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C o n t e n t sA r t i c l e s :Rain, Rain, and more of the same! by John Kenahan, Goring, UK page 5Kannonchiku by Keith Andrew page 8The Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh by Tony King, Romford, Essex, UK page 12On the identity of Musa sp. 'Yunnan' by D R Constantine, Bridgwater, Somerset, UK page 16Subtropical Lake District by Jim Reynolds, Vancouver, B. C., Canada page 20A Glance Through Time page 22S t a n d a r d s :Editorial by Tobias W. Spanner page 3Shop get back issues and more page 23Cover: Looks like a postcard: Old and stately Trachycarpus fortunei at the lakefront in Lugano, Lago di Lugano.Photo: Gerard PuryChamaerops is the quarterly journal of The European Palm Society. The European Palm Society (EPS) is affiliated to theInternational Palm Society and was founded in 1991. The EPS is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sharing information aboutpalms and other exotic plants across the continent of Europe. The main goal of the EPS is to communicate with other enthusiaststhrough Chamaerops, the EPS website, or personally at Society meetings, in order to share ideas and knowledge of the successfulcultivation of exotic plants. Above all, the EPS and Chamaerops are run by members, for members.Issue no. 47, summer 2003Editor Tobias W. Spanner (Germany) mail@palmsociety.orgMembership Organizer Tony King (UK) membership@palmsociety.orgLanguage Editor Lauri D. Coulombe (USA)French Translator Yann Corbel (France)German Translator Jörg Witticke (Germany)Layout, Design ultracondensed.com (Germany) webmaster@palmsociety.orgPrintersSimmons Printers Ldt. (UK)The European Palm Societyc/o The Palm CentreHam Central NurseryHam Street, HamRichmond, Surrey, TW10 7HA - United KingdomPhone: +44 20 8255 6191Fax: +44 20 8255 6192mail@palmsociety.orgwww.palmsociety.orgSpecial thanks to all our contributors.Please send manuscripts and pictures by mail or e-mail.Computer files are most welcome. Pictures can be send asprints, negatives, slides, on floppy, CD-ROM or by e-mail.Please send to: The European Palm Society, Tobias W. Spanner,Tizianstr. 44, 80638 München, GermanyTo join the EPS please contactTony King - 34, Keats Avenue - Romford, Essex RM3 7ARUnited Kingdommembership@palmsociety.orgMembership rates:Chamaerops only: 1 year £15. Online only: 1 year £12, 2 years £20, 3 years £24. Chamaerops & Online: 1 year £20, 2 years £36, 3years £48. Upgrade: Members currently off-line can upgrade their membership to 'Chamaerops & Online': 1 year +£5, 2 years +£10,3 years +£15. For any online membership queries please visit www.palmsociety.org2 Chamaerops No. 47
E d i t o r i a lWith spring well underway and the newgardening season already going at full steam,people are busy planting and replantingeverywhere. The standard greenery most frequentlyavailable and used in gardens still accounts for mostof the plantings of course, but you can see moreand more palms and other exotics appearingeverywhere, even in seemingly unsuitable areasdeemed too frosty even by enthusiasts' standards.Just 10 years ago, garden centres all over northernEurope would not have been caught dead stockingpalms for outdoor use, and even in the mild southof Europe the range was limited mainly to the localfavourites Phoenix canariensis and Washingtoniarobusta, and the odd Kentia or "Areca"-Palm,imported from Holland, incredibly enough.Today, there is a wide range of cold hardy palmsavailable not only from a growing number ofspecialist nurseries all over Europe, but also fromthe mainstream suppliers, who have discovered aviable business addition. It is no longer a surpriseto find a Trachy or a Chamaerops in your localgarden store in the north, and nurseries in Italy,France and Spain now grow and stock an increasingrange of mouth-watering palms, including Brahea,Butia, Syagrus, Trithrinax and even an odd Jubaea.Surprisingly, despite this growing interest inexotic plants and, more specifically, palms,membership numbers in the European PalmSociety remain at a fairly constant level of 600members plus a couple of hundred subscribers tothe EPS website. Other palm societies, includingthe largest and most prestigious of them all, theInternational Palm Society, have actually seen adecrease in membership in recent years, eventhough interest in palms is constantly rising.I would claim that the European Palm Societywas and still is heavily responsible for this newexotic boom and is one of the forerunners inEurope of this new trend. Chamaerops,accordingly, is arguably one of the best sources ofinformation for news in the palm world. So whyis it, I ask myself, that our membership numbersdo not profit from this growing interest? Perhapspart of the problem is that information can easilybe accessed free from the Internet, causing manyto think that spending £15/EUR23 a year inmembership fees is an unnecessary expense. Howcan we involve those who get most of theirinformation from free online sources in the EPS?Perhaps another problem is that, with palms sowidely available at every local garden centre, peoplewho buy a palm there today are not aware of theEPS and the wealth of information it could provideto them to help grow their new acquisitionsuccessfully. How can we get more garden centresand local nurseries to recognize that promotingthe EPS to their customers will help further theirsales of palms and other exotics with a minimumof additional effort? Every specialized palm nurserycan probably tell numerous tales about people whocall asking all sorts of questions about "a palm"they just purchased at one of these generic gardencentres that came with no additional informationfrequentlyeven without a name.I would claim that Chamaerops and the EPSwebsite with its large archive deserve much moreattention among new palm enthusiasts as a reliablesource of firsthand information, and I hope thatevery member will promote it as such to friendsand others interested in growing palms. Word ofmouth is, after all, the best advertisement.I hope many of you will be prompted to shareyour ideas on how to promote the EPS. Our LettersPage and the EPS forum on the web are yearningfor your contributions.T.S.Chamaerops No. 473
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