I am in the Azores, where the climate is exactly the one that this palm needs: 10C to 27C year round (night and day) and the scarce extre...Read Moremes can may be (I have not experienced them yet) +6C to maybe 29C, but I can not find it anywhere except one place where I can not afford to buy and ship it. I would pay up to 30 Euro including shipping if anyone wants me to try Juania in the Azores.
I have been growing a Juania in my sheltered Portsmouth garden for several years now & it is now around 10ft tall.
Planted as a 2f...Read Moret specimen it came from the nursery on Juan Fernandez island & was sold to help raise funds for the protection of the species.
Many others were sold in the UK, but I understand most have died & the only other ones I know of that still grow in the UK are in Cornwall.
There is a large specimen growing in Ireland at Earlscliffe Garden near Dublin.
It seems Juania likes to grow in a cool temperate climate with mild winters & ample rainfall.
First of all the natural habitat of Juania is in Juan Fernandez Island, about 600km from the coasts of CHILE, not Argentina!!!
We ...Read Morehave some juanias in our nursery, some are growing very well, they're allready 7 years old. There're others which from one day to another die, and no one knows why, it's very complicated.
At the moment there're 2 bigger specimens growing well outside of Southamerica, in Irland and in San Francisco, CA.
There're only 2 adult specimens growing outside of island, in Con-Con, chilean central coast.
Corte Madera, CA (Zone 10a) | August 2004 | positive
I recently saw a beatuful specimen of this tree in San Francisco with long elegant leaves. They are very picky where they grow, and so fa...Read Morer, teh only places these palms can survive outside their habitat is the soutehrn coastal areas of the UK, and the northern end of the San Francisco peninsula.
This has got to be one of the most difficult palms in cultivation... it lives off the coast of Chile on a small island where it never get...Read Mores warm, never gets cold and is always moist. This palm is so fastidious that those conditions are the only ones it will grow under. Repeated attempts to grow this palm here in southern California have routinely met with failure. Tropical climates are definitely out. I saw some growing unhappily in San Francisco, which is probably pretty close to their native climate... many of these have gone on to grow quite well and are now healthy looking trees... but aside from those rare examples, I have not heard of much luck with this species anywhere around the world. They seem less difficult to get up to a 15 gallon size, but then go downhill in the ground. If anyone has personal success with this species, I would love to know about it. Attractive palm with prominent crownshaft and dark green, arching leaves.
I am in the Azores, where the climate is exactly the one that this palm needs: 10C to 27C year round (night and day) and the scarce extre...Read More
I have been growing a Juania in my sheltered Portsmouth garden for several years now & it is now around 10ft tall.
Planted as a 2f...Read More
There is a flowering specimen in newzealand
First of all the natural habitat of Juania is in Juan Fernandez Island, about 600km from the coasts of CHILE, not Argentina!!!
We ...Read More
I recently saw a beatuful specimen of this tree in San Francisco with long elegant leaves. They are very picky where they grow, and so fa...Read More
This has got to be one of the most difficult palms in cultivation... it lives off the coast of Chile on a small island where it never get...Read More