Seitz-Kreuznach Palm Green

[Uncial]

I was really looking forward to trying this and I am so glad I didn't buy it. Originally I was excited by a big bottle of a green in my favoured range, but this looks more like spearmint to me; not at all what I would have expected.

[Manalto]

It's not the color that comes to mind when I think of spearmint (or anything botanical - there's just too much blue in it) but that's subjective. There are so many other more interesting inks out there. And the bottle design is absurd for ink.

[fountainpagan]

Uncial,

 

this ink is not like speermint (which is much lighter and blueish).

 

I too was a little indecise wether to take it or not, not fancying light colours that much...I took it, any how.

 

This green i quite interesting. I mainly use it with my ASA Airborne, with a fine Olver #5 nib - for drawing. The shades are from light to dark, but never too dark), and the behaviour is excellent. Moreover, the longer the ink stays in the pen, the brilliance changes. It is really a nice and entertaining ink.

 

I could not tell you its behaviour with broader nibs, however.

[amberleadavis]

I just filled a pen with this and find the color the same as posted here, but a shade or two darker. It's as teal as teal can be. Not the color of palms, unless you count the artificial ones that people leave at the curb.

 

I'm trying to like this color; the fact that it behaves well and shades generously is helping. Whoever chose the bottle design was not thinking about the fact that people may want to fill a pen from it - or just didn't care.

 

Amber, even though they call it Sago Palm, it's a cycad (dinosaur food). A moot point though, since many palms are about the same color.

 

 

The one that I showed in the picture is actually a Mexican Blue Palm and its a different color from any other palm tree, but other than that, I totally agree.

[Manalto]

 

 

The one that I showed in the picture is actually a Mexican Blue Palm and its a different color from any other palm tree, but other than that, I totally agree.

 

Wow - never saw a Brahea armata like that. Did it come with a bridge?

[amberleadavis]

 

Wow - never saw a Brahea armata like that. Did it come with a bridge?

 

 

It was like this when I was a kid. I've never seen one that big in anyone else's yard either.

 

http://www.snwa.com/nma/plant_search/mexican_blue_palm1.jpg

[Manalto]

Oh, I thought you were talking about the plant in the pot at the bottom of your stairs. So the trunk is the Brahea? But you can't see the leaves (color)? I'm so confused.

Edited August 20, 2015 by Manalto

[amberleadavis]

Oh, I thought you were talking about the plant in the pot at the bottom of your stairs. So the trunk is the Brahea? But you can't see the leaves (color)? I'm so confused.

 

Nope, the little guy in the pot is a Sago palm. The one that you see the trunk only is the Brahea, they grow every slowly. Here in Las Vegas, I probably have one of the tallest. They are drought tolerant, rabbit resistant and pool friendly *according to the water district* but they don't transplant well, so you don't often see them this big.

[Manalto]

Okey dokey.

[amberleadavis]

 

Anyway, I think the Palm Green of the S-K ink is too blue for a palm green.