Hi Jason thanks for your advice, I actually bought a rplacement yesterday but instead of growing it elsewhere I wil now grow it in place of the dead one. Thanks Keith
no prob keith, hope you have better luck with this one!....i might try my hand at growing a coconut palm!...now thats a challenge coz it needs a minimum temp of around 75 degrees, even at night!....canary island palms will tolerate a few nights of hard frost, but with the coconut palm just one night of frost will kill it, they aint so forgiving! i read a few internet articles where people have actually got a supermarket bought coconut to germinate. the coconut itself is the seed so i just gonna half bury it, keep it warm and hope it will sprout!
. Good day to you all,I lost two Phoenix Canaries Palm last winter both rotted in the center, both where Protected with fleece.But the Chamaerops Humilis came through all right. i Have four Banana Plants,Two Red Abyssinian and Two Muss Basjoo,i have them in a small lean to greenhouse. Question is will i need to protect them with Fleece as well the greenhouse is not heated, but i am going to line it with bubble rap will the bubble rap be sufficient
hey peops....hi cathy it depends where you plan to grow your coconut palm, the uk is not as ideal as barbados lol....hi brightdicksonia, i have a few mussa basjoos and i dont bother with green houses or fleeces, i just cut all the leaves off around begining of december, just leaving the trunks. they look like giant leeks but come march time new leaves will suddenly appear again. during spring and summer you should get a new leaf every week from a basjoo, which is why it aint worth trying to protect and save the leaves from the previous year.....just let them die and cut them off. during real hard frosts i just wrap an old bit of carpet around the trunks and tie it with string. a basjoo will survive in the uk no problem, and if the worse comes to the worse, you can still chop the whole plant off at ground level and it will still grow up again in spring. the roots and rhiyzome below the ground will stand up to the most freezing of weather. i trim off the pups when they sprout up and they also grow on quickly.......i think the original musa basjoos that i began with must be great great grandparents by now!!
Sadly my date palm has lost all its green and is completely brown apart from a little bit of green in the middle. Is it worth me cutting back all of the brown fronds leaving just the centre and seeing if it survives or should I just shed a tear and buy a new one?
Reply to Jackie: Yes, I'd cut off brown leaves and hope the centre of the plant is still living. Do give it a couple of months to start growing. Winter has only just passed, and spring is hardly here yet!
Here in Bournemouth, close to the sea where it can be a little milder - nearly all the tender plants survived except for a large Phoenix Canariensis which has a rotten centre like Keith's. The rest is alive and ten feet across. I know how slow these plants grow (3-4 leaves a year)and to wait for a sign of a shoot from the trunk is probably unlikely.
I have a 3ft tall Phoenix Canariensis in a large pot outside my front door. I bought the plant this summer as a replacement for a beautiful red cordyline that was 8ft high (in a pot) which had taken years to grow, and which I, foolishly, thought would survive last year's severe winter. God knows why when the thermometer was hitting -12 in Bucks! The whole thing went a black rotten mess. My green cordyline, variegated Yucca, and Chusan fan palm all survived, but they are all planted in the ground and mature.
So I'm not taking any chances this year, and the first proper frost we have, will be dragging the potted Phoenix into the garage.My Washingtona palm and Agapanthus(African Lilly plant) are already under cover.Don't take any chances is my advice!
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So I'm not taking any chances this year, and the first proper frost we have, will be dragging the potted Phoenix into the garage.My Washingtona palm and Agapanthus(African Lilly plant) are already under cover.Don't take any chances is my advice!