A Quality Plant Receives 2015 Best of Ruskin Award

A Quality Plant Receives 2015 Best of Ruskin Award
Ruskin Award Program Honors the Achievement
RUSKIN November 11, 2015 -- A Quality Plant has been selected for the 2015 Best of Ruskin Award in the Landscaping category by the Ruskin Award Program.
Each year, the Ruskin Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Ruskin area a great place to live, work and play.
Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2015 Ruskin Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Ruskin Award Program and data provided by third parties.

About Ruskin Award Program

The Ruskin Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Ruskin area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.
The Ruskin Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community. Our organization works exclusively with local business owners, trade groups, professional associations and other business advertising and marketing groups. Our mission is to recognize the small business community's contributions to the U.S. economy.
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Creating a Privacy Hedge with Palm Trees

There are several palm trees that work great as a privacy hedge. Here is a list of Palm Trees commonly used for Privacy Hedges:

1. Areca Palm, Golden Can Palm  or Dypsis lutescens - The Areca Palm is used throughout south Florida for Privacy Hedges. The palm is also used in coastal areas or microclimates throughout central Florida. The palm has a medium growth rate, multiple trunks and is self cleaning (the palm drops old fronds without the need to trim). Growers will typically put a dozen seeds in one pot when growing the Areca Palm to make it extra full at maturity. The Areca Palm can have a golden look on both the canes and the fronds when in full sun. That is not necessarily a sign of a nutrient deficiency. Spacing for the Areca Palm can be 4 to 6 feet depending on how quickly you want your privacy hedge to be complete.

Areca Palm Hedge

25 Gallon Areca Palm - 8-10 Feet Tall

2. Fishtail Palm or Caryota mitis - The Fishtail Palm works well too for a privacy hedge. The growth rate of the Fishtail Palm is medium. This hedging palm likes some shade but can be used in full sun if given plenty of fertilizer and water. The trunks of the Fishtail Palm will die as they flower/seed. The dead trunks will need to be removed. Spacing for the Fishtail Palm would be 4 to 6 feet on center.

Fishtail Palm Tree for Privacy Hedge

3. Lady Palm or Rhapis excelsa - The Lady Palm is another one that prefers a little shade. The Lady Palm will grow nicely under Oak canopy even. The Lady Palm has slender canes that can be slicked up to look like Bamboo. Spacing for the Lady Palm would be 3 to 5 feet on center.

Lady Palm Tree in 25 Gallon Container

4. Paurotis, Everglades Palm or Acoelorrhaphe wrightii - This Florida Native Palm Tree is a slow grower and unlike the other palms recommended, has spines. The Paurotis Palm requires periodic trimming to remove the dead/brown fronds. Spacing for the Paurotis Palm would be 6 feet plus.

Paurotis Palm or Everglades Palm
Acoelorrhaphe wrightii
A GIANT one!

There are other palms that can be used to create a Privacy Hedge and some can be mixed with the choices above to create a more varied look to the hedge. Queen Palms, Foxtail Palms or Royal Palms can be planted between every three or four of the palms above to add a little shade and frost protection to your Privacy Hedge.

The Chinese Fan Palm will work for a period of time that suits many peoples needs. Ultimately, this palm will outgrow being a hedge. It has worked in my yard for 13 years now and I am not totally opposed to its use as a hedge.

Chinese Fan Palm in 25 Gallon Container

A Quality Plant

1998 19th Avenue NE

Ruskin, Florida 33570

www.aqualityplant.com

866-998-9393

    

Wholesale Palms and Plants for Privacy Hedges including Podocarpus Hedges and Areca Palm Hedges

A Quality Plant installs hedges out of many different types of plants and palms. Typical hedges for central and south Florida include:

Areca Palms

Areca Palm / Dypsis lutescens
A Great Hedging Palm

Podocarpus

Podocarpus used for Podocarpus Hedge

Other palms can be used including Arenga engleri /Dwarf Sugar Palm or the Caryota Mitis / Fishtail Palm.

Other plants can be used like the Viburnum suspensum or Viburnum odoratissimum and the Clusia / Pitch Apple.

In all cases, the budget will dictate the starting height for the hedge. Spacing can vary from 2.5 feet up to 5 feet on center. Smaller palms or plants on wide spacing will leave more area uncovered today.

