Follow HGTV Garden Show Host, and long time nurseryman and landscape design build contractor Gary Gragg around as he explores the world of Landscape and botanical related content that may cause uncontrollable giggles. Gary Gragg is the owner and operator of Golden Gate Palms Nursery in Point Richmond, CA located at 425 Cutting Blvd. His nursery specializes in Palms, avocados, citrus, cacti, succulents, and all complementary plants to round out a subtropical garden. Gary has been in the horticulture and landscape industry since he was 15 years old. He is seldom seen in one place for long as he is constantly on the move tending to four nursery locations and word class gardens in Winters, Lafayette, and San Diego when he is not running all around the Bay Area consulting on projects or craning huge palms into place. Gary can be hired for all things palm and horticultural as well as for landscape design and consultation. Visit Gary's webste at www.goldengatepalms.com
I saw one at a house in Southwest Utah (zone 8b/9a) and it was surprisingly large and healthy. The dry desert climate may add a little hardiness though.
Seems like a defensible location. However, how does water get to your house? If it’s dependent on a distant pumping station it may not be running when you need it most.
The Mission here in San Diego that was built by Father Juniperro Serra and his settlers was I think how the Canary Island date palm was brought to California in the 1700's. The whole place was filled with very old mature Canary palms and had actually filled the whole canyon along the freeway. It was called palm canyon. Now the whole canyon is just dead trunks from the palm weevil. It is absolutely unbelievable. The old military bases were filled with hundreds of canaries and now they are all dead just sitting there. I drive a different route so I don't have to look at it. They even let the iconic ones die at the Cabrillo lighthouse. I found black and white video of the 3 huge canaries at the lighthouse from the late 1800's when they were small. Near my house there is an old strip of them on Catalina Blvd. which were planted my Madam Tingley that are over 100 years old and the city actually treats them for palm weevil but they literally have spread fusarium all over the place. The canaries can't catch a break down here and now the old iconic Chilean wine palm on Chatsworth just got nailed by the palm weevil.
OK so a family member told me that you can crack the seed open which I've done and there's a little itty-bitty white coconut looking thing inside the seed and they taste kind of like it too, but more on the nutty side. Did anyone else know this, have you ate the inside of the seed?
Yes, there are a whole bunch of palms that are like that and they call them cocoisode palms. People don’t usually do it with queen palms because they’re so little fruit inside. The best one of all is the Chilean wine in Palm Beach has much more fruit, and the nuts are called Coquito nuts.
My grandpa has a gigantic two headed livistona chinensis where the heads go so far out and are extremely heavy. If it ever breaks it will do some serious damage to the surrounding palms and cycads and also one head goes over the fence and hangs over the neighbors jacuzzi. A man named Bill Evans Sr. who owned the Catamaran hotel used to try to convince my grandfather to sell it to him for his hotel in Pacific Beach. I have seen a two headed queen once which is near my house at the top of hill street in Point Loma.
I saw a queen palm somewhere over near San Carlos in the Bay Area that was making multiple heads but hadn’t progressed very far yet and I really wish I had written down the address because that was like five years ago. It would be fun to go back. I’m sure sooner or later I will drive by again and rediscover it. Bill Evans was a legend
If you fly over Cuba, all you see are Royal Palms everywhere that are seriously old in places where no one planted them. It’s under debate whether they’re actually native to Florida or not, and I believe the consensus is that they are not although I like to think that they are native there. And as far as I know, they are not native to Mexico. we are living in a time where it’s all transitory as to where things are native to because we shook up the whole globe like a snow globe and now seeds are everywhere so 10 years, they won’t know what was to wear if they don’t figure it out right now
I’m rather sure they would out there. My dad tried to partner with Budge Brown, the owner of Oakwood, who was supposedly a poor potato farmer, and as legend had it, they needed fill for the freeway and started digging and found high-quality sand. So he started selling sand. As they started digging the sand out the water table filled in the hole and created the lake With relatively freshwater filtered through the sand. He started a little resort there and made enough money to take a vacation to Hawaii where he slid down the natural lava tubes, which gave him the idea to build the first original concrete waterslides that I enjoyed as a kid in the 70s. This is when my dad met up with him. he was the first to do it and I believe he may have been the first to build the plastic ones as he converted the whole park ultimately to plastic but he did keep the really super fast concrete one running for quite some time overlapping with the plastic as I recall My dad talked to lots of city councils trying to get waterslides put in in the late 1970s all around the Bay Area, but it was such a new concept that nobody would bite off on it and he was basically ahead of his time. I was really disappointed because I wanted to be the kid of the dad who owned the first Bay Area waterslide park. Never happened though.
Hey Gary Hello from Sabvannah Georgia and Thanks for your videos and educating me on these amazing good looking Sylvester is Palms. Just one question, the fruit of my Sylvester is palm trees are yellow orange instead, do you know if these are still good to germinate? Please Advise and Thanks in Advance
Fake grass gets really hot in the summer. Will burn the bottom of feet if walk bare feet. Planting tree have to also consider sewer line plus house foundation & patio foundation. Lot of " landscaping company " doesn't take that into consideration when planting a tree.
My mango has been potted from seed for 1 year in zone 9B Florida. It was slow to grow so i planted it in the ground. How long do your mango trees take to grow and produce? Thanks.
They can handle full sun. They were just need more water and fertilizer to keep them looking good assuming you were not out in some extreme hot climate like Palm Springs or similar, in which case they would need shade.
I got 3 of them in full sun at the yuba estate. Definitely grow differently in the hot inland climate. Leaf size is reduced but mine have managed to keep a rich green color with regular fertilizer application
Whenever I see light yellow plants my first impulse is that some sort of iron chlorosis is going on and to put some fertilizer on it. Once I get over that I can enjoy it, this has got nice dainty foliage, a very nice plant. Thanks for showing it.
wow, that's incredible, I really like these extreme rainfalls. People have to be careful about these things because these low areas can fill up quickly and people who stay in their cars sometimes drown. I think the electronics in their cars malfunctions and they can't even get the windows open.
Wow, great examples of this palm. I found out about these when it was mentioned on Palmtalk. I figured you likely had a video on them, and low and behold, you had a few from over the years. I ended up buying 2 from your nursery and 1 martianus as well. I was never a fan of the fortuneii, but these are something else. Very pleased with them and the sun catches them from behind perfectly, the translucent nature of them is a great feature of these in particular. Excellent examples here!
In turkish we call them "night lovers" and that is because flowers open up late afternoon. Very slight fragrance but pleasant and always take me to my childhood. That is why I planted them near the front door in CA :) Just nice memories
They grow like weeds in Phoenix. Mexican fan palms will grow out of the smallest crack in the concrete…and everywhere else. It’s great. No oriels. There are wild parakeets around.
Mission Viejo checking in here - we have them in the same palm. Every morning they “chatter” nag at me to refill the grape jelly cups on the oriole feeder with nectar ports and spaces to hold orange halves. I find myself these days wishing I had such a pampered good life! Ha! Thanks for this very relevant narrative praising such a little beauty of the avian world!
