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Originally Posted by Lance Carbuncle
I recently acquired a few of this palm because it seems like a great species for complimenting a Xeric Landscape. Does anyone have experience growing this plant... I can't figure out when it wants to grow. It doesn't seem to like a lot of water in summer.. Anone have tips on feeding, soil requirements and such. I think I killed one already from giving it too much attention....  |
Hmmm... I have grown about 15 of these so far and they are uniformly easy... I water the hell out of mine in the summer.. and winter. They like water it seems. Never rotted one at least (and we have fairly clayey soils here in LA county). I did nearly kill one with fertililzer, though, so I would be very stingy with that stuff. At least where you live you won't have to worry about cold.. .the freeze two years ago fried all of mine pretty badly (24F for 7 straight hours)... still, none died. Mine grow year round. Admittedly I haven't lived in as perfect a climate as La Jolla, but can't imagine it would be a worse climate for these palms... perhaps yours don't like the salty air?