How to grow palm trees. Growing palm trees outdoors. Growing palms indoors. Growing Sago palms, coconut palms and other easy to grow palms. Fastest growing palm tree. Slow growing palm.
Nothing evokes the look and feel of paradise like the gracefully swaying fronds of a palm tree. One glimpse of the bowing fronds of a feather-leaved palm variety dancing on the breeze and you are instantly transported to your favorite island hideaway.
There is another benefit to growing palms. Palm trees are very predictable in their habits of growth. Much more so than other types of trees.
If you know the mature height and crown spread of the variety you are growing, you can safely plan your landscape around it without fear of unpleasant surprises.
This predictability has made palms popular street trees in warm areas.
The vast majority of palm species inhabit the tropical rainforests of the world. The crowns of the taller varieties form the canopy that makes the forests cool and shady. Low growing palms form the understory.
A significant minority of species are found growing on the dry soils of open grasslands. Here, they tend to colonize along stream beds.
Few palms inhabit desserts. These species are known as oasis palms because the only occur where there is water deep underground. the California Fan palm and the edible Date palm are the most popular of this group.
These water loving plants prefer the tropics to the temperate zone but there are a few palms that occur naturally in cold climates. The Chusan Windmill palm is the hardiest of these and is often planted in the northern U.S. and Canada.
Relatively few palms will tolerate snow. The Windmill palm which originates in the Himalayas can be seen there, blanketed in snow, each winter.
Many palm varieties are well suited to growing on the sandy beaches of the world. These plants have deep tap roots which can reach down through the sand to the water table below. They are tough enough to withstand salt spray and hurricane force winds.
Thrinax radiata, the Florida Thatch palm and Cocos nucifera, the Coconut palm are the most well known of these.
Explains the best procedures for planting palm trees. How to prepare the soil for palm tree planting. Palm tree seeds planting details. Palm growing drainage and spacing info.
Growing Sago palm plants from seeds. Growing Sago palm pups. Though not strictly a palm (Sagos are technically cycads) this is the best variety to use for growing a palm bonsai.
This is the fastest growing palm tree in Central Florida. Syagrus romanzoffiana can easily put on 2 feet per year. This quick growth along with their feathery fronds is what makes the Queen such a popular landscape palm around here.
Teaches how to grow palms indoors and how to grow palm trees in containers.
A slow growing palm will make the best indoor palm tree. The Lady palm is the slowest growing palm I know of. It typically only grows 1 or 2 new leaves per year.
A list of palm plant species which can withstand freezing winters. If you plan on growing palm trees outside the tropics, these are the pages you need to visit.
Two plants are commonly used for palm bonsai. Neither is technically a palm but both are commonly called palm trees.
One is the
Pony Tail palm
and the other is the Sago palm tree.
Florida Palm Trees
The best types of Florida palm trees to plant in central and south Florida. Also palm trees native to Florida and the best palm tree for NW Florida. How to grow palm trees in the Sunshine State.
