Removal of Palm trees / Selling your Palm Tree

There are many decisions to be made once you decide to remove a palm or palm trees from your yard. A Quality Plant is asked to remove Palms frequently.

The reasons for removing a palm tree include:

The Palm Tree is dead

The Palm Tree was planted in an inappropriate spot (coconut palm over where you park your car, too close to the house, etc)

The Palm Tree has grown too tall and is out or proportion to the house or too costly to maintain

You don't like Palm Trees or don't like the type of palm tree you have

Removing the palm tree from your yard can be difficult and costly. There can be many unseen obstacles under the ground including utilities, pieces of concrete, septic systems, irrigation pipes and controller cables. There can be many obstacles above the ground like power lines, trees, fences, paver walkways and driveways.

A Quality Plant removed four Foxtail Palms from around an infinity pool in Apollo Beach, Florida that had outgrown the 4' planters they were in. The palms had begun to crack the cap around the pool. I had nightmares about this job. After digging the palms with a gas powered shovel and exerting 5500 lbs of force, the palms came out. We replanted the palms on the side of the house and the Foxtail Palms  became the focal points of a new outdoor sitting area.

Some palm trees have resell value. There are palms that we remove at no cost and there are palms we remove and actually pay the homeowner for their palm. The value is based on supply and demand and quality of the palm.  

A large palm removal will require up to 2 yards of dirt to fill the hole. A Quality Plant will commonly provide a replacement palm or tree and install the new plant at the time of the palm tree removal.

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A Quality Plant - Retail Plant Nursery

We have completed the retail Nursery at the 70 acre property in Ruskin, Florida located at 1998 19th Avenue NE.

The customer friendly layout takes you through winding pathways of layered plant material. The plants are arranged to give customers ideas as to combinations of color and cold hardiness.

There are many rare palm trees ans some unusual tropical plants too.

A Quality Plant will continue the upgrade in the early spring and it is my goal to make the AQP experience the best in the bay area.

Please feel free to stop by and visit us!

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Bismarck Palm - Bismarckia nobilis - Bismark Palm

Bismarck Palms installed.

A Quality plant grows the Bismarck Palm for wholesale palm sales and for retail palm sales. We install the Bismarck palm for customers too. The Bismarck Palm is unique with it's silvery blue coloration on the fronds. The Bismarck Palm is large in stature and can grow to be over 20' wide. The trunk of the Bismarck Palm is thick and will lose the old leaf boots once the palm has approximately 4-6' of trunk.

The Bismarck Palm is cold tolerant down to the low twenties and cold hardiness goes hand in hand with the coloration. The more silver the Bismarck Palm, the more cold hardy. The Bismarck Palm has no known diseases and is surprisingly wind tolerant once established.

Here are a couple we installed this week in a homeowners yard. The truly are a magnificent palm!

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Washingtonia Palms - Washington Palm

A Quality Plant specializes in the removal and installation of large Washingtonia Palms. A Quality Plant has hundreds of Washington Palms with 25 to 65 feet of cleat trunk in stock.

Larger Washingtonia Palms can become a nuisance for homeowners when trimming becomes dangerous or costly. Homeowners call A Quality Plant every week asking to have these palms removed from their yards and replaced with smaller palms.

Street Plantings commonly use these larger Washingtonia Palms. Commercial Construction Projects with large entrance ways or tall buildings use the Washingtonia Palms too.

A Quality Plant is delivering 12 Washington Palms to Celebration, Florida this week. These 12 palms have 25-35' of trunk and will require a crane and two semi's for the delivery.

Florida Wholesale Palms - A Quality Plant - Palm Installations

Fall has kicked in and orders are starting to come in too. A Quality Plant installed a Reclinata Palm Tree today in Orlando, Florida. Yesteday A Quality Plant installed three Royal Palm Trees in Apollo Beach, Florida.

The cooler weather makes work fun again. I think we all had enough 90 degree days for a while. Pretty soon we will be complaining about how cold it is!

A Quality Plant sold a truck load of Sabal Palms this week to a new customer in South Carolina. The customer ordered the Sabal Palms because they are cold hardy palms. Sabal Palms are Native Palms to South Carolina. Sabal Palms are Salt Tolerant Palms and Drought Tolerant Palms too.

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A Quality Plant is your source for Cold Hardy Palms and Tropical Palms.

Ribbon Palms - Livistona decipiens - A Quality Plant

Ribbon Palms - Livistona decipiens

The Ribbon Palm is closely related to the Chinese Fan Palm but has some characteristics that make it better suited for landscapes. The Ribbon Palm has persistent boots that are most persistent at the base of the palm. The leaf is divided once to the base of the petiole and then again halfway. This is what creates the Ribbon look to the leaf.

The Ribbon Palm will take a mild frost with little or no damage and can survive temps into the teens. The growth rate is medium and, under the right conditions, can be 2-3 feet of trunk growth in a year.

The Ribbon Palm loves full sun. It is much harder to keep a Chinese Fan Palm dark green in full sun than the Ribbon Palm.

The old fronds / boots of the Ribbon Palm will eventually shed and reveal a burgundy ringed trunk that is attractive.

A Quality Plant grows and sells the Ribbon Palm / Livistona decipiens and we have them field grown and container grown.

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Medjool Date Palm, Phoenix dactylifera and Canary Island Date Palm

Two of the most majestic palms are the True Date Palm / Medjool Date Palm / Phoenix dactylifera and the Canary Island Date Palm / Phoenix canariensis. They can be planted in groups or as a stand alone specimen. In either case, they are magnificent.

Phoenix dactylifera

variety Medjool is widely used as an ornamental. Taller, thinner, and with spikier, bluish leaves than its popular cousin from the Canary Islands, the Medjool Date Palm is a handsome tree. The Medjool Date Palm's adaptability to a wide range of climates, excellent resistance to drought, salt spray, brackish water, and various pests, and its general robustness make it the palm of choice for dry climates, temperate as well as tropical. Phoenix dactylifera tolerates salt water intrusion and cold better than all the other Date Palms.

Phoenix canariensis, Pineapple Palm, or the Canary Island Date Palm is one of the most popular landscape palms. The stout form of the Canary Island Date Palm is a familiar sight in most warm temperate and subtropical countries of the world. The Canary Island Date Palm with it's stately appaearance spans nearly thirty feet on mature specimens.

Make sure and check out the other Cold Hardy Palms we specialize in at A Quality Plant by visiting our website or one of A Quality Plant's 5 locations. We offer Wholesale Palm Pricing and Quantity Discounts on our Wholesale Palms.

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