Seasonal Maintenance Guide for Palm Trees
palm trees don’t maintain their stunning looks effortlessly. They need a little TLC to stay fabulous.
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Selecting the Perfect Palm Tree for Your Paradise
Creating a tropical paradise begins with selecting the perfect palm tree variety. With their graceful fronds and exotic charm
Cycas Revoluta Sago Palms Propogating Pups
How to Harvest Sago Palms Removing and planting the pups or suckers that appear on and around the mother plant, is really quite easy. Remove pup by cutting or sawing from main trunk, some can even be pulled off. This will not hurt the cycad, unless trunk has been sawed into, then it becomes a matter …
Musa Banana
Some people refer to bananas as trees or palms, but they are neither a tree nor a palm, but a giant clumping tropical herb. Bananas are fast growing and most sucker freely once the plant is established, which doesn’t take long after planting. The pseudostem blooms once and dies after fruiting, and the trunk should …
Palms in our Garden
Here is a visual list of most of the palms in our garden. Acoelorrhaphe wrightii (Everglades Palm; Silver Saw Palm; Paurotis Palm) and Ravenea rivularis (Majesty Palm) Adonidia merrillii Formerly known as, “Veitchia merrillii” (Christmas Palm) Arenga engleri Formosa Palm Brahea armata Mexican Blue or Blue Hesper Palm Brahea edulis Guadalupe Palm Butia capitata Pindo …
Dwarf Rhapis Images
Here is a nice selection of Rhapis Excelsa Dwarf named varieties for your enjoyment…. If you’d like to purchase one or more of these for your home, please check out the link below. Rhapis Excelsa Dwarf Named Varieties ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘Zuiko-Lutino’ Light green to medium green leaves with dark green stripes. ZOOM The tallest …
Rhapis excelsa Taking the Pups
Lady palms are readily propagated by removing the pups and re-potting them in their own pot. The pups are the new shoots that grow through the stolon from the mother plant. This is a photo essay showing how the process is done, and what to look for while removing these baby plants, to insure a …
Rhapis excelsa taiheiden
King of the Kannonchiku Rhapis excelsa Images The “king of the kannonchiku” Rhapis excelsa ‘taiheiden’ is perhaps the most sought after of the all-green Rhapis. This is truly the “King of kannonchiku”. The quality of the leaf is very good, they are very large, wide and thick. The leaves and trunks are the largest of …
Rhapis excelsa Lady Palm images
ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘kodaruma’ female with inflorescences. ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘kodaruma’ female with inflorescences. ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘kodaruma’ with female inflorescences ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘kodaruma’ female with seed. ZOOM Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm) in the Garden ZOOM Rhapis excelsa ‘Daruma’ male plant. ZOOM Rhapis excelsa seed that have been cleaned ZOOM Rhapis excelsa (Lady Palm) …
Rhapis excelsa Lady Palms
The difficulty in identifying “Rhapis excelsa” species Rhapis excelsa, from seed, grow painfully slow and are almost impossible to know what variety, form or cultivars one is growing until the plant is mature, even then it can become difficult in identification of these plants unless you know the seed and it’s parentage. Rhapis excelsa can …