Gardening with palms

Canary Island Palm

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Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis) is a beautiful, majestic palm tree from Canary islands. It has a thick caliper trunk with large nut at the top and a huge canope of large pinnate leaves. The crown is 10 to 15 foot long. The trunk is covered with diamond pattern from old leaf scars. The Canary island palm is well suited to grow in city landscapes and tolerates air pollution and automobile fumes.Canary island palm is more often used as a street or avenue tree. The palm also uased as a focal point in beach resorts and hotels. This majestic palm can grow to 50-80 feet in height with a trunk reaching sometimes 4 feet.

Spanish Moss

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Spanish moss is a parasite plant growing upon large trees in subtropical and tropical climates around the world.

Bottle palms

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Bottle palms get their names because of very unique shape. They have an attractive swollen trunk. They are very rare in its native habitat in Madagascar, but quite popular among palm lovers.Bottle palms come in different shapes. They are perfect for small to medium landscapes and often used as an interior potted plant.

The most useful plants

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Palm trees are the most striking plants among all tropical plants. They are easy recognizable, very exotic and super beautiful.

Palm trees provide a wide range of products to people:food, beverages, oil, construction materials and household utensils. To people living in the tropics and subtropics palm trees are whole life. They have been used different parts of palm trees as a source of food and shelter for thousands of years.

Guide of palms

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Palms trees are a woody monocotyledon of the family Arecaceae. They are always green and perfect. They have different type of fronds:circular leaves, feather-like leaves. Some of them have bright-orange or red leaves. Most of palm trees are self cleaning and don't require pruning. There are a wide range of different varieties of palm trees for tropical, subtropical and even cold climate.