planting palms
 

Hi,I wonder if theres any one out there who can help me?
I,ve just brought 3 mature palms,1 is a dwarf palm which will be left in a pot, the other 2 ,which are a 5ft cabbage palm,and a 5ft canarian date palm are in pots at the moment,but i would like to plant them outside
My question is would it be ok to plant them out now or to wait until next spring after any danger of frost has passed
My garden is south facing and quite sheltered,i also live on the south coast of the uk.
Any advice would be appreciated.

planting palms
 

On 9/29/2009 12:37 PM, dacs10 wrote:
Hi,I wonder if theres any one out there who can help me?
I,ve just brought 3 mature palms,1 is a dwarf palm which will be left
in a pot, the other 2 ,which are a 5ft cabbage palm,and a 5ft canarian
date palm are in pots at the moment,but i would like to plant them
outside
My question is would it be ok to plant them out now or to wait until
next spring after any danger of frost has passed
My garden is south facing and quite sheltered,i also live on the south
coast of the uk.
Any advice would be appreciated.


I would wait until about a month before the expected end of frost. By
the time tender new growth starts, all frost would likely be past.

Does anyone else in your neighborhood grow these palms?

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
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