Apologies for cross posting. I just finished uploading a few photos of the damage sustained here at MBC when Hurricane Katrina came through Florida last...
Dear All, I have some seeds of Guihaia argyrata and Guihaia grossifibrosa to offer. Wholesale only! Minimum order US$500! If anyone wants it, please send...
Good Day, I have a 5-7 years old Royal palm in our place, and I was wondering if there is any way or technique to make them flower and produce seeds like...
I don't recall ever seeing either species flower with less than 8 feet of wood to the trunk. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? ...
Greetings from sunny St. Pete, Florida. My Royal Palms began flowering at about 20 years (from seed); of four, only one may be setting any seed. One Foxtail...
My Royals are about 15 years, no seed yet. My Foxtails are all seeding non-stop. They started at about 10 years of age. My garden is located in West Palm...
Would removing lower GREEN fronds of Phoenix Palms have any bad or good effect on the plants? For cosmetic reasons, I want to remove some of the lower fronds...
Ken, Pruning green leaves may cause or worsen nutrient deficiency symptoms in palms. It also depletes the palm's starch reserves, resulting in stunted growth...
Ken, For cosmetic reasons I would leave the old leaves! If they fall off which is the end of a natural process they will save you the trouble of pruning or...
I feel like an expectant father this morning. I was out cleaning up the yard and I noticed that my 7-year old Golden Malayan Dwarf coconut is sending out a...
Sven! Here in southern California we have literally millions of W. robusta -- including one in my neighborr's yard which must be 30 meters tall. Some, in...
Hi Dutch: Good news! I have never heard of it but I know that a groujp of persons created a palmetum in the northeastern part of the island. I would like to ...
I have found that constant really heavy pruning of palms seems to produce a thinner trunk which usually doesn't improve the appearance of mature palms....
Is it possible to easily determine the gender of palms such as Bismarkia when they are still immature and prior to placing them in the landscape? John L...
Hi John, I have 6 Bismarckias in the ground, two of which have flowered (one male, one female), and have hundreds in 5 and 15 gallon containers. I would say...
I suspect determination of gender would only be possible with DNA analysis. Anyone know how you would go about this? ..collecting samples, how to treat them ,...
The whole pruning thing on the palms makes me quite bitter where I live (southeast Georgia, USA). I called our local mall's landscaping people the other day...
... I cannot bear to look. i see THIS SORT OF THING ALL THE TIME, even in upscale neighborhoods where people prune compulsively. then we see road crews pruning...
Isn't it wonderful when knowledge CAN make a difference! Kudos to you. I see routine tree butchering here done by the phone company. They refuse to modify...
"Pruning" and over "pruning" to me are very relative terms. For my education, I will appreciate if some one can post some photos showing "over-pruning' and...
I don't think it's simply a matter of how a palm looks. That type of approach creates many pruning problems. To me, if pruining impairs a palm's ability to ...
I know it's a law now in several places that a palm can only be pruned up to the point where fronds are still pointing out horizontally. You are not allowed...
I have some palms, even we know, it's hard to keep them here ( Belgium) a Musa ( banana palm) who grows now the 6th leave a baucarnea Guatamalensis ( nothing...
Major kudos to you about communicating with the company about how to correctly prune the palms. Living here in Nashville, not too many people here have the...
A local shopping center removes all fronds, leaving only the spears, when they trim the Sabal palmettos there. The first time I saw this unacceptable practice...
That's quite possibly the worst I've seen, although it's obviously done by the maintenance people ("We're only doing what we're told.") so they "only have to...
Ken, I am sending you as attachment a photo I took yesterday in the palmetum of a good friend, which I consider overpruned. The owner, not on the photo, ...
For those of you within reach of Santa Barbara, California ther will be a great plant sale this coming Sunday, September 18, 2005. It is the Annual sale of the...
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