Date Palms in the landscape including Medjools, Canary Island Date Palms and Sylvester Palms

The Major Date Palms can put an exclamation point on any landscape. Residential Landscapes and Commercial Landscapes both can benefit from the use of Date Palms. They are drought tolerant and the Date Palms are cold hardy palms. The growth rate of the Date Palms can be slow to moderate.

The True Date or Phoenix dactylifera is a majestic Palm with blue green fronds that extend out with little arch. The Medjool is a popular variety as an ornamental palm due to the appearance of the palm. There are other varieties including the Deglet nour and the Zahidi. All are slow growing and zone 8b palms. They are extremely drought tolerant palms.

Medjool Palm installation in Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Phoenix dactylifera

  

The Phoenix canariensis or Canary Island Date Palm is the largest of the single trunk Date Palms. It is among the slowest growing too. It's slow growth rate and massive size and weight make it one of the most expensive palms you can buy. They are impressive though. There really is no substitute. With a spread of 25 feet plus it will dominate an area like no other single trunk palm.

Canary Island Date Palm / Pineapple Palm being prepared for transport

The Phoenix sylvestris is a faster growing single trunk date palm that will give you a lot of bang for your buck. The fronds are greenish blue and have a bushier appearance than the other two major date palms. The Sylvester Palm is drought tolerant but will due equally well in a soil that is moist.

 Sylvester Palm installation in Tybee Island, Georgia
Phoenix sylvestris

Florida Grown Medjool Palms

Canary Island Date Palm  or Pinepple Palm
taking a ride over a home in
Cocoa, Florida

Canary Island Date Palm  or Pinepple Palm
with three 14 feet of trunk Sylvester Palms
Cocoa, Florida

A Quality Plant has these three palms available for your next project and offers installation both to landscapers and to homeowners. We are very competitive on price and guarantee the installation will go smoothly!

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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!

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Florida Wholesale Palms for Central Florida Landscapes

A Quality Plant grows and sells Florida Palms at Wholesale Prices. A Quality Plant grows many of the Landscape Palms used in Central Florida Landscapes. Some of these wholesale palms are suited for all of central Florida and other palms are a little more sensitive to cold and need to be planted near the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. Below are some of the most popular Landscape Palms for Central Florida:

Christmas Palm / Adonidia merrillii
Frost or temperatures below 32 will damage or kill this beautiful palm

Bismarck Palm / Bismarckia nobilis
Temperatures below 28 or a hard frost can damage this magnificent palm
The more silver the Bismarck the more cold hardy. Mine have taken 25 degrees with frost and had minimal damage.

Roebelenii Palm / Pygmy Date Palm / Phoenix roebelenii
Although this loved palm can take temperatures into the mid twenties, it does not like frost.

Silver Date Palm / Sylvester Palm / Phoenix sylvestris
The Sylvester Palm can survive temperatures into the high teens and can take some frost.

Foxtail Palm / Wodyetia bifurcata
The Foxtail Palm is self cleaning and cold hardy to the upper twenties. The Foxtail Palm can take a light frost even with minor damage.

Queen Palm / Queen Anne Palm / Syagrus romanzoffiana
The Queen Palm has large spreading fronds that add shade and height to the Centrral Florida landscape.
The Queen Palm can take temperatures into the mid twenties and some frost.

There are many other palms used in the central Florida Landscape including the Canary Island Date Palm, the Washingtonia Palm, the European Fan Palm, the Medjool Palm, the Pindo Palm, the Spindle Palm, the Bottle Palm, the Reclinata Palm and many more. A Quality Plant sells all of these palms at Florida wholesale palm prices.

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Hybrid Date Palms - Crosses between Canary Island Date Palm, Sylvester Palm, Reclinata Palm, Roebelenii Palm and the True Date Palm

I find it amazing how many variations in leaf form, trunk diameter, seed color and size, growth rate, and clustering characteristics can be found in hybrid date palms.

The first generation seems to be fairly predictable. The second and third generation have much less predictable results. Some of these Hybrid x Hybrid palms are exceptionally beautiful and robust while others are equally unattractive.

Date Palms (Phoenix varieties) are either male or female. The females must be polinated by another date palm. They don't care which date palm variety. That is what leads to the hybrids. In contrast, the Queen Palm has both male and female flowers at the same time and can polinate itself.

Here are some samples of first and second/third generation hybrids:

Hybrid Date Palm

Hybrid Reclinata Date Palm

Hybrid Date Palm

Hybrid Date Palm

Serpentine Hybrid Date Palm

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A Quality Plant will be installing these Sylvester Palms and Roebelenii Palms in Deltona, Florida.

The Sylvester Palms will be lining the driveway.

Phoenix sylvestris / Sylvester Palms staged for loading

A Quality Plant delivered these Monster Sylvester Palms to a Miami Landscaper for their commercial landscape project. The palms were 12' CT, 16' CT, and a whopping 20' CT. Nice!

12' CT Sylvester Palms

20' CT Specimen Sylvester Palms

16' CT Specimen Sylvester Palms

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Wholesale Palms Florida - Sylvester Palm Hybrids - Doubles

A Quality Plant installed two different Sylvester Palm Hybrid doubles at two residences in Hillsborough County, Florida last week. One palm was installed in Dover, Florida. The other Sylvester Palm Hybrid was installed in Apollo Beach, Florida.

