Best Palms For Outdoor Containers

Palms and cycads make striking container plants for decks patios porches and around pools adding an exotic and tropical touch to our outdoor living areas.

Best palms for outdoor containers.

Potted palms can be used as a striking centerpiece or as exotic embellishment. See more ideas about planting flowers plants tropical garden. It makes a gorgeous thriller plant in a big outdoor container with showy tropic escape mandevilla and hibiscus surrounding its base. Palm trees give your home and garden a tropical flavor with their interesting trunks and large fronds of varying shapes and textures.

Adonidia adonidia merrillii also known as manila palm or christmas palm adonidia is one of the most popular potted palms for full sun adonidia is available in a double variety which reaches about 15 feet 4 5 m and a triple variety which tops out at 15 to 25 feet 4 5 7 5 m. This is a large fan palm that grows slowly producing a trunk after 10 years of growth. The best varieties of japanese maples for containers are the kinds with weeping branches and finely cut threadlike leaves. Growing palm trees in containers.

See more ideas about container gardening plants garden. Aug 28 2016 explore katrina cook boyd s board potted palm trees followed by 184 people on pinterest. We love to use inexpensive majesty palms everywhere in rooms that need a little life and on patios and porches. Seed should be planted to its own depth in any moist proprietary potting medium that both retains moisture and is free draining.

What palms do best in containers. May 27 2013 explore marcella smith s board palm container garden on pinterest. Several palm trees thrive. The palm family is quite fascinating with about 2 500 species coming from many different climate zones tropical subtropical or temperate.

Older seed may not germinate well. Place seed pots in a heated propagator for the best results. The state tree of florida and south carolina cabbage palm is also remarkably cold hardy surviving temps of 10 to 15 f. Japanese maple trees are naturally small up to about 15 feet tall and work well in the ground or in containers.

Palms are propagated by seeds. Palm trees help turn an ordinary patio into a lush green oasis. Here are some of the more popular palm trees for pots in sun. Fresh seed can sprout within a week or two but most species take two or three months to germinate and some take up to two years.