We Planted 85 Amarillo Palm Trees At The Amazon Golf Course

We Planted 85 Amarillo Palm Trees At the Amazon Golf Course, Iquitos Peru

Bill Grimes tastes the fruit of the Amarillo Coconut Palm tree, and likes it.

There are at least 3 species of coconut palm trees here in Iquitos Peru, the green, gray and yellow or Amarillo. We have 3 rows of Amarillo Palms lining the fairways, but the rows are incomplete and we want to extend them with the same species. This should have been done in 2004, but it wasn’t, so we are doing it now. I estimated it would take 81 trees.

We found a source of sprouted Amarillo Palm nuts at Recreo Familiar Don Pepe's.

We learned from Don Pepe if we had planned ahead it takes around 4 months for a coconut to dry and sprout. We’ve already waited too long. I wanted instant impact so we paid S/ 2 soles, around $.60 cents per sprouted coconut palm. We bought 85, every sprouted nut on his place.

Gathering the 85 rooted, sprouted coconuts.

We sacked them up, loaded them onto a motocarro, and headed for the Amazon Golf Course.

Marmelita and a motocarro full of Amarillo Palm tree sprouts.

Half of them were planted that afternoon and the other half the next day. It turned out we were short 10 trees of having the perfect number but we will find them in the next few days to finish this part of the project.

Amarillo Palm tree sprouts ready to plant at the Amazon Golf Course.

This is part of my vision for the future of the Amazon Golf Course. It will take a couple of years for you to see in reality what I “see” now, but these 85 Amarillo Palm trees will be the single biggest impact we will make in our landscaping project.

We are in the process of planting 2,000 trees and blooming bushes. Tomorrow I want to get an accurate count of how many trees and blooming bushes we have planted that are alive and doing well, and I will report back here to you with the species, numbers, and some photos.