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JOE'S PALM GARDEN
Citrus Park, Florida (NW Tampa) - CFPACS Webmaster's Garden
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Palm
Seed Incubation Closet
This closet is
maintained at between 90 and 98 F degrees by a small space heater. This is
my current batch in May 2001. The cups are clear so I can spot roots and
many cups have as many as ten seeds each, there are approximately 30
species of palms and cycads represented in this closet. The closet
is constantly revolving, many germinate in about 30 days and newer seeds
are arriving monthly. Each cup has 6 nail holes for drainage, plastic
saran wrap topping to maintain moisture and keep out bugs. Germinated palm
seedlings are removed and taken outside every 5 days.
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A
few pots with baby palm trees that surround the
perimeter of the house. The house in many circumstances is used as a
giant sundial that by positioning pots at varying proximities to the
house's shadow, the amount of direct sunlight given to the palm can be
regulated.
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Window
sills full of germinated and developing palm trees in cups. Along the
ground are the shade loving baby palms.
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Newly
poured concrete sidewalk, an ongoing project to have a sidewalk
wrap around the house. Sidewalks make such nicely contained and
organized flowerbeds for your palms and landscaping. An ideal weed
barrier and retainer for water and mulch. In the photo are some baby
cycads, a small Havanensis, and Madagascar Palm (really a cacti). The
big trunk in the corner of the flowerbed is that of a large queen palm.
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A further down
view from the next above photo. The sidewalk left a difficult to mow
nook which is perfect for a large palm garden expansion flowerbed!
Grass is in process of being cleared from this site and reused as sod
elsewhere in the yard. This site will have a small black plastic pond
garden pond at its center and be surrounded by exotic gingers, black stem
elephant ears and of course palms. The small sabal shown is a Puerto Rican
Hat.
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Royal
Palm and Jan 2001 survivor onsite. This palm was iced on 5 occasions
during the freezes and has produced 4 new leaves since.
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3
year old Canary Island Date Palm reaching about 4.5 feet tall, behind is a
25 foot Chinese Fan in seed.
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