Hello I just wanted to mention all the death I saw in Phoenix this week. I went to phoenix to do landscaping for my brother at his new house. There was death at every house and every nursery.
They only palms un fazed where washy filifera , Chamearops humilus , phoenix dactylifera medjool , Sabal minor
palms with slight damage leaf burn where Phoenix canariensis , Queen palm , Butia capitata , phoenix robellini
massacred palms 50 % or more damage or death were Phoenix sylvestris , Bismarckia nobilis , Attalea butyracea , phoenix robellini , Bird of paradise , Cuban royal , Foxtail palm
Damage was consistant north and south phoenix. So needless to say I bought a large flowering medjool with about 20" of trunk and a large sabal minor home with me this trip.
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Mike,
I had heard the bad news from friends who were RV-ing there the last few months.
Good to hear about the Washy filifera, Chamearops humilis , phoenix dactylifera medjool , Sabal minor.
I'm surprised Phoenix dacty survived, they often take a while to show fatal damage.
That was a long way to go landscaping!
Will look forward seeing that medjool and sabal, must be gorgeous.
Thanks!
Barb
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Hey barb, my youngest brother called me to tell me he got estimates for 3500 to 5000 to get his yard in order. I told him I would come and help.
It was fun he had about 20 wheel barrels full of rocks scattered over his yard that I removed. I planted 3 new palms about 100 rolls of sod, replaced all his pop up irrigation heads and irrigation timer, put wrought iron around the side of his house and pool pumps. Replaced a huge percent of his soil and amended it. And added soil to planters and new irrigation to the planters and queen palm in the front of his house. Planted a large grape fruit tree and then bougainvillea in planters.
I post pics of the palms I bought tomorrow
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I'm looking forward to those photos. Thanks for the damage report.
How cold did they get? I would have thought Butia would have been fine for them.
Sounds like a productive trip Mike 😉
Did you ever get those Parryi you mentioned???
I wish I had more room in the cactus garden...
Cactus are so tough and if I could keep the moisture/air drier
in there they would literally be.....spotless! 8)
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Wow, you did a lot at his place! :cheers:
Did you get some photos of the finished job?
Landscape companies must be hurting big time in So Cal and AZ with all the empty homes, etc.
Look forward to seeing pics of what you brought home.
Sounds fabulous. 😛
Barb
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Well heres a couple pics before I loaded it up for the journey home. I measured the phoenix from the soil line up to the tip over the fronds its 10ft. The phoenix also has 2 pups sticking out the side and 5 flower spathes in the center waiing to open. Do you think I should remove the pups, they have over 36" fronds on themselves.
The sabal minor from soil line to tip of fronds is 60" I have one in the ground outside Im going to plant my new minor next to it.
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The Sabal minor looks like a Brasoria palmetto.
funny you should say that the guy I bought the palms from called the dwarf sabals lol. The two canary island date palms I got for my brother he called them pine apple palms.
Jim I did get a few agave and a nice variegated one.
TerdalFarm they had leaf tip damage mostly. I didnt realize the desert we so windy !!
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Mike, wow nice specimens.
As to cutting the pups off, I'd leave them, but I have no experience with big gorgeous beautiful palms like that 😆
Hopefully somebody who knows the risk will chime in.
It'll be good to see pics of where you plant those beauties.
Oh yeah, the desert's windy...but aren't you going back to the Windy City? (Detroit? Chicago?) 😆 😆
Yes Phoenix are called pineapple palms mostly in so.california because they're pruned to that "top pineapple" shape, with a clear trunk below.
Here's a plastic one 😆
Steve07
Thanks again for your help with my toxic fertilizer application.
They're all recovering nicely.
Grateful for your kind advice.
Barb
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Thnx for the pics and the explanation. I have seen that style of trimming around in florida also.
Barb Im trying to sell my building and move so I may not put the medjool in the ground I have a 45 and 65 gallon pot I may put it in temporarily. you wouldnt happen to be able to suggest a soil type for the medjool ?
I am planting the sabal minor in the ground on the weekend.
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Hi Mike,
You're probably not moving to Canada 😕 😆
West Coast? Arizona? somewhere warmer? (just jealous!)
My old CIDP is in a gritty granular free draining soil mix (not acidic, mine is 7.2 pH) with some sand added.
Not quite a cactus mix but close to it.
It sits in the hottest spot at my place full sun morning to sundown, gets 5 gallons water every week from a bucket.
Pot is a big plastic garbage can, nice pots were too expensive.
Will look forward to seeing that Sabal planted...and your other stuff that we haven't seen for a while.
Barb
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Nice palms!, that sabal is awesome. 8)
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Barb,
You're welcome. That's great news that your palms are doing better.
Mike
Any idea when your picking up your palms?
Also-I would love to see pics of the Agave. 😀
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