Hi
I want to plant some palm trees between the heliconias, about double the height (grow to 4m) – any recommendations? The garden bed is quite narrow (500mm)
by Top-Excitement337
Hi
I want to plant some palm trees between the heliconias, about double the height (grow to 4m) – any recommendations? The garden bed is quite narrow (500mm)
by Top-Excitement337
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Palms keep growing and getting taller and taller – any bounce you get visually from new palms gets lost int he air as ball and sticks or massive boles. I’m not a fan of palms, our neigher has many palms and he wishes he never planted them, they are now too tall to self manage cutting off the dead fronds and cost thousands of dollars to remove.. Anyways… over to poeple who like palms.
For palms of that height, you’re not left with so many options.
There’s dwarf date palms (*Phoenix roebelenii*), which are the most ‘robust’ of the options I’m listing.
Then there’s lady palms (*Rhapis excelsa*), which are more of a mass screening kinda palm, rather than individual trunks.
Then there are various *Chamaedorea spp.* Like the Bamboo Palms (*C. seifrizii* & *C. costaricana*). These can be mass-planting like the lady palms, or more individual, depending on the species. Many require shade.
A native option is the walking stick palm – *Linospadix monostachyos*. Similar to the *Chamaedorea*, they also prefer shade.
If you want palms that grow only to 4m you’ll find they’re the ones that are very slow growing, you’ll need to spend big on mature stock.
For perspective, a Kentia palm or dwarf date palms might take +30yrs to get that high in ideal conditions.
You know you can get fence extensions for top of fence and grow a star jasmine up and along the extension or privacy screens
Cascade Palms. Can take a fair amount of sun but do better with water