Sold a couple loads of Sabal Palms today. One of the customers is interested in European Fan Palms too.
We worked on Palm removal's today. At one house, we removed a Foxtail Palm and A Christmas Palm and replaced them with 15 Gallon Queen Palms. we removed a 20' of Grey Wood Queen Palm from the other house.
Not too exciting but worth doing!
Rob Pittman
A Quality Plant
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Don't forget about our other palms. Date Palms, Medjool Palms, Sylvester Palms, Pindo Palms, Canary Island Date Palms, Washingtonia Palms, Chinese Fan Palms, and Ribbon Palms.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Thursday, October 28, 2010
A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms
We completed a landscape installation today. We installed two Sylvester Palms, One Phoenix Hybrid, Two Bismarck Palms, and one Reclinata Palm / Senegal Date Palm. We back filled the holes with top soil as the existing soil was not good at all. We created raised beds for the customer to plant at a later date.
Rob Pittman
A Quality Plant
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms
October 26, 2010
Sold a few palms today including a Pindo Palm, Sylvester Palm, Pygmy Date Palm and a Ponytail Palm. Sold a Floss Silk Tree too. Cleaned up around the farm and watered all the container plants.
Took pictures of a yard today. This is a new Landscape Project. I will be using a CAD program to create a Landscape Design. The job has Curved Ribbon Palms, Triple Foxtail Palms, Royal Palms, and a really big Bismarck Palm.
We are Transplanting Palms for the neighbor too. We will be moving 4 Foxtail Palms and transplanting the palms on site. The palms are splitting the 4 by 4 planters they are in.
Rob Pittman
A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
Sold a few palms today including a Pindo Palm, Sylvester Palm, Pygmy Date Palm and a Ponytail Palm. Sold a Floss Silk Tree too. Cleaned up around the farm and watered all the container plants.
Took pictures of a yard today. This is a new Landscape Project. I will be using a CAD program to create a Landscape Design. The job has Curved Ribbon Palms, Triple Foxtail Palms, Royal Palms, and a really big Bismarck Palm.
We are Transplanting Palms for the neighbor too. We will be moving 4 Foxtail Palms and transplanting the palms on site. The palms are splitting the 4 by 4 planters they are in.
Rob Pittman
A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
Monday, October 25, 2010
A Quality Plant - Florida Wholesale Palms
October 25th, 2010
Today was a catch up day for me. I did meet with customers at the Palm Tree Farm and discussed palms for their yard. I showed them many different types of Date Palms including the Sylvester Palm, the Medjool Palm and the Canary Island Date Palm. We looked at Grey Wood Queen Palms too. They will be coming back tomorrow to discuss our Wholesale Palm Prices.
It is still very hot and dry. I am running irrigation 24/7 it seems. I am looking forward to the next rain.
Rob
A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
Today was a catch up day for me. I did meet with customers at the Palm Tree Farm and discussed palms for their yard. I showed them many different types of Date Palms including the Sylvester Palm, the Medjool Palm and the Canary Island Date Palm. We looked at Grey Wood Queen Palms too. They will be coming back tomorrow to discuss our Wholesale Palm Prices.
It is still very hot and dry. I am running irrigation 24/7 it seems. I am looking forward to the next rain.
Rob
A Quality Plant
www.aqualityplant.com
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Sell Your Palm, We Buy Palms
A Quality Plant buys exceptional palm specimens of certain varieties of palms. Among the palms we buy are:
Canary Island Date Palms or Pineapple Palms
Sylvester Date Palms
Medjool Date Palms
Pindo Palms
Ponytail Palms
Reclinata Palms or Senegal Date Palms
There are other palms that we buy less frequently.
If you think you have a palm that fits this description, please contact us at:
866-998-9393 or robp@aqualityplant.com
We remove palms that are unwanted too. Price depends on many factors including the access, travel time, size of the palm, and the potential resell value for A Quality Plant.
www.aqualityplant.com
Canary Island Date Palms or Pineapple Palms
Sylvester Date Palms
Medjool Date Palms
Pindo Palms
Ponytail Palms
Reclinata Palms or Senegal Date Palms
There are other palms that we buy less frequently.
If you think you have a palm that fits this description, please contact us at:
866-998-9393 or robp@aqualityplant.com
We remove palms that are unwanted too. Price depends on many factors including the access, travel time, size of the palm, and the potential resell value for A Quality Plant.
www.aqualityplant.com
Phoenix dactylifera - True Date Palm, Medjool Palm, Zahidi Palm, Deglet Noor Palm
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| Medjool Palms - Phoenix dactylifera |
Common cultivars of the Phoenix dactylifera used in cultivation are the Medjool, Zahidii and the Deglet Noor.
