Monday, September 7, 2015

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
Hedge Palm hedging clumping palms
Areca Palm / Dypsis lutescens
A Great Hedging Palm
Podocarpus
Hedging plants privacy hedge
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 Macrophyllus
Podocarpus Privacy Hedge

Dypsis lutescens
Areca Palm Privacy Hedge

A Quality Plant
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866-998-9393

Thursday, April 16, 2015

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.


Foxtail Palms, Queen Palms
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

Friday, March 20, 2015

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.

Cold Hardy Palm
Sabal Palm or Cabbage Palm in the wild

Cold Hardy Sabal Palm Slicked and ready to load
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!
Cold Hardy Sabal Palms still Booted
Booted Sabal Palms

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

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

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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.

Phoenix sylvestris, Silver Date Palm
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

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Bismarck Palms Wholesale for the Landscape

Bismarckia nobilis
Bismarck Palm 7 Gallon Container

Bismarckia nobilis
Bismarck Palm 25 Gallon Container

Bismarckia nobilis
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

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Canary Island Date Palm Sales and Installation / Grading a Pineapple Palm

A Quality Plant installs Canary Island Date Palms of all sizes. The price of the palm is determined by the quality of the tree. The quality of a Canary Island Date Palm is a factor of:

Color of the fronds
Fullness of the head
Caliper of the trunk
Condition of the trunk
Straightness of the trunk
Size of the Pineapple


A Florida Fancy Canary will have all of the above going for it. A Florida #1 will be a very nice palm but will be missing slightly in one or more of the determining factors. A Florida #2 will be substantially missing in one or more characteristics.

I prefer a Canary with good distinction between the smooth part of the trunk and the Pineapple.

Below are some examples of Canary Island Date Palms and how they can vary.

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm - Florida #1

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm or Pineapple Palm
Florida #1

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm or Pineapple Palm
Florida Fancy

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm or Pineapple Palm
Florida Fancy

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm or Pineapple Palm
Florida Fancy

Phoenix canariensis
Canary Island Date Palm or Pineapple Palm
Florida Fancy


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Friday, July 4, 2014

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:

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

Silver Bismarck 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.

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

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

self cleaning palms
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.

Make sure and check out the A Quality Plant website at:

www.aqualityplant.com

A Quality Plant
1998 19th Avenue NE
Ruskin, Florida 33570
866-998-9393