Hardy Palm Suggestion?

It's better to buy just the log/trunk, PA, as it's cheaper and more satisfying. I bought mine as a 3' long log/trunk, but without the fronds and roots, in August 2018 for around £95.

from the above to what it is now in two years.


I bought the large container, filled it with a mixture of compost, sand and potting grit, put the base of the log into it and within weeks I had fronds (top image) appear. So, it's only been in the container, in a sheltered spot for just over 2 years, and it's obviously loving where it is. It also seems to be hardier that most people believe as I've never covered it up even during the one or two really sharp frosts in that time. I water it with the garden hose and spray the fronds, the top and sides of the log when needed.

 

To be honest, it's not been, flounder. It's sitting in the large container under a Lilac and over shadlowed by 12' high Climbing Roses. I think I last watered it in August, or was that a casual feed?
They're no more difficult to water than any other plant in a large container and the only time I kept it watered was in the very early weeks when it was putting down roots and putting out it's first fronds and getting established, which it seemed to do in a very short time. After that it got watered when I remembered to do so or when it rained, so it's really not a "right b***h to keep watered" more than anything else in a pot. It does like, when you do remember to water it, a watering onto the very top of the log from where the fronds grow.

 

I have to have a watering system on a timer to keep my tree fern happy, the crown needs watering the most.

 

.. and those instant gardening tv programmes that promoted them said they didn't have any roots so were put into gravel or even concrete. No wonder many failed. It's because they are sold as logs with the bottom bit chain sawed off that encouraged people to think they didn't root.

In actual fact they develop quite a big fibrous root system which will fill up a pot very quickly. They do much better in the ground.

 

But that's how I garden all the time, Harry, am I doing something wrong.??

 

Mine was just a fancy at experimenting, Freddy. But I'm more than happy with it and it really is so easy to grow that even a complete Village Idiot like me can grow them and they do catch the eye when out in the garden.
Seagrave is selling them, pre-order for April 21, for 2' logs £51.60p, or 3' logs, pre-order for April £78.60. I bought from them, as I said, in August 2018 and they were more expensive then!!

 

You're right, Freddy, I meant Seagrave, and I've corrected it, must be the time of night/morning

 

So true, Harry, so true