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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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 02/25/2009 12:26 PM
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Latania

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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)
 02/25/2009 04:48 PM
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Central Floridave

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I imagine landscape nurseries are hurting with the housing market downturn.
 02/26/2009 05:56 AM
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Coconuts

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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.
 02/26/2009 07:21 AM
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Latania

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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.
 02/26/2009 02:40 PM
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ww

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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
Roya
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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.
 02/27/2009 05:34 AM
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Coconuts

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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.
 02/27/2009 08:32 PM
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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.
 02/28/2009 06:10 AM
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Coconuts

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Dave,
They are C. argentea, the Hispaniola silver palm.
 02/28/2009 07:35 AM
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Central Floridave

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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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