done Dave. My fave palm of yours is still the chammy.

Mixie

[Nigel Fear]

Dave, well done that must be a trip down memory lane for you!

But you know palms wll never grow here in the uk.... Far too cold.
Didn;t they ever tell you that?

[Dave Brown]

Thanks Guys

But you know palms wll never grow here in the uk.... Far too cold.
Didn;t they ever tell you that?

Yes, they did, but I have a habit of not listening

[redsquirrel]

if you listened to the experts back then dave,what would you have now??
exotic maris pipers maybe??
nice work on the pic find, memory must still be working to pull that one out

[Jellybob]

Dave, have you looked at google street map? It now has street views on the island.

[Troppoz]

Dave where is this place? Are you planning on a family reunion sometime? Maybe a little brother or sister for young Washie?

Impressive palm for 17 years but had little Washie grown up in Australia he/she would have been 5 times that height by now at least!

But as you know palms wont grow in the UK. Its just far too cold!

[Dave Brown]

Sean, It is at Playa de las Americas, Tenerife. I've added that to the first post now. Provenance has nothing to do with it's hardiness as Mum is growing in the warmest part of Tenerife, 28N at near as damn it, sea level.

We are planning a family reunion a human one, for our Silver wedding, as we spent our Honeymoon just around the corner, but poor Washie will have to say at home. No mother's day visits for him

JB, I'll have to look at Google street map then, but it is not a street it is a walkway with loads of steps so their camera car would have had to have been on foot to get this in.