Podocarpus Privacy Hedge

Areca Palm Privacy Hedge

A Quality Plant

www.aqualityplant.com
866-998-9393

A Quality Plant installs the wholesale palms that we sell in the local area and can install large orders of wholesale palms anywhere in the southeastern United States. We install large palms on both residential landscapes and commercial landscapes. Here are a few pictures of wholesale palms and wholesale plants on residential landscaping jobs.

Landscape with Wholesale Palms

Wholesale Sylvester Palm in landscape

Curved Sylvester Palms in the Landscape

Wholesale Palms in the Landscape

A Quality Plant

866-998-9393

1998 19th Avenue NE

Ruskin, Florida 33570

Wholesale Palms of Florida - Sabal Palms - Sabal Palmetto - Cabbage Palm

Call it what you like...Sabal Palm, Cabbage Palm or Sabal Palmetto...this palm outsells them all! A Quality Plant digs and loads Sabal Palms by the truck load. A Quality Plant offers low wholesale pricing on this palm favorite too.

Sabal Palm or Cabbage Palm in the wild

Sabal Palms Slicked up and ready to load

Sabal Palms are cold hardy into the single digits. That has been important for the folks up in the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana.

Sabal Palms are slow growing. Most of the palms we sell are 20 to 30 years old! It takes a Sabal Palm 5 years or more to form any trunk at all. After that you can expect about 6" of trunk growth per year for Sabals.

Sabals are wind resistant, drought tolerant, cold hardy and slow growing. All these characteristics going for it...no wonder the Sabal Palm is a favorite palm for Wholesale Palm Buyers!

Did I mention that they are cheap? Considering the long time needed for a Sabal Palm to get up to a sellable size and the hard work necessary to prepare them for loading, it is amazing that they are not 4 times the price!

Booted Sabal Palms

If you need Wholesale Sabal Palms...Call now!

A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
866-998-9393

Florida Wholesale Palms - Fertilizing Palms for the Spring Season

A Quality Plant is expecting this year to be a record breaking year for wholesale palms sales! Each of the last five years has been better than the last. I am glad that AQP planted thousands of palms each of those years to keep up with the demand.

Sylvester Palm pumped up with Fertilizer

A Quality Plant has just finished fertilizing our palms. Beating the rain has been the trick. All of our Sylvester Palms in the front field got 8 pounds of fertilizer two weeks ago and have had three healthy rains. We fertilized the other two fields today and we are getting a bunch of rain right now! I love the rain after fertilizing. It will be getting pretty cold on Friday in Central Florida. That I can skip!

Wholesale Palms are the primary business at A Quality Plant. It is important that we grow high quality wholesale palms at affordable prices. The faster you can get the palm to that point the better in a market like this. I have never regretted dropping extra fertilizer on our palms. We have upped the quantity of fertilizer per palm each year with great results.

Homeowners will want to fertilize their palms with Palm Fertilizer at least twice a year. Don't be shy about it. Sylvester Palms with trunk need it to grow healthy and robust. Growers should be fertilizing three to four times a year. A Quality Plant will fertilize all of our Sylvester Palms, Canary Palms, Medjool Palms, Queen Palms, Pindo Palms, Foxtail Palms, Royal Palms, Reclinata Palms, Roebelenii Palms and others four times a year.

Palm Fertilizer will come in many different formulas like 12-6-12 or 10-2-14. What is important in palm fertilizer? Micro-nutrients. Boron, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese...these guys are really important to palms. Palm Special Fertilizers will always have them.

Good luck growing palms!

A Quality Plant
Florida Wholesale Palms
www.aqualityplant.com
866-998-9393

Bismarck Palms Wholesale for the Landscape

Bismarck Palm 7 Gallon Container

Bismarck Palm 25 Gallon Container

Bismarck Palm 45 Gallon 

The Bismarck Palm has become one of the most popular palms used in the Florida Landscape. A Quality Plant has the Bismarck Palm at wholesale prices and in a variety of sizes. The Bismarck Palm makes an impressive specimen palm for landscape applications. The Bismarck Palm is known for it's silver blue large fronds. The Bismarck Palm requires up to 20 feet of space to accomodate the massive head of fronds. The Bismarck Palm has proven to be cold hardy down to the low 20's and can even take a light frost with little or no damage. Contact A Quality Plant today and get a quote on your wholesale palm order today!

A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
866-998-9393