Web sites referred to in these pages, and others I’ve come across.
Huw Collingbourne’s ‘Pleasure Garden’ web site -
Palm and Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF) . For very detailed technical information about palms.
Palmtrees Described -
Villa Trieste. An interesting new site in Italy, with many interesting photographs of palms in Italian gardens and parks. Authored by Vincenzo Rubino.
Douglas Hendersons Illustrations of Earth History. If you want to look at the time scales referred to in the articles on evolution of the Palms.
The development of an exotic garden in the chilly Midlands of Britain.
Some excellent pictures I’m envious of myself.
Ian Russell’s exotic gardening photo diary in Worcester, from boggy beginnings to an English jungle.
Lots of brilliantly sharp close-
Mike Papay’s New Book on Cold-
Absorbing details about hardiness in North America.
Species descriptions complete with dichotomous keys to the identification of Cold Hardy and Trachycarpus species.
Morphology, Synonyms, Cultivation and Distribution of the Palms, and some fascinating details of distributors.
SPECIALISTS INFORMATION BOARDS
The one that's linked to Chamaerops magazine etc. An excellent site for information, and also a discussion panel of well informed palm enthusiasts. Free access to its back catalogue of magazines, and now free to join. Well worth joining
The Central Florida Palm and Cycad Society -
An excellent ‘Club’, with friendly organisers.
Annual membership $15 going up to $20 in ‘05. For which you get a magazine -
Since buying seeds from this company I have found them generous, and responsive to mails.
Click on the logo to go to their site
Anderson’s Seed Company.
I have bought good seeds from them for many years. The list is limited, but hey offer amazingly good prices and I have found them very responsive to mails too.
Seeds can sometimes be with you within days despite the huge distances! Click on the logo to go to their site
Amazonia.
A friendly and interesting company, base in Barcelona, Spain.
With a rather idiosyncratic, but interesting, web-
Responsive to mails. They claim they never ignore them..
I’ve bought excellent quality seeds from them
Click on the logo to go to their site
Can offer interesting discounts
Australia. Highly responsive to mails/queries.
Generally very good seeds, and often advice on how to
Germinate. Regular mailing list.
Europalms
A newer European based website.
They do exactly as they say on the logo: Rare cold hardy palms and seeds. Also some Exotics now too.
Excellent seed quality and value for money.
Click on logo to go to the site
Cemunnos, an interesting new site in the Netherlands
Who describe themselves as.....
“Your partner in hardy Exotic Gardens, with nursery and open Garden”.
An English version is promised soon, but the content and range is pretty clear already.
Trebrown seed and plants
A huge list of palm seeds and plants. As with some of the above, very responsive to emails and helpful generally.
I have had some excellent seeds from this supplier.
The site has just been updated to include a database of every officially recognised palm. All 2530 of them plus a few hundred not yet recognised or cultivars. This list is the current list, but as many people don't use the correct names for species the whole list is searchable by scientific names, synonyms, common names plus variants of, also many names in Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. So you can search for anything and be lead to the correct name with some information about it.
There will also be an indication of the freshness of the seeds, with special offers as the seeds approach the end of their viability range.
Ortanique
A huge list of palm seeds and plants, many of them tropical.
We have had some very fresh seeds from them
