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Just a quick video taken today on 30/8/2012 showing my front and rear garden.

http://youtu.be/mKTi7l9FIyw



rgds billdango

Nice video Bill, lovely to see thriving mature palms.

Brilliant vid, Bill

At a pinch, I'd say you have more mature Trachs in your patch than the whole of Abbotsbury

enjoyed that.

which, of that lot, is your most prized plant? you must have one.

Fantastic Bill. . How old are the tallest Trachies you have?

mumfie wrote:enjoyed that.

which, of that lot, is your most prized plant? you must have one.

All of them? :

I think it must be my J Chiliensis near the end of the video.

The video had to be done in a hurry and as its the first time that I have ever done one I must admit that the quality was not great.

It does look a bit better on U TUBE under the same heading.

I will learn from this and make a better one next time?

rgds billdango

Andy P wrote:Fantastic Bill. . How old are the tallest Trachies you have?

The tallest one was planted in 1976 as a 12 inch baby bought from Bill Spinks from the Palm Center in Humberside.

Every other palm was planted at yearly intervals after 1976.

rgds billdango

have you got an unedited version?

i can't watch those anti-shake youtube videos, the black bars jumping around are far too distracting.

Mr List wrote:have you got an unedited version?

i can't watch those anti-shake youtube videos, the black bars jumping around are far too distracting.

I don't like them much either but it looks even worse on the unedited version.

Be patient and I will do a better version with commentary soon.

This was my first attempt and at my age of 67 with shaky hands it wasn't easy to make?

I will get a younger friend of mine to make a better one next time.

rgds billdango

Stunning mate. Hard to believe it's this country.

billdango wrote:

Andy P wrote:Fantastic Bill. . How old are the tallest Trachies you have?

The tallest one was planted in 1976 as a 12 inch baby bought from Bill Spinks from the Palm Center in Humberside.

Every other palm was planted at yearly intervals after 1976.

rgds billdango

WOW ! 36 years old then. I was only ten when that was planted. I`d have to live to 82 to see my seedlings become that tall. Magnificent Palms Bill. You must be made up with them. I`m currently trying to buy the biggest ones i can afford so i don`t have to wait till i`m 82.

Great to see your mature Palms Bill, I'm digging the soundtrack too. It's going to take a long time for most of us to catch you up.!

wow Billdango, those palms I thought i was watching a vid of a garden in spain apart from next doors conifer, it must feeling pretty inferior next to your amazing plants

Brilliant Bill!

Wow the jubaea has alot more of an elegant and elongated leaf shape as it has grown surrounded by the other plants and in a bit of shade rather than those that are grown in the open in full sun like my two which tend to have shorter more stiff looking leaves, very nice mature planting.