The Medjool Date Palm variety is a common sight along roadways and adorning entry ways to exclusive developments.
The trees are dioecious and often reach over 100 feet (30 m) tall or more with a gray slender trunk. The trunks can be trimmed with diamond shape leaf scars for ornamental purposes. The large greenish to bluish gray pinnate leaves often reach 18-20 feet (5.5-6 m) long. The canopy can be up to 40 feet (12.2 m) wide. Although they are very large trees, they can be grown in containers for many years before they get too large. Phoenix dactylifera is slow growing unless in a truly desert climate. Temperatures above 120 Farenheit will push this palm to grow faster (up to 3' of trunk growth per year). The True Date Palm will grow much slower in a Temperate or sub tropical climate (usually less then 2' of trunk growth). They are the most cold hardy of the Phoenix Palms and are hardy in the landscape in USDA zones 8-11.
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Cold Hardy Palms
Robert Pittman January 10 2009 10:35:05 AM
There are approximately 2500 different species of palms. The vast majority of these species can't be grown outside the tropics.
Palms that can be grown in zones 6-9 are considered to be cold hardy. The chart below shows absolute lows. Average temperatures for a region are of little use when selecting the right palm for your zone. One night below the tolerance of the palms in your yard will mean certain death.
Palms are monocots. They have no ability to sprout back from the roots. If the heart of the palm dies, the whole palm dies. Clumping varieties of palms like the Fishtail palm (Caryota Mitis), Dwarf Sugar palm (Arenga engleri) or the Areca Palm (Dypsis lutescens) can come back from the root zone as long as the root zone was not killed during the cold event.
Examples of extremely Cold Hardy Palms:
Rhapidophyllum hystrix - Needle Palm
Sabal minor - Dwarf Palmetto
Trachycarpus takil - Kumaon Palm
Trachycarpus latisectus - Windamere Palm
Trachycarpus wagnerianus - Miniature Chusan Palm
Trachycarpus fortunei - Chinese Windmill Palm
Serenoa repens - Saw Palmetto
Nannorrhops ritchiana - Mazari Palm
Know your zone and the minimum temperatures your palms can withstand. Select palms that can handle the worst your area has to offer.
On calm cold nights the coldest area will settle in the low lying areas. If you are at the base of a low lying area you may be several degrees cooler than higher elevations. The front of my main field is several degrees warmer than the back. The distance is is less than a quarter mile from the front to the back of my field.
There are measures that can be taken to protect palms that are planted out of their zones. Measures like providing wind block and canopy are effective. If your palms are not too tall, covering them with fabric or frost cloth and supplying supplemental heat will help to hold warmth in and keep frost off. A low wattage lamp will work to provide the heat. Christmas lights wrapped around the palm can work on calm nights but help much less on nights with winds in excess of 5 mph.
Rob Pittman
www.aqualityplant.com
Robert Pittman January 10 2009 10:35:05 AM
There are approximately 2500 different species of palms. The vast majority of these species can't be grown outside the tropics.
Palms that can be grown in zones 6-9 are considered to be cold hardy. The chart below shows absolute lows. Average temperatures for a region are of little use when selecting the right palm for your zone. One night below the tolerance of the palms in your yard will mean certain death.
Palms are monocots. They have no ability to sprout back from the roots. If the heart of the palm dies, the whole palm dies. Clumping varieties of palms like the Fishtail palm (Caryota Mitis), Dwarf Sugar palm (Arenga engleri) or the Areca Palm (Dypsis lutescens) can come back from the root zone as long as the root zone was not killed during the cold event.
Examples of extremely Cold Hardy Palms:
Rhapidophyllum hystrix - Needle Palm
Sabal minor - Dwarf Palmetto
Trachycarpus takil - Kumaon Palm
Trachycarpus latisectus - Windamere Palm
Trachycarpus wagnerianus - Miniature Chusan Palm
Trachycarpus fortunei - Chinese Windmill Palm
Serenoa repens - Saw Palmetto
Nannorrhops ritchiana - Mazari Palm
Know your zone and the minimum temperatures your palms can withstand. Select palms that can handle the worst your area has to offer.
On calm cold nights the coldest area will settle in the low lying areas. If you are at the base of a low lying area you may be several degrees cooler than higher elevations. The front of my main field is several degrees warmer than the back. The distance is is less than a quarter mile from the front to the back of my field.
There are measures that can be taken to protect palms that are planted out of their zones. Measures like providing wind block and canopy are effective. If your palms are not too tall, covering them with fabric or frost cloth and supplying supplemental heat will help to hold warmth in and keep frost off. A low wattage lamp will work to provide the heat. Christmas lights wrapped around the palm can work on calm nights but help much less on nights with winds in excess of 5 mph.
Rob Pittman
www.aqualityplant.com
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