A. Hopkins Tropical Fruit Tree Nursery in Hendry County uses palm fertilizer with great success on its fruit trees. A granular, slow-release, palm fertilizer similar to 13-3-13 or 12-4-8 would be ...

Question: I heard that my sago palms need salt and that I should sprinkle salt on them. Is that true? Maybe you can tell me if the salt thing is a good idea and if it is a high acid-loving plant. R… ...

Connie Hawthorn of Carrollwood wrote with a number of questions about palms. I'll start by providing some general information on palms and then get to her specific questions. The most important ...

If the soil feels dry to the touch, give your potted sago palm a light water. Although the plant is naturally drought tolerant, it still requires moderate moisture to say happy and healthy.

I f you've already mastered caring for beginner-friendly greenery like air plants or your faux fiddle leaf fig tree, up the ante with a gorgeous sago palm.Despite the name, sago palms are not ...

Q: We have two 30-year-old sago palms that we transplanted to our yard last October. The fronds they had then died so we trimmed those off. This sago threw a beautiful male bloom and is now fading.

The Palm Reader, compiled by the members of the Southeastern Palm and Exotic Plant Society, indicates that "not all plants that look like palms are palms." In everyday speech, the term palm can ref… ...

I am wondering where to put this sago palm. In the ground? Keep it in a container and trim it up like tree? It was so happy in the semi sun area. I sent a picture. A: It's a very nice looking sago ...

You would, however, want to procure a mature specimen, at least a few feet tall, since sago palm growth is exceedingly slow, averaging about one inch of trunk elongation per year.

It's time to start over with sago palm this spring, but there's hope for fig tree. By Neil Sperry, Contributor March 8, 2024. Cutting grown coleus like these give longest good looks to the garden.