Cold Hardy Sylvester Palm

Sylverster ‘Wild Date’ Palm

Zone: 9a – 11 (20 F)
Typical Height: 35’-40’
Growth Rate: Slow
Habit: Solitary Trunk
Light: Full Sun
Salt: Medium

Description:

One of our favorite formal palms is the Sylvester that makes a striking statement with it’s silver green fronds and burnt-orange diamond cut trunk. Cold hardy and easy to grow the Sylvester is a palm to put front and center. Not bothered by weevils and disease like some palms. Fertilize spring, summer and fall Nurserymen’s Sure Gro 8-4-12 slow release Palm fertilizer. Water regularly until established, once established drought tolerant.

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Cold Hardy Needle Palm

Needle Palm

Zone: 8b – 10
Typical Height: 6’-7’
Growth Rate: Slow to medium
Habit: Suckering clumper
Light: Full sun or filtered light; adaptable.
Salt: 

Description:

The needle palm is a terribly talented plant that is beautiful, rugged, extremely cold hardy, fast growing and one of our landscape favorites. A nice clustering fan palm with interesting needles and hair on the trunk. Very cold hardy. Easy to grow. Looks best in a bit of shade. It produces suckers freely, these multiple stems creating an ever widening rounded clump of indeterminate width. Over time the tightly packed stems will form an impenetrable thicket. The needle palm doesn’t form a trunk but instead has a slowly lengthening crown that may grow to about 4 ft (1.2 m) long and about 7 in (17.8 cm) in diameter. The stems are composed of old leaf bases, fiber and long slender spines. They are usually erect but in older clumps they may lean or grow prostrate along the ground as they compete for light and space. As each stem matures, more slender spines grow from from between the leaf attachments. These “needles” are dark brown or black, very slender and sharp and grow from 4-10 in (10-25 cm) long.

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