Cabbage palms are good choices for around a pool, but don't plant them now. ... Some palms grow in a more shrublike fashion, such as the dwarf palmetto, saw palmetto and needle palm.

PLANTING PALMS: If you want to plant palms in your landscape, the best time is May through August. Palms establish best when planted into warm soil. Select hardier palms that survive severe ...

Better choices for growing here are the Sabal Palm(etto), sometimes called Cabbage Palms and Windmill Palm(etto). The right soil: Palms are tough plants if planted in native areas in well-drained ...

Palms used to grow with minimal care so why would they need extra attention now? The answer is easy – they now have more pest problems. We need to help keep our palms alive.

Palms grow best in Zones 8 through 10. ... Palmetto or Cabbage Palm (Sabal palmetto) forms a tree with a stout trunk that can reach 30 to 40 ft. high.

Vastly underused are dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor) and scrub palmetto (Sabal etonia) – two species that look like a dwarf cabbage palm. Both palms grow up to 6 feet tall, with dwarf palmetto most ...

Among palms that actually bear palmate leaves are European fan, Washington fan and cabbage palm, Florida’s state tree. By now, most plant lovers are thinking of the vast number of palmate plants ...

If you pull up a chair at a gourmet restaurant, you call it hearts of palm. If you pull up a chair in a Florida Cracker kitchen, you call it swamp cabbage. Step this way and meet a unique vegetable.