Sylvester Palm Hybrid installed in Dover, Florida

Sylvester Palm Hybrid installed in Apollo Beach, Florida

Date palms are known for hybridizing as each palm is either male or female and must be pollinated by another date palm. Date Palms that form seeds are females and will always be females. Male Date Palms have flowers that bloom on what looks like a feather duster. Hybrids can then get pollinated and lead to some unusual results. This process of cross pollination makes it difficult to assure that any seeds collected are "true" to the variety.

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Palms installed in Ruskin, Florida

Reclinata Palm Installation / Phoenix reclinata

 Reclinata Palm installation in Riverview, Florida.

Washingtonia Palms / Washington Palms

 Washingtonia Palms installed on model home in Riverview, Florida.

This picture shows the Washingtonia Palms, the Reclinata Palm and the Sylvester Palm on this Lennar Model home in Riverview, Florida.

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A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms - Sylvester Palms

Sylvester Palms / Silver Date Palm / Phoenix sylvestris
Installation in Titusville, Florida

A Quality Plant delivered and Installed two nice Sylvester Palms to Titusville, Florida along with a specimen Canary Island Date Palm.

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Wholesale Date Palms

Sylvester Palm - Silver Date Palm - Phoenix sylvestris

A Quality Plant is a grower of Date Palms such as this Sylvester Date Palm (Phoenix sylvestris, Silver Date Palm) that we installed for our landscape customer in Apollo Beach, fl. The Sylvester Date Palm is a cold hardy, drought tolerant and salt tolerant palm. Our tree farm also has many other date palms such as the Canary Island Date Palm (Phoenix canariensis, Pineapple Palm), Reclinata (Phoenix reclinata, Senegal Date Palm), True Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera, Edible Date Palm), Pygmy Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii) and many unusual Hybrid Date Palms as well.

Give us a call today for more information on Date Palms or any other palm or plant material you may need. Wholesale pricing available to the public when purchasing in quantity and always for landscapers, contractors, builders etc.

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Wholesale Date Palms - Date Palm Trees - Sylvester Date Palm

Sylvester Palm - Silver Date Palm - Phoenix sylvestris

This is a 7' ct Sylvester Date Palm (Phoenix sylvestris) that our wholesale palm tree farm delivered and installed for our landscape customer in Apollo Beach, Fl. On the same job we also installed a large, full headed Queen palm (Syagrus romanoffziana) on the side of their property and will be bringing in some 14' triple Foxtail Palms (Wodyetia bifurcata) to create a privacy barrier for them.
The Sylvester Date Palm (Phoenix sylvestris) and Queen palm (Syagrus romanoffziana) are fairly cold hardy palms, the Foxtail Palms (Wodyetia bifurcata) are not quite as cold hardy but should do well because our landscape customer is on the water where it will be more protected from the cold.

Our wholesale tree farm sells to the public as well as wholesale customers, discount or wholesale palm tree pricing is available for landscapers, contractors or anyone purchasing in quantity. Landscape quotes are always free call for yours today.


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Wholesale Date Palms - Wholesale Date Palm Trees - Retail Date Palm Trees

Sylvester Palm - Silver Date Palm - Phoenix sylvestris

Our wholesale palm tree farm installed this Sylvester Date Palm (Phoenix sylvestris, Silver Date Palm) for one of our landscape customers in Ruskin, Fl. This Sylvester will do well in the cold months and the customer was very pleased with their new date palm.

A Quality Plant offers many date palms including Senegal Date Palms (Phoenix reclinata), Canary Island Date Palms (Phoenix canariensis, Pineapple palm), Medjool Date Palms (Phoenix dactylifera) and Pygmy Date Palms (Phoenix roebelenii) to name some.

Stop by or call today for a free quote on your next date palm tree.

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A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms - Apollo Beach

Grey Wood Queen Palm Installation

Sylvester Palm Installation

We returned to the Rogers residence to install more cold hardy palms including a Grey Wood Queen Palm and a Sylvester Palm. The Queen palm required staking and is being used to create privacy for the Rogers. The palm was approximately 30' tall and blocks the view from the neighbor's balcony. The Sylvester Palm completes the front of the house by anchoring the left side of the driveway.

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A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms - Sylvester Palms

Sylvester Palm - Sulber Date Palm

December 1, 2010
We removed a dead Christmas Palm today and a Live Oak. We planted two Date Palms in their place. Sylvester Palms were Date Palms selected by A Quality Plant's customers. The first Sylvester Palm was 12' tall and the second Sylvester Palm had 4' of clear trunk.

Both Sylvester Palms received a finish cut and the thatch was removed with a razor knife. Sylvester Palms look really nice with a finish cut. These two were no exception.

The Sylvester Palm is a Cold Hardy Palm and is well suited for the climate in Zone 9. The Sylvester Palm is salt tolerant and drought tolerant too.



Check out our great prices on Sylvester Palms today!

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Wholesale Palms Florida - A Quality Plant

Sylvester Palm Installation

A Quality Plant removed three Silver Date Palms / Sylvester Palms and replaced them with new ones. Two of the palms looked like they were planted too deep and the other shocked from having too much foliage left on during transplant. The Sylvester Palms we put in should be fine. We have thousands of Sylvester Palms at Wholesale Palm Prices.

We installed a small Roebelenii Palm / Pygmy Date Palm today too. The palm we were replacing had died from the cold.

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Wholesale Palms at Wholesale Palm Prices
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