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Topic Title: PALM SALE Topic Summary: reduced prices on landscape size palms Created On: 02/25/2009 12:26 PM |
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I stopped by Palm City Palms & Tropicals north of Stuart about a week ago, picked up one of their nice brochures on available palms (with price list). All their stuff is grown from their own seed or the seed of their customers.
But times are tough, right? So, there's a big sale: 25-gallon Ptychosperma arecina, $75; 25-gallon Carpentaria, paurotis, Bismarck, $100. For $125 the 25-gallon list is longer: Canary Island Date, coconut, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, pindos, foxtails. For $200, 45-gallon Bismarck, royal, Phoenix sylvestris & canariensis, also Archontophoenix cunninghamiana. I've just listed a sample; more species are available. The nursery, which has beautiful stuff, not just palms (no, they're not paying me), is two miles off the exit for SR 714, Martin Hwy. This is just below Tradition on I-95. The website is http://palmcitypalm.com but doesn't have the sale prices listed when I looked. Phone is (772) 781-2626. A good idea to check to see if they have what you're interested in before driving the distance. Open 8-4, Monday-Friday, shorter hours on Saturday (close early afternoon, I think, maybe 2) |
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I imagine landscape nurseries are hurting with the housing market downturn.
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Do they have any Coccothrinax argentata on the list? Or Thrinax excelsa? I should have picked up a couple C. argentata from the native plant society at the Vero Gardenfest. Apparently 13 various Cocco's planted in the yard is not enough.
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Char, only Coccothrinax on the list is miraguama, 25-gallon, $125. I don't doubt that they have argentata, but in what size? It's not exactly fast and, in one sense, maybe not as popular (weird). Thrinax not on the list.
It might be worth calling to ask. I wouldn't be surprised if you couldn't do a deal. The nursery has been a CFPACS member, so you could tell them I posted notice of the sale. |
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Here's the sale list:
$50 25 gallon: queen palms, Washingtonia $75 25 gallon Alexander Majesty (Ravenea rivularis) Spectacular specimens. I'm not sure that I have space in the yard, or whether they'd be hardy. Chinese fan pygmy date (roebelenii) ribbon fan palms (Livistona decora [decipiens]). These grow well in Brevard and Orange counties if given a bit of palm fertilizer (something the ones on I-95 northbound at the Palm Bay Road exit desperately need) $100 25 gallon Paurotis (Acoelorrhaphe) Carpentaria Bismarckia (silver) Dracaena marginata (dragron tree) $125 25 gallon Canary Island date Coconut Coccothrinax miraguama. I should have taken one home--very nice specimens with trunks. Got a cute 7-gallon instead. Fishtail Royal Phoenix sylvestris Veitchia (montgomery palm) Christmas palm European fan palm. One by the office has long petioles, giving it a n open appearance. foxtail pindo spindle (Hyophorbe) Very nice. Smaller ones available. windmill triangle $200--45 gallon Bismarckia Fishtail pindo (Butia capitata). nice. royal Phoenix sylvestris Canary Island date King Alexandra (Archontophoenix) Phoenix roebelenii Triangle Also on hand: Dioon spinulosum 7 gallon, $45. Chambaeronia macrocarpa (red leaf) 7 gal, $65 Rhapis excelsa, lady palm. Various sizes, 15 gallon $150? Very nicely grown Sabal minor 25 gallon $125 (7 gal, $50). The 25 gallon plants are full-sized, sun grown to judge from the short petioles. Beautiful specimens, worth the price and the trip. This is a beautiful species that makes a good four to six foot shrub, perfect for screening things you don't want to see. Possibly even better, it maintains that height without having to be trimmed--all you have to do is remove old leaves once in a while. Thrinax radiata, 25 galon $125. I failed to notice it. Syagrus schizophylla, 25 gallon $125. Quite nice-looking. Mine took about 5 years to get not quite as bit. Coonties, 3 gallon $18. |
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Thanks for the list. Too bad, I've got enough C. miraguama varieties though. I'm just liking the natives lately, so I thought I'd get some more C. argentata.
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coconuts, which cocothrinax seeds did I get from you? I forget, the names are so close. Argentata or Agentea?
They grow slow, but they are growing. |
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Dave,
They are C. argentea, the Hispaniola silver palm. |
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thanks, here is the size they are at now. I've got about 40 of them. Give or take ten. (I didn't count).
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